News from the Library

June 2009
Crossett Library and Jennings Music Library—Bennington College

New Faculty Work in the Library Summer Refreshment

The The Earth

Cardboard Moves
Universe by
by Chris Dan
Miller Hofstadter

Crossett Garden Show

9:00 pm Thursday June 4th Crossett Garden.
Rain Location: Downcaf. PAC presents musical
performances by Tyler Twombly '09, Anastasia
Clarke '10, Tom Greenberg '10, Roby Moulton
'10 and Martin Zimmermann '10, along with an
entourage of other Bennington musicians and
surprise special guests. Come celebrate your
victory over finals and the initiation of summer
with a variety of curious and exotic sounds,
sights, smells, tastes and feelings.
Refreshments will be served.

On Exhibit Did you know you can check

Photographs from the College’s portfolios by Ansel out library books over the
Adams, Alfred Stieglitz, and Lee Friedlander will be
on display at the Bennington Museum as part of an summer? Returning students
exhibit ion drawn from the Bennington Museum’s with no outstanding library
permanent holdings as well as other local collections. fines can check out up to ten
"The Quality of Place: Photography, Space and
Specificity," will be on exhibit May 29 - August 29. books.

Your Feedback Counts New Theater Resource

Thanks to everyone who participated in the 2009
student survey! Here’s just one of the changes we are
implementing based your feedback: beginning next
term films will circulate for 4 days and CDs from
Jennings Music Library will circulate for 7 days.
Book Collecting Contest
Congratulations to Andrew Barton the 2009 winner
of the student book collecting contest! His essay and
annotated bibliography on Yevgeny Yevtushenko
was award the prize by the Library Committee.
Next year’s contest will be based on the Crossett
and/or Jennings Music Library book collection so you
don’t need to own the books to enter. Start dreaming
up your theme now!
The Playwrights’ Center is a terrific
new resource recommended to us by
Sherry Kramer. You can search
hundreds of submission opportunities.
Look in the directory for playwrights,
and read their biographies and script
samples. It also has internship and
fellowship information. Current theater
news and fascinating opinion pieces
are sprinkled throughout the site. To
take full advantage of the services
you’ll need to login. To obtain the
login and password please email the
library.

Recent Fiction
Sum: Forty Nothing Miles Mrs.
Tales from Like an From Somebody
the Ocean Nowhere Somebody
Afterlives by Jim by Nami by Tracy
by David Tomlinson Mun Winn
Eagleman

Questions or Comments? library@bennington.edu