Rising sea levels can affect critical habitats, threaten biodiversity, accelerate erosion, and may increase the frequency of storm surges that damage natural and human-built environments. For some researchers, like Dartmouth Engineering assistant professor Yoshihiro Nakayama, they’re investigating the Antarctic region for answers.

With attendees in gowns and finery, the spotlight returned to great research. Dartmouth recently held its 2nd Annual OSCARRs—Open Scholarship Commitment Award for Reproducible Research—a celebration of Dartmouth researchers who exemplify principles of open scholarship, transparency of methodology, comprehensive documentation, and reproducibility. And the outputs of our winners, with reusable datasets, thoughtful methods, and dedicated researchers, were the brightest stars in the room.

Did you know Dartmouth has a free-to-access digital platform that saves, publishes, promotes, and shares Dartmouth’s diverse research and scholarship? It does! Called Dartmouth Digital Commons, it features 8,000 scholarly works, including Dartmouth’s ever-growing, cross-institutional, and internationally-partnered research outputs.

It’s a rare privilege to co-teach a research session in Madrid with a romance languages specialist librarian; rarer still that students in Associate Professor of Spanish Noelia Cirnigliaro’s Madrid Foreign Study Program (FSP) experienced this firsthand in the Biblioteca María Zambrano, part of the Universidad Compultense de Madrid.

The C. Dwight Lahr Lecture Series, sponsored by Dartmouth’s Department of Mathematics, is an annual event bringing together the Upper Valley and Dartmouth communities to engage with mathematics and hear from diverse experts in the field. Established in 2020, the series honors Dr. Lahr’s legacy and commitment to inclusivity and diversity.

In mid-2023, Daniel Lin ‘23, a recently minted Digital Library Fellow, received two large boxes of physical time-based media from Memory Apata, Music and Performing Arts Librarian, and Taylor Ho Bynum, director of the Coast Jazz Orchestra at Dartmouth. The boxes contained VHS, DAT, and cassette tapes; magnetic reel-to-reels; CDs; and DVDs.

If you wanted to explore a particular topic in the archives at Rauner Special Collections Library, where would you begin, what would you hope to learn, and how would you share what you discovered with others? Four students from Dartmouth answered these questions and more in a new learning program co-hosted by Dartmouth Libraries and Brown University Library.

In December 1951, Evelyn and Vilhjalmur Stefansson made their way to Dartmouth with three railroad car-sized trucks containing a vast “polar library” in tow. Soon after establishing the Northern and Polar Studies Program at Dartmouth and adding the Arctic collection to Baker Library, Dartmouth sponsored the Stefanssons' travels to Greenland to collect as much material about Greenland and by Greenlandic authors as possible. What they amassed, in partnership with Greenland administrators and Denmark, would become valuable research and teaching material still used to this day.

How far would you go to find a copy of a long-out-of-print book written by a family member? For Sreevalli Sreenivasan, Th’17 and current Thayer PhD candidate, she looked worldwide before giving up hope. Then, on a whim, while searching for PhD-related resources through Dartmouth Libraries, she put in a request for the Libraries to find it. To her pleasant surprise, they did. 

Within the hallowed halls of Rauner Special Collections Library reside artifacts, ephemera, books, and papers that capture the social, historical, cultural, and economic moments of their time. Over the years, these works have launched research projects, sparked discoveries, and been integral in the creation of new knowledge. Whether you visit Rauner Library with the gentle curiosity of someone hoping to browse a particular subject, or you come with a particular item in mind, you'll leave a witness to history.