Stewarded by Dartmouth Libraries for many years, Samson Occom's papers and materials were repatriated to the Mohegan Tribe on April 27, 2022.
This important moment in the history of Dartmouth and the Mohegan people recognizes and celebrates not only Samson Occom’s critical role in Dartmouth's establishment but also honors Occom by returning materials to his homeland that have deep spiritual meaning to the Mohegan Tribe.
As technology evolves, uncommon collaborations across engineering, geography, and computer science are increasingly driving progress in geospatial technologies and their applications in everyday life.
The Libraries recently hosted an open panel called "Sparking Conversations: University Presses and the State of Scholarly Publishing.” Guest speakers included university press directors Amy Brand from MIT, Christie Henry '91 from Princeton, and Charles Wilkinson from the University of Michigan, giants in scholarly publishing. They shared challenges and opportunities arising from the shifting scholarly publishing landscape and ways they are actively transforming the field and championing action within their institutions and the scholarly ecosystem.
Dartmouth Libraries’ Health Sciences and Biomedical Libraries recently hosted a series of talks and a film screening for International Open Access Week 2023.
I want to disseminate work as widely as possible and feel privileged to be in an environment that supports open access funding. - Brock Christensen
Questions like, who or what is the root cause of unfair or disadvantaged results? How do we mitigate the risks? Do we want to? Who holds the greatest responsibility: designers, programmers, business executives, politicians, or everyday people? Who benefits from the design of these technologies and the algorithms that feed them?