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Fall 2009 Events
Eszter Hargittai
"Ensuring Equitable Access to Knowledge: The Role of Academic Libraries in the 21st Century"
by Eszter Hargittai ‘96
Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 4:30 p.m.
Neilson Browsing Room
Eszter Hargittai will discuss her research into skill differences and the digital-social divide in Internet use among students. Hargittai is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Northwestern University where she heads the Web Use Project. She received a Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University in 2003. Her dissertation, “How Wide a Web? Inequalities in Accessing Information Online” won the National Communication Association’s G.R. Miller Dissertation Award in 2004. Hargittai continues to conduct research on the Internet and the social and policy implications of information technologies. She has also studied the evolution of search engines and the organization and presentation of online content, political uses of information technologies, and how IT are influencing the types of cultural products people consume.
Neilson Front Entrance, 1956
Centennial Exhibition: "The Heart of Our Place of Learning: William
Allan Neilson Library 1909-2009"
November 9, 2009 - April 4, 2010, Book Arts Gallery, Level 3, Neilson
Library - Learn about the library through letters, photographs, architectural
drawings, ephemera, and much more!
Gallery Talk - November 12, 2009, 4:30 p.m., Book Arts Gallery, Level 3, Neilson - College Archivist Nanci Young and archivist Leslie Fields '95 will share a wealth of facts and anecdotes about the history of the Neilson Library. Reception follows.
Neilson Library Browsing Room, 1939
"Moving In-Day" Library Tea
Monday, November 30, 2009 at 4:30 p.m.
Neilson Library opened on the Monday after Thanksgiving in 1909. Enjoy period refreshments and music provided by Mando Mucho, a local mandolin and guitar ensemble, playing classical and popular music of the early 1900s.
Neilson Library
Smith College Libraries "Celebrating 100 Years" 1909-2009
Join us in events and exhibitions celebrating 100 years of Smith College Libraries' history. Neilson Centennial Notecards, depicting historical views of Neilson library are available for sale from the Friends' publications page.
