News Archive - The Claremont Colleges Library

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Honoring Black History Month

February 10, 2023

Our nation celebrates Black History Month each February to recognize the accomplishments and contributions of Black Americans throughout our nation’s history, as well as pay tribute to their experiences and struggles in the face of adversity. It is in this spirit that we invite you to join us in honoring Black History Month by exploring.

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At 90, Civil Rights Pioneer Myrlie Evers-Williams (POM ’68) Donates Archival Collection to Inspire New Generations

February 9, 2023

55th California International Antiquarian Book Fair (Feb 10-12)

February 7, 2023

Join fellow book lovers at the Pasadena Convention Center on February 10 – 12 for the 55th California International Antiquarian Book Fair! This three-day event features fine and rare materials from around the globe, including manuscripts, modern first editions, children’s books, ephemera, maps and autographs, as well as antiquarian books on a vast array of.

Apply by March 5th to the Library Undergraduate Research Award

February 7, 2023

Are you finishing a term paper? …starting a senior thesis? …using Library resources in your work? …interested in winning a CASH PRIZE? Get recognized for your amazing work by applying for The Claremont Colleges Library Undergraduate Research Award (LURA)! The award is accompanied by a cash prize and recognizes exemplary, original student work demonstrating skill.

Deadline Extended to Submit Your Love Data Week 2023 Poster Design!

January 30, 2023

All students of The Claremont Colleges are invited to join us in celebrating International Love Data Week 2023 by designing a poster that illustrates this year’s theme, Data: Agent of Change. In addition to winning a gift card prize, the first, second and third place winners’ posters will be displayed in the recently launched Digital.

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Long-Term Lockers Now Available!

January 26, 2023

Long-term lockers are now available in the Library to all current students, staff and faculty of The Claremont Colleges. Long-term lockers can be borrowed for one semester at a time and are perfect if you study in the Library regularly or are working on a big project like a thesis or dissertation. To borrow a.

Celebrate the Lunar New Year With Rare Woodblock Prints!

January 20, 2023

Happy Lunar New Year! To honor and celebrate Lunar New Year, you are invited to stop by the Asian Library to view rare and original New Year woodblock prints. The prints on display were crafted and produced in the early 1960s by artists from Yangliuqing, a market town in Tianjin, China. Linked to Chinese folk.

Hoot, Hoot! Night Owls is Back to Help You Power Through Fall 2022 Finals!

December 2, 2022

The Library is here for you during reading days and finals week! Check out our Night Owls activities taking place December 7-15 that will create space for brain breaks, de-stressing, snack, food and coffee breaks, and so much more! As is tradition, we will also be keeping the building open all day (24 hours!) between.

Sharing the Collection of Barbara Drake: Tongva Elder, Educator, Ethnobotanist

November 21, 2022

The Claremont Colleges Library is excited and honored to present a fall exhibit that highlights the newly-donated Barbara Drake Collection. This exhibit highlights the work of Barbara Drake as a Tongva Elder, educator and ethnobotanist. Visitors to the exhibit can explore Barbara’s focus on education, research, interpretive history, ethnobotany and plant medicine, plant-based recipes, language.

Celebrate Filipino American History Month

October 28, 2022

Congress officially recognized October as Filipino American History Month in the United States in 2009. This annual commemoration celebrates the first recorded Filipino presence in the continental United States in October 1587, when “Luzones Indios” came ashore from the Spanish galleon Nuestra Senora de Esperanza and landed at what is now Morro Bay, California. Filipino.