New Computers in the Library

This summer, IT has been upgrading the lab computers in the library.  The Teaching Lab and Reference Lab have both received new machines, but for the purposes of this post, I’ll be focusing on the Reference Lab (or as it is affectionately known to some, “The Amoeba.”) The bank of computers in the lobby of …

The people have spoken! Thanks to your input, Olin Library now provides access to these exciting new databases:

In the past, the Internet was made from trees:  It’s a little-known fact, but people in olden times got much of their current information from print newspapers.  Since Al Gore invented the Internet, we can read these newspapers from the comforts of our own electronic devices.  Explore the African American Newspapers Series 1 for full-text …

Rachel Walton Wins Award

Olin Digital Archivist Rachel Walton is the recipient of the Society of American Archivist’s Theodore Calvin Pease Award. Her paper “Looking for Answers: A Usability Study of Online Finding Aid Navigation,” which will be published in The American Archivist (Spring/Summer 2017),  “presents a usability study on the finding aid interface created by Princeton University Library …