Banned books featured at the Jane Bancroft Cook Library. (Taken by Alexandra Levy.)

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Banned Books Week: New College fights back

Literature exposes individuals to lives completely unbeknownst to them. One can learn healing and compassion through Toni Morrison’s heartbreaking novel Beloved, or friendship and love through Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men. Books teach humans how to be human; they provide the space to revel in…

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October 21, 2023

The main entrance of the Jane Bancroft Cook Library. Photo by Naomi Nerlien.

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Introducing Illiana Zambrano, candidate for Research and Instruction Librarian

While the Board of Trustees (BOT) was busy choosing a president for New College, there is another candidate search taking place. After Helene Gold’s abrupt termination late last spring, there has been an opening for a Research and Instruction Librarian. A committee was convened to…

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October 11, 2023

The WRC’s new space in Room 132. (Photo courtesy of Allie Maass.)

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A game of musical chairs is happening in the library

The closing of the Palmer Buildings has caused a game of musical chairs among departments within the Jane Bancroft Cook Library. The Writing Resource Center (WRC) has resided in Room 103 for about 10 years. But with the closing of the Palmer Buildings, many departments…

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September 26, 2023

New College stock photo. (Courtesy of New College website.)

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Study locations for when your dorm isn’t cutting it

The feeling of sitting at a dorm desk, staring at a screen and trying to put words together for a paper due at 11:59 p.m. while just not being able to is a universal experience. Sure, studying at cafes is fun, but it can get…

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March 21, 2023

Exterior look of the makerspace within the Jane Bancroft Cook Library. Photo credit: Gaby Batista

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Demystifying the Makerspace: Library resources and how to use them

A cloud of mystery looms over a certain corner of the Jane Bancroft Cook Library that houses one of the most versatile spaces on campus: the Makerspace. Libraries across the globe stand to lose patrons in the days of technological advances and innovative inventions that…

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February 14, 2023

Rachel Roeder at the Berlin Wall exhibit opening. (Photo taken by Chloe Rusek.)

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New College German Department presents, “Border Stations and Ghost Stations in Divided Berlin”

Imagine going to bed and waking up to a world divided by a wall that seemingly sprung up overnight. Aug. 13, 1961: the communist German Democratic Republic (GDR) began the construction of a wall separating East and West Berlin. With the Berlin Wall playing such…

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February 3, 2023

A screenshot of the home library page showing the available resources including the Search Catalog tool, NCF databases and USF databases. (Photo courtesy of Aria Lockman.)

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Jane Bancroft Cook Library implements a new system for students

There are many changes happening behind the scenes in the Jane Bancroft Cook Library which are impacting students’ access to certain resources, as well as giving them new ones. In the past, New College of Florida (NCF) has had a joint access agreement with the…

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September 13, 2022

Magazines and journals filling up the Dumpster behind the Jane Bancroft Cook Library.

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Hundreds of bound periodicals thrown away to make room for expanded CEO location

Students who use the back corners of the first floor of the Jane Bancroft Cook Library to study have likely noticed that the shelves of bound periodicals, which make up the majority of that left side of the first floor, have been slowly becoming vacant…

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March 8, 2022

Thesis carrels continue to remain undecorated this year.

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COVID-19 and extensive water damage to the library roof continue to make study carrels unreservable

Study carrels—normally available only for thesis students to reserve for a year—are remaining open for anyone to use this year, owing to the pandemic, difficulties with vandalism and a severely water-damaged library roof. The purpose of a study carrel is to provide a quiet place…

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September 7, 2021

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Plants and ideas growing at the Library

Anna Lynn Winfrey/CatalystThe native plant display in the Jane Bancroft Cook Library.  It’s not just theses blooming at the Jane Bancroft Cook Library right now: stop by the native plant display near the front doors and admire the display of native plants. Organized by alumnus…

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May 8, 2019