4 ways college students can make the most of their college library

By Carrie M. Macfarlane, Director of Research and Instruction, Middlebury

If you’re a student about to go to college, then perhaps you’ve scanned college orientation websites and social media feeds for glimpses of your new life. As a college librarian, I believe you should explore your college library, too.

This is based on countless discussions I’ve had with graduating college seniors who told me they regret they didn’t learn more about the library back in their first year of college. To help students avoid a similar fate, here are four things to know about libraries…

Read complete article

~	Getting to know Juan Pablo Martínez: A Q&A with an Aragonese language activist

~	Universal’s music is returning to TikTok, ending a spat that hurt fans more than anyone

~	Hadeda ibises’ ‘sixth sense’ works best in wet soil: new research is a wake-up call for survival of wading birds with this superpower

~	An American writer with a European sensibility, Paul Auster viewed his society from an oblique angle

~	Figures like Andrew Tate may help spread misogyny. But they’re amplifying – not causing – the problem

~	Lebanon: End use of defamation laws to target journalists and critics

~	Niger: Press freedom in jeopardy as journalists working on conflict intimidated and arrested

~	Chad: Military government’s leading opponent Yaya Dillo Djérou dies

~	To tackle gendered violence, we also need to look at drugs, trauma and mental health

~	Human Rights Watch Launches Podcast