March 1, 2017 — STATES OF INCARCERATION A NATIONAL DIALOGUE OF LOCAL HISTORIES March 13-30, Forbes Library, 20 West St, Northampton, MA and Historic Northampton, 46 Bridge St., Northampton, MA Opening reception: March 13,…Office of Research Development. States of Incarceration was created by the Humanities Action Lab and designed by Matter Practice. The web platform, statesofincarceration.org, was created by Picture Projects. The Spanish-language exhibit catalog was created by María José Giménez (translator) and Maggie McDonald (graphic designer). The Carceral Commonwealth was created by UMass students and local residents and designed by Jennifer Luxton. Wistariahu…
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The Humanist
The American Humanist Association, founded in 1941, publishes The Humanist six times a year. It covers social issues, current events, science, arts and literature from the point of view of humanism, “a rational philosophy informed by science, inspired by art, and motivated by compassion.” This month’s issue has articles about religion, health care, technology, war, sexuality, and peace activism, plus poetry and book reviews. The writers explore e…
The Right To Vote: Past, Present, Future — Mass Humanities grant
March 5, 2020 — A series of public presentations and discussions about voting in America Events On this 100th anniversary of the year U.S. women gained the right to vote, Forbes Library is presenting…ssion. All events are free and open to the public. About “The Vote” – Mass Humanities “The Vote” commemorates the centennial of the 19th Amendment through grants to 17 Massachusetts organizations. Through public events, workshops for educators, museum exhibitions and new research, “The Vote” provides Massachusetts residents with free opportunities to consider issues including women’s suffrage, the Civil Rights movement, voter suppression, civics e…
New Improved Library Designed by AI
April 1, 2023 — An AI chatbot also wrote our news post about the wonderful changes! Artificial Intelligence is so advanced, we’re going to replace librarians with robots! Check out our new look designed…by AI! Everything is easy to find in our new building. How can I help you, human? New improved system for organizing books Storybooks come alive! The friendly librarian is ready to answer all your questions! Fish that don’t need to be fed Design for the new improved Reading Room You can read to Therapy Monster! More attentive than a dog, and lower maintenance. Our team manages school visits efficiently! Forest Bathing in the redesigned Children’s…
Foreigner: A Novel of First Contact
The subtitle of C. J. Cherryh’s novel Foreigner is “a Novel of First Contact”. The novel begins with a brief prelude in which a starship is flung off course and and…oples. After some disastrous misunderstandings a treaty is formed to limit human-Atevi contact. According to the treaty the humans are given an island on which to live, the Atevi have the rest of the world, and contact between the two species is channeled through a single human translator/diplomat known as the paidhi. This worked well; for generations humans and Atevi both prospered, and for generations of paidhi the job consisted of attending mee…
Animals Make Us Human
Grandin transports her readers into the animal mind. She challenges us to approach animals the same way we approach each other- considering the psychology of the individual.The book explores training,…answers may not be what you expect. Grandin brings together scientific research and anecdotal evidence to reveal surprising insights that can improve human-animal interactions in ways that are simple but have enormous impact….
Forbes Library supports the Statement Condemning the Anti-Asian and Gender Based Violence in Georgia recently issued by the Northampton Human Rights Commission.
March 29, 2021 — Forbes Library supports the Statement Condemning the Anti-Asian and Gender Based Violence in Georgia recently issued by the Northampton Human Rights Commission….Forbes Library supports the Statement Condemning the Anti-Asian and Gender Based Violence in Georgia recently issued by the Northampton Human Rights Commission….
Steampunk
April 23, 2014 — Steampunk is a sub-genre of science fiction and alternate history premised on a Victorian world where steam power is still widely used. Compiled by Forbes Library Staff | Summaries from…etime quietly carrying out his unique research. But when a half-bird, half-human creature known as the Garuda comes to him from afar, Isaac is faced with challenges he has never before encountered. The Kingdom of Ohio by Matthew Flaming Discovering an old photograph of a beautiful mathematical prodigy, antiques dealer Peter remembers his initial dismissal of the woman’s claim that she had discovered the key to time travel, a capability that enable…
Forbes Library Disability Advisory Board Minutes for May 3, 2019
Minutes Forbes Library Disability Advisory Board Fri May 3 2019. 3:00 PM. Present: Lisa Downing, Benjamin Kalish, MaryJo Stanley, Joel Dansky. Announcements New library hours (Lisa): Forbes library is now open…we may want to invite the Institute for Human Centered Design, https://www.humancentereddesign.org/. Cooley Dickinson’s Community Benefit Advisory Council (Lisa): The hospital has convened a group to discuss community health concerns and present suggestions for ways the hospital can help solve them. Lisa will make this committee aware of when the next meeting is in case anyone wants to attend or ask Lisa to bring forward topics. Discussion of audi…
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
If you are interested in the world around you—what are those little boxes on the sides of buildings? why are signposts built the way they are? what do those symbols painted on the road mean?—then 99% Invisible will appeal to you. Faith has already written up the 99% Invisible Podcast as a staff pick here, but I would like to bring your attention to the book, The 99% Invisible City. The book, as its title implies, has a narrower scope than the pod…
Library Building and Architecture
The Castle On The Hill View of Forbes Library from College Hall Forbes Library was designed by architect William C. Brocklesby of Hartford, Conn. in a style known as Richardsonian…t the building be fireproof. The Guastavino arches are part of this safety design and are constructed of brick covered with white clay tile. Interior of the roof during construction, photo by the Berlin Iron Bridge Company. “The crowning glory of inflammability was the roof.” Erected by the Berlin Iron Bridge Company, it was constructed entirely of steel girders covered with slate roofing tiles. Each separate slate was tied through with a nail by…
The Ukrainian and Russian Notebooks
New graphic nonfiction by Italian comics artist Igort! Over the past few decades only a small handful of Igort’s work have been translated into English, despite his status as an…t telling the year can pack as much emotion and connotative information as some other artist’s entire novels, simply through his layering of images and line work — a true master of the craft. Definitely not an easy read in terms of its direct depictions of human atrocities, but certainly one of the most important graphic novels of the year, humanizing events that have mostly been told through a skewed western lens, while also connecting current tu…
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