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While April was , it's May and it's time to celebrate all submissions to our student-authored contest -- and announce our contest winners and honorable mentions!

Thanks to those who participated, and to our judges!

Want to stay connected to poetry all year long? Visit the VC Libraries and hang out in the PNs, PQs, PRs, PSs, and PTs for more; Follow the Academy of American Poets (); and sign up for Poem-a-Day (https://poets.org/poem-a-day).

Reminder! Take part in our student-authored haiku context now through April 30th -- submit your haiku here: https://forms.gle/AmbAjPv6kZtG5yqt5 --> Prizes to 2 winners!

More ways to engage in National Poetry Month this April:
> Have a favorite poem? Let us know! Alumni, faculty, staff, and students are all invited to share a favorite: https://forms.gle/uVFRPmTTttYmbzBM6

> We hope you're around (and that there's great weather) on April 30th for Poem in Your Pocket Day!

> Consider making your own social media posts sharing and acknowledging poetry ( ), follow the Academy of American Poets (), and sign up for Poem-a-Day (https://poets.org/poem-a-day).

Have an idea for a DH project? Have a project started that could use some expert support? Come to the Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship this summer! ILiADS offers a week-long intensive environment both for collaborative project teams and for individuals. This year’s Institute, hosted by Vassar College Libraries in Poughkeepsie, New York, will be held in person July 26-31, 2026. Proposals are due by April 17th!

Call For Proposals ILiADS - The Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship

Much like the London Plane tree on the Library Lawn, Vassar has great roots in poetry. As April is National Poetry Month, let's celebrate those roots by connecting with poetry.

Calling all current students --> Take part in our student-authored haiku context now through April 30th -- submit your haiku here: https://forms.gle/AmbAjPv6kZtG5yqt5 --> Prizes to 2 winners!

Have a favorite poem? Let us know! Alumni, faculty, staff, and students are all invited to share a favorite: https://forms.gle/uVFRPmTTttYmbzBM6

And we hope you're around (and that there's great weather) on April 30th for Poem in Your Pocket Day...more details on that as the month progresses.

For more ways to engage with poetry this month, consider making your own social media posts sharing and acknowledging poetry ( ), follow the Academy of American Poets (), and sign up for Poem-a-Day (https://poets.org/poem-a-day).

New Exhibition in the Vassar College Art Library - Riso Paradiso: Utopian Moments of a New Medium in the Global Village. Opening reception on Thursday March 26, 4-5:30PM EST.

The Vassar Art Library is delighted to feature an exhibition of contemporary artists’ books, zines, and other printed works to showcase the widespread adoption of risograph printing in the art world. We are fortunate to be witnessing the rapid dissemination of this new medium, developed in Japan in the 1980s, as it is being widely incorporated into the world’s media
culture by artists and art studios, as well as by certain segments of the commercial print industry. Risography possesses all the excitement of experimentation and discovery of a technology that offers us a new window on the world, and may serve as a relief to the alienating and dehumanizing effects of ubiquitous mass media.

The Library's new addition is positively glowing! The space is now open!

🕰️ 24-hour access to the area is planned to begin on Monday, February 2. We will be celebrating with a ribbon cutting and open house on Monday, February 9 at noon. Hope to see you there!

Need a study buddy who's quiet and focused on growth? 🌱🌱🌱
The Library is lending out plants for the fall semester, a great addition to your room to brighten up the space. No fuss plants that you return before winter break. 🪴 Plant-borrowing will happen on 9/18 and 9/19 at 3:30 pm in the Main Lobby of Thompson Library, where you can sign out one of our easy-to-care-for plants. 🪴🪴 For questions, feel invited to write to our Science Librarian, Isabel at [email protected].

New exhibition on view in the Main Library: "Frances Burney: Life and Works." To learn more visit the online exhibition here: https://vclibrary.vassarspaces.net/frances-burney

Happy May Day! We hope this unofficial mark of the beginning of summer brings you sunshine and moments of joy as we see in this 1936 May pole scene from our Digital Library. https://digitallibrary.vassar.edu/

Class of 1936 students doing a May Pole dance. Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection (05-11-1936).

Seniors! Please consider submitting your senior thesis/capstones/projects to Vassar Scholarship. For more details go to https://digitallibrary.vassar.edu/institutional-repository-submission-guidelines-faq and for help visit https://digitallibrary.vassar.edu/get-help

Featuring Faculty with Professors Christopher Bjork and William Hoynes (In-Person) March 27 3-4PM EST, Class of '51 Reading Room

Please join us as Education Professor Christopher Bjork and Sociology Professor William Hoynes present compelling first-person stories from their new book, More Than Just a Game: How the Youth Sports Industry Is Changing the Way We Parent and What to Do About It, which provides much-needed perspective about the billion-dollar youth-sports industry. https://libcal.vassar.edu/event/14309733?hs=a