News & Events
The main library and Watkinson library both maintain blogs that feature news and highlights from our services and collections. Below is a feed of recent posts from both blogs.
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- This week Trinity Libraries is recognizing International Open Access Week – October 19-25, 2026. Open Access (OA) publications (articles, books, reports, etc.) are those that are made freely available to all readers. However, this may or may not mean it is free for authors to make their publication Open. OA publications also may or may […]
- This Trinity Jacket dates from the fall of 1962 and was purchased at the Trinity bookstore. See the jacket in the Watkinson Reading Room to learn more.
- Born in western Illinois on July 22, 1884, Odell Shepard was the inaugural J.J. Goodwin Professorship of English. He taught at Trinity College from 1917 to 1946. However, it was not always clear that Shepard would remain in Connecticut at Trinity. At age 34, the summer after he finished his first full year of teaching […]
- Alden Rand Gordon was the coxswain of the Trinity College freshman crew team in the spring of 1966.
- Earlier this month, on March 10, 2026, a new exhibit was installed in the ground-floor lobby at the eastern end of the Mathematics, Engineering, and Computer Science (MECC) building on Trinity College’s campus. Professors August Sapega and David (Dave) Ahlgren purchased Intel’s first 8-bit microprocessor chip (8008) in 1974. The kit included the 8008 processor, 1024 bytes […]
- by Casey Machenheimer, Special Collections and Archives Librarian for Public Services, Research, and Outreach The Watkinson Library has acquired five new artists’ books, courtesy of the artist-run non-profit, Booklyn. Siempre Junto, 2026, by Raoul Deal (Milwaukee, WI) and Marshall Weber (Brooklyn, NY), with Kurt Allerslev (Hopewell, NJ) Siempre Junto is a unique copy. It is […]
