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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- 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 […]
- The Scheuch Atrium in the Raether Library currently features a new exhibit comprised largely of models built by students taking courses on architecture. With the architectural minor program flourishing at Trinity, Dr. Willie Granston ’13 answered a few questions about what the students learn through the construction of architectural models. Here is what he had […]
- By Amanda M.B. Matava, Digital Archivist The Great Blizzard of 1888 (sometimes called the “Great White Hurricane”) was one of the deadliest and most unusual snowstorms in American history. It also has the curious distinction of being the first widely photographed natural disaster in the United States. Between March 12 and 14, the storm buried […]
