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Campus Partners
The Hampshire College Center for the Book
views its role as that of both creator and facilitator.
We encourage collaboration among individuals and offices
on campus. In addition, we serve as the intellectual and
institutional liaison between the College, proper, and the
first residents of the neighboring Cultural Village: The
National Yiddish Book Center, and the Eric Carle Museum
of Picture Book Art.
The pioneering resident of the village,
the National
Yiddish Book Center moved to its current location
in summer 1997. The Center, an internationally recognized
organization with a membership of 30,000, has a mission
that includes worldwide distribution of books, tapes, and
other materials about Yiddish culture; educational programs
for children and adults; and an archive of over a million
Yiddish books.
The Eric
Carle Museum of Picture Book Art will preserve and
exhibit the work of artist and illustrator Eric
Carle (creator of the Very Hungry Caterpillar
and other children's books), as well as that of picture-book
artists from around the world. Museum programs will foster
a love of the visual arts and written word, facilitating
collaborative relationships with preschools, schools, educators,
and students of children's literature and art.
The Digital
Design Center supports student—and now faculty—projects
in the areas of software and multimedia. Director and Visiting
Lemelson Professor of Instructional Technology Tom
Murray has been especially interested in developing
hyperbooks and new multimedia teaching tools.
The Harold
Johnson Library Center is the physical and intellectual
heart of the campus. The founders' bold concept of the library
was prophetic and remains vital even today. The Center for
the Book is taking a leading role in the effort to bring
both the vision and the facility into line with the demands
of the 21st century. The Library
Project is the most dramatic act of physical
and intellectual reconstruction that this continually experimenting
College has undertaken.
Contact
information: Prof.
James Wald
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