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Sleeping on Campus, part 3
The library is an excellent place to sleep with its cozy chairs tucked in the corners of bookshelves
Part 3 in a multi-part series of the places students sleep on campus.
-Glennis
Here’s some photos of Crosset Library….
Liam
The library as a whole is typically open until midnight each night during the week or until 10 pm on Friday and Saturday. The reading room, however, which has a separate entrance in the back and is filled with cozy little study spaces IS open all night until 5 am.
-Amira
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At the end of every year, Bennington’s Crossett Library hosts a celebration of senior theses. Much of the Bennington community attends, including President Liz Coleman. Check out the full set of pictures capturing this year’s celebration, courtesy of the Library.
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At the end of every year, Bennington’s Crossett Library hosts a celebration of senior theses. Much of the Bennington community attends, including President Liz Coleman. Check out the full set of pictures capturing this year’s celebration, courtesy of the Library.
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limbless-creaturess:
Crosset Storm.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4gj8s2KXH1r3flezo1_400.jpg)
above: Carolyn in her incoming class photo from 1933; Crossett Library today; the original announcement about Crossett Library from the November 1959 alumni mag
Carolyn Crossett Rowland, mother of photography at Bennington and part of the namesake of our library, passed away yesterday.
Affectionately known in our community as Crossie, she attended Bennington in the 1930s as one of the first incoming classes. In the 1950s, she donated the money for Bennignton to build Crossett Library and it opened in 1959. She named it after her father, and a drawing of him with a plaque still hangs in the library now.
Carolyn was one of the first photo students at Bennington College. She set up the first darkroom the school ever had. She also had many amusing and fascinating anecdotes from her connection to the photo world outside of Bennington. Oceana Wilson, our current director of the library, tells me this: “She knew Ansel Adams and even had some of his prints. She also went to Stieglitz’s photo studio when she was on Field Work Term in NYC and boldly asked him to look at her work. After answering the door in a cape, he critiqued her work for an hour and a half.”
Through perseverance, Carolyn was able to create an interest for photography on campus and give the option of studying it to others. As a photography student, I feel like I owe many parts of my life here to her. When I walk down the photo and darkroom hallways in our art building, I pass a sign on the front of the darkroom doors that says “The Carolyn Crossett Rowland Black and White Darkroom.” She is definitely on our minds.
Taking action, getting things done for herself, and pioneering uncharted grounds in her education: a true Bennington girl! She will be greatly missed.
-India K, ‘12
with much help from Oceana Wilson, Joe Tucker, and Kathy Williams of the amazing Crossett Library
Before there was Instagram, there were the original 1959 photos of our very own Crossett Library.
- Ellie
Mend + Make Events: mending, quilting, knitting, crocheting, stationary making and more! Plus zines and cookies!
[Photos from the Crossett Library Flickr]
-Ellie
![Crossett Library at Bennington College celebrated World Book Day on Friday April 22, 2011. The celebration originated in Catalonia on April 23, St. George’s Day, El dia de San Jordi, where the tradition of exchanging a flower for a book began.
Students, faculty members, staff and visitors shared the title of a favorite book. This title was attached to a flower. In exchange for sharing the favorite book title everyone received a flower with another person’s favorite book title.
World Book Day is sponsored by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, who see this event as a “new opportunity for political decision-makers, economic agents and those active in civil society to give pride of place, each in their own field, to this unique instrument of culture, education, participation, communication and entertainment – the book.”
[picture and above text from Crosset Library’s Flickr]
World Book Day is coming up again - last year as part of the celebration Kirk Jackson, an actor, director, and Bennington professor, read to an audience of children, college students, and staff and faculty.
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Crossett Library at Bennington College celebrated World Book Day on Friday April 22, 2011. The celebration originated in Catalonia on April 23, St. George’s Day, El dia de San Jordi, where the tradition of exchanging a flower for a book began.
Students, faculty members, staff and visitors shared the title of a favorite book. This title was attached to a flower. In exchange for sharing the favorite book title everyone received a flower with another person’s favorite book title.
World Book Day is sponsored by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, who see this event as a “new opportunity for political decision-makers, economic agents and those active in civil society to give pride of place, each in their own field, to this unique instrument of culture, education, participation, communication and entertainment – the book.”
[picture and above text from Crosset Library’s Flickr]
World Book Day is coming up again - last year as part of the celebration Kirk Jackson, an actor, director, and Bennington professor, read to an audience of children, college students, and staff and faculty.
-Ellie
This magic box holds the secrets of the universe. On very special occasions when you’ve been really really good you get an opportunity to dip into the box and choose any one thing for keeps. Without a doubt one of my favourite surprises from Crossett. So much library love.
-Janiele
Jared is giving out candy in the library to ease the flow of the 2 o’clock paper-print-rush!
It’s a library kind of afternoon
Crossett-copia: Your course will be taught by...
We were recently reviewing some old course catalogs for Bennington College. It’s interesting to look back sometimes at what was being taught in the 40s and 50s. But a related search is to see WHO was teaching these courses at that time. Bennington College has always been blessed with leaders in…
A tidbit of some of the cool courses and professors that were stirring things up at Bennington in the early days. Um…awesome much.
