Eliot D. Pratt Library

09/30/2024

Goodbye, Plainfield community! The Eliot D. Pratt Library is now closed.

10/12/2023

Open Access Week is coming!

Theme for Open Access Week 2023: Community over Commercialisation“Community over Commercialization” is the theme for this year’s International Open Access Week (October 23-29). This theme encourages a candid conversation about which approaches to open scholarship prioritize the best interests ...

08/16/2023

https://apnews.com/article/banned-books-tour-vermont-zuckerman-1c116df096f1909da2ed8408adf8e4d0

As some states ban or restrict certain books in schools and libraries, Vermont’s lieutenant governor is on a statewide banned book reading tour, highlighting what he calls the importance of representation, free speech, open dialogue and exchange of ideas.

03/31/2023

Tomorrow is Trans Day of Visibility, AND IRL Leadership Day!! Join us at the statehouse at noon to cheer on youth speakers. Adult allies are welcome - bring your brightest signs of support and show LGBTQ+ youth that their voices count!

02/14/2023

The New York Times sent photographers to seven states to document the thrum and buzz in buildings once known for silence.

02/01/2023

In honor of Black History Month, check out the library's new resource guide (some items require Goddard login credentials).
https://research.goddard.edu/BHM/home

01/31/2023

Orion Magazine & PEN America Present: Writers from Wartime Ukraine
This free online event presents four writers in conversation about writing in a time of crisis, literacy as an act of resistance, and the search for meaning and community in wartime Ukraine. Their work appeared in Orion's Winter 2022 issue. The panel will include Ilya Kaminsky, Elena Andreychykova, Ludmila Khersonsky, & Zarina Zabrisky. Moderating the event will be Liesl Gerntholtz, the Inaugural Director of the PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Center.

Orion Magazine & PEN America present writers from wartime Ukraine: Ilya Kaminsky, Elena Andreychykova, Ludmila Khersonsky, & Zarina Zabrisky

01/27/2023

In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, visit the Eyewitness to History video library on the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website.

The Eyewitness to History video library enables audiences everywhere to hear firsthand testimony from Holocaust survivors.

01/23/2023

Sunday, January 29, 2023
5pm
A Memorial Celebration for Pablo Vela --
Director of Goddard's Theater program from 1966-1975

Ellen Stewart Theater, La Mama ETC
66 E. 4th Street, New York, NY
Open to All to Attend

For questions or more information,
please contact Peter Sciscioli, [email protected]

"It is with sadness and reverence that we share news of the passing of our dear Pablo Vela, performer extraordinaire, phenomenal teacher, loving friend and grandfather of The House. He will forever remain in our hearts, minds and spirits as someone who has profoundly touched, moved and inspired so many others
over the course of his remarkable life. He will be deeply missed."

01/12/2023

At this “self-governing” Vermont campus, students run the show.

12/30/2022

Vermont Humanities presents, “The Other Side of Hope:” Films About Immigration, a Zoom event, January 4, 2023: 7:00 pm.

Filmmakers have tackled issues of displacement, discrimination, exploitation, and assimilation in movies like Mississippi Masala (about Indians in the Deep South), The Other Side of Hope (Syrians in Finland) and Dirty Pretty Things (West Africans in London.) Film history expert Rick Winston shares clips from fifteen works that address one of the most pressing issues of our times.

Register for free online: https://www.vermonthumanities.org/event/the-other-side-of-hope-films-about-immigration/

This is one of three "Vermont Reads" events in January. Check them out here: https://mailchi.mp/52556106639c/vermont-reads-january-events?e=59abd677c5

Filmmakers have tackled issues of displacement, discrimination, exploitation, and assimilation in movies like Mississippi Masala (about Indians in the Deep South), The Other Side of Hope (Syrians in Finland) and Dirty Pretty Things (West Africans in London.) Film history expert Rick Winston shares c...

12/16/2022

'Tis the seasons for weather closings. To our community members, please check our website for hours and notices before visiting the library. Closed today, Friday, December 16. See you soon!