March 2026
The Biblio File
Tips from the Library for Bowdoin faculty, students, and staff.
Open Education Week
March 2-6, 2026
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Faculty members at Bowdoin currently use Open Education Resources across 31 Spring '26 courses.
Email Kate Wing to learn more about accessing or sharing Open Education resources within your courses, or check out some of the currently-used resources below.
Access Newspapers
Current News - No Account Required
Click the links below to access from anywhere, at anytime.
Current News - Account Required
Use your bowdoin.edu email to create an account using the links below.
Recent Additions
El Pais Historical Archive
1976-2023
Spain's widest circulating paper, and the first non-Francoist paper of the modern era.
British Newspaper Update
Access five additional years of:
- The Times (London) (1785-2024)
- The Mirror (1903-2005)
- The Daily Mail (1896-2021)
News & Newspapers Research Guide
Navigate our extensive collection of current and historical newspapers from across the globe.
Have questions? Contact research librarians Carmen Greenlee, Linnea Minich, or any of our other research librarians for additional guidance.
Start HereNew Exhibit
Art Hazelwood's Al Mutanabbi Street, March 5, 2007. Concord, MA, USA, 2011.
Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Project
After a 2007 car bombing devastated Baghdad’s historic Al-Mutanabbi Street, poet-bookseller Beau Beausoleil mobilized poets, artists, printers, and readers to create hundreds of artist’s books and broadsides that mourn the attack and affirm the resilience of ideas and free expression—exhibited worldwide and, in 2025, gifted to Bowdoin College, where a selection of artist’s books are now on view.
Now on display on the 3rd floor of Hawthorne-Longfellow Library
Upcoming Events
Creative Friendships & Making Books
A Conversation
Author and Illustrator Julia Sarcone-Roach and Book Artist and Curator Yuka Petz join in conversation to share their experiences from over 25 years of creating books and 33 years of creative friendship.
Tuesday, March 3rd, 4:30-5:30 PM
H-L 3rd floor, Special Collections Learning Lab (317)
Audubon Page-Turning
Nick Lund, birder and nature writer, is the guest speaker for March. His new book, "World Without Birds," releases March 3rd.
Friday, March 6th, 12:30-1 PM
H-L 3rd floor
Special Collections & Archives
Did You Know?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's birthday is February 27th. Thanks to a fund established by Ray Rutan '51, he receives a bouquet of flowers every year in front of his portrait at Hawthorne-Longfellow Library.