Friends of the Library Event

Please join us Thursday, May 15 at 6:00PM for a special event:
19th-Century Publishers’ Bindings: One Hundred Years of Mountaineering
Beth Heller, Preservation Librarian, will take examples of interesting bindings from the Library’s Rare Books Room and trace the movement of book production, from an early 1800s example of a hand-bound volume created for a wealthy owner, [...]

On Relationships

Most libraries are under tremendous pressure to fulfill the expectations of a 21st-century audience. These pressures generally manifest themselves in the form of implementing new technologies. It’s all about digitization and automation these days.
These are exciting times to be a librarian, information professional, or whatever one wants to refer him/herself to. To take a special [...]

For the Conservation Minded

Both the CMC and AAC actively promote conservation in mountain environments. Our colleagues at the National Snow and Ice Data Center have been working with a few scientists to take current photos of glaciers that appear in the NSIDC’s collection of historic images (the NSIDC allowed us to use some of their images in the [...]

New Beginnings

Libraries should be fun. They should have interesting resources, a helpful and knowledgeable staff, programming to showcase their treasures, and lots of ways to access the information contained within them. A library should spark something in the imagination of everyone it touches.
There’s a lot going on at the AAC Library this year. With the addition [...]