Before starting work at the Special Collections Research Center, I assumed archives were repositories of serious things relating to very serious matters. There are most certainly serious documents which serve very important purposes, but there are just so many more things housed in the archives here. Many of these things
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October 3, 2013Posted in: Special Collections
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September 30, 2013Posted in: Special CollectionsAnother semester is coming to an end at Swem Library’s Special Collections and student employees are getting ready for the hustle of the last few weeks of classes. It is my last semester working at Special Collections, and the year I have spent as a graduate apprentice here has gone by in the blink of an eye.
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September 26, 2013Posted in: Special CollectionsI have been researching, writing, and planning an exhibit on the Civil War Centennial to be displayed outside the Special Collections Research Center in the Nancy Marshall Gallery.
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September 26, 2013Posted in: Special CollectionsIt might be an exaggeration to say that it’s been a dream of mine to work at a library, but I was pretty darn excited when I found out that I would be serving my graduate assistantship in Swem Library’s Special Collections Research Center.
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December 1, 2012Posted in: Special CollectionsOne of the cornerstones of the Swem Library'sSpecial Collections Research Center is its rare book collection.
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November 28, 2012Posted in: Special CollectionsIf you have ever seen the PBS series Antiques Roadshow, then you can understand what I do here.
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November 13, 2012Posted in: Special CollectionsIn addition to an impressive archive of rare books, periodicals, photographs, and other physical documents, Swem Library'sSpecial Collections manages the W&M Digital Archive that includes both digitized versions of some parts of the physical archive (l
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April 30, 2012Posted in: Special CollectionsCurrently, in Swem Library'sSpecial Collections Research Center (Swem SCRC), I have been working on uploading a number of small collections to the From Fights to Rights Transcription Project. Some of the most interesting discussions I come across in these letters are about the variou
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April 24, 2012Posted in: Special CollectionsAs a graduate assistant in the Special Collections Research Center in Swem Library (Swem SCRC), I have had the opportunity to do a number of exciting things, from exhibit installation to assisting during special events. One of the main things I have done this year, however, is processing collections. Collections come in all shapes and sizes and c
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April 20, 2012Posted in: Special CollectionsIn my current project at Swem Library's Special Collections Research Center (SCRC), I have been working on checking the transcriptions that have been uploaded by our transcription volunteers. Although I am not currently working on a particular collection, checking transcriptions of letters written during the Civil War is an incredibly rewarding experience. As I go through the di
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