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  • Posters: Not Just For Teenagers Anymore

    October 3, 2013
    Posted in: Special Collections
    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

  • Exhibits

    September 30, 2013
    Posted in: Special Collections
    Another 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.

  • The Civil War Centennial in the Archives

    September 26, 2013
    Posted in: Special Collections
    I 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.

  • I Couldn’t Say….

    September 26, 2013
    Posted in: Special Collections
    It 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.

  • Nuevos Borders Argentinos : Antología Cartonera donated to Swem Library

    January 6, 2013
    Posted in: Special Collections
    The generosity of Eloísa Cartonera and the relationship of Professor of Hispanic Studies Regina Root with this publishing cooperative has brought the book Nuevos Borders Argentinos : Antología Cartonera to the Rare Book Collection in Swem Library's Special Collections Research Center.

  • The Things We Know We Do Not Know

    December 17, 2012
    Posted in: Special Collections

  • Association Books

    December 1, 2012
    Posted in: Special Collections
    One of the cornerstones of the Swem Library'sSpecial Collections Research Center is its rare book collection.

  • Examining Material Culture

    November 28, 2012
    Posted in: Special Collections
    If you have ever seen the PBS series Antiques Roadshow, then you can understand what I do here.

  • Preserving Memories with Oral History

    November 13, 2012
    Posted in: Special Collections
    In 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

  • Disease and Correspondence in the Civil War

    April 30, 2012
    Posted in: Special Collections
    Currently, 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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