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Category Archives: News
Special Collections is closed until further notice.
In accordance with The University’s ‘Social Distancing’ policy and social distancing recommendations from the Center for Disease Control (CDC), The Department of Special Collections and University Archives will be closed to the public, visiting scholars, TU affiliates until further notice. We … Continue reading
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Social Distancing in Special Collections, phase 2
In accordance with The University’s ‘Social Distancing’ policy and social distancing recommendations from the Center for Disease Control (CDC), The Department of Special Collections and University Archives will be closed to the public and visiting scholars until April 6. Due … Continue reading
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Social Distancing in Special Collections
In accordance with The University’s ‘Social Distancing’ policy and social distancing recommendations from the Center for Disease Control (CDC), The Department of Special Collections and University Archives will be closed to the public and visiting scholars until April 6. Faculty, … Continue reading
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Archival Catalog
On 5 February 2020 our ArchivesSpace Archival Catalog will be down, probably all morning, because of a much needed update. We apologize for the inconvenience.
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Prohibition in the Special Collections
Happy New Year! As we settle into the new decade, I thought it fitting to write about Prohibition and how it is represented in our collections, as it was going on in the United States a century ago. Many people … Continue reading
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Tagged Prohibition, the twenties
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April 16th 2019 Special Collections Fellows Dinner
On April 16th, 2019, Fellows of McFarlin library Special Collections gathered together for their third and final fellow’s dinner of the year. Our special guest of the evening was poet, musician and playwright, Joy Harjo. The evening began with a … Continue reading
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Tagged Fellows Dinner, fellows speakers, McFarlin Fellows, Special Collections
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Walt Whitman
In 1952, Tulsa businessman Rush Greenslade and group called the Tulsa Bibliophiles deposited with McFarlin Library a large collection of Walt Whitman books, and ephemera, creating the first ‘rare book room’ in the library. This was in the north wing … Continue reading
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Tagged collections, photographs, Special Collections, Walt Whitman, Whitman
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Sir V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad) Naipaul
Post by Tracy Ashby Nobel laureate Sir V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad) Naipaul died in his London home on Saturday August 11, 2018 at age 85. He was known for his fiction and non-fiction novels, travel writings and essays, and autobiographic … Continue reading
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Administrative Note
This blog will be changing servers at some point in the next month. We will try to keep a redirect in place, but that will not be under our control.
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July 4th closing
The Department of Special Collections and University Archives will be closed July 4th in observation of Independence Day in the United States.
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