Monthly Archives: May 2011

New Acquisitions

There are a variety of new acquisitions to report this time around. A group of photographs of historical Muskogee, Oklahoma (2011.020), including several of the English building burning and being rebuilt, old Henry Kendall College, and a herd of cattle. … Continue reading

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Graduate Assistantship

For the past year, we have been fortunate enough to have Melissa L. Antonucci, a doctoral candidate in the English Department, serving as our Graduate (Administrative) Assistant. I would like to take the opportunity to recognize her outstanding, and often … Continue reading

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Holiday Closure

The library and the department will be closed on Thursday, May 26 from 11 am until 2 pm and all day Friday, May 27 to allow the staff to take part in the University’s Employee Appreciation Week activities. The library … Continue reading

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The Tage la Cour Collection of Popular Fiction

In 1979, Special Collection acquired the Tage la Cour library of popular fiction. This library is made up of detective novels, western novels, science fiction, and other works that are often classified as ‘entertainments.’ The authors represented range from P. … Continue reading

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Archivists’ Toolkit, where we are and the tangled roads ahead

In late 2007 we acquired, and in early 2008 implemented, a collections management software package called Archivists’ Toolkit (not to be confused with the other, also highly useful Archivist’s Toolkit, produced by the Archivists Association of British Columbia). There were … Continue reading

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The Joyce Bell Witt Collection of California Fine Printing

The cornerstone of this collection is an extensive holding of the publications from the Book Club of California, from its beginning in 1913 to 1986, with a few as late as 1993. There are nearly 400 books that reflect not … Continue reading

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Proletarian Collections

The Department of Special Collections and University Archives is home to two separate collections of radical socialist and communist related materials. These are the Harold Leventhal proletarian archive (coll. no. 2006.003) and the Peter Howard proletarian library. There are other … Continue reading

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Manuscripts and Correspondence

Literary correspondence often illuminates the world surrounding the writer and reveals how that world impinges upon the writer’s work. Such significance is clearly evident in the letters that came with the Cyril Connolly library, which includes correspondence with Logan Pearsall … Continue reading

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