Tag Archives: Libraries

Roger Easson Library of William Blake

Posted on 2011 September 8 by ashley-schoppe

Also featured are a number of first edition texts that include Blake’s original engravings, notably Robert Blair’s The Grave: A Poem and William Hayley’s Ballads: Founded on Anecdotes Relating to Animals. o One extraordinary acquisition is Edward Young’s The Complaint, … Continue reading →

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The Rush Greenslade Library

Posted on 2011 August 11 by mfspeccoll
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Some minor departmental changes this summer

Posted on 2011 July 22 by Marc Carlson

Over the summer, there have been a number of changes to the department: technological changes, changes to how we handle our materials and our clientele, and changes to security procedures. I want to stress that none of these changes are … Continue reading →

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Closure for July 4th

Posted on 2011 July 1 by mfspeccoll

The Department of Special Collections, as well as the rest of the McFarlin Library, will be closed Monday, July 4 for Independence Day. We will see you Tuesday morning.

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Robert Frost

Posted on 2011 June 16 by ashley-schoppe
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Factory House library

Posted on 2011 June 9 by Marc Carlson

In 1982 McFarlin Library added a most unusual collection of nineteenth century fiction formed at the time the books were being published. In the early 1820s the merchants and wine-traders who had come from Britain and settled in Porto (also … Continue reading →

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Proletarian Collections

Posted on 2011 May 5 by Marc Carlson

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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New Acquisition

Posted on 2011 February 21 by Marc Carlson

In 2007, the Oklahoma Library Association held a celebration of a century of Librarianship since statehood, and created an award called the Library Legend Awards, giving out 100 retroactively (since then, one a year has been presented). McFarlin Library, The … Continue reading →

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Indian Museum collection

Posted on 2010 December 10 by Marc Carlson

The title of this entry may seem a little odd to people who are familiar with the collections, that we don’t actually have an Indian Museum collection. And of course, they’d be correct. In 1929, however, things were different. The … Continue reading →

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First official collection to special collections Remote Storage

Posted on 2010 November 19 by Marc Carlson

Several years ago, we acquired a new remote storage facility for the library. It took a while to get it revved up, but for the last year or so the rest of the library has been sending over their materials … Continue reading →

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