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- Roger Easson Library of William Blake mention | From McFarlin Tower on Roger Easson Library of William Blake
- Marc Carlson on Edward Charles (E. C. E. Hemsted) Correspondence
- Reinaldo Figueredo on Edward Charles (E. C. E. Hemsted) Correspondence
- An Unexpected Find | From McFarlin Tower on Sir Rupert Hart-Davis Collection
- Walt Whitman and the History of Special Collections | From McFarlin Tower on Walt Whitman Poetry Reading to be held next Thursday, April 19
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Roger Easson Library of William Blake
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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Tagged art, Blake, collections, easson, Libraries, library
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The Rush Greenslade Library
Posted in Collections, Guide to Literary and Related Materials
Tagged collections, Greenslade, Libraries, library, Literature
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Some minor departmental changes this summer
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
Closure for July 4th
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.
Factory House library
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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Tagged collections, factory house, Libraries, library, oporto, porto
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Sir Rupert Hart-Davis Collection
Sir Rupert Hart-Davis was a gentleman-publisher, author, editor and bibliophile. It has been said that nobody of Hart-Davis’s generation was so much at the heart of the English literary scene as he was. His careers in publishing, editing and writing … Continue reading
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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Tagged acquisitions, collections, Great War, Indian Territory, library, Literature, poetry, World War I, World War One, WWI
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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
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
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
