Welcome everyone to 2014! 2013 was an exciting year for our digital collections here in the Walter Havighurst Special Collections. I was brought on board to help expand the digital services of Special Collections in February and it has been…

Now that the students have gone home for the holiday break, it’s very quiet here in the library. Oxford and campus are blanketed by a picturesque layer of snow and all is calm after the flurry of activity surrounding this…

The snowfall and chilly temperatures these last two weeks inspired us to fill one of our exhibit cases with images of winter from our collections. We thought we would share this exhibit with you online since the semester is over…

Earlier this week Miami University hired football coach Chuck Martin to become the newest member of the Miami coaching fraternity also known as the Cradle of Coaches. On behalf of Miami university Libraries and the Walter Havighurst Special Collections we’d…

Previously on this blog I’ve talked about encapsulation as one example of a preservation measure used to ensure continued access to the materials in Special Collections. In this post, I am going to address another enclosure method used to protect…

In response to a reference question last week I found myself searching through various department files, reading articles about the history and background of the Walter Havighurst Special Collections. I found the answer to my question in an article from…