It wouldn’t be my turn at writing a blog if postcards didn’t come up, so here you go: all the postcards we had sent away to be scanned by a commercial company are now completed and returned to us. In…
It wouldn’t be my turn at writing a blog if postcards didn’t come up, so here you go: all the postcards we had sent away to be scanned by a commercial company are now completed and returned to us. In…
Beginning in 2014, we are working to preserve not only a record of the materials displayed in our exhibits but also the narrative and story that is built from our collections in each exhibit. With the help of the University…
On October 10th, 2014, 50 years after Freedom Summer 1964, 3 volunteers: Roland Duerksen, Carole Gross Colca, and Mark Levy, spoke in a panel about their experiences. They also took questions from the audience before a tour of the…
As of Friday April 16, 2014, the portal to our digital collections is now http://digital.lib.miamioh.edu/. On behalf of Special Collections and the Center for Digital Scholarship, I am excited to announce the launch of our new digital collections portal. The…
With the recent attention garnered by the movie version of Solomon Northrup’s memoir Twelve Years a Slave, it occurred to me it would be a good idea to acquire a first edition of the book for Special Collections. Not to…
2016: “WMUB & MUTV in Review”, with a panel of current and former students Opening our 2016 exhibit and now, Live from Miami…, we had a panel of current and former students at our best-attended reception yet, discussing their…