Wicked Big Book Sale! WHERE: 62 Washington Street, Middletown (2nd floor, above Powder Hollow Brewery and Steamed) WHEN: Thursday, March 12, 2020 from 6-9pm Preview Night. (Members of the Friends of Russell Library and Wesleyan Friends of Arts and Letters enter for free. $20 entry fee for all others. Memberships may be purchased at the … Read more
On January 28, 2020, Barry and JoAnne Scott, of New England Antiquarian Booksellers in Rhode Island, donated a rare Romare Bearden collage to Olin Library’s Special Collections & Archives in honor of its director, Suzy Taraba. Read the full story in the Wesleyan Connection.
Photos and videos of the Hidden Volumes and Living Tones concerts in Olin on February 1, 2020 were featured in The Wesleyan Connection. Keep your ears open for future exciting collaborations between the Music Library, the Music Department, and the Center for the Arts this semester.
Wesleyan Library has opened it fourth annual competition for excellence in undergraduate research and writing (apart from theses). Current undergraduate students may submit a paper/project undertaken from Spring 2019 through Winter 2020. Professors may also nominate the best papers from those semesters. First prize is $500 and second prize is $250. Deadline: February 28, 2020. … Read more
The Music Library is pleased to add a number of scores by Jin Hi Kim, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music, to our collection. The compositions are based on her Living Tones philosophy, derived from the characteristic of Korean tone quality (sigimse). In celebration of this acquisition, we have invited Jin Hi Kim to give a … Read more
There are some new exhibits in Olin Library displaying the wide array of materials that can be found in Special Collections & Archives.
Oftentimes in collections work, we come across items that surprise us… a long-lost catalog record, a document that answers a burning question, a work of art we did not know we had, … a poisoned arrow? Three poisoned arrows, to be precise.
Since February of 2019, I have had the pleasure of working as an intern with Wesleyan’s Special Collections & Archives. What started as a 60-hour practicum for my Masters of Library Science coursework became a six-month journey in learning about and working in archives.
As the newly hired Preservation & Special Collections Librarian, several people have already asked me, “What can you tell us about mold?” and more specifically, “What kinds of mold do you find in libraries?”
Professor Ellen Thomas received a grant (thanks in part to the library’s willingness to host the table in a student-centered space) from the Paleontological Society to construct a display-study table for permanent use in the Campbell Room. This table will house our Ward’s cast of the skull of a Mosasaurus hoffmanni Mantell, displayed within the table under a glass cover.
