As we near the end of Black History Month, today’s archival discovery was pretty great. While processing material, a small box of slides was found with a label that made us pause. The yellow slide box said “Selma 1965”. A closer inspection of the material showed a set of color photos of the march on … Read more
Wesleyan University T. Viswanathan Fund for the World Music Archives presents a lecture by Karan Casey The evolution of FairPlé: is singing enough? Monday, March 2, 2020 at 7pm Smith Reading Room, Olin Library Free and open to the public, but seats are limited. RSVP required: https://forms.gle/8bBoYWM2RQPJ6wtb7 Having spent a lifetime believing in the … Read more
The Library and ITS have been working this past year to update and improve Wesleyan’s institutional repository, WesScholar. WesScholar is where Wesleyan’s undergraduate honors theses, masters theses, and doctoral dissertations along with faculty produced scholarly and creative outputs are housed. Our work has been guided by the following goals: add new features improve ease of … Read more
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
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.
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?”
