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Meetings In The Margins: Encounters with Readers and Owners in Rare Books
By Miriam Intrator, Special Collections Librarian, Mahn Center for Archives & Special Collections “What is your favorite book in the rare book collection?” This is a question students and other visitors regularly ask me, but it is impossible for me to pick just one! I am, however, able to point to a favorite category: books…
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Women in the Edmund Blunden Collection
By Alexis Voisard, MA Student in English, 2022-23 Rare Books Graduate Assistant Working with the rare book collection this year has been a delightful experience in my graduate program. I’ve done deep research dives into the Ohioana collection to uncover diverse perspectives crafting historical narratives about Athens and the Travel collection to find illustrations and…
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A Look at the 1561 Woorkes of Geffrey Chaucer
By Hunter Humphreys, English Pre-Law, 2023, Written as part of English 4940: Research Apprenticeship, Spring 2023 Having the opportunity to study in the Libraries’ Mahn Center has been a dream come true, and certainly a memorable experience during my career as an undergraduate student. For about a semester and a half, I was given the…
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Welcome to fall 2023!
By Miriam Intrator, Special Collections Librarian The start of a new semester, of a new academic year, means many new events and opportunities for students, faculty, staff, and the broader OHIO and Athens communities. This is an overview of some of what’s available and we encourage you to reach out with any questions, for more…
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Gallery Walk & Talk with Artist Sauda Mitchell
By Miriam Intrator, Special Collections Librarian We were thrilled to usher in the fall 2023 semester with a visit from artist, archivist, and scholar Sauda Mitchell. Mitchell’s August 30th visit consisted of a Gallery Walk & Talk and a Making Meaning Bookmaking Workshop, both of which took place at the Kennedy Museum of Art. This…
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Let It Burn: Artists’ Books and the Lure of the Flame
By Miriam Intrator, Special Collections Librarian Throughout the fall 2023 semester, the exhibit, Let It Burn: Artists’ Books and the Lure of the Flame was on display in Alden Library. * artists’ book = book as art object, or, art object as book * A video accompanying the exhibit demonstrates the books in motion. Part…
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From Satire to Advertisement: A Literary Record of the 1893 World’s Fair
By Jessica Licker, Master’s in Literary History, ’24, Rare Books Graduate Assistant When I first started conceptualizing this exhibit, I was spoiled for choice of topics. I was quickly taken with the Juvenile Literature Collection, and the whimsy of some of the 19th and 20th century children’s book bindings…
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Visual Communication in the Geological Sciences
By GEOL 4900 students: Emily Dietz, Alexis Hunter, Lorena Jevnikar, Peter Rhynard, Kaycee Scott, and Jada Townsend During the fall 2023 semester, students in GEOL 4900 Visual Communication in the Geological Sciences taught by professor Eva Lyon, worked with university archivist Bill Kimok and rare book librarian Miriam Intrator to include geology related materials from…
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Books & More for BAR (Black Alumni Reunion, 2022)
The Black Alumni Reunion (BAR), one of the largest gatherings of OHIO graduates and friends, begins Thursday, September 15th. To help celebrate this coming together of Black Alumni, the Mahn Center for Archives & Special Collections, has curated an exhibit in two parts. The first part of the exhibit, open through Sunday, September 18th, celebrates…
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Dissecting Anatomical Structures: Curating an Exhibit on Books & Bodies
By Alex Rienerth, ’25, MA in Literary History, 2024-2025 Graduate Assistant in Rare Books At the beginning of my graduate assistantship in the rare books department, part of my training included watching “The Anatomy of a Book,” a wonderful instructional video captured from an early 1990s VHS tape. Though the video is a bit peculiar,…