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Zitkala-Ša , Storytelling, and Resources to Learn about Other Cultures
By Jasper Greuel, Journalism News and Information, ’25 and Sullivan Beach, Journalism News and Information, ’25, for JOUR 4130 Gender, Race, and Class in Journalism and Mass Media with Victoria LaPoe, Fall 2024 During the fall 2024 semester, the staff of the Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections worked intensively with Victoria La Poe’s…
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Unequal Algorithms: How Artificial Intelligence Reflects and Reinforces Media’s Social Biases
By Avery Ochs, Emma Kate Kawaja, Sydney Lehmann, & Isabel Mattern, Journalism ’25, for JOUR 4130 Gender, Race, and Class in Journalism and Mass Media with Victoria LaPoe, Fall 2024 During the fall 2024 semester, the staff of the Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections worked intensively with Victoria La Poe’s JOUR 4130 class,…
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Processing the Zines Collection!
By Aria Black, English ‘26, Fall 2024 Intern in Rare Books In fall 2024, I was selected to spend my internship working with the Mahn Center’s Zines Collection. My supervisor is Dr. Miriam Intrator, who had also been my HTC tutorial instructor in spring of 2024, where we discussed what exactly went into being a…
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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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Welcome to Fall 2024!
By Miriam Intrator, Special Collections Librarian As a new semester and new academic year are once again upon us, there are many new events and opportunities for students, faculty, staff, and the broader OHIO and Athens communities. Below is an overview of some of what’s available this coming fall. We encourage you to reach out…
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Researching Appalachian Materials in the Mahn Center
By Di Galbraith ’25, History major, Globalization and Development minor, Fall 2023 Mahn Center intern I have always been deeply fascinated by Appalachia. How the mountains came from the same range as the Scottish highlands, how communities were left behind and forgotten once modern technology developed, and how the people were stereotyped as dumb, rowdy,…
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Visualizing Mahn Center Collections
By Miriam Intrator, Special Collections Librarian One of the most exciting aspects of working at the Mahn Center is the opportunity to interact with students and instructors from a broad range of departments and programs and in a variety of different ways. This post highlights an ongoing collaboration with undergraduate and graduate students taking Assistant…
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OHIO Digital Archives updates: Spring 2024
By Erin Wilson, Digital Imaging Specialist & Lab Manager, Digital Initiatives This news update is part of a semi-regular series highlighting recent additions, exhibits, and projects of Ohio University Libraries Digital Initiatives. Read on for a sample of newly digitized materials that are publicly available in our Digital Archives. See previous updates in the unit’s newsletter archive. Manuscript Collections…
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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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Creating a Virginia Woolf Author Collection in Rare Books
By Cali Weber, ’24, English Major, Classical Civilizations Minor, Written as part of English 4940: Research Apprenticeship, Fall 2023 In the fall of my junior year, I took one of my favorite classes in the Ohio University English department; ENG 3490 History of Books and Printing. In this class, I was lucky enough to do…