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Meet the Fall 2026 Rare Books Students!
By Miriam Intrator, Head of Archives & Special Collections and Rare Book Librarian Every fall and spring semester we welcome a new cohort of undergraduate interns to the Mahn Center. The internship is for-credit and open to any undergraduate student, from any department, who has completed their first year at Ohio University while maintaining at…
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OHIO Digital Archives updates: August 2026
By Erin Wilson, Digital Imaging Specialist & Project 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. University Archives…
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Digitizing Lost Farfel Leaves
By Lilyana Mays, MA in Art History ‘26, Digital Initiatives Graduate Intern Background My experience with the Gilbert and Ursula Farfel Collection of Incunable and Manuscript Leaves held by the Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections is a bit of a long story. In the spring of 2024, months before graduating with BAs in…
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Founders Day Student Showcase 2026: A Rousing Success!
By Miriam Intrator, Head of Archives & Special Collections and Rare Book Librarian Every Founders Day, which is February 18th, University Archivist Bill Kimok curates an exhibit highlighting a specific theme or moment in the university’s history. Beginning last year, in 2025, we began planning a large-scale event to open the exhibit and to provide…
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Welcome to Spring 2026!
By Miriam Intrator, Head of Archives & Special Collections and Rare Book Librarian A new semester is once again upon us! This newsletter provides updates on upcoming exhibits, events, and opportunities for students, faculty, staff, and the broader OHIO and Athens communities. We encourage you to reach out with any questions, for more information, or…
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Meet the Spring 2026 Rare Book Interns!
By Miriam Intrator, Head of Archives & Special Collections and Rare Book Librarian Every fall and spring semester we welcome a new cohort of undergraduate interns to the Mahn Center. The internship is for-credit and open to any undergraduate student, from any department, who has completed their first year at Ohio University while maintaining at…
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The Education and Botanization of Women
By Adrian Darden Kautz, History ’27, Digital Initiatives Assistant Working in Digital Initiatives at Alden Library has opened to me many wonderful opportunities to digitize and research unique collections from the Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections. A recent opportunity I had to photograph two Ohio University herbaria from the rare book collection sparked…
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Welcome to Fall 2025!
By Miriam Intrator, Head of Archives & Special Collections and Rare Book Librarian Welcome to the start of another new semester and academic year! Each fall brings new events and opportunities for students, faculty, staff, and the broader OHIO and Athens communities. Following is an overview of some of what will be available this fall.…
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OHIO Digital Archives updates: August 2025
By Erin Wilson, Digital Imaging Specialist & Project 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. Special Collections…
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Digitizing “Specimens of Eastern Manuscripts and Printing”
By Maggie Bennink, ’24 BA in History & Classic Civilizations, Digital Initiatives Assistant I was introduced to Pages From the Past over the 2023 spring semester, through an independent study led by Dr. Cory Crawford in the Classics Department. The items we looked at – a cylinder seal and a cuneiform tablet – are a…