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Remembering, and learning, through OHIO’s Homecoming concerts of years past: Memories are somewhere in the melodies
by Taylor Burnette, BSJ ’23, Digital Collections Social Media Manager, Ohio University Libraries. “Wait? Who played here? When!?” I’ve been met with the above response from just about everybody I told about my little Homecoming project: “Memories Through the Music: Popular Music at OHIO’s Homecoming Concerts.” “Just about everybody” includes my friends, my parents and…
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Getting to Know Athens
By Alexis Voisard, MA student in English, 2022-23 Rare Book Graduate Assistant As the new Graduate Assistant in the rare book collection, I’ve spent hours exploring the diverse collections online and roaming the rare book stacks in person. Since I recently moved to Athens, I was immediately drawn to the Ohioana Collection. Building my first…
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Day in the Office: Behind the Scenes Digitizing Mahn Center Posters
By Ellie Roberto, Digital Collections Social Media Editor, BA in Journalism 2022 There’s a great deal of hard work going on behind the scenes in the archives department at Ohio University Libraries. The day-to-day tasks of OHIO Libraries student workers and staff bring our unique physical collections to life through the Digital Archives. Digitization,…