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  • OHIO Digital Archives updates: Summer 2022

    OHIO Digital Archives updates: Summer 2022

    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…

  • OHIO Digital Archives updates: Fall 2022

    OHIO Digital Archives updates: Fall 2022

    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…

  • Processing the Horace Coleman Collection

    Processing the Horace Coleman Collection

    By Margaret Spetz, History ’25, Spring 2023 Archives Intern Processing the Horace Coleman collection was my first task as a Mahn Center Intern during the Spring 2023 semester. Coleman was an associate English professor at Ohio University during the 1970s and ‘80s. The collection contains Coleman’s personal letters, his military records, his correspondence with publishers,…

  • 1970 Campus Security Records, May 11 to May 15: From Ohio University to Eternity

    1970 Campus Security Records, May 11 to May 15: From Ohio University to Eternity

    By John Higgins, BA ’23, History and Political Science, Student Assistant, Digital Initiatives Read other posts from this series which recounts the spring 1970 student demonstrations at Ohio University and the administrative response, as documented in campus security reports from the time period. The 11th through the 15th of May witnessed the dramatic ending to…

  • 1970 Campus Security Records, May 4 to May 10: The Bridge on the River Hocking

    1970 Campus Security Records, May 4 to May 10: The Bridge on the River Hocking

    By John Higgins, BA ’23, History and Political Science, Student Assistant, Digital Initiatives Read other posts from this series which recounts the spring 1970 student demonstrations at Ohio University and the administrative response, as documented in campus security reports from the time period. At approximately 1:45 p.m. on May 4th, university officials organized their control…

  • 1970 Campus Security Records, April 23 to May 5: All Quiet on the College Green

    1970 Campus Security Records, April 23 to May 5: All Quiet on the College Green

    By John Higgins, BA ’23, History and Political Science, Student Assistant, Digital Initiatives Read other posts from this series which recounts the spring 1970 student demonstrations at Ohio University and the administrative response, as documented in campus security reports from the time period. For Ohio University, the month of April was considerably quieter than the…

  • 1970 Campus Security Records Blog Series: The Green and White Badge of Courage

    1970 Campus Security Records Blog Series: The Green and White Badge of Courage

    By John Higgins, BA ’23, History and Political Science, Digital Initiatives Student Assistant The 1970s witnessed a thunderous start to a decade that particularly left a mark on United States college and university systems. Ohio University was no stranger to the national student movement in protest of U.S. involvement in Vietnam and various other social…

  • Maggie Boyd and I have a lot in common; We will graduate 150 years apart

    Maggie Boyd and I have a lot in common; We will graduate 150 years apart

    By Taylor Burnette, BSJ ’23, Digital Collections Social Media Manager, Ohio University Libraries. Note: This Founders Day, February 18, we are celebrating the 150th anniversary year of OHIO’s first woman graduate with the digital exhibit “Margaret Boyd 150: OHIO Founders Day 2023,” created by Taylor Burnette.   150 years ago, almost to the day, Margaret…

  • New Collection Alert! The Ohio University and Athens LGBTQ+ Collection

    New Collection Alert! The Ohio University and Athens LGBTQ+ Collection

    By Bill Kimok, University Archivist and Records Manager Smack dab in the middle of Pride Month 2022, the Ohio University Archives is excited to announce the recent acquisition of our first major LGBTQ+-related University Archives collection. Donated this past spring by OHIO alum Rebecca Chmielewski (MFA, 2018) and the University’s LGBT Center, the new collection…

  • Remembering, and learning, through OHIO’s Homecoming concerts of years past: Memories are somewhere in the melodies

    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…