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HTC 50th: Honored to Honor the Honored
By Bill Kimok, University Archivist and Records Manager This week the Ohio University Libraries’ Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections is pitching in to help OHIO celebrate the 50-year anniversary of the founding of Ohio University’s Honors Tutorial College. All throughout the week of August 22 through August 27, the 5th floor lobby of…
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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…
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Collections in Wikidata
By Greta Suiter, Manuscripts Archivist, Ohio University Libraries. This post is the third of three posts about adding archival collection information to Wikidata. The first introduction post is here and the second post focusing on collection creator information in Wikidata is here. In addition to adding “archives at” statements to collection creator’s Wikidata items, archivists…
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REBLOG! Deep Costume History: An Unexpected Resource for Unique Research
By Sherri Saines, OHIO Librarian for Social Sciences. View the original post on the Fashion, Textiles, and Costume Librarians ARLIS/NA Special Interest Group Blog, and corresponding Instagram post about Sherri’s visit to the Mahn Center. The Ohio University Libraries Archives and Special Collections (Athens, OH) holds the Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis Dance Collection, a gift of Murray Louis.…