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Happy Birthday Sammy Kaye!
The following post is a re-blog from a Founders Day Exhibit celebrating the history of music at OHIO by Chris Gruder (Subject Librarian for Education; Team Leader, Research Services) and Carla Williams (Music and Special Projects Librarian). Sammy Kaye (March 13, 1910- June 2, 1987) was a highly popular bandleader in the 1930s, 40s. and…
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A Web Map, 80 Years in the Making
By Sarah Romer, Wildlife and Conservation Biology BS ‘23, Digital Initiatives Assistant During my tenure at the Library Archives and Special Collections Digital Initiatives unit, I have spent most of my time working with William E. Peters via the manuscript collection he donated to Ohio University. Peters and I are a good team. His eye…
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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…
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Meetings In The Margins: Encounters with Readers and Owners in Rare Books
By Miriam Intrator, Special Collections Librarian, Mahn Center for Archives & Special Collections “What is your favorite book in the rare book collection?” This is a question students and other visitors regularly ask me, but it is impossible for me to pick just one! I am, however, able to point to a favorite category: books…
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Lunar New Year: Welcoming in the New
By Greta Suiter, Manuscripts Archivist, Ohio University Libraries Lunar New Year marks the beginning of a new year in the lunisolar calendar. It is most commonly celebrated in China, South Korea, Vietnam, and wherever people from these countries live around the world. When the Lunar New Year takes place varies year to year. The lunisolar…
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Popular Entertainment During WWII for a WAC in the Southwest Pacific
By Greta Suiter, Manuscripts Archivist, Ohio University Libraries Didn’t I write and tell you about the enclosed? (Irving Berlin)? He was up here the day before Christmas for dinner and also went to the hospital. Hope I’ll get a chance to see his show when it comes. Never thought in the fall of 1942 that…