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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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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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Books & More for BAR (Black Alumni Reunion, 2022)
The Black Alumni Reunion (BAR), one of the largest gatherings of OHIO graduates and friends, begins Thursday, September 15th. To help celebrate this coming together of Black Alumni, the Mahn Center for Archives & Special Collections, has curated an exhibit in two parts. The first part of the exhibit, open through Sunday, September 18th, celebrates…
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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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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…
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Ohio Society of American Foresters Records
By Philip Perry, Forester, Athens, Ohio, Retired Silviculturist from the Wayne National Forest, (silviculture is the art and science of growing trees.) This post provides context for the Ohio Society of American Foresters Records (MSS093), housed at the Mahn Center. There have been many additions to the collection over the years, the most recent addition…
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Contributing Manuscript Collection Info to Wikidata
By Greta Suiter, Manuscripts Archivist, Ohio University Libraries. This post is the first of three posts about adding collection information to Wikidata. Wikidata is the largest linked open data, open knowledge project in the world. There are millions of items in Wikidata. Each item has a Q number to identify it and is described with…
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Not Your Model Minority: An Archival Collection of Asian American/Pacific Islander Organizations in Athens
Alexis Karolin is the spring 2022 Mahn Center intern. She graduates with a Bachelor of Arts in History from the Honors Tutorial College along with a certificate in Asian Studies and a certificate in Law, Justice, and Culture this spring. Here she reflects on her experiences learning about archives, how the internship took two years…
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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,…
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Welcome to OHIO archives News!
Welcome to the Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections staff blog! Posts feature a look at the variety of work staff, student workers, and interns do in the Mahn Center, Digital Initiatives, and Preservation. Content is written by staff, student workers, and interns to encompass a variety of voices and perspectives. On this platform…