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Processing the Kim and Catherine Brown Collection
By Olivia Ondrik, Studio Art ’27 My name is Olivia Ondrik, and I am a second year Studio Art major here at Ohio University. I have an interest in museum studies, and am minoring in anthropology, and I decided that this University Archives internship would be a great opportunity to learn and practice a skill…
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Processing the George Starr Lasher Collection
By Taylor Payne ’26, English Creative Writing major In the Fall of 2024, I began my internship with the Mahn Center, with Ohio University Archivist Bill Kimok as my supervisor and mentor. In my first week, I was tasked with completing theoretical readings on archival work and all that it entails, including organization and preservation…
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Making 20th Century Patterns with 21st Century Materials: A Semester of Following Patterns Designed by Maud Churchill Nicoll
By Jessica Licker, Digital Literacy Librarian, Athens County Public Libraries, Master’s in Literary History, ’24, Rare Books Graduate Assistant, 2023-2024 At the end of the fall 2023 semester I began searching the Mahn Center rare book collection for anything related to fiber crafting. I was interested in experimenting with historic knitting or sewing patterns through…
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One Box, Seven Collections
By Greta Suiter, Manuscripts Archivist When it comes to housing and storing physical collections, archives generally put each one in its own box or set of boxes. But some collections are quite small – maybe just one folder or one item. Since the Mahn Center’s adoption of the collection management system ArchivesSpace (a website with…
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Ohio University Buildings in the Commons
By Greta Suiter, Manuscripts Archivist On September 27, the library hosted a Wikimedia Commons edit-a-thon during which we added images from OHIO yearbooks to the world’s largest media file repository of public domain and freely licensed content. Right now (10/1/2024 at 4:35pm) there are over 109 million files in the Commons which means that in…
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Researching Appalachian Materials in the Mahn Center
By Di Galbraith ’25, History major, Globalization and Development minor, Fall 2023 Mahn Center intern I have always been deeply fascinated by Appalachia. How the mountains came from the same range as the Scottish highlands, how communities were left behind and forgotten once modern technology developed, and how the people were stereotyped as dumb, rowdy,…