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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…
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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…
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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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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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Volunteer Transcription Shines Light on D-Day Narratives
By Erin Wilson, Digital Imaging Specialist & Lab Manager, Ohio University Libraries Quote from questionnaire submitted by John Leslie Moffatt Working in partnership with the Canadian Research and Mapping Association (CRMA), the OHIO Libraries Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections is actively seeking public volunteers to engage with unique, historical documents that illuminate the…
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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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Student Project: The Decline of Cursive
The Decline of Cursive: A Digital Exhibit by OhioLINK Luminaries Intern Judinya Thwaites-Brevik The Mahn Center was thrilled to welcome OhioLINK Luminaries Intern Judinya (Nya) Thwaites-Brevik for a seven-week rotation to start off the spring 2022 semester. Nya is a sociology major in the Honors Tutorial College, minoring in psychology and political science with a…