In recent years, the Libraries have been working to enhance our holdings of medieval and early modern manuscripts, which have many uses as tools for research and discovery across the academic disciplines, from the humanities to the hard sciences. Frequently ...
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Recently, Binghamton University yearbooks, handbooks and newspapers were added to the Libraries’ digital collections. While the physical artifacts are housed in the Libraries’ Special Collections, a digital version is made available on various online platforms. This recent addition of these ...
Written by Jean Green, Special Collections Librarian “Curtain Call: Selections from the Theatre History Collection” is now on display in Special Collections and showcases material from this extensive collection. From ancient Greece to Hamilton on Broadway today, theater productions entertain, ...
The Libraries have continued to grow to include some exceptional people to our team this past fall! This spotlight of our new hires shares a little about each of them as we welcome them to the Libraries and the Binghamton ...
We are all familiar with roads; we drive on them for short-term trips around town or a long-distance adventure for vacation. However, a road often serves as a metaphor for a personal journey. The road you travel may have unpredictable ...
In November, Special Collections will mark the 50th anniversary of the acquisition of Binghamton University’s first early modern manuscript. In 1972, Professor Aldo Bernardo, co-founder of the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies (CEMERS), facilitated the purchase of the ...
Blythe Roveland-Brenton, Ph.D. ’83, director of Special Collections and Library Preservation, imbues the spirit of Binghamton through her continuous development of inspired student and instructor programming. The department’s high-impact practices include enabling scholars to interact with Special Collections’ general rare ...
“Poems hide in a place deep inside of you that I call the cave. The cave is guarded by a crow that whispers in your ear in the voice of every authority figure you’ve ever encountered. […] In order to ...
Our Special Collections Department has acquired an 1859 octavo edition of John James Audubon’s Birds of America and it is glorious! With 500 hand-painted plates of the highest quality, this exquisite seven-volume set is a remarkable text organized by taxonomy. ...