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The Digital Scriptorium, the University of California, Berkeley, and Columbia University announce the return of the Digital Scriptorium to its original home at Berkeley. The Digital Scriptorium is an image and cataloguing database that unites the medieval and Renaissance manuscript ...

The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien is the Featured Book for May. This book from our Hagan Collection is a collection of related stories about a platoon of American soldiers in the Vietnam War. While apparently based on some ...

A conference at noon on Saturday, April 24, 2010 in the Fine Arts 258 & Grand Corridor , organized by the undergraduate students of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Binghamton University (Binghamton, NY) in conjunction with Troubadours ...

Julia Gaffield, a doctoral student in history at Duke University, discovered what is believed to be the only original written printed copy of Haiti’s Declaration of Independence in the British National Archive. While researching the early independence of Haiti in ...

Ladhope Leaves: A Spring Garland for 1887 is the Featured Book for April 2010. A charming book with decorated covers, untrimmed edges and a bright gilt top edge. Within, readers will find verse by John Ruskin, Andrew Lang, J.B. Selkirk, ...

Access the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts (SDBM) In 1997, Penn Libraries Overseer and rare book enthusiast, Lawrence (Larry) J. Schoenberg, C’53, WG’56, set out to build a database that would enable researchers to track and identify the world’s manuscript books ...

Speaker: Ed Shephard, Collection Development and Management University Libraries, EAP and UCTD. Call 777-6655 or e-mail dcampbell@binghamton.edu . Register at http://training.binghamton.edu. Wednesday, March 31, noon-1:30 p.m., Reserve Library Resource Room. Free for faculty, staff and retirees. ...

The campus remembers Professor Richard Antoun on February 26 (video): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te9ov4PRYDs ...

This “profusely illustrated” decorative book takes the reader through the Boston of 1878. The book begins with a sketch of Boston’s history proudly proclaiming that “no city in the United States has a more interesting history than Boston.” Then, it ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Archives collects and preserves the corporate records and official correspondence of the Museum. By doing so, they increase the knowledge and understanding of the history of the Museum. Archives holdings include Board of Trustees records, ...