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Two student-curated exhibits at the Binghamton University Art Museum feature materials from the Binghamton University Libraries’ Special Collections. The exhibits are: The Civil War: Images of Ruin, curated by graduate students from the Departments of History and Art History, which ...

Join us in the Libraries for a special viewing of the Vera Beaudin Saeedpour Kurdish Library and Museum Collection Thursday, March 26, from 5-7pm The collection is the largest of its kind in North America and contains artifacts including jewelry, ...

Another installment of “An Occasional Series in Special Collections” will take place on Thursday, December 18, 2014 at 12:00 noon in the Huppe Room in Special Collections located in the Glenn Bartle Library. In anticipation of the premier of Season ...

There are only four original Magna Carta documents from 1215 which survive. Two are kept at the British Library, one at Lincoln Cathedral and one at Salisbury Cathedral. Now, for the first time in history these manuscripts will all be ...

On Sept 10, 2014, Aynur de Rouen, the Curator of the Vera Beaudin Saeedpour Collection interviewed with Patrice Howard, a television reporter/producer with Feature Story News in New York. Feature Story News is a news agency reporting for clients around ...

Producer and director Mack Sennett presided over a motley crew of comedic talent that included Harry Langdon, Ben Turpin, Billy Bevan, Charlie Chaplin, Fatty Arbuckle, Mabel Normand and the Keystone Kops, who slid, slipped and slapped their way across American ...

Curator of Rare Books, Beth Turcy Kilmarx, and Special Collections Assistant, Mary Tuttle, have created a fascinating exhibit highlighting items from The Tilly Losch Collection, which is held in Binghamton University Libraries’ Special Collections. Tilly Losch was born in 1904 ...

Did you know that the 9th of June was International Archives Day? All around the world, archives and special collections professionals unite their voices on the 9th of June to make people understand why it is important to support archives and the profession. ...

Edwin A. Link Jr. is the topic of a story in the recent issue of Elks Magazine.  This magazine is the official publication of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elk of the United States, and has a circulation of over 850,000 ...

Dr. Sandro Sticca’s FRE 362 class visited BU’s Special Collections on April 10, 2014, where they looked at 15th-17th century French, Italian, and Latin manuscripts and printed materials. ...