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It seems like just yesterday we were looking back at the fall semester, but here we are in June, with another term already behind us. We thought we would take the opportunity to provide a quick look at what we ...

Every so often it’s good to take a moment to pause and appreciate the many activities that have occurred in Special Collections and the people who’ve made them happen. We’ve had a busy semester and some great opportunities to connect ...

The following was written by graduate student assistant, Madelynn Cullings, who worked in Special Collections since the spring of 2018. She had spent a good deal of her time processing the Wasson Family Papers until the university issued stay-at-home orders ...

The following was written by Maureen Folk, a graduate student assistant who has been working in Special Collections during the spring semester of 2020. She had been processing the archaeological field records of Professor William Isbell until employees at the ...

On loan from the Libraries collections: one uniquely special “Human of Binghamton” Jean Green, Head of Special Collections, Preservation and University Archives was recently featured as a “Human of Binghamton.” She shared a bit about her travels to Russia after ...

University Archivist and Local History Bibliographer, Yvonne Deligato, has been awarded a Certificate of Recognition from the Division of Student Affairs. The award acknowledges her exemplary contributions to the Binghamton University community. Her nominator wrote: “Yvonne Deligato is a truly ...

Aynur de Rouen, Curator of the Vera Beaudin Saeedpour Kurdish Library & Museum Collection, presented as part of a panel at the international academic workshop “Lines of Identity: Middle Eastern Diaspora in North America”  at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, ...

Dr. Aynur de Rouen, Curator of the Vera Beaudin Saeedpour Kurdish Library & Museum Collection spoke at the Annual Meeting of the Oral History Association in Tampa, Florida on October 17. She presented a paper, “Now It Can Be Told: ...

Head of Special Collections, Jean Green, and Curator of the Vera Beaudin Saeedpour Kurdish Library & Museum Collection, Dr. Aynur de Rouen recently spoke at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) Spring meeting in Roanoke, Virginia. They spoke as part ...

Curator of Rare Books, Beth Kilmarx, attended the annual conference of The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) in Cape Town, South Africa in August. Ms. Kilmarx serves as the American Libraries Association Rare Books and Manuscripts Section representative to IFLA. While ...