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The Ashantilly Press, a local treasure
Recently, we were lucky to find a few more publications by the Ashantilly Press of Darien, Georgia, for sale from rare book vendors and purchase them for the library. That leaves only a few more titles...
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T. S. Sullivant, Cartoonist from Life
We have been working on a new digital project in Special Collections on the old periodical, Life, which was published between 1883 and 1936. It is not like the Life you may remember that was mostly...
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Harry Grant Dart, Visionary Cartoonist from Life
Harry Grant Dart was born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania in 1869. His worked for a time creating crayon portraits for the National Crayon Company brochures. In the 1890s, he drew for the Boston Herald...
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Images From Life Now Live!
Life Magazine's Cherub mascot. Our newest digital project, Images From Life, brings some of the classic cartoons, covers, and ads from the first Life magazine out from the archives. Life magazine was...
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Crossing the Tigris, an Artists’ Book about the Iraq War
Crossing the Tigris, Volumes 1-3. Often, when we think of Artists’ books, we think of a book that is beautifully made and a pleasure to touch. But, Artists’ books can also be a venue that allows...
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Gary Panter, Comic Artist (among other talents)
A few months ago, we received several new graphic novel titles, including two immensely oversized books by Gary Panter. Shortly after that, we had a class come in to look at Medieval manuscripts and...
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Some New Old Books by Mark Twain
A collection of books on British History and Literature came to the library recently and we have been cataloging them. There are some great titles and some truly historic works in this collection...
View Article20 Most Impressive Special Collections
The other day, I received an email from a blogger at a website that offers information on online educational resources, the Online Education Database. They let me know that they really enjoyed my...
View ArticleNew hours for 2013
Welcome back students and faculty! We are making a small change in our hours for 2013. We will now be open on Mondays and Wednesdays during the quarters from 8:00 AM until 6:00 PM on Mondays and...
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Printed Matter
We recently received a shipment of books from Printed Matter in New York. We order limited edition graphic novels, artists’ books, and zines from them. I was surprised that we received most of the...
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