by Clements Library | Oct 18, 2012 | Collections, Library Work
JJ Jacobson has been Curator of American Culinary History at the Clements since 2009. She has many favorites from the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive, including cookbooks, domestic manuals, etiquette manuals, and menus. Her current favorite is Ten Dollars...
by Clements Library | Aug 28, 2012 | Library Work, Maps
Mary Pedley’s former Latin students have found new opportunities with cartography. Two of her former students, both classics majors, were seeking summer internships at U of M that would use their talents with ancient languages. Hannah Sorscher studies at the...
by Clements Library | Jul 24, 2012 | Collections, Library Work, Manuscripts
Welcome to our new series of interviews with the wonderful Clements Library volunteers, in which we’ll get to know the people who put their time and energy into processing collections, acting as docents, and assisting our curators on special projects.Phil Zaret...
by Clements Library | Mar 6, 2012 | Books, Library Work
Emi Hastings has been Curator of Books at the Clements Library since 2009. Although she is constantly discovering new favorite items in the stacks, one of the current top contenders is the Astronomicum Caesareum of 1540. The Astronomicum Caesareum, perhaps the most...
by Clements Library | Aug 31, 2011 | Library Work, Maps
Michel Chartier de Lotbinière’s “Plan du Fort de Carillon . . . .” (1758) Brian Leigh Dunnigan has served as Curator of Maps since 1996 and Clements Library Associate Director from 2010. Having come from a history and historic site museum background, he has a...
by Clements Library | Mar 25, 2011 | Library Work, Manuscripts, Today in history
Today in History: Greek Independence Day Cheney J. Schopieray, Assistant Curator of Manuscripts, has worked at the Clements Library since 2002. His list of favorite manuscripts grows longer on a daily basis, but in honor of the 190th anniversary celebration of the...
by Clements Library | Dec 8, 2010 | Library Work, Manuscripts
Helen Ledyard Drawing Book, 1881-1891.Barbara DeWolfe, Curator of Manuscripts, has worked at the Clements Library since 1999. One of her favorite items from the Manuscripts Division is the drawing book of Helen Ledyard, a young woman who lived in New York in the late...
by Clements Library | Jun 4, 2010 | Library Work
A proposal to determine our longitude, by Jane Squire. London, 1743. Rare Book Cataloger Oksana Linda, who came to the Library in 1998, is particularly fond of this little-known book on longitude by Jane Squire. Bound in calf leather, this volume is beautifully...
by Clements Library | Apr 28, 2010 | Books, Library Work
Alexander Shaw, A catalogue of the different specimens of cloth collected in the three voyages of Captain Cook, to the southern hemisphere (London, 1787).Clements Library conservator Julie Fremuth has worked at the Library for 21 years. One of her favorite items from...
