by Clements Library | Jul 25, 2014 | Acquisitions, Manuscripts, Today in history
Post by Jayne Ptolemy, Manuscripts Division Curatorial Assistant In the late evening hours of July 25, 1814, one of the bloodiest battles of the War of 1812 commenced, continuing until after midnight. Unplanned and fought in the dark of night, the Battle of...
by Clements Library | Apr 16, 2014 | Books, Graphics, Manuscripts
Post by Jayne Ptolemy, Reading Room SupervisorWe may have gotten several inches of snow in Ann Arbor Monday night, but at the Clements Library we are looking to our collections to get us in the spirit of spring. Flowers are not fully in bloom in Michigan, but they are...
by Jayne Ptolemy | Feb 27, 2014 | Graphics, Manuscripts
Post by Jayne Ptolemy, Reading Room Supervisor Here at the Clements Library our collections continue to expand in new and exciting ways. With acquisitions and donations, established collections grow and new ones are formed. The manuscripts division acquires many...
by Clements Library | Nov 20, 2013 | Manuscripts, News
C-SPAN Book TV visited the Clements Library on October 22nd as part of the national network’s 2013 “Cities Tour,” a production featuring the history and literary life of selected cities across the country. C-SPAN spent a week in Ann Arbor,...
by Clements Library | Oct 31, 2013 | Graphics, Holidays, Manuscripts, Today in history
“This is holy eve,” Richard Coulter wrote in his journal on October 31st, 1847. He was serving in the American Army that Halloween due to the Mexican War, and he noted the differences between how the day was observed in Mexico and back home in Greensburg,...
by Clements Library | Aug 7, 2013 | Manuscripts, Today in history
Post by Jayne Ptolemy, Reading Room SupervisorIn the early morning hours of August 12th, the Perseid Meteor Shower will be at its peak for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere. As we pass through the trailing dust left by the Swift-Tuttle comet, we should witness a...
by Clements Library | Jun 11, 2013 | Library Work, Manuscripts
Guest post by Katelyn JedroKatelyn Jedro, former graduate student at Wayne State University’s School of Library and Information Science (grad. Spring 2013), completed her 2013 winter semester practicum at the William L. Clements Library. She confronted the...
by Clements Library | Apr 25, 2013 | Manuscripts, News
Naomi Herman-Aplet, a School of Information work-study student in the Manuscripts Division, won the best graduate student poster at the Midwest Archives Conference (MAC) last weekend.She says, “My MAC poster was entitled, “Constructing K-12 Learning...
by Clements Library | Jan 15, 2013 | Manuscripts
Many if not all of us have seen orphaned tomes and incomplete sets of multi-volume works in used book stores, in library sales, and on private bookshelves. Similarly, manuscript collections are rarely complete, as letters, diaries, and documents are often divided,...
