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,...
by Clements Library | Nov 11, 2012 | Manuscripts, Today in history
Guest post by Meg Hixon, Project ArchivistThe First World War has long been eclipsed in American public memory, but it was, at the time, the “Great War” that affected families across the country and across the world. In honor of Veterans’ Day, the...
by Clements Library | Sep 18, 2012 | Manuscripts, News
The Clements Library Manuscripts Division reached a milestone in its efforts to create finding aids for the division’s uncataloged collections. Over 1,000 finding aids are now available on the Library’s EAD web site, thanks to generous grants from...
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...
