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Tis the Season
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<html><body><p>In this month's dog series post, we decided to focus on dog books related to the December holidays.
Must Love Dogs: 11/11/18
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<html><body><p>In 1918, at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, an armistice was signed between the Allies and Germany, effectively ending World War I.
Must Love Dogs
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<html><body><p>If you've ever visited the Special Collections Research Center, you may have learned that we hold the second largest collection of books about dogs in the Unit
"The Looted Book"
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<html><body><p>Institutional knowledge is an awesome thing and something that is often taken for granted and/or overlooked.
A Lover of Words Reveal'd
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<html><body><p>Swem Library holds two editions of <u>A grammar of the English tongue, with the arts of logick, rhetoric, poetry, &c.</u>, but it is in the earl
Remembering World War I
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<html><body><p>On April 6, 1917 the United States entered World War I, then known as the Great War.
Jennie's Search for "More to Life" in Maurice Sendak's "Higglety Pigglety Pop!"
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<html><body><p>Most of us, if we recognize the name Maurice Sendak, probably think of him as the man who wrote and illustrated the beloved children's book "Where the Wil
The Research Behind a Catalog Record: Map of Coal Lands in Raleigh County, West Virginia
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<html><body><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">An interesting old map, recently cataloged and made accessible in the Earl Gregg Swem Library Rare Books Collection
VARC's Golden Anniversary
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"Ever of thee, I'm fondly dreaming"
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College Camp 1775
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A Year In Review
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Out with the old, in with the new
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A clandestine edition of Galileo's Dialogue concerning the two chief world systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican, 1710
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Assassination News Breaks into Everyday Life
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Blog Backlogs
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Nuevos Borders Argentinos : Antología Cartonera donated to Swem Library
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<html><body><p>The generosity of Eloísa Cartonera and the relationship of Professor of Hispanic Studies Regina Root with this publishing cooperative has brought the book <em>