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Special Collections Blog Topics

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  • Exhibits

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    <html><body><p>Another semester is coming to an end at Swem Library's <a href="https://librar

  • I Couldn't Say….

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    <html><body><p>It might be an exaggeration to say that it's been a dream of mine to work at a library, but I was pretty darn excited when I found out that I would be serving

  • The Civil War Centennial in the Archives

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    <html><body><p>I have been researching, writing, and planning an <a href="https:

  • Association Books

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    <html><body><p>One of the cornerstones of the Swem Library's Special Collections Research Center is its <a href="

  • Examining Material Culture

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    <html><body><p>If you have ever seen the PBS series Antiques Roadshow, then you can understand what I do here.

  • Preserving Memories with Oral History

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    <html><body><p>In addition to an impressive archive of rare books, periodicals, photographs, and other physical documents, Swem Library's Special Collections manages the <

  • Disease and Correspondence in the Civil War

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    <html><body><p>Currently, in Swem Library's Special Collections Research Center (Swem SCRC), I have been working on uploading a number of small collections to the <a href=

  • A Voice from the Dead

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    <html><body><p>As a graduate assistant in the Special Collections Research Center in Swem Library (Swem SCRC), I have had the opportunity to do a number of exciting things, from e

  • Families in the Civil War

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    <html><body><p>In my current project at Swem Library's Special Collections Research Center (SCRC), I have been working on checking the <a href="

  • A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

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    <html><body><p>A few weeks ago, I started my first large-scale imaging project here at <a href="

  • From Fights to Rights Transcription Project: John M. Galt Diary

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    <html><body><p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">The Swem Library's Special Collections Research Center is currently working on a </spa

  • Keep it Class-y!

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    <html><body><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">Since I began my apprenticeship with Swem Library's Special Collectio

  • My Experience as an SCRC Graduate Student

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    <html><body><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">Hi, my name is Rachel Thomas and I began work in the Swem SCRC at the begi

  • Crafting an Administrative History

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    <html><body><p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">As a student of eighteenth century history, I had rarely been called upon to craft any sort of

  • Searching for a Name, Finding a Community

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    <html><body><p><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Identifying authorship of anything is always a long and arduous process, but it is made increa

  • Check Please!

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    <html><body><p>In my current project at the SCRC, I have the good fortune of being able to check transcriptions from our <a href="

  • Connecting with the past

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    <html><body><p>When I started my work in the Special Collections Research Center here at Swem Library in August, one of my first projects entailed uploading metadata to our online

  • New SCRC Guides

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    <html><body><p>The Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) at Swem Library contains numerous sources on a wide range of topics.

  • SCRC's Civil War Transcription Project: The Tucker-Coleman Papers

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    <html><body><p>The Special Collections Research Center at Swem Library is currently working on a transcription initiative as part of the "<a href="

  • The Sixty-Year Diary

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    <html><body><p><a href="https://scrc.blogs.wm.edu/2011/07/01/th… data-al