We've been at it again! A Pop Up Archives appeared yesterday afternoon in the library lobby. We had a lot of fun asking students to answer the question "what's your favorite song?" for our Magical Box of History, plus we showed off some awesome items from our collections documenting the history of the library!
One item of perennial fascination is this catalog of books that were held in the Cadets' Library in 1827 during the period when the Partridge's academy was located in Middletown, Connecticut. I love that it includes eloquent explanations of the value of studying each discipline that is included in the library's collection.
Of course with the recent renovation not far from anyone's mind we had to share some library construction photos from "back when." Some of these items may be familiar from previous blog posts on campus construction and changes to the library. This photograph of the foundation of Carnegie Hall, the university's first freestanding library which we now know as Chaplin Hall, is always a favorite.
And as much as 1992 doesn't feel like history to some of us photographs of the construction of our own Kreitzberg Library certainly shed perspective on how the campus landscape has changed!
We've got one Pop Up Archives to go before our celebration of American Archives Month concludes! Keep an eye out on campus next week if you want to stumble across some history...it really is everywhere you look!
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