Sean Oblak writes about a mysterious seventeenth-century book he encountered in his work with SCEMBI. You’d expect many answers to be found in a book entitled The Question of Questions, especially when it claims to “resolve all our questions” and declares outright, “This book answers this question.” Printed in 1686 and held today at Santa […]
Here in Archives & Special Collections, we often receive inquiries on buildings and people related to SCU over the years. A patron recently had an inquiry regarding a staff lounge that used to be on campus. The patron provided us with the clues that it was near the St. Ignatius statue on campus, possibly in […]
The Santa Clara Early Modern Book Initiative brings together students, librarians, and faculty in an effort to report SCU’s eligible pre-1800 books to the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC), as well as to revise and enhance local catalog records. The work that I do as part of the Santa Clara Early Modern Book Initiative, or […]
This is the third part of a three part interview with researcher Pete Hubbard regarding his exploration of the Father Hubbard collection held in Archives & Special Collections. You can find all three parts with the tag Pete Hubbard Interview 2019. On Lessons and Core Values On this last section of the interview, we discuss […]
