Mia Hope
As a senior wrapping up her coursework a quarter early, I am bidding farewell to Santa Clara with nostalgia while I go about my work as a student research assistant in Archives & Special Collections. Thinking back fondly on the camaraderie I formed with my floormates in Swig freshman year–and my not so fond memories […]
In 1865, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (better known as Lewis Carrol) wrote Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, a story that follows a young girl named Alice after she falls down a rabbit hole into a fantastical land. The story toys with logic and is one of the best examples of literary nonsense, making it appeal to both […]
Everyone knows what a book is. They’re normally bound chunks of white pages filled with black text. Text size can vary, as can the number of pages or the size of the book. They can be academic or for pleasure or somewhere in between, and we’ve all picked one up sometime or another (by choice […]
You really never know what you’ll find in a library, as shown by what we stumbled upon in our own collection a couple weeks ago: One of my staff members stopped me today to show me this picture. Last week an ARS student found a mysterious packet inside a book along with unpleasant staining on […]
Call of the Wild: Jack London’s famous book that we all likely had to read in high school. What I didn’t realize in high school, however, was that the story started in Santa Clara Valley. As a student at SCU, this is much more interesting to me now. When I did a little research, I […]
Yearbooks: a snapshot into the past. I flipped through Santa Clara University’s yearbooks and was able to see that students’ weekend antics haven’t changed (beach trips to Santa Cruz or laying out on Bellomy) and discovered that Graham used to have a pool (what happened to that?). But when I squinted a little closer at […]
