Although we’ve all been facing great challenges throughout the past several months on account of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Santa Clara Early Modern Book Initiative (SCEMBI) continues to bring more attention to early modern English texts that have faded from the public eye. Without in-person access to SCU Archives & Special Collections, our team has […]
Before Covid-19 hit Santa Clara, Archives & Special Collections had been busy acquiring new items to add to our collections, and we’d like to take this opportunity to share some of them with you. The items featured in this blog post support the discipline of women’s studies and we look forward to using them in […]
Not being able to meet face-to-face hasn’t stopped our students from interacting with Archives & Special Collections materials! For one of our Critical Thinking & Writing II (CTW II) classes, Librarian Summer Shetenhelm and Professor Amy Lueck asked students to create social media posts inspired by an object in SCU’s Digital Collections. The activity was […]
The Santa Clara Early Modern Book Initiative has brought to light a variety of early published works: journals, prayers, magazines, and court transcripts, just to name a few. SCU’s library is certainly unique, but there is also plenty of uniqueness found in the individual texts that form that collection. One such text that has kept […]
In a moment marked by anxiety over the phenomenon of “fake news,” it is especially important to be cautious about the kinds of media and information we are consuming, and in deciding which sources we deem trustworthy. Whether it comes to major media/news outlets or the circulation of Facebook articles, it can be hard to […]
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 […]
Sometimes you have to leave the confines of your own library to discover something new, even when you’re a special collections librarian and have access to thousands of interesting things every day. In my case, I traveled half way across the world over the holiday break to a small town in the foothills of the […]
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 […]
This information was previously prepared in 2016 by Archives & Special Collections student research assistant Jonathan Homrighausen with the research of Nadia Nasr. Every book tells a story: a story about who bought it, when they bought it, why they bought it, and how they used it. In books held by the Santa Clara University […]
Dr. Kirstyn Leuner (English) delivered a version of this essay as a presentation at the 2019 British Women Writers Conference at Auburn University. The inspiration for this paper is a copy of the Moss sisters’ book Early Efforts (1839) recently purchased by SCU. Come visit this small, beautiful book during your next study break. The […]
