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 […]
Santa Clara has gone through its fair share of crises—fires, earthquakes, and world wars, just to name a few—but so far we have always been able to use the crisis to evolve and improve. If we can learn anything from the outcome of the 1918 flu pandemic on our beloved school, it’s that tragedy and […]
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 […]
I wrote the following essay as a final research project for Dr. Andrew Keener‘s CTW 2 class in Winter 2019. I also created an online project about James Alexander Forbes, which you can access if you wish to learn more about James Alexander Forbes and traces of him in Santa Clara University Archives & Special […]
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 […]
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 […]
