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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I found God in myself and I loved her fiercely — Ntozake Shange The Catholic Women’s Network newspaper asserts the above quote literally on page 2 of issue 4, and the mantra of this quote imbibes the very being of the publication throughout its fifteen-plus year run. To dig into the complete backfile of the newspaper […]
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 […]
With Grand Reunion and the inauguration of Father O’Brien, Santa Clara’s 29th President, upon us, we at Archives & Special Collections would like to invite the Santa Clara community to reflect upon the great legacy left by our 28 past presidents. Click through the timeline below to learn more about each one of Santa Clara’s […]
When I was looking to apply to Santa Clara University, my mom would always refer to it as “The University of Santa Clara” or “USC.” No matter how many times I insisted it was “SCU” or “Santa Clara University,” she always refuted that it used to be called USC. I didn’t realize until looking at […]
