Over the past few months, the Santa Clara Early Modern Book Initiative has been working on something new! As quarantine has made it impossible for us to set foot in SCU’s Archives & Special Collections for our usual tasks, we’ve shifted gears to work on a project that will shine a light on a long-forgotten […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
