Library News
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The Oxford English Dictionary is an etymological institution, and the folks who maintain the OED pick a word of the year, every year. This year's word is "toxic."
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We have titles from seven of our major rare book collections on display in the Frank and Anne Piskor Reading Room.
Services & Technology
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The Libraries and IT have joined the Digital Library Federation - a program of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) that brings together a consortium of libraries that develop and use digital technologies to extend collections and services.
New Resources
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The newest acquisition in the Special Collections area is Mathematics + Art by Lynn Gamwell. This is a big beautiful book.
Special Collections
Special Collections is the place in the general library where we keep any items that are scarce, fragile, or valuable. Holdings include: printed books, journals, newspapers, maps, atlases, photographs, reports, diaries, correspondence, and more...
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Orson Reyonlds of Bombay, Franklin County, New York, enlisted in the 6th New York Heavy Artillery. The collection consists of 25 letters written to his wife
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The Stage Door Canteen was started by the American Theatre Wing in 1942 and ended in 1946. Its location was the basement of the 44th Street Theater in New York City.