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Apr 2012
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Posted on April 18, 2012A few weeks ago, I started my first large-scale imaging project here at Swem Library's Special Collections Research Center (Swem SCRC).
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Posted on April 5, 2012The Swem Library's Special Collections Research Center is currently working on a transcription initiative
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Posted on April 2, 2012Since I began my apprenticeship with Swem Library's Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) in August, I've been consistently impressed with the staff's dedication to actively engaging the student body here on campus. It is clear that undergraduate and non-staff researchers are very welcome here, and the staff members in the SCRC continually do everything in their power to fac
Mar 2012
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Posted on March 6, 2012Hi, my name is Rachel Thomas and I began work in the Swem SCRC at the beginning of the 2011-2012 school year. I am a Graduate student working towards my MA in Early American and US History. I received my BA from the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington in 2011. I came to this archives from a much smaller archives that had no permanent staff in place and no profession
Feb 2012
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Posted on February 24, 2012As a student of eighteenth century history, I had rarely been called upon to craft any sort of administrative history before embarking on my project relating to the Ferguson Seminar in Publishing records. It is amazing how much information can be gathered from only one box of information and how an administrative
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Posted on February 9, 2012Identifying authorship of anything is always a long and arduous process, but it is made increasingly difficult when the author is not a famous member of the community. Norfolk, Virginia, was a bustling town at the start of the twentieth century and had an African American population thirsty for rights and acceptance. One such person was the author of the
Dec 2011
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Posted on December 14, 2011In my current project at the SCRC, I have the good fortune of being able to check transcriptions from our Civil War Transcription Project that have recently been uploaded to our Digital Collections database. I am thrilled to be able to participate in this auspicious undertaking.
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Posted on December 7, 2011When I started my work in the Special Collections Research Center here at Swem Library in August, one of my first projects entailed uploading metadata to our online database for the Nathaniel V. Watkins Family Papers, 1846-1889.
Nov 2011
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Posted on November 29, 2011The Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) at Swem Library contains numerous sources on a wide range of topics. For the past few months, I have been creating Guides that organize a number of these sources into specific categories. Essentially, the Guides are supposed to highlight those sources that might be of some relevance to particular topics.
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Posted on November 15, 2011The Special Collections Research Center at Swem Library is currently working on a transcription initiative as part of the “From Fights to Rights: The Long Road to a More Perfect Union” project.