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The Archive staff at the Methodist Center has begun inviting faculty in several departments of the College of Liberal Arts for lunch and conversation about library archival collections. A spring 2001 meeting with history faculty has generated several inititatives, including a fall term history department seminar, "Archives: History and Methods," taught by archivist Dr. Dale Patterson. Other College departments have been invited for similar discussions to encourage fuller use of the wide range of research collections in the Archives.
Special Collections Featured This
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Spring Semester Exhibits:Faculty Publications, SBL Archives
Some rare and inriguing intriguing items from the Library's special collections were displayed in the early fall, including this 1670 volume by John Ogilby (1600-1676) from the McClintock Collection of Early Printed Books, entitled, Africa: being an accurate description of the regions of Aegypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billedulgerid, published in London by T. Johnson. Also displayed, from the Tipple Collection was a 1791 letter of support from Methodist founder, John Wesley, to William Wilberforce, a member of the British Parliament who was active at that time in an unsuccessful attempt to abolish slavery.
Other materials exhibited included pamplets on slavery from the 15,000-piece Nineteenth Century Pamphlet Collection; interview notes and photographs of Albert Einstein and his son from the Bela Kornitzer Collection, and a selection from the Peter Dornan Samizdat Collection of underground literature from the former Soviet Union. These and much more are accessible to students and researchers at Drew. A complete listing of special collections and how to access them are available from the Research Resources page of the Library web site, http://depts.drew.edu/lib/research.html.
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Recommended Reading: The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
In September, the Friends of the Library and the Department of History hosted a book signing to celebrate Professor Jonathan Rose's new book, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes(Yale University Press, 2001). The book was received with so much enthusiasm in the United Kingdom that the initial print run of 2,500 copies-a significantly large printing for a hefty academic monograph-was quickly sold out, sending the publisher back to press for another thousand copies within a month of the book's release.
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