The new year is getting off to a good start. Three issues of the Harvard Library Bulletin will be mailed to subscribers in the next few weeks and this will go a long way to getting it up to date. Volume 24: Number 2 (Summer 2013) includes three articles. Michael Winship is the author of Read More

As I was cataloging a box of social dance scores in the Ward Collection last night, I ran across an odd little score which looked to me like some kind of early photocopy from the 1960s, back when some copies had a strange glossy coating which didn’t really look like the emulsion of a true Read More

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Or perhaps a giant winged insect?  As always the truth lies in the interpretation of the viewer.  Bruce Connor was a renowned American artist who worked in a variety of media including film, collage, painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, Read More

Finding aids for four newly cataloged collections have been added to the OASIS database this month: Processed by Irina Klyagin: Lincoln Kirstein Correspondence, 1905-1995 (MS Thr 1045) Processed by Ashley M. Nary: Correspondence, Signatures, and Other Materials from Notable Theater, Art, and Literary Personalities, 1718-1972 (MS Thr 1046) Processed by Bonnie B. Salt: James Prince Read More

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. At the end of every year, while preparing for the new one, people are often struck with nostalgia.  This feeling, not just for the past year, but of past eras, is evoked in David Seidman’s book All Gone: Read More