A new story in the Harvard Gazette recounts how a massive 155 volume, 17 million word diary held at Houghton is serving as the inspiration for a film currently in development, appropriately named “Hypergraphia.”

Finding aids for six newly cataloged collections have been added to the OASIS database this month, including letters of David Garrick and George Gershwin and a hand-decorated photo album of theatrical performers.

[Thanks to Alison Harris, Roosevelt Project Cataloger/Metadata Specialist, for contributing this post] As part of a collaborative project with Dickinson State University in North Dakota, material from the Theodore Roosevelt Collection is currently being digitized and linked to online finding aids. Particularly interesting is the correspondence between Theodore Roosevelt and his family, as it provides Read More

Manuscripts by Melville and Mozart, and drawings by Thackeray and Vizetelly, are among this month’s newly digitized items. [Thanks to Emilie Hardman, Public Services/Metadata Assistant, and Susan Pyzynski, Associate Librarian for Technical Services, for contributing this post.]

[Thanks to Project Music Cataloger Christina Linklater for contributing this post] Several sets of Russian postcards on ballet and operatic themes were recently added to the John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection. These tiny cards, numbering 217 in all, were produced between 1905 and 1982. Their subjects are specific performers (a set of 18 Read More