Finding aids for twelve newly cataloged collections have been added to the OASIS database this month, including papers from David Mamet, photographs from the Ballets Russes, and vaudeville memorabilia.

[This is the first in a monthly series of Houghton books and manuscripts which have recently been digitized. Thanks to Emilie Hardman, Public Services/Metadata Assistant, and Susan Pyzynski, Associate Librarian for Technical Services, for contributing this post.]

Finding aids for six newly cataloged collections have been added to the OASIS database this month, including papers from Tropic of Cancer author Henry Miller, and a collection of memorabilia from a troupe of vaudevillians.

See HCL News for the full story on the discoveries made by paper conservator Christopher Sokolowski in the course of treating a number of items damaged in a water leak in 2008. Perhaps the most interesting of these relates to a collection of drawings from an early-17th century French ballet. Under x-ray fluorescence analysis, Sokolowski Read More

The Humanities Center Seminar in the History of the Book and Houghton Library, Harvard University, are pleased to present the following lecture by Professor Angela Nuovo of the Universita di Udine: Gian Vincenzo Pinelli (1535-1601) and His Library: Book Collecting and the Republic of Letters in Late Renaissance Italy Thursday, October 14, 5pm Barker Center Read More