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September 2020 Wrap Up: Banned Books Week
Posted on Sept. 29, 2020, 5:50 p.m.
Banned Books Week recommendations.
Adjusting the Lens
Posted on Sept. 1, 2020, 2:37 p.m.
Images in the Syracuse University Photograph Collection.
August 2020 Wrap Up
Posted on Aug. 28, 2020, 2:25 p.m.
Working through several digital description and transcription projects.
New PubMed: What’s Changed and How You Use it
Posted on Aug. 20, 2020, 8:25 a.m.
PubMed interface has recently changed.
Lifting as we climb: Mary Church Terrell and the 19th Amendment
Posted on Aug. 18, 2020, 9:24 a.m.
100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, granting women in the United States the right to vote.
What Then Shall We Say About Croton?: Attempts to Integrate Syracuse City Schools
Posted on Aug. 11, 2020, 3:26 p.m.
Crusade for Opportunity (CFO), an anti-poverty organization based in Syracuse, NY, that existed during the 1960s.
COVID-19 Research Informs Libraries Practices
Posted on Aug. 11, 2020, 7:59 a.m.
Due to the REALM project’s Test 4 Results, the Libraries has increased its materials quarantine period to six days.
An Unfinished End: Ying Li and the Marcel Breuer Digital Archive
Posted on Aug. 4, 2020, 5:18 p.m.
Marcel Breuer Digital Archive for SCRC. The Breuer Archive is the digital repository of archival materials relating to the twentieth-century architect, Marcel Breuer.
July 2020 Wrap Up
Posted on July 31, 2020, 3:04 p.m.
By Grace Wagner, Reading Room Access Services Supervisor
30th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act
Posted on July 27, 2020, 1:26 p.m.
Petrina Jackson, Director of SCRC
Traces of a Movement
Posted on July 14, 2020, 5:16 p.m.
Irene Castle was as an internationally-recognized ballroom dancer, silent film star, and one of the first celebrities with an eponymous fashion line.
Accessibility and Discoverability: Describing Street and Smith Cover Art
Posted on July 7, 2020, 6:37 p.m.
Founded in 1855, Street & Smith was the largest publisher of pulp fiction and dime novels in the United States of its time.
June 2020 Wrap Up
Posted on June 30, 2020, 1:53 p.m.
By Grace Wagner, Reading Room Access Services Supervisor
Rehousing the American Book Company Illustrations
Posted on June 24, 2020, 1:35 p.m.
Massive preservation project of 17,000 plates used as textbook illustrations by the American Book Company.
A Perfect Recipe for Conservation
Posted on June 16, 2020, 5:44 p.m.
Diary entries and recipes probably written in the early 1880’s.
Resources for LGBTQ+ Studies
Posted on June 10, 2020, 1:06 p.m.
June is here, which means the celebration of Pride Month for the LGBTQ+ community and our allies.
Dragnet! A Musical Controversy
Posted on June 2, 2020, 2:27 p.m.
Miklós Rózsa (1907-1995), whose papers are held at SCRC, was a Hungarian-American composer known for his dramatic film scores.