Special Collections, including the Rare Books Department, like the rest of the world, is continuing to emerge from the shadow of the COVID Pandemic. We continue to purchase new books and related materials, which we reported on in our November 2020 and November 2021 blog posts, and are pleased to announce further acquisitions during the 2021-2022 Read More
Posts with the tag: Italy
The Archivist’s Nook: Adeptio-Rare Book Acquisitions, 2021-2022
Posted in: Digital Scholar Bytes The Archivist's Nook | Tags: Blogs, Collection Management, France, Humanities, Italy, Jansenist, Mexico, Rare Books, rare books, Sammelband, University Archives | Comment
The Archivist’s Nook: A Venus Fixer Goes to War
“It’s been a strange way to do my wartime service but somebody had to do it and, since…I wondered inside who will take care of the monuments and the objects of art, I’m afraid I rather asked for it and so it was not improperly myself who was chosen.” – Staff Sargeant Bernard M. Peebles Read More
Posted in: The Archivist's Nook | Tags: Art History, Bernard M. Peebles, Greek and Latin, Italy, manuscripts, MFAA, Monuments Men, Museum Fine Arts and Archives Subcommittee, Sicily, University Archives, Venus Fixers, World War II, WWII | Comment