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this position. I have had the opportunity to focus on collections management & preservation, exhibition curation, outreach through programming & social media, digitization, reference & research, student supervising, & more!
Seeing how WCU Special Collections presence has grown
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Our Special Collections Technician, Jenna (yours truly) will be leaving WCU Special Collections soon and moving to California with her spouse! Opportunities & adventure await! ☀️🌊
In my (Jenna’s) own words, it has been a wonderful almost 5 years in
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Learn more about the important work of Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop in this recently published @ALALibrary video (ft. some of our photos!):
youtube.com/watch?v=Zm6zmaER…
Transcript from her OSU interview from 2013 where she discusses her time @WCUofPA further: kb.osu.edu/server/api/core/b…
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Sliding Glass Doors theory, which focuses on the importance of diverse representation in children’s literature.
Our Resource Services dept has been hard at work cataloging these for our FHG & SC children’s literature collections.
Under the direction of our SC Librarian Ron,
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In the past few years, we have received an amazing donation of children’s literature from Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop, Class of 1959 @WCUofPA alumna. Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop is considered to be the mother of multicultural literature.
In 1990, she published her Mirror, Windows, &
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@WCUofPA, we're skating into the last weeks of the semester & finals season like ...
@WCUStuAffairs @WCU_SGA & SAC (plus our Libraries) have many destressing activities coming up. Check social media & WCU calendars for event info.
Here's ours: libcal.wcupa.edu/calendar/ev…
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New bookplates just dropped... which is your favorite?
Bookplates are used to denote ownership & personalize a book. These are bookplates made by students in art & design programs @ArtsAtWCU @WCUofPA in the 1920s.
(WCU Dept of Art & Design Collection, Box 1, Folder 1)
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Happy Veterans Day to all in our @wcuofpa community who have served or are currently serving our country! Thank you for your service during wartime & peace.
Armistice Day, as it was originally called, commemorated the end of World War I on Nov. 11, 1918. The day's name
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A #MarbledMonday highlight today of "I Asked Hoping and Other Poems" by Mary Lucina!
(SC Aral 811.54 L938 (1993))
ALT close-up photograph of marbled book cover that is peach/pink/tan, with some white and dark green
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#WhatIsItWednesday - This will be on display tomorrow at our Seasonal & Spooky Open House. Any guesses as to what this book is or its subject? Comment below. We'll reveal the answer soon!
Can't wait until then? Register for tomorrow's event (2-4pm): ramconnect.wcupa.edu/Library…
ALT off-white page featuring foxing brown spots and black text that is in German/Pennsylvanian Dutch.
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Happy Homecoming to all who are celebrating @wcuofpa this weekend!
From haunted houses & Rocky Horror @WCUTheatreDance to a family (*RAMily*) reading @FHGLibrary to the football game of course & more ... there's plenty for the WCU Community to do in the upcoming days.
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