Claire Catron, Head, Interlibrary Loan Office, Vicki Avera, Special Project Manager and Librarian Polly Lasker initiated a users survey as part of the Libraries strategic planning efforts to connect with more »
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How many people can say they’ve trekked Europe in a VW van – with a one year old? An adventurous spirit, Libraries' intern Laurence Cook can make that claim! In more »
The Libraries can celebrate National Apple Week with this illustration of a crab apple by Asa Gray, one of many gorgeous plates included in this report, originally published by the more »
L’ art de la coiffure des dames françoises (The art of coiffure for French ladies) by sieur Legros, nouvelle edition. Paris: Chez Antoine Boudet, 1768. TT956.L519 1768. CHMRB An insight more »
…comes this catalog from the Libraries' collections, The New York Coach-Maker's Magazine. Featured here is a physician's phaeton, just one of many state-of-the-art conveyances from this interesting item. Take a more »
Konrad Gesner, Historia animalium [History of animals], 1551-87 Apparently today has been named Sea Serpent Day. The Libraries is happy to celebrate this occasion by highlighting a plate from more »
We have already featured the lovely artwork of Genevieve Jones in a previous post. But this delicate rendering of a summer warbler from the Libraries' online show Illustrations of Nests more »