Research & Collections News

Recent News

May 21, 2015
The Coleman Album - Anatomy of a Non Treatment
Part One - Discovery
May 21, 2015
Virtual Volunteers - More Than a Remote Possibility
A report1 recently added to our collection tells the history of volunteerism at Hagley. Beginning in January 1978, the first volunteers supported Museum operations, and over the next thirty years their efforts expanded into the Library and External Affairs as well.
May 21, 2015
Collecting Color - DuPont Paint Samples
DuPont is well known for its manufacturing of paint. Brand names like Duco and Dulux are commonly known- “Duco” is used in Australia as a generic eponym for all automotive paints. Paint has formed an important part of DuPont’s product line for most of the 20th century.
May 21, 2015
Item of the Day
The library has recently been conducting tours for visiting groups. Here is an item that was on display at Manuscripts and Archives for two different tours on one day:
April 27, 2015
Mary Emily Miller, 1934-2015
Photo by Ashley Schroeder  
April 23, 2015
Hagley's New Department...one year and counting
It has been a little over a year since the Library’s Digital and Pictorial Collections merged to form the new Audiovisual Collections and Digital Initiatives Department.
April 20, 2015
Stack Cleaning Day!
If cleanliness is next to godliness, the Library staff is saintly!  On a recent Friday morning, a team of librarians, archivists, and conservators cleaned collection storage areas at the Hall of Records.  It’s just part of the routine of taking care of the world-class collections.  
April 17, 2015
A Hit! Challenge Cleanable Collars
One constant theme we see in Hagley’s museum collections is a pattern towards making just about everything more technologically advanced or innovative than what it was.

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