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February 19, 2016
The Manager as Motivator - Ernest Dichter's "Top Man" Training Seminars
Ernest Dichter is most well-known as a pioneer of motivational marketing research, an approach to marketing that emphasized the unconscious nature of consumer motives.
February 19, 2016
Audiovisual Collections: Processing and Preserving our Film & Video
In 2015, Hagley Library’s Audiovisual and Digital Initiatives Department launched a 3-year plan to enhance access to our collections of photographs, motion pictures, and sound recordings.
February 19, 2016
Published Collections: Exploring News and Views through Broadsides
Recent acquisitions in our department have inspired me to feature broadsides as a fascinating category of Published Collections. The typical broadside is a single sheet of paper printed with text on one side and posted for public viewing.  After the printing press with moveable type made its way
February 19, 2016
E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company’s Technical Libraries’ Records Open
The Manuscripts and Archives Department is pleased to announce that records from the DuPont Company’s technical libraries for the Chestnut Run and the Experimental Station laboratories are open for research at Hagley.
January 27, 2016
Hagley on the Travel Channel's Mysteries at the Museum
Watch Andrew Engel from the Hagley Library discuss Avon on Mysteries at the Museum:
January 22, 2016
Floating University
A curious item was recently obtained by the Published Collections Department. It is a catalog for the 1927-28 academic year, published by International University Cruise, Inc. The catalog is entitled Floating University “Aurania” for Men and Women Students.
January 22, 2016
New Year, New Projects!
This time of year is a good time to start new projects, and here at Hagley Museum’s Collections & Exhibits department, we are doing just that.
January 21, 2016
Lights, Colors, Action! RCA Televisions
In the Conservation Lab we now have a few dozen illustration boards laid out with photographs showing the process of cathode ray television tube production. These are part of the David Sarnoff Library Collection at Hagley, documenting the Radio Corporation of America.

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