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September 17, 2015
Congratulations Certified Archivists!
We are proud to congratulate members of the Audiovisual and Digital Collections Department Laura Bees, Ken Cleary, Megan Miller, and Laurie (Rizzo) Sather, for their most recent accomplishment, becoming Certified Archivists! In order to set professional standards, the 
September 17, 2015
Published Collections: Taming a Stray Trade Cat
A rather unusual Trade Catalog recently wandered into my workflow, one that had lagged behind the cohorts of some past accession. This particular "stray cat" presents the cataloger a formidable linguistic challenge, judging the booklet simply by its cover.
September 17, 2015
Getting Clean - Soap Packaging
Collections of packaging materials have been growing in popularity over the past decades. Their popularity is likely linked to their increasing rarity due to their ephemeral nature which, after using the product inside, the packaging was then discarded.
September 17, 2015
Conservation: Summer Map Conservation Survey
This summer we had the pleasure of hosting Emilie Duncan, who is now beginning her second year studying library and archives conservation at the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation.
August 21, 2015
Evald Rink: Librarian, Archivist, Bibliographer, Mentor
June 1, 1956 Longwood Library – July 27, 1981 Eleutherian Mills Historical Library  
August 21, 2015
Published Collections: It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s…a car?
Chalk this up to things you don’t see every day. That’s what I’m doing, because librarians don’t ordinarily get involved with heavy machinery.  
August 20, 2015
The National Association of Manufacturers’ Women’s Department
One of the most consequential developments in the resurgence of conservatism in the United States from the late 1960s through the 1980s was the New Right’s success in rallying white middle-class women to its cause.
August 20, 2015
A Green Machine from the Green Mountain State: The Robbins & Lawrence Rifling Machine
Hagley Museum & Library’s collection includes material from all over the world. Hagley also has plenty of objects from innovators, and as a native Vermonter, I’d like to highlight one that I think is particularly interesting.

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