Library Perspectives is the newsletter for the Oberlin College Libraries, providing important updates and news, as well as stories about our collections, programming, partnerships, and staff. The newsletter moved to an e-format in September 2022.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 70, Winter 2024
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about the First Annual Edible Book Festival, updates to Azariah's Café, the Libraries' Winter Term courses, the digitization of Spanish plays from the 17th-20th century, upcoming events, and new Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries officers and council members.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 69, Spring 2023
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about the Metcalf Scholars, 2023 Commencement, Percussion Music by Women, and staff retirements.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 68, February 2023
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about the Libraries' Winter Term courses, special acquisitions, OhioLINK transformative agreements, Excellence in Library Research Award winner Kiran Williams '22, staff retirements, and Staff Excellence Award winners.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 67, September 2022
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about the world-renowned concert pianist Jeremy Denk '90, 2022 Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries Graduate Library School Scholarship winners, "Welcome to Aegina" exhibit, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 66, Spring 2022
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about Dr. Gunnar Heydenreich, highlights from the 30th Annual Meeting of the Friends Council and the 2021 Annual Friends of the Libraries Meeting and Program, new purchases and digital resources, and In Memoriam tributes to Mary Louise VanDyke '47 and Judy Clark Fannin.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 65, Fall 2021
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes a message from Valerie Hotchkiss, Azariah Smith Root Director of Libraries, and items about Shirley Moody-Turner and P. Gabrielle Foreman, gifts from Don L. Mennel and the Sato Family, the Ward E. Bailey, Sr. Family Collection, Graduate Library School Scholarship winners, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 64, Spring 2021
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about Alison M. Parker's work on Mary Church Terrell, Malangatana Valente Ngwenya paintings, dime novel digitization funded by the NEH, library instruction services in the virtual environment, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issues 62/63, Spring/Fall 2020
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This combined issue includes items about the commemoration of the centennial of women’s suffrage, the Friends annual meeting in November 2019, a farewell to Alexia Hudson-Ward, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 61, Fall 2019
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about award-winning author Mitchell S. Jackson, the centennial anniversary of the work of the King-Crane Commission, the Weidenthal Undergraduate Summer Internship in the Oberlin College Archives, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 60, Spring 2019
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about the Terrell Main Library naming ceremony, author Susan Orlean, the Woodbury Papercut Gift, artist Alexandra Bell, the Neumann Jazz Symposium, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 59, Fall 2018
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about Mary Church Terrell, Maria Balinska, new collaborative efforts between the Oberlin College Libraries and the Allen Memorial Museum of Art, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 58, Spring 2018
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about Meredith Evans, the Archives and Project STAND (STudent Activism Now Documented), peace posters created by students at Iran's Shiraz University of Arts, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 57, Fall 2017
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about writer Clifford Thompson '85, the restoration of a 15th-century Mamluk Qur’an from Ottoman Jerusalem, the Art Library's 100th anniversary, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 56, Spring 2017
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about a new collection of blues-related recordings, the Milt Hinton traveling exhibit, winter term projects, Director of Libraries Alexia Hudson-Ward, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 55, Fall 2016
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about Director of Libraries Alexia Hudson-Ward, Robert Krulwich '69, "The Oberlin College Archives, 1966-2016: 50 Years of Preserving and Sharing Oberlin's Rich History" exhibition, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 54, Spring 2016
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about the Mary Church Terrell papers, New York University professor Kwame Anthony Appiah, the new Table Top Scribe system, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 53, Fall 2015
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about Robert Darnton, the First Year Library Advisor program, objects in the Pre-Cinematic Collection, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 52, Spring 2015
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about Director of Libraries Ray English, Stanley King's gift of jazz materials to the Conservatory Library, a rare Thomas Edison suitcase phonograph, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 51, Fall 2014
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about jazz critic and author Gary Giddins, Myrlin Von Glahn's '48 gift of calligraphic art, an update on e-books, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 50, Spring 2014
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about the Milton J. and Mona C. Hinton papers, gifts of materials related to children’s literature, new winter term course in papermaking, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 49, Fall 2013
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero, artist Barry Moser, Thornton Wilder, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 48, Spring 2013
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about the Tony Musante '58 collection of personal papers, Gabriele Brandstetter, Special Collections items in exhibitions at the Allen Memorial Art Museum, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 47, Fall 2012
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about Molly Raphael '67, five exhibitions from the Frederick Selch Collection of American Music History, renovations to the Goodrich Room, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 46, Spring 2012
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about the arrival of the James and Susan Neumann Jazz Collection, the In-Library e-Book Lending Program, Margaret Forsythe '46, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 45, Fall 2011
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about Mark Dimunation, the Jefferson Architectural Books Collection, Ojibwe language documents rediscovered, and much more.
