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 44, Spring 2011
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about the new letterpress printing studio, OberlinScholarshipOA open access repository, Anne Thompson's album orné, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 43, Fall 2010
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about conductor Jeannette Sorrell '90, Molly Raphael '67, the acquisition of a Charles Langston letter, the Book Studies Object Collection, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 42, Spring 2010
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about the Ruth Hughes '85 Collection of Artists' Books and the Frederic Pryor '55 - Frank Kupka Collection, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 41, Fall 2009
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about James McBride '79, the "Future of the Book" symposium, the "Wooden Synagogues: Recovering History through Art and Architecture" exhibition, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 40, Spring 2009
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about the Selch Collection, Azariah's Cafe, Director of Libraries Ray English, Mellon Library interns, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 39, Fall 2008
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about writer Gary Shteyngart '95, Carnegie Library's 100th anniversary, the Oberlin Missionary Ethnographic Collection, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 38, Spring 2008
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about the James and Susan Neumann Jazz Collection, science librarians mini-conference, Mellon Library interns, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 37, Fall 2007
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about the new Academic Commons, author Nicholas A. Basbanes, the discovery of a handwritten Thornton Wilder letter, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 36, Spring 2007
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about the Academic Commons, Dr. Thomas W. Roush's gift of some 6,000 films, an author rights and open access workshop for faculty, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 35, Fall 2006
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about New York magazine editor-in-chief Adam Moss '79, plans for the Academic Commons, changes in the Art Library, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 34, Spring 2006
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about Director of Libraries Ray English, the Jefferson Architecture Collection, Mudd statue makeovers, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 33, Fall 2005
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about Robert Kuttner '65, new electronic resources, Seal Press Archives, LibQUAL+ survey, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 32, Spring 2005
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about Virginia Proctor Powell Florence '19, ARTstor, the Zabludow synagogue project, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 31, Fall 2004
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about journalist Michael Duffy '80, "What are Artists' Books?" and "The Pursuit of Happiness" exhibits, Project SAILS (Standardized Assessment of Information Literacy Skills), and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 30, Spring 2004
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about Yunnan University Library Deputy Director Yang Yong, Mellon Librarian Recruitment Program interns, a reenactment of the Lane Debates, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 29, Fall 2003
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about novelist Tracy Chevalier '84, the Robert M. Campbell ('34) Collection, "The Holocaust Series" exhibition, William Lloyd Garrison and The African Repository, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 28, Spring 2003
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about the Library's acquisition of the Seal Press archives, events sponsored by the Student Friends of the Oberlin College Library, the redesign of the reference area, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 27, Fall 2002
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Dirda '70, the "Pages of the Past: Illuminated Manuscripts from the Collections of John M. Lawrence and Oberlin College" exhibit, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 26, Spring 2002
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about the Library's Excellence in Academic Libraries award, Science Librarian Alison Ricker, the first annual Friends of the Library Excellence in Research award, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 25, Fall 2001
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about novelist Nicholson Baker, Princeton University professor Robert Darnton, the new Science Library, the Academic Librarianship in the New Millennium conference in China, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 24, May 2001
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about digital developments, the Library's Diversity Fellowship Program, a tribute to staff member Jean Binford, a visit by Yongyi Song, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 23, September 2000
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch, noted historian James Oliver Horton, the "Free at Last: A History of the Abolition of Slavery in America" exhibition, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 22, February 2000
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about the first Oberlin Alumni Librarian Conference, the Library's video collection, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 21, September 1999
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about Yale University librarian Scott Bennett '60, Oberlin's Anti-Slavery Collection, the Art Library and Conservatory Library heads, new digital media resources, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 20, February 1999
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), the first ever conference of Oberlin alumni librarians, the new ERes system, and much more.
