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 19, September 1998
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about the Violin Society of America - Herbert K. Goodkind Collection, Harvard University professor Edward O. Wilson, University of Virginia professor Jerome McGann, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 18, February 1998
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about Lexis-Nexis, dissertations on the web, the conclusion of the Culpeper Foundation preservation grant, cataloging distinctions, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 16, March 1997
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about author Margaret Atwood, librarians Eileen Thornton and Benjamin A. Custer, retrospective conversion at the Conservatory Library, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 17, February 1997
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about Princeton University professor Anthony Grafton, Library bookplates, online literature databases, CIS Congressional Compass, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 15, September 1996
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about author Nicholas Basbanes, Special Collections Librarian Dina Schoonmaker, the James Walter Bass and Idella Bass Richardson book fund, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 14, February 1996
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about the "What Gutenberg Wrought: Some Aspects and Effects of Early Printing" exhibit, Harley Francis' Terra Candella Archive of mail art, the Library's OhioLINK membership, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 13, September 1995
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about Dr. Elizabeth Eisenstein's delivery of the Harold Jantz Memorial Lecture, Project Muse and electronic journal access, the Library's participation in BIBCO, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 12, May 1995
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about William Moffett, Frederic Cassidy '30, the Frederick B. Artz Collection in the History of Printing, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 11, February 1995
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about Erwin Griswold '25, the new Oberlin Bibliographic Information system (OBIS), introduction of the Library's world wide web homepage, OCL's East Asian collection, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 10, September 1994
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about Dr. Johnnetta Cole '57, Library collections development, Interlibrary Loan (ILL) changes, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 09, May 1994
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about artists' books in the Art Library, Oxford Analytica testing, the installation of the new Innovative online system, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 08, February 1994
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about a major preservation grant from the Charles E. Culpepper Foundation, the debut of Oberlin's CD-ROM network, dramatist Romulus Linney '53, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 07, September 1993
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about dramatist Romulus Linney '53 and his works, author Nien Cheng, an interview with Associate Professor Jane Armitage, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 06, May 1993
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about an interactive workshop on American nineteenth-century book cover design, the Science Library, Mending Laboratory, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 05, February 1993
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about a major gift of art books from the estate of Ellen H. Johnson, new electronic resources, Carl T. Rowan '47, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 04, September 1992
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about syndicated columnist Carl T. Rowan '47, an exhibition celebrating the Bicentennial of the birth of Charles Grandison Finney, the Main Library Reference Department, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 03, May 1992
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about William A. Moffett's lecture about his role in the release of the Dead Sea Scrolls, computer technology in the Conservatory Library, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 02, Mar. 1992
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about William A. Moffett's lecture on the Dead Sea Scrolls and intellectual freedom, Robert H. Jackson's donation of a collection of works by and about Aldous Huxley, and much more.
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Library Perspectives, Issue 01, Dec. 1991
Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries
This issue includes items about Fenner Douglass '42 and his gift of books on organ history and construction, Geoffrey C. Ward's delivery of the Harold Jantz Memorial Lecture, and much more.