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One Box, Seven Collections
By Greta Suiter, Manuscripts Archivist When it comes to housing and storing physical collections, archives generally put each one in its own box or set of boxes. But some collections are quite small – maybe just one folder or one item. Since the Mahn Center’s adoption of the collection management system ArchivesSpace (a website with…
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The Athens Mental Health Center records – The Patients
By Julian Earley, BA ’26 Classical Civilizations, Digital Initiatives Assistant Everyone loves a good haunting. I too have been interested in ghost-hunting and wanted to know what lies in the Asylum here in Athens. But I think it’s important when we talk about the history of institutions like The Athens Mental Health Center to humanize…
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Reblog: Meet an Early Multicultural Student Organization: Ohio University’s Los Amigos, 1947-1952
By Imani Estrada, Marketing, BA 2022, OhioLINK Luminaries Intern 2020-2021. Originally published January 18, 2021, on the Ohio University Libraries Digital Initiatives Tumbler, which predated this Mahn blog. The Student Organization: Los Amigos was a minority student organization established here at Ohio University in fall 1947, continuing through 1952. This student organization was primarily composed…
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Personal memories and the Athens Girl Scout Collection
In honor of National Outdoors Day we present this post by Laura Burns, Library Support Specialist. I recently helped process the Athens Girl Scout Collection for the Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections. It was donated to the archives by Lois Whaley. The collection includes correspondence with the national girl scouts, leaders’ meeting minutes,…
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Reflecting on my Graduate Assistant Experience in Rare Books
By Alexis Voisard, MA Student in English, 2022-23 Rare Book Graduate Assistant Athens has been spoiled by beautiful weather, and I’ve taken advantage by going around campus getting photos in some of my favorite spots wearing my graduation robe! It’s starting to feel bittersweet going to classes and working at the library knowing I only…
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A Web Map, 80 Years in the Making
By Sarah Romer, Wildlife and Conservation Biology BS ‘23, Digital Initiatives Assistant During my tenure at the Library Archives and Special Collections Digital Initiatives unit, I have spent most of my time working with William E. Peters via the manuscript collection he donated to Ohio University. Peters and I are a good team. His eye…
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O’Bleness Family Collection: Updates on the Mystery Photo Album
By Anna Denman, History ’23, Fall 2022 Archives Intern In my first post about the Mystery Photo Album, I wrote that I hoped to continue identifying photographs from the album and piecing together the O’Bleness family’s story. In the five weeks that followed my last post, I spent hours familiarizing myself with the O’Bleness family,…
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Getting to Know Athens
By Alexis Voisard, MA student in English, 2022-23 Rare Book Graduate Assistant As the new Graduate Assistant in the rare book collection, I’ve spent hours exploring the diverse collections online and roaming the rare book stacks in person. Since I recently moved to Athens, I was immediately drawn to the Ohioana Collection. Building my first…
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Investigating a Mystery Photo Album
By Anna Denman, senior History major, Fall 2022 Archives Intern After the Mahn Center staff introduced me to the many internship project options available for the fall 2022 semester, I was immediately intrigued by the unidentified photo album. Who were the people smiling, laughing, and posing in these photographs that appeared to be at least…
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