Blogs at the Newberry
The Newberry has a variety of blogs, which reflect the diversity of our collections and our staff.
Project blogs
Everywhere West: Chronicling the processing progress of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company records, featuring images and items from the collection. This project is supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Preservation and Access.
French Pamphlet Collections: French Pamphlet Collections at the Newberry Library is a three-year project funded by a Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives grant. CLIR administers this national effort with the support of generous funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. French Pamphlet Collections at the Newberry Library began in January 2010 and will be completed in January 2013. Through the project, the Newberry is creating full, item-level MARC records for 22,000 French pamphlets that date from the 16th to the 19th century.
Recent posts from the Newberry blogs
“Journey through Generations” is the theme of this year’s Federation of Genealogical Societies’ annual conference which will be held in Fort Wayne, Indiana from August 21st through the 24th. A wide variety of programs, exhibits, social activities...
So we’re just about done with our Quasquicentennial Celebration (the letter Q will never be the same for those of us who lived through it.) If a down side can be detected anywhere, it is that, so far as I can see, none of my superlative suggestions...
Happy Birthday, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle! Doyle, a Scottish physician and writer, is best remembered as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, one of crime fiction’s most beloved characters. Holmes—and his intrepid sidekick Watson—first appeared in A Study...
The cataloging workflow works in mysterious ways. Earlier this year, when Benedict XVI’s resignation triggered a papal conclave, I took the opportunity to write a post about Gaetano Sertor’s Conclave dell’anno 1774, two copies of...
On May 20, 1570, cartographer Abraham Ortelius published Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas. After the initial publication, Ortelius revised and expanded his atlas, drawing on sources that are now rare or extinct. Pictured above are...
I’ll make a deal with you, Spam cutlet. You don’t bring me any books this weekend, and I won’t make fun of you for bringing me books this weekend. Is that fair, or is it? Hard though it may be to believe, this weekend coming is Memorial Day Weekend...
Thursday, May 23, 2013, 7:30pmKane County Genealogical Society Geneva History Center113 S. Third StreetGeneva, ILMore information
On May 17, 1792, the New York Stock Exchange was formed. Pictured here are two stock certificates, which can be found in the Newberry collections. The first is for three shares of the Pullman Palace Car Company. The certificate sports...
It would have been mere vulturing (vulching, we called it, in the old days) to put it up for sale right after the great Jonathan Winters died, and, anyway, I couldn’t find it. But it’s around here somewhere, one of the rarest albums he ever made. I...
We recently completed cataloging the Saint-Sulpice Collection at the Newberry Library, which contains about 2,500 pamphlets and manuscripts chiefly in French that are nearly all biographical. These items, dating from the 16th to early 19th centuries...