On the cover: Chinese propaganda poster, with banner in Chinese proclaiming “In agriculture, learn from Dazhai.” This refers to a campaign organized by Mao Zedong in 1963 (until 1976) that encouraged peasants throughout China to follow the example of the farmers of Dazhai by practicing self-sacrifice. The Dazhai movement placed agriculture at the center of the economy with the goal of China becoming self-sufficient in feeding its people. The Tibetan banner on the front declares a similar slogan. This is one of a number of posters purchased in Lahaina, Hawaii.
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From the Dean: Because of You
Because of you exciting things happen at Musselman Library. Because of you, we offer more than a dozen meaningful internship opportunities to curious students. Because of you we have acquisitions endowments that have helped us through hard times. Because of you, we have a conservation program to repair fragile pages …
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News
Greeting First Years It is important to connect students to library services as soon as possible in their academic careers. As usual, our staff came up with a variety of ways to welcome them. New arrivals were given everything from ice-cold lemonade to information about textbook affordability options. As the …
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Library Exhibits: Many a Misdemeanor
Gettysburg students have always enjoyed the pranks and hijinks for which college students are known. Visit the Special Collections Reading Room to discover the wild and crazy ideas students have come up with over the decades. You’ll see everything from how nineteenth-century students “trolled” their professors to 1970s students letting …
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Special Collections Interns Reveal: “How I Spent My Summer Vacation”
Four interns spent last summer in Special Collections doing rotations in archival processing and records management; conservation and collections maintenance; digital humanities; and cataloging and metadata. They also went on two field trips—a day of hands-on activities at the Frederick (MD) Book Arts Center and a behind-the-scenes tour of the …
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Research Reflections: Europe Found
By Amy Lucadamo ’00, College Archivist. In our spring newsletter [“Europe Bound,” p. 4], we reported that “Team Peirs” was returning to Europe to further their work on their digital history project. Here’s an update. On March 3, 2020, Team Peirs was in a packed ballroom at the Union League …
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Finding the Way
Last summer, Meghan O’Donnell ’18 had the chance to return to work on an undergraduate project that she started in her junior year in a class on the Great War with Prof. Ian Isherwood. She joined the Team Piers project in France. As a student she was primarily responsible for …
