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| by Kaitlin Buerge
Have you ever wished that there was a directory - a book, perhaps, or a website - where you could search for your classmates by name in order to find out what they look like? A book of faces, maybe? Well, if you were a student between 1949 and 2008, Middlebury had your back.
| by Rebekah Irwin
Here’s another miniature book from Special Collections. Sometimes photographs alone are not enough. This book needs to be seen in action to be appreciated.
| by Kaitlin Buerge and Rebekah Irwin
We love sharing images of the books in our collections. Some books, though, need to be captured in action.
| by Danielle Rougeau and Rebekah Irwin
On Juneteenth—the holiday that commemorates the emancipation of the last slaves in America— Vermont state lawmakers designated Sept. 23 as Alexander Twilight Day in Vermont.
| by Kaitlin Buerge
We were thrilled to receive this donation of the 1938-1939 Middlebury Nursery School Cook Book from Deborah West Zipf, Class of 1958.
| by Kaitlin Buerge
While researching Black authors in Special Collections for Black History Month, I was inspired by Angelina Weld Grimke (of whom I knew nothing), to work on a project to make our works by Black authors more visible and accessible.
| by Kaitlin Buerge
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many of the Library’s frontline staff were forced to abandon their books and leave the circulation desk behind. While in exile from the building, collections, and people who normally keep them extremely busy, they pitched in to help Special Collections cross off items from our very long wishlist of projects.
| by Danielle Rougeau and Kaitlin Buerge
College Archivist, Danielle Rougeau, shares her experience transcribing the journals of Pliny Fisk, Class of 1814.
Middlebury Special Collections and the Vermont Folklife Center have joined forces to make our old, archival collections new again. But we need your help.
| by Rebekah Irwin
Two centuries of portraits of Middlebury alumni portraits are available online for the first time. They’d love to meet you.
