- Art History class unearths the secrets of McCabe Library
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Digital Scholarship Showcase
- International researchers visit the Peace Collection
- RIAs World by Julianne Cruz '27
- Library exhibitions and events
- By the Book with Ethan Liang '26
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McCabe Library from Dirt to Dust Class Project |
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Students are learning about the history of architecture through studying McCabe Library and curating an exhibition of their findings in this semester’s class Building Architecture from Dirt to Dust, taught by Associate Professor and Department Chair of Art History Brian Goldstein. The goal, says Goldstein, is “to help students think of all the people and things that shape buildings long before and long after the architect gets involved. While we could tell a history of any building ‘from dirt to dust,’ McCabe works especially well because it is both familiar to students — thus making it exciting to think about it in new ways — and contains many unseen stories that are revealed as one looks closely.”
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Digital Scholarship Showcase |
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The Trico Digital Scholarship (DS) Showcase is an annual event where faculty present collaborative digital projects. 2025 participants include Assistant Professor of History Elise Mitchell, with a project related to her class Breaking the Internet: Slavery, Resistance, and the Digital Humanities, and Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History Susan Eberhard '09, who will share work from her class Object, Media, Matter: Introduction to Material Culture and Material Histories. Eberhard’s class also curated an exhibition in McCabe. This year’s DS projects all share a critical approach to digital technologies, resulting in objects created for an audience beyond the classroom. Exemplary past projects include Holidays in the Empire and Latinx Literature and Culture.
Faculty and staff are invited to join us on Thursday, Dec. 4, from 4:30–6 p.m. at the Bryn Mawr Park Science Center for refreshments and conversation. Please RSVP to attend.
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International Research Group Visits Peace Collection |
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This November, the Peace Collection had a special visit when six international researchers from Leiden University in the Netherlands spent a week together conducting historical research in the Peace Collection and Friends Historical Library. The group is working on six distinct, but interrelated, research projects that draw heavily on materials which may be found only in the Peace Collection.
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Library Resources to Support and Inspire You |
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| RIAs' World is a regular column written by one of our Research & Information Ambassadors (RIAs). The RIAs are student library-workers who are here to help their fellow students learn about exciting library resources. This month’s column is by Julianne Cruz '27.
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Many students think of Swarthmore’s libraries primarily as places to find course readings or a quiet study space. But the libraries also offer an entire network of guides, experts, and collections designed to encourage students’ exploration of ideas. Here are three resources I feel are particularly invaluable.
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Library Events and Exhibitions |
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Trail to Wellness is a pre-finals event that supports student well-being during a high-stress period in the semester through education, information, give-a-ways, and staff support. The Libraries are pleased to host and participate. Stop by for virtual reality meditations and literary MadLibs!
Thursday, Dec. 11,1-3 p.m.
McCabe Library Atrium (1st Floor)
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Learn two simple bookbinding forms in this hands-on workshop: the do-si-do (also known as dos-à-dos) and the blizzard. We'll also have on display a few works from our collections that use these bindings. All materials will be provided. This workshop is open to students, staff, and faculty.
Thursday, Dec. 11, 4:30-6 p.m.
McCabe Library Atrium (1st Floor)
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Exhibition: From Local to Global: Consumption and the Quaker Body |
For Quakers, consumption was political, but it was also deeply personal. This exhibition explores the material culture of Quaker consumption practices, from the individual to the local to the global.
Tuesday, Dec. 9–Sunday, Feb. 1
McCabe Library LibLab Hallway
(1st Floor)
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| This exhibition showcases materials in the
Rare Book Room from the 16th century
through current day. Works include the Astronomicum Caesareum (1540),
featuring hand-colored volvelles that
function as astrolabes and Vantage Point (2024), which uses pochoir images to
show objects observed in the night sky.
Through Sunday, Feb. 1
McCabe Library LibLab (1st Floor)
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By the Book: Ethan Liang '26 |
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Ethan is a Research & Information Ambassador (RIA), which has proved to be his dream on-campus (and possibly off- as well) job, since he gets paid to talk about books and libraries without having to do research and analysis. He has studied history, Asian American studies, and a good amount of Chinese, which inspire and inform his engagement with literature and hopefully the world.
What are you reading these days?
I’m currently making my way through Elaine Hsieh Chou’s new short story collection Where Are You Really From. As with her debut Disorientation, she draws up everyday plot lines with absurd twists and details to make some pretty thoughtful and speculative commentary.
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