Carnival may be over, but the spring festival season is in full swing in New Orleans! TUSC staff is pleased to participate in the festivities by opening our doors to welcome people into our community.
In March, the Tulane campus will see a surge of visitors here to attend the 2024 New Orleans Book Festival. We hope many of you will swing by Jones Hall to see TUSC’s newest exhibition, which centers on the physical nature of the book. Please join us on Friday, March 15, between 10 am and 4 pm for the opening reception of Pages Unveiled: Journey into the Book Beyond Text. This exhibition promises to delight book lovers of all ages by examining the hidden stories that books can tell. If you can’t visit us in person, there are many other ways to engage with our services and collections. Our newsletter highlights various collaborations designed to make primary sources accessible to the broadest audience possible.
TUSC archivists and librarians are here to answer your questions, support and enhance your research and teaching, and learn from you and your experiences. We welcome knowledge seekers of all kinds to reach out to learn more about our staff, collections, and services. You can make an appointment via our website at https://library.tulane.edu/tusc, email us at specialcollections@tulane.edu, and follow us on Facebook and Instagram.
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| Pages Unveiled: Journey into the Book Beyond Text
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Exhibit Dates: March 15, 2024 – June 14, 2024
Exhibit Location: Tulane University Special Collections 2nd Floor Gallery, 6801 Freret Street, Jones Hall, on Tulane University’s Uptown campus
Opening reception: March 15, 2024, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Featuring over 50 book objects ranging in date from c. 1300 to 2024, Pages Unveiled: Journey into the Book Beyond Text aims to celebrate the book’s overlooked physical elements.
This exhibition will use recent acquisitions and seldom-viewed works from the rare book collections of Tulane University Special Collections, the Newcomb Art Museum, and private collections to give visitors a firsthand look at bookmaking materials and the varieties of books they can create.
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In the Archives: Researching and Learning with Primary Source Materials about New Orleans
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Monday, April 1, 2024, 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Louis Prima Room (Room 306) in Jones Hall, 6801 Freret St., on the uptown campus of Tulane University
This hands-on introduction to archives allows attendees to engage with holdings from the Hogan Archive of New Orleans Music and New Orleans Jazz, a Tulane University Special Collections unit.
Learn about archives, how they're interesting and can benefit you, and why archives about New Orleans music and culture are important. Led by Melissa A. Weber, Hogan Archive curator.
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TUSC Prison Newspapers Online
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Tulane University Special Collections recently participated in a national project to scan prison newspapers and make them freely available online.
TUSC loaned approximately fifteen linear feet of prison newspapers to the project. Such articles allow prisoners to hope to have some impact on the world beyond their walls.
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Pictured: Exterior of the Dew Drop Inn, 2836 LaSalle Street in New Orleans, 1953; Ralston Crawford collection of New Orleans jazz photographs, Hogan Archive of New Orleans Music and New Orleans Jazz, Tulane University Special Collections.
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| TUSC materials spotlighted at historic, newly reopened Dew Drop Inn
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Archival photographs and oral history interviews from TUSC are among items featured in the newly redeveloped and reopened Dew Drop Inn complex. From 1939 to 1970, it was one of the foremost Black-owned entertainment venues in New Orleans.
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The latest issue of Tulanian magazine features a new article about Louis Prima and the Hogan Archive at Tulane University Special Collections. Click here to read "The Prima Papers."
Materials from the Prima collection are also currently on view through October 13, 2024, at the Italian American Museum of Los Angeles and the exhibition Louis Prima: Rediscovering a Musical Icon.
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These Carnival costume designs date back to the late 19th century and include a little green man (center) that is actually one of five green peas in a pea pod. The designs are among 5,600 costume and float designs that make up Tulane's Carnival Collection.
(Photo by Sabree Hill)
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| Carnival Collection at Tulane presents a vibrant chronicle of history and culture
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Leon Miller, curator of Tulane Libraries’ Louisiana Research Collection, lights up when he talks about the holdings in Tulane University’s Carnival Collection. Featured in Tulane Today, Miller goes on to discuss the vibrant chronicle of the history and culture of Carnival and Tulane University's role in preserving this history.
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| Newly Discoverable Collections at TUSC
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In the last six months, the TUSC Collection Management team has processed eighteen new collections totaling roughly fifteen linear feet of records.
With the addition of Kure Croker and Samantha Schafer to the Collection Management team in the Fall of 2023, the team is now up and running in making long-hidden TUSC collections available to the public for research and use.
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Pictured: Video screenshot of Allen Toussaint recalling his Dew Drop Inn memories, April 19, 2005.
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| Dew Drop Inn documentary interviews digitized
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Interviews recorded in 2004 and 2005 for The Legend of the Dew Drop Inn, a documentary by filmmaker Julia Dorn, have been digitized and can be viewed online.
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Kure Croker, Processing Archivist, participated as a member of the Society of Southwest Archivist Annual Meeting Program Committee in selecting, organizing, and scheduling educational sessions of this year’s virtual Annual Meeting, May 1-3, 2024.
Samantha Schafer, Collection Management Archivist, will participate in the panel “Work Smarter Not Harder: Using Workplace Collaboration Tools” on May 2 at the Society of Southwest Archivists annual meeting. The panel will discuss integrating project management software into archival workflows, with Samantha’s section focusing on using the cloud collaboration service AirTable in processing archival collections.
Jennifer Waxman, Head of Collection Management, is on the Workshop Curriculum Committee for CLIR’s Climate Resiliency Leadership grant, which was recently awarded by the IMLS: https://climate-resiliency.clir.org/. The committee is currently in the process of designing the themes and topics for each workshop, which will be offered monthly from July/August 2024 through April 2025. All of them will be offered free online. Be on the lookout for the announcement about when and how to sign up.
Melissa A. Weber, Curator of the Hogan Archive of New Orleans Music and New Orleans Jazz, attended the Jazz Digital Archives Project Symposium on January 12 at the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University – Newark. She also served on the programming committee for the 2024 Pop Conference: “Legacy! Legacy! Music, Collections and Archives,” held March 7-9 at the University of Southern California.
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TUSC is delighted to welcome five new student assistants for the Spring semester. Califa Belot is working with our Research Services Team to help researchers, and Owen Morris, Hannah Silverman, Lauren Thompson, and Luke Volpe are helping our Collection Management Team make our holdings more accessible.
Califia is a sophomore at Tulane majoring in Sociology and Africana Studies and minoring in Latin American Studies. She will staff the reference desk and work on other Research Services projects.
Owen and Lauren are working on various materials from the Hogan Archive, Louisiana Research Collection, and the Southeastern Architectural Archive. Owen is a sophomore majoring in English. He is a DJ at WTUL and their official historian. Lauren Thompson is a freshman majoring in English and Art History.
Hannah and Luke are working with records in the Tulane University Archives. Hannah is a sophomore double majoring in Anthropology and Public Health, and Luke is a junior majoring in International Relations and Economics.
We’re excited to have you all working with us!
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