Schaffer Library

Highlighting Schaffer Library:
🏫 Research help & library tips
🎉 Events & workshops
📜 Featured collections including digital & archival collections.

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🚨Now live! The American Indian Experience is now open until November 30th in honor of Native American History Month!

Explore 2,000+ primary sources, student inquiry activities, reference articles and more 👉https://t.co/QT3ztQCVoQ
#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth #NAHM2023

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Happy Halloween! Be sure to stop by the current reading area for treats and to check out our spoOoOooOOooky book display. 👻

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The order form for Joyce’s Ulysses, currently at @UnionCollege’s @SchafferLibrary.

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Psst. Next Wednesday night we're throwing the nerdiest party ever. A research party! Librarians will be available to answer any questions you have about research, citations, your final papers, etc. Wed, Oct 25, 5-8PM. I heard a rumor there will be a hot chocolate bar...

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Stephen Rosenblatt '87, Managing Director at Barclays Bank, visited on Tuesday, 10/10 to speak to the Student Investment Fund about how to get the most out of the Bloomberg Terminal. If the Bloomberg Terminal interests you see this link for more info:
https://t.co/5Kt6iFlYOf

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Happy World College Radio Day! Let's
celebrate our station 89.7 WRUC, rumored to be one of
the first commercial college radio stations. Curious
about its history? Listen to the Radio Survivor podcast
episode linked in our bio to hear more about it.

https://t.co/eIuLZ5CcIO

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Get to know the 20 new faculty members and 3 new librarians the College welcomed to campus this fall! https://t.co/cbWrGeaiDm

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#TBT Back to our library beginnings... even our books get out hand sometimes 😅...

See this shot, undated, of the Nott basement, back when it was the library.

#ThrowbackThursday #SchafferLibrary #NottMemorial #UnionCollege

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Hello, faculty! We've had a handful of questions this week about how to locate Incites (formerly Journal Citation Reports). If you, too, are looking here's the link: https://t.co/ic8xffTVdT

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More info about teaching with the permanent collection: https://t.co/RvhnIEsGYk

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This academic year, Mandeville Gallery & Schaffer Library will display art requested by Union College professors for use in teaching. Many are recent additions to the College’s Permanent Collection, a term used to describe the art amassed over Union's 200-year-plus history.

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A look behind the scenes: This summer we transferred alumni files for the years 1930-1959 from College Relations to Special Collections & Archives. The files contain a wealth of information on Union College alumni and are some of our most requested items. https://t.co/SBc6X4SyPk.

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Check out “Quietly Shaping History: John Bigelow’s Influence on 19th Century Politics," a new exhibit at @SchafferLibrary. The influential alumnus comes alive through correspondences, images, scrapbooks, journals and more, on display now. @BigelowPapers https://t.co/0wyno73nc1

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One of Union’s most consequential, yet least recognized, alumni comes alive through correspondences, images, scrapbooks, journals and other materials in a new exhibit at Schaffer Library.

Visit info, the digital exhibit, and more: https://t.co/FrX1Pjf087

@BigelowPapers

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Here's another colorized shot from Special Collections and Archives, this from the Ed Schultz Photographs. Ed was a photographer at Union for decades.
Also... check out the less manicured 1960 version of the Nott! 🔥
#TBT #SchafferLibrary #UnionCollege @UnionAthletics

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Let's welcome our new staff: Patrick Cassidy & Kim Mitchell! Patrick is our Systems & Discovery librarian, ensuring our discovery platform (Primo) is the best it can be, while Kim is our Collection Development Librarian, bringing the best information resources possible to Union.

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Happy Juneteenth!

Housekeeping note: The library will be closed for the holiday. It will remain closed to the public the rest of the week as our recarpeting project progresses.

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Happy Bloomsday! On June 16, lovers of James Joyce everywhere celebrate Joyce and his book Ulysses. Schaffer has two rare 1st editions of Ulysses: the 1st and 9th printing, both in Special Collections.

#Bloomsday2023 #JamesJoyce #SylviaBeach

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Please browse the new digital exhibit "John Bigelow: An American Abroad Between 1850-1886." This digital exhibit aims to delight audiences by showcasing various trips Bigelow and his family made between 1850 and 1886.

https://t.co/eD06Giegex

@SchafferLibrary @NHPRC

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Massage therapy today from 12PM-2PM in the library! Come on down & give your brain a break.