Anne Marie Hamilton-Brehm

Associate Dean directing the Special Collections Research Center at Morris Library, SIUC. Celebrate your cultural heritage!

[SCRC at SIUC @SCRC_at_SIUC]

#Halloween in Carbondale, 110 years ago. Postcard from the Cordelia Carbaugh Kelly collection; clipping from the Carbondale Free Press, November 2, 1914.

[Anne Marie Hamilton-Brehm @DigHeritage]

@joey_stan @HormelFoods Hormel literally did you a gelatinous solid! They make great bean chili too.

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The Decadent artist Alastair (Hans Henning Otto Harry Baron von Voigt) was born #OTD in 1887. Caresse and Harry Crosby hired Alastair to illustrate a number of titles for their Black Sun Press in 1920s Paris. Original drawing in the Caresse Crosby Papers.

[Anne Marie Hamilton-Brehm @DigHeritage]

Opening of #ALAAC23 , Judy Blume giving plenary tonight!

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From one sun worshipper to another: D. H. Lawrence's frontispiece to his short story "Sun," published by Harry Crosby's Black Sun Press. Part of an upcoming exhibit, "Chère Caresse: Art in the Caresse Crosby Papers," opening August 22 at the SIUC Museum. 1/4

[ALA Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures @ALA_Core]

ICYMI, the Core President's Program speaker at #ALAAC23 is award-winning science journalist Angela Saini! Learn more about her and her talk, "The Origins of Patriarchy," on our website: https://t.co/iqiQZefgDU #GenderIssues #LibrariesForAll

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Registration for the 2023 Core Forum is now open! Join us October 19-21 in New Orleans, LA to listen, learn, and let the good times roll! Look over everything and register at https://t.co/crukU7dqpa #LibrariesTransform #LibraryEvent

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Big news: applications are open for our new Career LIFT Award, sponsored by @OCLC, which gives the recipient up to $1,500 for Core membership dues, attending the Core Forum, an ALA Annual Conference, or continuing education! Deadline to apply is July 16 https://t.co/PKadCmTBGU

[Anne Marie Hamilton-Brehm @DigHeritage]

If you're at #ALAAC23 , meet @SCRC_at_SIUC exhibit curators at the outreach poster session on Sunday June 25 for a preview of our Caresse Crosby Portfolio exhibit! See early artwork by Romare Bearden, Alastair, D. H. Lawrence and more!

[Anne Marie Hamilton-Brehm @DigHeritage]

Excited to be in #Chicago for the American Library Association conference #ALAAC23 ! Presenting on virtual vs in-person conference preferences from my 2022 survey of librarians and archivists on Monday June 26 at 4:00 -- live streamed and recorded by @ALA_Core!

[Anne Marie Hamilton-Brehm @DigHeritage]

@SCRC_at_SIUC Lol and we think baby photos are tough nowadays...

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Join us Wednesday evening as we celebrate a milestone!

[Rick Watson @hhsccsdarchives]

Water in the Mojave was a great program in 2015. Join us for an update, Wednesday 11-16-22 6:00 P.M. at the Henderson Campus of CCSN. Hear Speakers Zane Marshall - SNWA and Kyle Okamura - City of Henderson interpret the science and news reports surrounding water issues.

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Purported book cover sent as a cabinet photo to the Open Court Publishing Company in 1896. The author included a four-page description of this image. Mundy was a Kansas City dentist who killed himself in 1900. https://t.co/FLItUDbapX

[Anne Marie Hamilton-Brehm @DigHeritage]

A cool American expatriates discovery at SIUC Special Collections this week:

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Archivists rarely have the time to revisit early accessions, but it can prove fruitful. This letter, for instance, sat in its folder for decades, tagged "Letter, n. d., from an unidentified playwright." 1/2

[Anne Marie Hamilton-Brehm @DigHeritage]

@SCRC_at_SIUC The "silent, mysterious, and ravishing" Nancy Isobel Myers was Durrell's first wife -- they married in 1935.

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@xprize Congratz to all the winners from team SIUC in Carbondale, Illinois: https://t.co/7TVHw8lnhD

[Soc Amer Archivists @archivists_org]

The @SCRC_at_SIUC encounters the unique situation of housing inventor Richard Buckminster Fuller's personal library in a historical facility it doesn't own. Matthew Gorzalski shares the challenges and benefits of this partnership: https://t.co/VK4zExRzV3 #ArchivalOutlook

[Anne Marie Hamilton-Brehm @DigHeritage]

@stephanie_bred @SAA_ADS Thanks for participating in our virtual access conversation, Stephanie -- we're rolling! #saa21

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What, exactly, does history lose when an archive-worthy text is destroyed? @liviecampbell reports on the delicate work that conservators do to protect important documents from not just floods and vermin but also nosebleeds, glitter, and more: https://t.co/oFL4yIVt7W