As a new intern at the Burke Library, I have been asked to write a brief blog entry about my first impressions and expectations for the semester. I began my first day two weeks ago with a great sense of anticipation – it’s pretty exciting to be getting up to go exactly where you want […]
Month: January 2015
Cataloging Our Syriac Manuscripts
I took one class on Syriac while I was a student at Union and I was immediately in love. It combined the structure of a semitic language with seriously fascinating theology and had the added bonus of being relatively obscure. If there’s anything I love, it’s languages few people have any use for. Imagine my […]
More Than Women’s Work
There is something rather intimate about sorting through, preserving and arranging another person’s papers. I came to know Letty Russell in a more personal way, handling papers that she herself handled. I not only worked through a myriad of syllabi related to her time as a professor at Yale Divinity School, but also Letty’s own […]
Nobody Expects . . .*
When you walk into the Burke Library and look through the book and periodical stacks and the reading room reference shelves, you probably feel that you know what is here. However, have you heard about the library’s “so-called” hidden collections? The archives in the Burke Library contain 350 collections of unique documents and artifacts which […]