E X H I B I T S
Original Voices from the Past: The Colleges
Literary Magazines
August 31— October 15 at Honnold/ Mudd Library
The individual Claremont Colleges have published
many different literary magazines over the years,
most of them the sole creation of student writers and
artists. Containing poetry, short stories, and essays,
The Colleges’ literary magazines record not only the
imagination of young writers over the past century,
they testify to and preserve the students’ creativity
and ambition to publish and their belief that literature
is central to human endeavor. Examples of The
Colleges literary magazines from the 1890s to the
present are on view.
Head, Hand and Heart:
Making Books on
College Campuses
September 10— October 31
at Denison Library
Exhibit features imaginative structures and traditional
formats designed with education in mind. Featured
books represent institutions across the United States
and are primarily from Denison’s Rare Book
Collection. A major component of the exhibition will
be books produced from 2001- 2004 at the 63 year
old Scripps College Press.
A primary source is the raw,
unanalyzed material that is the
starting point and basis of all
original research. We use
primary sources all the time
because we enjoy them -- when
we read a novel, view a painting,
or watch a movie. A
primary source can be anything
that offers a firsthand
account, such as a letter, a
map, a photograph, a painting,
a poem, a newspaper advertisement,
a diary, census data,
or statistics. A primary source
is an original, a one- of- a- kind,
or the first of its kind.
Many valuable collections of
primary sources have been
digitized and are available
online for research. Early
English Books Online includes
works printed in English from
1475 to 1700; Eighteenth
Century Collections Online
includes works printed in English
from 1700 to 1800; Evans
Digital Edition covers works
printed in America from 1639
to 1800. North American
Women's Letters and Diaries
is a collection of letters,
diaries, and unpublished
manuscripts written by
women from Colonial times
to 1950.
Some of the Libraries’ collections
have also been
scanned and are available
online. One that is lots of fun
to look through is the
Wheeler Scrapbooks, a
collection of photographs
documenting Pomona College
and the city of Clare-mont
from 1884 to 1938.
To learn more about primary
sources in our collections,
talk with a reference librarian
at any of the four libraries.
Gale Burrow, Reference and
Instruction Librarian
RESEARCH TIP :
WHAT IS A PRIMARY RESOURCE ?
AND WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO USE
THEM ? ? ?
FROM THE ARCHIVES :
“ P ” CLEANING DAY AT POMONA
“ A splendid
piece of work,”
as described by
the Pomona
College Student
Life, the class
of 1915 constructed a 230 foot long
and 156 foot wide mountainside “ P”
atop Palmer Canyon overlooking the
campus. Made of whitewashed
rocks, the “ P” was distinctly in view,
especially during football games
with rival teams The University of
Arizona and USC. It was the responsibility
of the freshman class to
clean the “ P”, a tradition that
continued through the late
1920s, as detailed in the 1914
Pomona College Student Handbook.
Carrie Marsh, Special Collections
Librarian
SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2004
VOLUME 1 , ISSUE 1
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WORKSHOPS
Finding Articles You Need
Monday, 9/ 27, 6: 30pm
Tuesday, 10/ 5, 6: 30pm
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Using the Web for Research
Tuesday, 9/ 28, 6: 30pm
Monday, 10/ 4, 6: 30pm
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Using Full- Text Resources
Tuesday, 10/ 12, 6: 30pm
Monday, 10/ 25, 6: 30pm
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All workshops are at Honold/ Mudd
Library in the Keck Learning Room.
For more information ask at the
Reference Desk.
Remembering Japanese,
by Seiko Tachibana
T HE L IB R A R I E S O F T HE C L A R E M O N T C O L L E G E S
Library Research, Publications and Events at The Claremont Colleges
