On extremely rare occasions, food somehow finds a way into our reading room. 🐟️ This week, a user came across a 50 year old unopened tin of salmon in the Robert and Miriam Lovett Robinson Crusoe collection! 😱 Do you think we should open it?
Milena Williamson, a poet from Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, is a 2025 recipient of Rose Library's Poetry and Literature research travel award. Check out Williamson's blog post about her dive into the Ciaran Carson papers at Rose Library here: buff.ly/TnuK5h5
Ying Zhou is an associate professor at China's Nanjing University whose research focuses on ecopoetics and Northern Irish poetry. She is a 2025 recipient of our lit & poetry short term fellowship. Check out her blog post about her research at Rose Library here: buff.ly/zV59M5n
May is National Photography Month. 📸 To end the month on a high note, meet 10 photographers whose work is at Rose Library: buff.ly/IKnhJEN
📸: Ron Sherman photographs
The World Cup kicks off today across North America! ⚽️ Get in the spirit by listening to Randy Gue's interview on Dr. Carl Suddler's "Footwork" podcast, win which they trace fifty years of Atlanta soccer history. Check it out here: buff.ly/oauS0xR
📸: Richard A. Cecil collection
Who let the dogs (and cat and horse) into the library?! 🐾 What do y'all think - should we let the pets run Rose Library for a day?
Betty Hester was a well known correspondent with author Flannery O'Connor. 🦚 At 25, Hester joined the US Air Force in 1948, but was "undesirably" discharged 5 years later because she was a lesbian. She committed suicide in 1998 at the age of 75.
📸: Sally Fitzgerald papers ✉️: Letters to Betty Hester
We already miss our students! One of the classes that visited us this Spring was Dr. Meredith Schwieg's MUS 200, an introductory course in the music department. 🎵 Students were able to touch and read through rare book materials like "Chansonnier de Jean de Montchenu" & "Las cantigas de Santa María".
Ideally nothing would be missing, but we definitely don't want vault items to be 👻 What are your archives/rare books nightmares?
