With a sheet music mapping project in the works (stay tuned!), I decided to spend this week combing the Levy Sheet Music Collection in search of maps. One of the […]
Sheet Music Deep Dive: Maps
Celebrate Literature & Desserts With Us!
The Sheridan Libraries is launching its annual edible book festival today, and we invite you to celebrate with us! Wander through our online gallery, vote for your favorite edible books […]
Sheet Music Deep Dive: Witchcraft
One of the greatest movies to come out of the 1990’s was Hocus Pocus, with Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy. From Binx the talking cat to the […]
Sheet Music Deep Dive: Puppets
Over the past year, the pandemic has given me plenty of time to re-watch all of my favorite movies. In revisiting Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The Sound Of Music, I rediscovered […]
Sheet Music Deep Dive: Lithograph or Autograph?
Working with historic sheet music, I come across autographs almost every day. This doesn’t surprise me, as most of the books on my own bookshelf have my name written inside. […]
Sheet Music Deep Dive: Homing Pigeons
Growing up in Arizona, my family would often travel out East to visit relatives. A highlight for me was always New York City, where I developed my childhood love of […]
Meet our Freshman Fellows: Ankita Sen on A Silent Statue that Speaks Volumes
Enjoy this post by Ankita Sen, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2020-2021 academic year! My name is Ankita Sen and I am a first year student […]
Meet Our Freshman Fellows: DJ Quezada on Charting a Course and Reflecting on Researching Maps
Enjoy this post by DJ Quezada, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2020-2021 academic year! Since I began this project three months ago, I have embarked on […]
Sheet Music Deep Dive: Blue Glass
As the curator of the Lester Levy Sheet Music Collection, a phrase I hear often is “I didn’t know sheet music could be used to study…” Levy collected 30,000 songs […]
Black History Collections Spotlight: The African American Real Photo Postcard Collection
What does the old school picture postcard have to do with modern photo- and video-sharing platforms like Instagram and TikTok? Nothing, on the face of it. But, arguably, the postcard […]