Union College (NY) Semi-Centennials

I recently became aware that this year was the semi-centennial of the Schaffer Library at Union College in Schenectady, NY. The last event ...

Parthenon Literary Society, WV Univ., 1874

The postal card above may be the second oldest overdue notice in existence (click  here to see the oldest).  It was mailed to a student by ...

Revisiting Dartmouth's Social Friends' Library

In one of those unusual coincidences I wrote about the Society of Social Friends , a student literary society at Dartmouth College, on Satur...

Dartmouth's Student Literary Societies

Early academic libraries, unlike those of today, were not very friendly to students. This led to the creation of student literary societies...