Add Your Blog | Login | Signup

Fresh Pickin’s features new acquisitions, unique visual and textual documents from the collections, highlights of digital collections and event announcements from Archives and Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut Libraries. There is always something fresh, curious or unusual to explore in the Dodd Research Center. Visit regularly to keep up to date on news and events brought to you by the Center’s curators and programming staff.

Invite Friends to Follow Syndication

Written by 1 Author

Followed by 5 People (invite friends)

Fresh Pickin's

English - Archives, Library, General Interest

http://doddcenter.wordpress.com/

Follow

Fresh Pickin's · 2d ago

Meet Kyle Lynes: a Volunteer Profile

Kyle Lynes is the sort of volunteer we here in the archive absolutely treasure – smart, confident handling the collections, and always eager to do a thorough and good job on her projects. Kyle started volunteering in Summer 2011 when she was still a graduate student getting her Masters in Library

0 Vote Up · Share

Fresh Pickin's · 6d ago

New Acquisitions: University Archives

The University Archives is a rich resource of information about the activities, events, interests and programs of UConn’s faculty, students, staff since the establishment of the University in 1881. Here are some of the materials that have been recently added to the collections: Vice President and

0 Vote Up · Share

Fresh Pickin's · 2W ago

Photographs of the Torrington, Connecticut, railroad station

Torrington, Connecticut, railroad station, ca. 1900, a photo by Archives at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center on Flickr. The Torrington, Connecticut, railroad station was built in 1898, as a stop on the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (better known as the New Haven Railroad). The line was o

0 Vote Up · Share

Fresh Pickin's · 4W ago

Celebrate National Poem In Your Pocket Day

The Academy of American Poets sponsors the annual National Poem in Your Pocket Day today. Since the Fall of 2000, Poetic Journeys has brought the campus community a “poetic respite from their busy days, and an opportunity” to enjoy poetry written by UConn students, faculty and staff every time the

0 Vote Up · Share

Fresh Pickin's · 1M ago

Preserve Your Digital Stuff: Free Webcasts, Tutorials, Tips

This week is Preservation Week and the Library of Congress, and other libraries across the country, are hosting free webcasts and offering tips and tutorials. In 2005 the first comprehensive national survey of the condition and preservation needs of the nation’s collections reported that archives, l

0 Vote Up · Share

Fresh Pickin's · 1M ago

2012 Connecticut Children’s Book Fair planning underway

The planning committee for the CT Children’s Book Fair is already busy lining up presenters and programs for the 21st Fair to be held on the Storrs campus on November 10-11, 2012. So far we’ve lined up Patricia MacLachlan, author of Sarah Plain and Tall and many other great books; Robert Sabuda, th

0 Vote Up · Share

Fresh Pickin's · 1M ago

Dissertation research in the Archives

At Archives & Special Collections in the Dodd Research Center, I examined the papers of three former members of Congress and the regional office of an organization of labor unions. My dissertation is about the politics of foreign trade in the United States since the late 1920s. The goal is to pre

0 Vote Up · Share

Fresh Pickin's · 1M ago

“Tití Doris taught me dance…”

Collections in archives and special collections come to life when researchers visit us and use our archival holdings. They turn what seem like a cluster of old, unrelated books and papers into meaningful stories and histories. Case in point is the recent visit to the archives by Margarita Barresi, a

0 Vote Up · Share

Fresh Pickin's · 1M ago

The New Haven Railroad and the Bracero Program — a source for teaching and learning

In 1942 the United States government, then in the midst of fighting World War II, and Mexico entered into an agreement for Mexican citizens, predominantly men, to provide labor in the U.S. in industries that were most severely affected when many American men went to fight in the war. This program a

0 Vote Up · Share

Fresh Pickin's · 2M ago

New Acquisitions: Business Collections

Archives & Special Collections acquires new collections and additions to existing collections throughout the year. Periodically, I will be posting information about collections that have been acquired or are newly available for your researching enjoyment. First up are those documenting Connecticut

0 Vote Up · Share

More Stories

More