by Scott Greenstone | Oct 6, 2016 | Digital Collections, Events, Moving Images, This Week in History, University History
The EMU is celebrating its reopening Thursday and Friday—the building is full of new food, new spaces and even a Duck Store. But fifty years ago, the EMU was a lot different. This is a video filmed in 1966 by a political science student named Ken Settlemier, who was...
by Scott Greenstone | Mar 11, 2016 | Collection Highlight, Collections, Rare Books
The past meets the present in our Friday File series, where we delve through artifacts housed at the UO Libraries and let them talk. Art doesn’t have to be two-dimensional, and a book doesn’t have to have pages. That’s the guiding principle behind the artists’...
by Scott Greenstone | Mar 4, 2016 | Collection Highlight, Manuscripts
The past meets the present in our Friday File series, where we delve through artifacts housed at the UO Libraries and let them talk. He created the Flash, molded Batman, and wrote the first Justice League comic, but Gardner Fox didn’t care about being famous....
by Scott Greenstone | Feb 26, 2016 | Collection Highlight, Manuscripts
The past meets the present in our Friday File series, where we delve through artifacts housed at the UO Libraries and let them talk. Before The Price of Salt, books featuring gay and lesbian relationships usually ended in repentance or tragedy. But Patricia...
by Scott Greenstone | Feb 19, 2016 | Collection Highlight, Manuscripts, Moving Images
The past meets the present in our Friday File series, where we delve through artifacts housed at the UO Libraries and let them talk. Some of the first sitcoms were typed on these keys. This typewriter belonged to Peg Lynch, creator of the TV and radio sitcom Ethel and...
