Category Archives: Book Collections

Halloween updates from Rare Book Cataloging

Posted on October 31, 2014 by | Posted in: Alabama Collection, Allyson Holliday, Book Arts, Book Collections, Rare Books, Rare Books Collection, Richard Minsky Collection, UA History | Leave a comment

By: Allyson Holliday, W.S. Hoole Library Complex Copy-Cataloger In the spirit of the season… there’s something for everyone in the Division of Special Collections! Whether it’s skeletons, haints, headless horsemen, witches, or demons, we have your interests covered. For skeletons: … Continue reading →

Dr. Roth-Burnette’s class discovery

Posted on September 29, 2014 by | Posted in: Amy Hildreth Chen, Rare Books Collection, T.P. Thompson Collection | Leave a comment

By: Amy Chen, CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow We have some professors who return to the Division of Special Collections every semester to show their students favorite items from our holdings. Dr. Jennifer Roth-Burnette, of the UA Early College, often brings her honors Music and Political … Continue reading →

Princesses and Paupers: The Golden Age of Children’s Literature

Posted on June 2, 2014 by | Posted in: A.S. Williams III Collection, Book Collections, Children's Literature, Ellie Campbell, Lafcadio Hearne Collection, Rare Books Collection, Wade Hall Collection | Leave a comment

By: Ellie Campbell, JD and University of Alabama MLIS graduate student On June 10, 2014, Princesses and Paupers: The Golden Age of Children’s Literature, curated by Ellie Campbell, will be mounted in the Pearce Lobby of the Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library. In … Continue reading →

Hoole book arts goes on the road

Posted on May 19, 2014 by | Posted in: Amy Hildreth Chen, Book Arts, Book Arts Collection | Leave a comment

By: Amy Chen, CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow The Hunter Museum of Art in Chattanooga, Tennessee is hosting Preface: An Introduction to Artists’ Books, an exhibition largely drawn from the holdings of the W.S. Hoole Library. The show opened on March 28, 2014 and … Continue reading →

Interview with Ellie Campbell, Division of Special Collections graduate assistant

Posted on May 9, 2014 by | Posted in: Armed Services Editions, Ellie Campbell, Quilts | Leave a comment

By: Ellie Campbell, JD and University of Alabama MLIS graduate student Editor’s Note: This post is part of an ongoing series profiling the graduate students who work in the Division of Special Collections. Haley Thomas was interviewed for Cool@Hoole over two … Continue reading →

The Kindred of the Wild

Posted on April 14, 2014 by | Posted in: Publishers' Bindings, Richard Minsky Collection, Tina Colvin | 1 Comment

By: Tina Colvin, PhD candidate in English at Emory University In 1902, the “father of Canadian literature,” Charles G.D. Roberts, published his book-length collection of wild animal stories, The Kindred of the Wild: A Book of Animal Life. Roberts’s collection … Continue reading →

Miniature Books

Posted on April 9, 2014 by | Posted in: Amy Hildreth Chen, Book Collections, Miniature Books | Leave a comment

By: Amy Chen, CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow Please see Cool@Hoole’s previous post on the Kate Webb Memorial Miniature Book exhibition. The history of miniature books is both long and international. Scholars date the appearance of the duodecimo (small size) book to the beginning … Continue reading →

Miniature Book exhibitions on display in Gorgas

Posted on April 7, 2014 by | Posted in: Amy Hildreth Chen, Book Collections, Miniature Books | Leave a comment

By: Amy Chen, CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow This April and May, two miniature book exhibitions will be on display simultaneously in the Pearce Lobby of the Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library: the Kate Webb Ragsdale Memorial Miniature Book Collection and the Miniature … Continue reading →

Tuscaloosa Area Virtual Museum

Posted on March 10, 2014 by | Posted in: Alabama Collection, Betty Slowe, Book Collections, Elizabeth Bradt, Tuscaloosa | Leave a comment

By: Elizabeth Bradt and Betty Slowe, Tuscaloosa Area Virtual Museum volunteers If you can’t get enough of the Tuscaloosa area historic photos and documents, try visiting the Tuscaloosa Area Virtual Museum. For example, if you are interested in the Bryce … Continue reading →

The Culinary Arts of Clementine Hunter, Louisiana’s Black “Grandma Moses”

Posted on November 25, 2013 by | Posted in: Allyson Holliday, Book Collections, Cookbooks, Lupton African American Cookbook Collection | 1 Comment

By: Allyson Holliday, W.S. Hoole Library Complex Copy-Cataloger Clementine Hunter was born in 1880 “in the lower reaches of the lush Cane River country” of Louisiana (Introduction, 4-5). She grew up working in the cotton fields and pecan groves of different … Continue reading →