Category Archives: Ashley Bond

Interview with Ashley Bond, Division of Special Collections graduate assistant

Posted on May 4, 2015 by | Posted in: Ashley Bond, Book Arts, Cookbooks, Rare Books | Leave a comment

By: Ashley Bond, SLIS 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 Aaron, Alex Goolsby, Ellie Campbell, Mary Haney, and Katie Howard have also been featured. … Continue reading →

Staff Favorites: Ashley Bond

Posted on April 8, 2015 by | Posted in: Ashley Bond, Rare Books, Rare Books Collection | Leave a comment

By: Ashley Bond, SLIS graduate student Cool@Hoole thought it’d be fun to feature our staff’s favorites from among our collections. After all, closed stacks collections mean that users rely on us to know our materials in and out so that … Continue reading →

Hashtag Project: First Three Months

Posted on March 2, 2015 by | Posted in: Amy Hildreth Chen, Ashley Bond | Leave a comment

By: Amy Hildreth Chen, CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow Back in December 2014, Cool@Hoole discussed its newly-launched initiative: the hashtag project. The hashtag project, managed by SLIS student Ashley Bond (@LibraryAshB), brings subscribers to either our Facebook page or our Twitter feed … Continue reading →

Confederate Brigadier General Johnston: A newly acquired and digitized collection

Posted on February 20, 2015 by | Posted in: Ashley Bond, Civil War, Manuscript Collections, Tuscaloosa | Leave a comment

By: Ashley Bond, SLIS graduate student General Johnston was born in Hillsboro, North Carolina, on May 30, 1832. After studying at Cumberland University’s School of Law in Lebanon, Tennessee, he began his own practice in Marion, Alabama, the town where … Continue reading →

Love Letters in Acumen

Posted on February 9, 2015 by | Posted in: Ashley Bond, Digital Services, Manuscript Collections, World War I | Leave a comment

By: Ashley Bond, SLIS graduate student Valentine’s Day is approaching, and in the spirit of romance, Cool at Hoole has taken a look at various love letters within Acumen. The Herbert J. Taylor, Jr. Letters, which includes written correspondence between … Continue reading →

New hashtag initiative on Facebook and Twitter

Posted on December 15, 2014 by | Posted in: Amy Hildreth Chen, Ashley Bond, UA Athletics | Leave a comment

By: Amy Chen, CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow If you follow Cool@Hoole’s Facebook and Twitter feeds, you may have noticed a new flurry of activity. Ashley Bond, a graduate student from the School of Library and Information Studies currently working in outreach within the … Continue reading →

Slave Reward broadside from 1833

Posted on November 3, 2014 by | Posted in: Ashley Bond, Slavery | Leave a comment

By: Ashley Bond, SLIS graduate student The University of Alabama Division of Special Collections acquired the “Reward Broadside for Runaway Slaves” this year from the William Reese Company’s collection of Americana. This 1833 broadside is significant in the early history … Continue reading →

The Deseret First Book, Part II

Posted on October 22, 2014 by | Posted in: Ashley Bond, English pedagogy, Rare Books Collection | Leave a comment

By: Ashley Bond, SLIS graduate student In 1868, the Deseret First Book was one of two elementary readers printed in the Deseret alphabet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The University of Deseret, now the University of Utah, … Continue reading →

The Deseret First Book, Part I

Posted on October 20, 2014 by | Posted in: Ashley Bond, English pedagogy, Rare Books Collection | Leave a comment

By: Ashley Bond, SLIS graduate student The Deseret First Book is one of four books published in the late 1860s in an alphabet created by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This alphabet, known as the Deseret Alphabet, … Continue reading →

A Collection of Devotional Tracts, printed by Benjamin Franklin

Posted on September 29, 2014 by | Posted in: Ashley Bond, Rare Books | Leave a comment

By: Ashley Bond, SLIS graduate student In May 2011, Dean Louis A. Pitschmann of the University of Alabama Libraries acquired A Collection of Devotional Tracts along with the donation of a second book entitled Character Sketches. Currently located in Hoole … Continue reading →