Category Archives: Exhibitions

WWI Poster Art

Hoole Library is home to over 100 World War I posters — large and occasionally fragile, but still in beautiful color. You can take a look at full-size facsimiles of some of them at Gorgas Library, as part of our … Continue reading

Pedagogy Series 4.5: Photographs from the Reception

By: Amy Chen, CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow This is the final post of a five-part series on Dr. Cardon’s English 103 classes and their project using Special Collections materials to create a physical display for exhibition in the W.S. Hoole Library Lobby. Read … Continue reading

Pedagogy Series 4.4: Interview with Annemarie Lisko

By: Annemarie Lisko, UA undergraduate This is the fourth post of a five-part series on Dr. Cardon’s English 103 classes and their project using Special Collections materials to create a physical display for exhibition in the W.S. Hoole Library Lobby. Read the … Continue reading

Pedagogy Series 4.3: Citizens of the South

By: Annemarie Lisko, UA undergraduate This is the third post of a five-part series on Dr. Cardon’s English 103 classes and their project using Special Collections materials to create a physical display for exhibition in the W.S. Hoole Library Lobby. Read the … Continue reading

Pedagogy Series 4.2: Artifacts of Ancestry

By: Lauren Cardon, Assistant Professor of English This is the second post of a five-part series on Dr. Cardon’s English 103 — honors composition — classes and their project using Special Collections materials to create a physical display for exhibition … Continue reading

Pedagogy Series 4.1: English 103 exhibition project

By: Amy Chen, CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow In our fourth pedagogy series (check out our first, second, and third series), we are covering the new exhibition going up in the W.S. Hoole Library lobby on the second floor of Mary Harmon Bryant … Continue reading

Interview with Dr. Russ McConnell, curator of Grammar-Land, Part II

On Monday, we talked to Dr. Russ McConnell, curator of Grammar-Land, which will be on display in the reading room of Hoole’s lobby through the end of November. He discussed his research and the intellectual background to his show. Today, … Continue reading

Interview with Dr. Russ McConnell, curator of Grammar-Land, Part I

By: Dr. Russ McConnell, Instructor in the English Department This week, we’re talking Dr. Russ McConnell about his research and his process for curating an exhibition with special collections materials. Check back on Wednesday to hear his tips and tricks. … Continue reading

Banned: To Kill a Mockingbird and Beloved

By: Page Novak, UA undergraduate This fall, step into the lobby of Mary Harmon Bryant Hall to see Page Novak’s display of banned books celebrating Banned Book Week, which was September 21-27. Novak’s exhibition will be up for the remainder … Continue reading

Banned: Ulysses and 1984

By: Page Novak, UA undergraduate This fall, step into the lobby of Mary Harmon Bryant Hall to see Page Novak’s display of banned books celebrating Banned Book Week, which was September 21-27. Novak’s exhibition will be up for the remainder … Continue reading