You are cordially invited to Archives & Distinctive Collections’ Open House on Friday, October 20 from 2-4 pm. Come learn about some of the famous visitors who have visited the College throughout its history, including: Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Teresa, Robert Frost, Jane Fonda, and more! Photographs, documents, and other items will be on display in the Reading Room. Staff will be available to meet with you and answer questions.
The Libraries will observe special hours for the week of Fall Break. For more information on building hours, visit: https://holycross.libcal.com/hours
Enjoy the break!
Good news! We have a new group subscription to the full website of The Atlantic including text, videos, podcasts, and events. It is available to the Holy Cross community (only current staff, faculty and students) at https://theatlantic.com/group-login or you can find it in the library catalog at https://library.holycross.edu/Record/in00000004185 Please reach out to LibRef@holycross.edu with any questions.
Learn more about Holy Cross history! Beneath the Cross: A Historical Tour of the Holy Cross Jesuit Cemetery by Sarah L. Campbell is a collection of biographical profiles and a historical timeline written to commemorate the 175th anniversary of the College of the Holy Cross. This previously published work is now available with open access in CrossWorks via the link: https://crossworks.holycross.edu/hc_books/61/.
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Come visit Archives and Distinctive Collections this semester! We are open Monday-Friday, 9am-12pm by appointment only and drop-in hours from 1pm-4pm. The Archives is also open Monday and Tuesdays evenings, 6pm-9pm. We look forward to seeing you!
Dinand Library will have special hours on Monday, August 28 and be open from 8:30 am to midnight. The Science and Music Libraries will be open 8:30 am to 4:30 pm on Monday. The Libraries will begin their Academic Year schedule on Tuesday, August 29. Visit the Hours page at https://holycross.libcal.com/hours for the most up-to-date information. Welcome back!
Good news! We have a new group subscription to the full website of The Atlantic including text, videos, podcasts, and events. It is available to the Holy Cross community (only current staff, faculty and students) at https://theatlantic.com/group-login or you can find it in the library catalog at https://library.holycross.edu/Record/in00000004185 Please reach out to LibRef@holycross.edu with any questions.
Archives & Distinctive Collections will be closed on Tuesday, August 15th and Wednesday, August 16th due to HVAC replacement. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Need to get in touch with Archives staff during the closure? Please email us at archives@holycross.edu
Archives & Distinctive Collections is excited to share that the majority of volumes of the Purple Patcher, the College of the Holy Cross’ student yearbook, have been digitized and are available online.
Beginning in 1907, with a brief hiatus during World War II, the Purple Patcher captures student life on campus.
Special thanks to our student workers and Alumni Relations for helping make this important digitization effort possible!
Physical copies can be found in the Holy Cross Archives and the digitized copies can be found at: https://crossworks.holycross.edu/purple_patcher/
We are thrilled to announce that the cover art on the recent issue of Environmental Science and Technology Letters, Volume 10, Issue 7, is the work of Lisa Villa, Digital Scholarship Librarian at Dinand Library, as part of the American Chemical Society’s Diversity and Inclusion Cover Art Series. Along with the cover art, Lisa had an accompanying editorial accepted which you can read here: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.estlett.3c00428
A display in our Science Library of works by the chemists featured on the cover is being planned. In response to having her work accepted and published, Lisa said, “It is a testament to my Holy Cross liberal arts education that an English major-turned-librarian is published in a Chemistry journal.”
