The University Archives will close at 2:00 today, Friday, October 23, due to an unfortunate combination of illness and staff training.

We apologize for the inconvenience and hope to see you next week!  Keep studying, students!

Secretarial school, accounting class, no date

iSchool alumna Martha Cornog, MA, MS, and Timothy Perper, PhD, editors of Graphic Novels Beyond the Basics:  Insights and Issues for Libraries, will discuss graphic novels tonight at 5:00 at Hagerty Library.  The event is presented by SCALA,  Drexel University’s Student Chapter of the ALA.

The University Archives will close at 3:45 today, Thursday, October 15, so that staff can attend a meeting.

We apologize for the inconvenience and hope to see you Friday!

The first National Coming Out Day was organized by the Human Rights Campaign on October 11, 1988. Philadelphia activists celebrated on October 22 with a day-long series of performances and workshops.

Click the image below to read the Triangle’s 1988 report on the event, and read about the history of National Coming Out Day from the Human Rights Campaign.

Wonder why Google’s homepage doodle featured a barcode today?  October 7 is the anniversary of the first patent for a barcode, awarded to Drexel alumni Bernard Silver ‘47 and Norman Joseph Woodland ‘47.

See their patent for a Classifying Apparatus And Method on Google patents.

For more information about N.J Woodland, see this article from the May 8, 2000 Hagerty Library newsletter (pdf).

Thanks to John Wiggins for the tip.

You have one hour left to enjoy the food, prizes and eResources at Hagerty Library’s 1st ever eResources Fair until 2 p.m. today

We’re offering food, prizes, and giveaways as you learn more about the terrific resources Drexel Libraries provide. There are wonderful opportunities for knowledge and fun found online through e-journals, e-books and databases licensed by Drexel University Libraries, and the Hagerty eResources Fair will help you make your way though these invaluable learning tools.

Hurry!  We won’t be here much longer!

This week is Banned Books Week! A new exhibition titled,

“Banned Books, Banished Writers and Historic Bonfires:

Tales from the Rare Book Collection”

is currently on display on the lower level of Hagerty Library. The collection of books featured are from Drexel’s Special Collection and chronicles several significant events in the early history of book censorship.

An Opening Reception for the Exhibition is tomorrow,

Wednesday, September 30th from 4 to 6 p.m.

The event is open to all and includes complimentary refreshments.

Aye Me Hearties,

Shiver me timbers! The Arrrchives Open House it be today! Hope to see ye swashbucklers join us here in Hagerty Library, down in the lower level from 4 to 6 p.m. Learn about the sweet trade of arrrchiving and see treasures abound. Thar be grub and grog on the house for ye all.

Fair winds

The Cap’n

Ahoy Lads and Lasses of Fortune,

Thar be treasure, looting, pillaging and plunder tomorrow at the Arrrchives Open House Pirate Party. Aye, grub and grog thar be too.  Don’t be Lilly-livered, we not be using the cat-o’-nine-tails on ye.  Join the sweet trade o’ archiving piracy.

We on the aft side of the lower level of Hagerty Library. Come down about tomorrow between 4 and 6 p.m

Yo-ho-ho

The Cap’n

Jolly Roger

Constantine Papadakis (1946-2009) served as president of Drexel University from Aug. 1, 1995, until his death on April 5, 2009.  He presided over Drexel’s growth into the realms of medicine and law, doubled undergraduate enrollment, and increased the endowment from $90 million to $650 million.

~Shaun Kirkpatrick

Constantine Papadakis

Friday will be the last day for you to see the exhibition The Past Personified: a Presidential History of Drexel.  Come downstairs in Hagerty and check it out, a new exhibition begins on Monday!

Join us for a reception TODAY from 4 to 6 p.m in W.W. Hagerty Library (33rd and Market Streets) on the lower.  It is open to all and includes complimentary homemade refreshments.