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.
Join us tomorrow, September 23rd, for a reception for the exhibition “The Past Personified: a Presidential History of Drexel“, curated by Shaun Kirtpartrick. This exhibit highlights some of the many images and items the Drexel Archives holds from the terms of the university’s past leaders.
The reception will be held in W.W. Hagerty Library (33rd and Market Streets) on the lower level of Hagerty Library. It is open to all and includes complimentary homemade refreshments.
Ahoy me Brethren of the Coast,
Arrrchives Open House be this Friday, September 25th, from 4 to 6 p.m. Ye landlubbers should come about the lower level of Hagerty ‘nd get ye sea legs. Pillage, plunder, loot and become an old salt. Thar be treasures and grub for ye all.
Hope to see ye thar! Savvy?
The Cap’n
Richard David Breslin (b. 1937/38) served as president of Drexel University from Sept. 1, 1988, until 1994, including its centennial year of 1991.
~Shaun Kirkpatrick
Richard Breslin
The Past Personified: a Presidential History of Drexel, a exhibition of notable documents and photographs are on display downstairs in Hagerty.
Join us for a reception for this exhibition on Wednesday September 23rd 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.
The reception for the exhibition, “The Past Personified: a Presidential History of Drexel,” currently on display in the W.W. Hagerty Library (33rd and Market Streets).
The reception will be on Wednesday, September 23, 2009, from 4 to 6 p.m. on the lower level of Hagerty Library. It is open to all and includes complimentary homemade refreshments.
William S. Gaither (b. 1932) served as the president of Drexel University from May 1984 through his resignation on Oct. 21, 1987, a period of difficulty but also of Drexel growth as a research university and as a residential campus.
~Shaun Kirkpatrick
William Gaither
The Past Personified: a Presidential History of Drexel is on display on the lower level in Hagerty.
Join us for a reception for this exhibition on Wednesday September 23rd 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.
This months issue of Antiques & Collecting Magazine features our rare book exhibition of Miniature Books in their Collector’s Update. The article is titled “Rare Book Exhibition at Hagerty Library.” The full text of the article, including the images, is available online through Proquest Research Library.
September Issue Copyright 2009
