We love electronic reference works (and we know you do too), but sometimes the only thing that will do is a book. Reference books have a very long history; learn all about it in a new exhibit from Drexel’s Rare Books Collection displaying historic texts, including the Lexicon of Sextus Pompeius Festus, circa 1622.

Come celebrate our latest exhibit this Wednesday, November 18th from 4-6p.m. on Hagerty’s lower level. All are welcome to the opening celebration, and complimentary refreshments will be served. Visit the University Archives for more information.

It’s Banned Book Week at libraries across the country. Each year we celebrate the freedom to read by highlighting books that have been the target of attempted banning and censorship.

Check out the American Library Association’s list of the ten most challanged books of 2008. Then come on down to the University Archives to check out its exhibit from the rare books collection representing more than 1,000 years of banning, burning, and censorship.

A reception celebrating the exhibit will be held this Wednesday, 4-6pm in Hagerty’s lower level. Join us on Wednesday and all this week to think, discuss, and READ.

Ahoy, mateys!

It’s pirate day in the library. Join us in the lower level for the Drexel University Archives welcome back open house. We’ll be a-yo-ho-ho-ing from 4-6pm this (Friday) afternoon.

Learn about the archives’ booty, and grab some grub while you’re at it.

See you there.

Stop by Hagerty’s lower level on Wednesday afternoon, and you’ll find yourself celebrating Drexel’s past presidents. That’s because Drexel University Archives is holding its opening reception for its latest exhibit, “The Past Personified: A Presidential History of Drexel University.”

When: Wednesday, September 23rd, 4-6pm
Where: Hagerty, lower level
Why: Come for the history. Stay for the snacks.

p.s. don’t forget the archives pirate themed open house, this Friday 4-6pm. More to come, matey!

Photographs and documents from the early cookery program at the Drexel Institute will be exhibited in the W. W. Hagerty Library (33rd and Market Streets) through the end of December. An opening reception will be held on Friday, September 26, 2008 from 4-5 p.m. on the Lower Level of Hagerty.

The reception is open to all and includes complimentary refreshments based on recipes taught at Drexel from 1894-1914. The exhibition features recipes, images, and notebooks of students and faculty, from the University Archives’ collections. Come see and taste a slice of history!

For more information on the exhibition and reception, contact Robert Sieczkiewicz, University Archivist, at archives@drexel.edu or 215-895-1757.