Drexel Archives

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In order to congratulate winners of the Drexel Library Celebration Awards, the Archives reading room will close at 3 p.m. on May 6. Because we know you need to do research here, we're opening early: at 10 a.m. that day.  So set your alarm clock a little early, and come to the Lower Level of Hagerty Library for all your Drexel history needs.

A researcher contacted us recently to ask about local businesses or institutions that used to exist on the present site of  Drexel's campus.  Fortunately, there is a fine online tool for discovering the geographic history of Drexel and the city beyond: the Greater Philadelphia GeoHistory Network (GPGN).

We're looking for an archival processing intern to work on the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia records processing project!  Here's the description:

Drexel University, in partnership with the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, seeks an intern to help process the records of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).

In honor of Alumni Weekend at Drexel, we've digitized two seasons of football programs. Sorry, Golden Dragons, we don't have the 1959-60 season (though we'd love to preserve yours if you have programs from that year). So we scanned the closest thing, the 1963 and 1964 seasons.

14 people have registered for our April 23 processing workshop, with a few more on the waiting list.  We're excited that there is so much interest in arranging and describing archival records!

Please contact us if you'd like to be added to the list for our summer workshop (date to be determined).

A Love for Everything: Education Untied at Westphal College of Media Arts and Design
Wednesday April 14, 4-6pm
W.W. Hagerty Library, Main Level

Anthony J. Drexel envisioned the Drexel Institute as a place for rapid, intensive and practical business and industrial education.

Update: the workshop is full.  Please e-mail us if you'd like to be on the list for our summer workshop.

Ready to go beyond reading books and articles about archives? Eager to get your hands dirty with genuine historical dust? Want to see how Archivists’ Toolkit works? Join the Drexel University Archives and DU College of Medicine Archives for a hands-on archives processing workshop at Hagerty Library on Friday, April 23, 2010, from 9-5.

Mario the dragon made good use of spring break, doing some research at the University Archives. As we feared, our white gloves wouldn't fit over this claws.