{"id":23,"date":"2015-02-08T12:03:08","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T17:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/?page_id=23"},"modified":"2015-06-01T13:34:01","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T17:34:01","slug":"intro","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/intro\/","title":{"rendered":"INTRO"},"content":{"rendered":"
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1967 Vietnam Moratorium silent gathering in front of Miller Library. The late 60s and early 70s were a time of protest and change.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

THE CURRENT SCOPE OF OUR SITE<\/em><\/span> focuses on the history of Colby’s collecting of rare books and literary manuscripts from 1935 through 1975 – in essence, the formative years of our Special Collections. After 1975, there was a marked shift in both operations and collecting philosophy:<\/p>\n

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  • By the mid-1970s, the Colby Library Associates – established in 1935 as a significant resource for developing library collections – faced diminished membership and activity.<\/li>\n
  • Special Collections was directed by English faculty curators until 1975, after which supervision was transferred to librarian curators.<\/li>\n
  • The librarian curators aligned Special Collections operations with those of Miller Library, strengthened ties between the collections and the college curriculum and embraced the college archives.<\/li>\n
  • And, lastly, 1975 marks the embittered death of major benefactor James Augustine Healy and the college’s late-in-coming attention to the extensive Healy Collection.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    A BIT MORE ON COLBIANA<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

    The Colbiana (college archives) Collection was first given its first, rudimentary attention in the 1930s. However, the Colbiana Collection was held separate, conceptually, from Special Collections until the 1976 integration.<\/p>\n

    That said, Colbiana threads were naturally sewn into the Special Collections tapestry early on, through Colby history-related donations and through people featured in this site: librarians, other Colby people and donors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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