Celebrating “Nobelity”: Thirty Years Later On the morning of October 16, 1986 Dr. James M. Buchanan received a phone call from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences informing him that he had been selected as the winner of the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. It had been nearly fifty years since he […]
Special Collections Research Center will be having an open house on September 7, 2016, 10:00 AM – 8:00 PM and September 8, 2016, 10:00 AM – 7:00 PM. Faculty, staff, students, alumni, and members of the public are all invited to stop by and learn about our collections, how you can use our materials, and how to search finding aids. […]
The late Kjell Sandved, born in Norway in 1922, was a noted nature photographer who took pictures of various insects, including moths, from all over the world. Sandved is best known for finding and photographing various shapes and patterns on butterflies and moths, including every letter of the English alphabet, smiling faces, red hearts, and animal shapes. […]
Publishers’ Bindings on Exhibition in Fenwick Library 2nd floor Before the Industrial Age, bookbinding had developed into a craft that dated in origins to Ancient Roman times. Books were bound by hand as a unit, almost always in some kind of animal skins. The printed pages of a book came from the print shop; book […]
SC&A has installed a new exhibit entitled “Exploring Suburbia: Housing and Transportation in George Mason University Libraries Special Collections & Archives”. Suburbs are residential or mixed-use areas, either existing as outlying parts of cities or urban areas or as separate residential communities within commuting distance of a city. The suburb first developed on a large […]
