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#Paperwork, Natalie S. Sherif
#Paperwork, Natalie S. Sherif
Blogging the Library
This is history, not bureaucracy, right? I am fairly certain that my methods professor did not mention anything about a thirty-page report, so why the paperwork? In order for Special Collections to request objects for loan from specific institutions, I have to complete what is called a “General Facility Report” which is a comprehensive document that inquires about facility conditions. [excerpt]
Toeing The Line Between Offense And Education, Natalie S. Sherif
Toeing The Line Between Offense And Education, Natalie S. Sherif
Blogging the Library
Medical history can be gruesome. People shy away from blood and guts and images of death perhaps because it makes us question our own mortality or perhaps because it reminds us a bit too much about the origins of that hamburger we ate for lunch. Whatever the reason, a lot of humans cannot stomach the truly heinous. [excerpt]
Do You Doodle?, Natalie S. Sherif
Do You Doodle?, Natalie S. Sherif
Blogging the Library
If you were, are, or will become a student, then you have probably thought about doodling during class. Fear not! We are not the only generation to draw in the midst of a lecture. Today’s research escapade led me to investigate George Currier’s notes from his time as a student at the Medical Department of Pennsylvania College. [excerpt]
North And South: Archivists Document Gettysburg’S 150th, Robin Wagner
North And South: Archivists Document Gettysburg’S 150th, Robin Wagner
All Musselman Library Staff Works
Sometimes the best special collections are right in your own backyard. Not the ones that come to you from a retiring professor, local collector, or estate settlement, but the ones that you put together yourself. Rather than sit by and wait for memorabilia related to the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg to come to them, archivists at Gettysburg College took an active role, becoming part of the history they would normally just accept from donors. [excerpt]
A Hypochondriac Investigates The Evolution Of Medicine, Natalie S. Sherif
A Hypochondriac Investigates The Evolution Of Medicine, Natalie S. Sherif
Blogging the Library
This exhibit will open to the public in February 2014, but until then I have my work cut out for me. I am currently researching various aspects of medical history spanning from the mid-1800s, through the Civil War, to WWI. Thus far I have read accounts of women volunteers during the American Civil War, important changes that went into effect during WWI, and an overly detailed description on how to perform tooth extractions according to the latest science of the 1860s. [excerpt]
Sins Of A Nation, Margaret T. Kidd
Sins Of A Nation, Margaret T. Kidd
VCU Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications
This article explores how Methodist clergy in Virginia tended to the spiritual needs of their congregations in the context of war. It also discusses the way that clergy worked to make their ideas on the war and its progression known through newspapers, sermons, addresses, and government-recognized days of fasting and prayer. As the largest religious denomination in the South during the war the Methodist Church was in a position to not only offer support , but to shape the opinions of the Confederate people.
Sunday Does Not Come In Camp, Margaret T. Kidd
Sunday Does Not Come In Camp, Margaret T. Kidd
VCU Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications
This article explores how the Methodist Church tended to the spiritual needs of the soldiers in the Confederate Army. The church supplied 448 chaplains to the Army, but there were never enough to meet the needs of the troops. The church worked to mitigate this problem by establishing the Soldiers' Tract Association in 1862 and by sometimes working with churches of other denominations to support the soldiers.