Hello Internet World! My name is Ann Marie, and I am a member of the Wheaton College Class of 2016 (that is, the Wheaton College in Massachusetts; there are two). This semester I began a work study job in the school's library archives, which I think is pretty much the coolest job ever! I am working on a project to catalogue the 19th century books that are still in circulation and choose which ones to move to Special Collections. Another main goal of this project is to identify which of these books were in the original Wheaton Seminary Library back when Wheaton was an all-female seminary and put them into their own separate collection.
However, this blog is not about my work, per say; nor is it sponsored by or affiliated with Wheaton College itself (aside from the fact that I go to school here). While going through the library stacks, I found hundreds of books that, in some cases, have not been touched in decades. There were books I had never heard of about topics I had never studied and written by authors I had never known existed. It made me think: these books and the information they contain are pieces of history that are not taught as heavily as they were when Wheaton Female Seminary first opened its doors in the 1830s. I wanted to bring some of these books to light to show students, teachers, and other book-lovers what else is out there in terms of history and literature, and to encourage others to go out and see what may be hiding on the shelves of their own libraries.
Here is a link to my first blog post (this one was actually part of my work study program) that can serve as an introduction to my project.
http://wheatoncollege.edu/archives/2012/11/01/rediscovering-forgotten-history/
Happy Reading!
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