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Hail to the Chief!

Posted on February 17, 2020 by

*Post written by Mona Meyer, Archives and Special Collections Metadata Librarian. Four U.S. Presidents celebrated their birthdays this month. This is not the month with the largest number of presidential birthdays—that would be October, with 6 of our 45 presidents … Continue reading →

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Back Home Again …

Posted on August 26, 2019 by

*Post written by Mona Meyer, Archives and Special Collections Metadata Librarian. … in Indiana—let’s learn a bit more about your home state/your adopted state/where you’re currently living while at USI. First, just a bit of clarification….that song lyric I quoted … Continue reading →

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Right Place, Wrong Time

Posted on July 22, 2019 by

*Post written by Mona Meyer, Archives and Special Collections Metadata Librarian. Being at the right place at the right time is the ideal, but sometimes plans don’t work out and the opposite comes true. So, it was with Indiana and … Continue reading →

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Hoosier Authors: Paul Dresser

Posted on June 25, 2019 by

*Post written by Mona Meyer, Archives and Special Collections Metadata Librarian. Back on August 8, 2017, my colleague James Wethington wrote about the Hoosier author, Theodore Dreiser. I bet you didn’t know that another Dreiser boy also gained literary fame, … Continue reading →

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Arch Madness 2019: “Meet-Ya” Guide to the Championship

Posted on April 1, 2019 by

*Post written by James Wethington, senior library assistant of the University Archives and Special Collections. *Item descriptions written by Mona Meyer, archives and special collections metadata librarian and Tom Lonnberg, curator of history at the Evansville Museum. And then, there … Continue reading →

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