Archiving History At Lafayette College

The Lafayette, paper of Lafayette College, posted an interesting article this by week, "A historic legacy: archivist Diane Shaw retires afterward 3 decades of growing college’s collections." 

Reporter Morgan Sturm provides details of Shaw's efforts to expand collections afterward joining the campus community inwards 1985. 

Shaw preserved the history of the college together with focused attending on the collection of artist’s books, rare books, manuscripts together with anti-slavery works.  Shaw is besides praised for her operate on the Marquis de Lafayette Collection.

Consider visiting Lafayette's Special Collections & Archives spider web pages that contain an extensive array of resources together with digital exhibits. The College Archives documents together with familiarizes visitors amongst the history of Lafayette College from its founding inwards 1824 to the introduce day.  Lafayette besides partners amongst Archive-It to render populace access to resources through the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.

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