From Historical Collections & Archives: One of the smallest publication collections housed in the Historical Collections and Archives is The Medical Collegian. There are only six issues in the record group RG19.16: Medical Collegian and very little is known about…
From Special Collections & Institutional Archives: Our institutional archives at Reese Library hold records related to the Pamplin College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. Within that collection (IA.01.001.002) are papers written for the classes of prolific historian Dr. Edward…
Recently more photographs were added to the Historical Images of the Health Sciences Campus collection in Scholarly Commons, Augusta University’s institutional repository. It is often thought-provoking when looking at photographs from the past, including photographs of buildings that are no…
From Special Collections & Institutional Archives: In celebration of Black History Month here at Reese Library, I’ve chosen to highlight the finding aid for the Richmond County slave records (1819-1847). It is a fully processed finding aid, and currently being…
From the Historical Collections and Archives: Dr. Leslie Wilkes, MCG Class of 1965, and his wife have gifted the Robert B. Greenblatt, MD Library several books, a few artifacts, and an exhibit case that houses their gift of William Hunter’s…
From the Historical Collections & Archives (HCA): If you were an employee or student on the Augusta University Health Sciences Campus from 1980 to 2011, you most likely read the Beeper at least once during your time here. The Beeper was the…
From the Historical Collections & Archives (HCA): On October 22, 2019 the University Libraries is hosting its Sixth Annual Faculty Author Reception to recognize Augusta University faculty who have written or co-authored a book or book chapter in the past year. The…
From the Historical Collections & Archives: Fifty-seven years ago, during the first week of October 1962, the first electronic computer was installed on the Health Sciences Campus. In an article in the December 1962 Foundation and Alumni News, the IMB 1620 was…
From the Special Collections & Institutional Archives: A recently finished finding aid in Reese Library’s Special Collections is MSS 025 (Cumming family correspondence), which contains letters written by Thomas Cumming that date as far back as 1794. The collection spans…
A small book housed in the Faculty Author Collection at Greenblatt Library represents one example of one man’s intellectual curiosity and his desire to instruct and share his knowledge with others. This book is Interesting Chemical Exercises in Qualitative Analysis…