Library, Museums and Press News

By David Cardillo, Digital Initiatives and Preservation   Special Collections houses the Lewis Family Papers, which include materials from multiple generations of the prominent Newark family that span from 1696 to 1915. Members of the family were farmers and landholders, ...Read More

By Sharon Fitzgerald, Museums “A View from the Vault” is a new series that showcases some of the unique, notable or rare items that are a part of the Special Collections and Museums holdings at the University of Delaware. Each ...Read More

By David Cardillo, Digital Initiatives and Preservation   Many of the digital collections from the UD Library, Museums and Press can take us to the past almost as effectively as Doc Brown’s DeLorean time machine from Back to the Future. ...Read More

By Petra Clark, Special Collections “A View from the Vault” showcases some of the unique, notable or rare items that are a part of the Special Collections and Museums holdings at the University of Delaware. Each month, we highlight a ...Read More

The UD Library, Museums and Press is actively recruiting a poet and advocate for social change to serve as poet-in-residence on the Poetry as Activism Project. The poet-in-residence will draw inspiration from our collections to create new, original work and ...Read More

By David Cardillo, Digital Initiatives and Preservation Department   When it comes to providing students with hands-on cultural experiences, the University of Delaware is a pioneer. The University has the oldest – and first – study abroad program of its ...Read More

By Ashley Rye-Kopec, Museums “A View from the Vault” is a new series that showcases some of the unique, notable or rare items that are a part of the Special Collections and Museums holdings at the University of Delaware. Each ...Read More

By David Cardillo, Digital Initiatives and Preservation   The Digital Initiatives and Preservation Department is currently in the process of digitizing volumes of the Wilmington City Directory, an annual publication from the 1800s through the mid-1900s that is best described ...Read More

Article by Allison Ebner   Travel can be transformative. Think of your last road trip or getaway and what you learned about yourself and the world around you. Travelogues and travel memoirs, like Eat, Pray, Love, encapsulate the sights, sounds, ...Read More

Mark Samuels Lasner, senior research fellow in Special Collections at the Library, Museums and Press, was awarded the University of Delaware’s Medal of Distinction on May 16, 2023, at the University’s Board of Trustees meeting for donating his $10 million ...Read More