News
Nov
13
A View from the Vault: Uncovering the History of a Brazilian Amethyst Geode
by Sharon Fitzgerald, curator, Mineralogical Museum A striking mineral specimen has recently been put on view in the University of Delaware’s Mineralogical Museum. The 227-pound amethyst quartz specimen, previously on loan to the Delaware Geological Survey, now has a ... Read More
Oct
14
A View from the Vault: Out in Public - Jeans Day and Gay Visibility at UD in 1982
by John Caldwell, associate librarian and political and public policy papers archivist In honor of National Coming Out Day on October 11, I wanted to highlight a moment of queer UD history. The April 16, 1982, edition of the ... Read More
Sep
25
UD Celebrates Newly Renovated Special Collections Space
More than 75 members of the University of Delaware community gathered Sept. 24 on the second floor of Morris Library to celebrate the ribbon cutting for the newly renovated Special Collections space. The celebration marked the completion of a major ... Read More
Sep
18
Explore Library, Museums and Press Fall Exhibitions
The University of Delaware’s Library, Museums and Press invites you to explore nine exhibitions on view this semester in gallery spaces across UD’s campus. Visitors will: See the evolution and public understanding of sex education in Where Do We Go ... Read More
Sep
9
A View from the Vault - In Their Own Light: Remembering Mary Lovelace O’Neal and Betye Saar
by Amanda Zehnder, senior curator, Museums This View from the Vault honors the lives and legacies of two trailblazing Black women artists, Mary Lovelace O’Neal (1942–2026) and Betye Saar (1926–2026). The works featured here—Prophet with No Tongue and Mystic ... Read More
Aug
12
A View from the Vault: Capturing Nature's Beauty, One Butterfly at a Time
by Jaime Margalotti, associate librarian and archival metadata librarian To create his remarkable two-volume work As Nature Shows Them: Moths and Butterflies of the United States, East of the Rocky Mountains (1900), Sherman Foote Denton employed a less common ... Read More
May
13
A View from the Vault: Celebration by Lev Timothy Mills
by Qiaira Riley, graduate research assistant, museums In this print, a larger than life, seemingly omnipresent figure looms over a group of praise dancers. The figure’s reddish-brown skin tone is interrupted by a mask that covers just their eyes ... Read More
Mar
11
A View from the Vault: Mary Stevenson Cassatt's "Reflection"
by Amanda T. Zehnder, senior curator, museums In recognition of Women’s History Month, this drypoint print from the Museums Collections by Mary Cassatt, highlights one of the most prominent female artists from the late nineteenth century, who also had ... Read More
Feb
18
Special Collections and Museums Launch New, Visitor-Centered Websites
The University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press is pleased to announce the launch of two newly designed and complementary websites, one for Special Collections and one for Museums, marking an important step forward in how these distinct yet collaborative ... Read More
Feb
11
A View from the Vault: State Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs of Delaware
by Kallie Comradelle, doctoral student from the Department of English The State Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs of Delaware was one of many chapters of the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs (NACWC), which concerned itself with a range of social causes including civil ... Read More
