News Stories
During the Royall Tyler Theatre 50th anniversary celebration, alumni visited Special Collections to browse the theatre archive and share stories.
In our latest blog post, "Ovid and the Istrian Skies," Jeffrey Marshall writes about a manuscript that may tell the story of a lunar eclipse in 1454.
Silver Special Collections mourns the loss of three longtime friends, Sarah Dopp, Robert Rodgers and George Singer.
Silver Special Collections librarians continually add historical and contemporary materials to the Vermont Research Collection on all aspects of the state, from A-Z. Here are four recent additions published in 2023 that include the history of a music festival, a refugee's memoir, a monthly almanac and new research on eugenics.
To help researchers make use of our collections, Silver Special Collections Library is a member of the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium (NERFC). Applications for 2024-2025 are due February 1, 2024.
Events
Our inaugural Lisman Lecture in Early American Book Culture will be held on April 17, 2024. Scholars Desiree Henderson and Betsy Klima will speak about their work on author, actress and educator Susanna Rowson (1762-1824) and her importance to American book culture.
Our spring exhibit includes a selection of artists’ books, literary broadsides, schoolbooks, scientific studies and personal correspondence that shed light on human connections to the heavens through time.
On March 27, as Vermont looks toward the April 8 solar eclipse, UVM Professor Bill McDowell will talk about art photographers who have used the sun, moon, and night sky as subjects.
On Feb. 6, 2024, Steven Kostell, Assistant Professor of Design in UVM's Department of Community Development and Applied Economics, will recount selected creative activities from twenty years of hand papermaking, highlighting collaborations and community-centered practice .
Through photographs, documents and objects, this exhibit highlights the architecturally renowned building's past as a library and student center and its current use as the home of Silver Special Collections and three academic centers.
Give your research the visibility and safekeeping it merits by creating an ORCID® iD! #UVM has recently become a member organization of ORCID and has built a university integration to connect our institution with your ORCID record/profile. As a researcher, your ORCID iD is a sixteen-digit unique and persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researchers and ensures that your work is easily discoverable and accessible. By 2025, U.S. federal funding agencies will require researchers to have a unique identifier when applying for federal grants. This will help you get credit for your research outputs and streamline your reporting obligations for grants and awards. To register for an iD and connect it to UVM, visit go.uvm.edu/orcid-uvm.