One of the most destructive forest insects in western North America, mountain pine beetles (Dendroctonus Ponderosae) will attack any pine species rather than a select few. In Idaho, timber production is a valuable commodity with sales of lumber alone well over $1 billion in 2018. In the late 1960s, it...
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Gracie (Bowers) Pfost Papers
Diverse Collections
This week’s edition of Diverse Collections features the Gracie (Bowers) Pfost Papers, 1950-1962. Pfost was Idaho’s first female member of Congress.
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The Card Catalogue Epilogue
In days of library past, before the age of computers, libraries housed information about their holdings in a card catalogue. These large wooden boxes with a million tiny drawers, held information about books, photograph, maps, and more. They could tell you the title, the author, the year of publication, their...
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Register of Indigenous People at the Nez Perce Agency
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This week’s edition of Diverse Collections features the Register of Indigenous People at the Nez Perce Agency.
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Idaho Commission on Hispanic Affairs Management Report
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This week’s edition of Diverse Collections features the Idaho Commission on Hispanic Affairs Management for 2005-2007.
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Chinese on the American Frontier
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This week’s edition of Diverse Collections features the book, Chinese on the American Frontier by Arif Dirlik and Malcolm Yeung.
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Lillie Mae Hermann Papers
Diverse Collections
This week’s edition of Diverse Collections features our collection of Lillie Mae Hermann Papers.
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It's Basic, Sebacic
![Sebacic Acid Residue [3]](https://webpages.uidaho.edu/library/spec/harvester/objects/thumbs/sebacic_acid_04_th.jpg)
Over the last year, Special Collections staff has embarked on a massive shifting project. Prompted by a desire to utilize our space more efficiently, and make more space for incoming materials, we began shifting our largest book collection, the Day-Northwest Book Collection. Consisting of over 24,400 individual titles, it took...
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Center for Native American Development Records
Diverse Collections
This week’s edition of Diverse Collections features our collection of The Center for Native American Development Records.
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Metadata Cleanup
![HistPhoto metadata in OpenRefine [1]](https://webpages.uidaho.edu/library/spec/harvester/objects/thumbs/histphoto1_th.jpg)
Sometime we work with metadata that is especially messy! Below are some dates from a spreadsheet that generated our HistPhoto database.
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