Cover to Cover celebrates National Authors Day today remembering English author George Eliot (1819-1880). Born Mary Ann Evans, it is thought Eliot chose to write under a male pen name to ensure her works would be taken seriously and to have her fiction judged separately from her extensive and widely...
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Happy Halloween!
Bernhardt J. Hurwood, Ghosts,Ghouls, and Other Horrors,New York, N.Y: Scholastic Book Corporation, 1971.
Happy Halloween, Nevermore!
Cover to Cover celebrates Halloween by featuring the complete collection of the works of Edgar Allan Poe in the University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives. Poe is widely known for such mysterious and dark works as the stories The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, The Pit and...
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Archive Frights
What’s scarier than a haunted archive? Running out of room! AAAGH!!! Are your shelves full? PG 1_122-105e, Library, University of Idaho, sub-basement compact shelving, December 1988, photographer: Monte Steiger. Now photo taken and gif created by Special Collections staff.
Halloweekend
John Laughlin on Halloween
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Welcome UI Dads!
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Dad's Day football game [1]
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UI Library Map Room
Then and Now
From atlases to topographic maps, the Map Room is a treasure trove of information.
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Sci Fi Skeletons
The Man Who Fell to Earth
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Cats in Space!
A Judgement of Dragons
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Happy Birthday U of I Library!
Then and Now
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Today’s the day! It’s our building’s 60th birthday! The University of Idaho Library opened the doors of it’s brand new building on October 23, 1957.
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