Idaho Harvester

Posted on November 11, 2017

Cover to Cover commemorates Veterans Day featuring a volume in the Day Northwest collection. [Read More]

Posted on November 10, 2017

Memorial Gymnasium on the University of Idaho campus was constructed to honor Idaho soldiers who died during World War I. [Read More]

Posted on November 9, 2017

Special Collections and Archives continues to work on cleaning and processing our sci-fi collection and have officially moved from books to wonderful periodicals like Asimov’s Science Fiction!

Posted on November 8, 2017

Note the appearance of two phones in the ‘then’ photo. Was this an indication of our popularity even back then, that we needed two lines? Was the left one being replaced with newer, smaller technology and just hadn’t been removed yet? Oh, the possibilities! [Read More]

Posted on November 1, 2017

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... [Read More]

Posted on October 31, 2017

Bernhardt J. Hurwood, Ghosts,Ghouls, and Other Horrors,New York, N.Y: Scholastic Book Corporation, 1971.

Posted on October 31, 2017

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... [Read More]

Posted on October 30, 2017

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. 

Posted on October 29, 2017

John Laughlin on Halloween [Read More]