Huntingdon College Library

For the next two weeks, Ms. Crumbley will be teaching you how to make a Button Pin! We have all the tools you'll need to make them. However, it's easiest if you bring your own computer this week to design a button you'd want to print for next week. We can print these off at the print shop to cut and make on the 23rd.

We're back, Hawks! The Library's Fiber Arts Workshops begin once more this Sunday at 5:30 in the Atrium with Ms. Crumbley helping you design Button Pins so we can make them next Sunday.

Unfamiliar with Button Pins? No problem! Come on in and we can show you some examples from years gone by.

Welcome back, Hawks! We're excited to see the campus full of excitement for the new semester.

Remember that our Library faculty and staff are here for you from 8-5 all week and 5-9pm Sunday through Thursday. If you have questions after those hours, please email us and we'll get back to you as soon as possible!

Happy book lovers day to our bookish folks! Come in and visit if you need a new book to read for the new semester.

We've been hearing a lot about an epic quest in theaters recently... so we've made an epic display to match! If the new Odyssey movie has piqued your interest in the original tale or retellings, we have quite a few to choose from. In the photos are 8 examples of many on our display case located in the Library's Atrium. We also have a selection of e-books and audiobooks available through Overdrive via your Library Card.

Don't have a Library Card yet? Come see us on Monday to sort that out!

In recognition of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Mr. Thomson McCorkle has selected two recommended reads: "We Came to America" and "The Best American Sports Writing of the Century" If you're interested in checking them out, their call numbers are located below the book!

Happy Independence day, Hawks. https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalmall4th/history-of-independence-day.htm?

A piece of memorabilia from Prof. Kidwell's Bicentennial collection (his memorabilia from the Centennial is in storage).

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Ahead of Independence Day, a story brought to you by the scientists of the Library's Preservation Research and Testing Division.

Throughout the month of June 1776, Thomas Jefferson composed “A Declaration by the Representatives of the United States of America in General Congress assembled,” which we know as the Declaration of Independence. As he edited, he made careful strike outs. However, in one area on page 2, there’s an obvious smudge rather than a neat cross out.

Upon closer examination under the microscope, it’s evident there is a word underneath, with “citizens” having been judiciously written atop. Spectral imaging reveals that Jefferson first wrote “our fellow subjects."

The change emphasizes the weight that words carry — "subjects" evoking the monarchy the Founding Fathers wanted to earn their liberation from, "citizens" indicating the forging of a new path — and Jefferson’s keen ability to incite emotion, inspiration, and motivation in his writing.

Read about how the discovery was made at the Library: https://blogs.loc.gov/preservation/2022/07/founding-fathers-independence-day/?loclr=fbloc

In recognition of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Mr. Camden Thornton and Mr. Alex Vainstein have selected two recommendations: "The American Story: 100 True Tales from American History" and
"Grant." If you're interested in checking them out, their call numbers are located below the book!