Archive for March 2009

The J.R. Van Pelt and Opie Library is opening a new photography exhibit on Friday, March 27, featuring photographs from the 1950s from the collections of the Michigan Tech Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections. The exhibit is free and open to the public and is located near the library’s main entrance on the first floor. One place with some answers is the collection of photographic images from Houghton’s primary newspaper, The Daily Mining Gazette, preserved in the Michigan Tech Archives, a department of the J.R. Van Pelt and Opie Library. Comprising several thousand images from 1953 to 1978, the Daily Mining Gazette collection documents a myriad of topics, events, people, and places in our own backyard - including many images from the 1950s.

The images are also available through the Keweenaw Digital Archives. There are more than 300 images from the Daily Mining Gazette collection online - and 6,000 additional images from our other collections. The digital archives allows visitors to search for keywords, add comments about images, create a personal online album, and purchase prints and digital scans. The Michigan Tech Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections is located on the ground floor of the J.R. Van Pelt and Opie Library at Michigan Tech. This exhibit is made possible with support from the Friends of the Van Pelt Library.

Keweenaw Digital Archives

Fifty Years Ago Today

A free seminar, “You’ve Written It–Now How Will You Publish It,” is scheduled for 2 p.m., Saturday, March 21, in the Van Pelt and Opie Library. The presentation features Walt Shiel of Slipdown Mountain Publications in Lake Linden.

Refreshments will be provided by the library. The session is open to the campus and local communities. The event is part of National Small Press Month.

The Michigan Tech Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections announce winners of the 2009 Travel Grant. Two visiting scholars take a fresh look at mining communities on both sides of the Canadian border, and at the impact of Slovenian missionaries on Native American communities. The grant is funded by the Friends of the Van Pelt Library.

The grant has enabled researchers from the United States, Canada, and Europe, to examine the Archives’ outstanding resources. Past recipients have studied the use of models by mining engineers to manage complex work sites above and below ground, the role of fraternal orders in Lake Superior mining communities, and the cultural and linguistic identity of Yoopers. This year’s awards continue a tradition of supported research using the manuscript collections in the Michigan Tech Archives.

The Friends of the Van Pelt Library provide financial support for researchers from outside the area to explore the Archives’ collections. For further information about the Archives, visit http://www.lib.mtu.edu/mtuarchives/.

Research Travel Grants Program

This is a transitional year for the library as we engage in a strategic planning process that will align the library with the university’s research and teaching mission and vision. To better communicate with our users, Interim Director Christa Walck will be hosting a blog, please check out this new blog and make your comment.

On March 12 the library’s E-Journal A-Z List and HuskyFetch will be unavalible. We apologize for any inconvenience that this may cause. For updates and/or question please contact the Reference Desk (906) 487-2507.