Here’s a roundup of our posts on Tumblr and our favorite articles, blogs, and posts from around the web this week for your reading pleasure over the weekend.
Happenings in Special Collections…
- Charlotte Bronte turned 200 on April 21, and we celebrated with a look at her manuscript in Special Collections.
- This week's Library Centennial Throwback Thursday post took us to 1984. Did the library really have a dungeon?
- We took a look at an interesting Spanish binding from 1839.
- We don't know much about this beautiful Chinese book. Can you help us?
- We identified this previously mis-identified fragment as a fifteenth-century piece of Guy de Chauliac's Chirugia magna.
In the reading room, Tim installed a new exhibit on this year's literary anniversaries (look for Tumblr posts on it soon!) and Alla hosted visits from the University of Missouri Russian Club and Camdenton High School.
Around the web…
- University of Iowa Special Collections is hosting their annual Shakespeare Live Stream today!
- Read this inspiring interview with Carla Hayden, the nominee for Librarian of Congress
- Lin-Manuel Miranda won a Pulitzer Prize for Hamilton the musical. Even more reason to stop by the reading room and see our Hamilton exhibit.
- Harriet Tubman is replacing Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill. Smithsonian Libraries has a roundup of books about her in this tweet.
Stay tuned for more updates next week!