Bibliocycle

Can you go to PA if you don’t exist?  Apparently you can, at least if you are J. Montague Fitzpatrick.  Roger Corman Kiley, a member of the Class of 1940, invented Fitzpatrick in 1936 and he became a phantom honorary member of the class.  Kiley gave the fictional student his name, and then set out [...]

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Sometimes the goal of providing our users with access to materials conflicts with our responsibility for preserving those rare and delicate materials.  Many of the valuable materials in our Special Collections are old and fragile, and could be damaged by even the most careful use.  We would like to make these materials available digitally, but [...]

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What happens when a student doing a research project needs to use fragile, rare, and valuable materials from our special collections?  Thanks to the magic of digitization, we can provide them with access to these materials without harm to the originals.   Sometimes we need to scan the item ourselves, but frequently Google Books or the [...]

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The Phillips Academy Archives contains countless treasures.  The OWHL’s summer student workers, Cassie and Ashley, have spent time exploring those treasures while helping Interim Archivist Tim Sprattler work on projects this summer. In response to an inquiry from an Andover alumnus who was part of the Academy’s Jazz Band “The Aces” during the 1950′s, the [...]

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