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The Out of the Stacks! exhibition included a selection from the library’s trove of Islamic manuscripts.
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Haverford Magazine
he personal journal of a Quaker man describing treaty negotiations between the U.S. government and an alliance of six Native American nations in 1794. A 1648 pamphlet by the founder of the radical English movement the Diggers, who exhorted his followers to “own all things in common.” A tiny, octagon-shaped Qur’an that dates from the early 1800s. The 1941 annual report of Friends Hospital revealing the many side effects of electric shock treatment. These are just a few of the many fascinating items featured in the exhibition Out of the Stacks! Students and Staff Explore Quaker & Special Collections, which was on view in Lutnick Library’s
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Rebecca and Rick White Gallery through Nov. 30. The exhibit grew from the library staff’s desire to provide an opportunity to engage with some of the collection’s rare materials in person, particularly after the COVID-19 pandemic, when, for a time, the shift to distance learning meant many of these resources were available only digitally. Items featured in Out of the Stacks! were selected, researched, and written about by nine student curators and two library staff members during the spring and summer of 2020. Sarah Horowitz, curator of rare books and manuscripts and head of Quaker & Special Collections, applauds the student curators for choosing engaging materials that complemented each other. “One
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Out of the Stacks!
