Matthew Ballard
Yesterday I received an email about the work of major print deselection projects in the wake of campus-wide initiatives. Significant reductions in physical collections to make space for other departments…
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Matthew Ballard
On the cusp of a series of large-scale collections projects, the idea of “weeding” surfaced yet again as one of the more controversial undertakings within libraries. It led me to…
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Matthew Ballard
Prior to this year, I would spend the better part of my week writing ‘short’ pieces for the local newspaper focusing on historical people and events. Although it was tiring…
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Matthew Ballard
Vol. 6, No. 5 Popular during the Victorian era, post-mortem photographs provided family members with an opportunity to capture a lasting likeness of their deceased loved ones. In this particular case, a young child…
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Matthew Ballard
Vol. 6, No. 4 The use of Medina sandstone to craft headstones was rather limited in the nineteenth century. County Historian C. W. Lattin has speculated that the common use…
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