SPECIAL COLLECTIONS ODDITIES

What sort of strange items to libraries keep in their special collections? This short article describes a few odd specimens from academic libraries around the world. For example:

• England’s Royal Astronomical Society owns a log, warranted genuine, cut from Sir Isaac Newton’s apple tree.

• The University of California at Santa Barbara recently purchased a zodiac bone calendar, from Sumatra, with inscriptions carved in the thigh bone of a water buffalo. It’s part of the university’s collection of items that document the history of writing and printing.

• The Johns Hopkins University’s Institute of the History of Medicine keeps hair - framed, no less - from the cow Edward Jenner used to develop the smallpox vaccine in 1796.

(Chronicle of Higher Education, 28 October 2005) (online copy available from the "Search our Article Indexes & Databases" page)

FAITS - Faulkner Advisory for IT Studies

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IEEE Computer Society Digital Library trial

Library trial of IEEE Computer Digital Library now through December 2, 2005. This database contains the full-text of 23 premier computer science journals, with archives going back to 1988, plus over 1,700 conference publications since 1995. To use, visit the library's home page. Feedback welcome at x3863 or chewm@byuh.edu

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