Catie Golitzin, a freshman at Pepperdine, has worked in Special Collections and University Archives as a Student Assistant since last fall. Over the past 7 months, Catie has played an important role in our department. She paged materials for researchers, scanned images, and worked on many special projects including creating finding aids for the Webster [...]
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A historic debate on free love and morality: Today’s featured digital object
Tuesday, April 17th, 2012
What’s this, you say? Former Pepperdine University President Bill Banowsky standing—all smiles—with Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner? What occasion could have produced such strange bedfellows? The answer lies in our new digital collection of Historic Sound Recordings. On October 8, 1967, Dr. Banowsky, then minister of the Broadway Church of Christ in Lubbock, Texas, engaged [...]
New digital collection of historic sound recordings
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012
Pepperdine University Libraries is pleased to announce the release of our latest digital collection. The Historic Sound Recordings collection features streaming recordings of memorable speeches and significant events that chart the history of Pepperdine University and, more broadly, Southern California. The collection includes archival recordings ranging from political speeches and debates on morality, to musical [...]
Our Changing Library: Today’s featured digital object
Wednesday, March 14th, 2012
If you’re a regular to Payson Library, the image to the right may seem at once familiar and oddly out of place. This is a semi-outdoor stairway that used to lead upstairs from the Pendleton Learning Center to the first floor of the library—a skylight opened overhead and a decorative screen separated the stairs from [...]
A Window Into 1960s Television: Scripts Open For Research
Friday, March 2nd, 2012
The finding aid for the Ivan Goff collection of television scripts is now available on the Online Archive of California! The Online Archive of California (OAC) is part of the California Digital Library and is a great tool for starting a research project. The OAC allows access to finding aids (detailed descriptions of collections of primary [...]
NHPRC Project Is Underway As Graduate Student Assistant Processes Two Collections
Wednesday, February 29th, 2012
Jessica Geiser, hired as the graduate student assistant to work on the NHPRC project, recently processed two of our archival collections. The B. Lamar Johnson and the James C. Moore papers are now open and available for research. A brief description about each of the collections is below. B. Lamar Johnson was a highly distinguished [...]
George Pepperdine Collection Ready For Research
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
A new finding aid for the George Pepperdine family papers is now available on the Online Archive of California! As part of the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) grant awarded to the Pepperdine University Libraries’ department of Special Collections and University Archives, our goal is to organize and describe archival collections and ultimately [...]
Happy 200th Birthday to Charles Dickens!
Tuesday, February 7th, 2012
Today is the bicentennial of Charles Dickens’ birth, and events to celebrate his legacy are taking place in his native UK and in the US. According to an article in today’s LA Times, Dickens has inspired more TV, film, and stage adaptations of his works than any other writer. Check out this list of Dickens [...]
Graduate Student Begins Work On NHPRC Project
Monday, January 23rd, 2012
The University Libraries is in the midst of processing 1,225 linear feet of archival material thanks to the generous support of the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC). In November 2011, Jessica Geiser, a UCLA graduate student, was hired to assist Project Archivist, Jamie Henricks. Here’s what Geiser had to say about the project: [...]
Payson Library’s Surfboard on Display at Huntingon
Thursday, December 22nd, 2011
The Huntington Library’s current exhibit, “Blue Sky Metropolis: The Aerospace Century in Southern California,” includes a surprising element: a surfboard from Pepperdine’s own surfboard collection! This particular surfboard (pictured at left) represents the intersection between the development of surfboard technology and aircraft engineering in Southern California. The board was designed by Bob Simmons, a California [...]
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