Feb
10
Celebrate Dickens!
February 10, 2012 | News, Rare Books/Special Collections | Leave a Comment
February 7, 2012 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens, perhaps the greatest English novelist of the 19th Century. In honor of the occasion, the CAC’s Rare Books & Special Collections Division is highlighting Dickens-related items. On exhibit in the reading room of the Center for Archival Collections are examples of Our Mutual Friend as it first appeared in monthly installments, a limited edition of Sketches by Boz, and examples of the work of Dickens’ many illustrators.
Of special interest is an original wood block of an illustration by Marcus Stone produced for the first edition of Our Mutual Friend.
Feb
1
Identify this school photograph
February 1, 2012 | Acquisitions, All, Local History | Leave a Comment
Can you identify this school group? This photograph was found in a collection recently donated to the CAC. The only information on the photo tells us that it was a Bowling Green school. It may be the old Church Street School. The children’s clothing suggests that the date was in the late 1950s or early 1960s.
If you have any information about this photograph or the teacher or children pictured, please contact the CAC at (419) 372-2411 or email us at Ask an Archivist.
Jan
19
Local History Publication Award Submissions Due
January 19, 2012 | All, Local History, News | Leave a Comment
The Center for Archival Collections is accepting submissions for the Local History Publication Award. Works published between January 1, 2010 and December 31, 2011 will be accepted.
CENTER FOR ARCHIVAL COLLECTIONS
LOCAL HISTORY PUBLICATION AWARDS
The Center for Archival Collections seeks to encourage and recognize authors for outstanding publications in the field of Local History. For this award Local History is geographically defined as the nineteen counties within the Center’s collecting scope (Allen, Crawford, Defiance, Erie, Fulton, Hancock, Hardin, Henry, Huron, Lucas, Ottawa, Paulding, Putnam, Sandusky, Seneca, Van Wert, Williams, Wood and Wyandot) The Firelands, and Maumee Valley Region.
DIVISIONS
The Awards Committee will recognize authors for outstanding publications in two divisions. The Academic Scholar Division will include works prepared and submitted by authors who are professional writers or academicians. The Independent Scholar Division will include works prepared and submitted by independent or local researchers, amateurs, and other creative writers who do not claim “history” as a profession. Each Division winner will receive a $300.00 cash award and plaque.
QUALIFICATIONS
- The awards will be given for works of either general or specific subject interests (i.e. Native American history, prehistoric, territorial and early statehood, War of 1812, Civil War, business history, women’s history, labor history, family history, historic preservation, rural agricultural history, Great lakes Maritime (Ohio ) history, or biography).
- Any work submitted for the awards must have been copyrighted or published in the two years preceding the year in which the award is given.
- Works shall be judged by the Awards Committee on: literary merit, overall significance and contribution to explaining and understanding the history of the above described region. Consideration also will be given for style and content. Other considerations will include grammar, accuracy, illustrations, layout, indexes, and distribution.
- The Awards Committee and the Center for Archival Collections reserves the right not to present the awards during any given year.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
- Authors should send two copies of each work to The Center for Archival Collections, Fifth Floor, Jerome Library, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio 43403-0175. The two copies become the property of The Center. Submissions are due by January 31, 2012.
- Works are identified as either published monographs or articles and must be under one cover.
- Textbooks, guidebooks, manuals, craft books, works of fiction, newspaper articles, and genealogies composed principally of genealogical charts are NOT eligible for consideration.
A complete list of past winners is available on our website.