Upcoming Events

Upcoming Events

by | Jan 14, 2022 | Blog

The pandemic has been a time for exploring online resources. Last year I referred to Rich Cairns’ lecture about the Library of Congress as an online resource, and recently we added Aaron Rubinstein’s talk about Dubois Library’s Special Collections to our video library. Mr Rubinstein is continuing Rob Cox’s initiative of collecting documents from many aspects of daily life – not just journals, letters and newspaper articles,

** Please note that the annual meeting of the Amherst Historical Society’s membership is scheduled for Saturday, February 12, at 2PM, and will be held over Zoom.

And our Friday noon History Bites lecture series is starting up again at noon on Friday, February 25. Our first lecture will be on Zoom, and will be given by Mr Blair Kamins, a professional architect and Amherst College graduate who will talk about the early architecture at Amherst College.
DuBois Library Special Collections

DuBois Library Special Collections

by | May 21, 2021 | 2021 History Bites, Uncategorized

by Aaron Rubinstein

“Expanding our great national reservoir of knowledge and intellectual thought:” past, present, and future of the Special Collections at UMass Amherst.

Former Chancellor Randolph Bromery’s ambitious words, written in 1974, presage a transformation of the Special Collections at UMass that began with the acquisition of the W. E. B. Du Bois Papers and blossomed after the arrival of Robert Cox in 2004. The new Head of the Special Collections, Aaron Rubinstein, will discuss the this transformation and how it sets the stage for the future of the department.

Aaron Rubinstein is the Head of the Special Collections and University Archives at UMass Amherst. Aaron grew up in Amherst, graduated from UMass, and has worked in SCUA for over a decade. Before SCUA, he was the Archivist for Digital Collections at Tufts University, and before that Collections Manager at the Yiddish Book Center.

(video in process)