Research & Collections News

The image of the volume below, part of the Lammot du Pont, Jr.

Lynsey Sczechowicz, the first reference archivist for the Audiovisual and Digital Initiatives Department at the Library, will be leaving at the end of June to pursue her MBA at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 

In June 2017, I obtained a Henry Belin Du Pont Research Grant to visit the Hagley Library for two weeks to begin research on the politics of the Physiocratic movement.

Summer is here, school is out, is your family planning a road trip?! 

Not all black powder was made the same. The reason? There were several ways to use it!

In Delaware we have single stream recycling. Recently there have been some news stories about the problem of people attempting to recycle inappropriate or contaminated materials.

As I process more of the Ken White Collection, I have come to feel that I am taking part in a grand treasure-hunt in which I unearth another gem nearly every day!

Last month, Gail Stanislow took over as the Project Archivist for the Ken White and Marshall Johnson Papers Processing Project.