Monthly Archives: June 2015

Gelatine (Yes, that’s with an “e”) from Across the Pond

by archivistkira Posted on June 25, 2015

After several months of stockpiling new items for the Culinary Pamphlet Collection, I finally had a chance to add half a box worth of new materials. There were plenty of new additions to companies for which we already have folders and lots of new companies are now represented. The collection itself is now into Box […] Continue reading →

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Cooking with the Blacksburg Woman’s Club

by archivistkira Posted on June 19, 2015

For those of you who aren’t familiar with all the various areas of the History of Food & Drink Collection, one of our strengths is local community cookbooks. We do think about “local” a bit broadly, and while we look to gather primarily Blacksburg, Montgomery County, and Southwest Virginia community cookbooks, our shelves include plenty of […] Continue reading →

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Ringing in the Junior Year

by lmrvt Posted on June 18, 2015

As a relatively new employee at Virginia Tech, I’ve been learning about the university by working occasionally on records in the University Archives. Currently, I am working on memorabilia and documents regarding the Ring Design Committee and the annual Ring Dance. You may already be aware of the tradition of the Virginia Tech class rings, […] Continue reading →

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Frosted Sandwich, Part 4: Return of the Son of Frosted Sandwich

by archivistkira Posted on June 12, 2015

I know. It’s the post you’ve been waiting months for…or dreading for just as long, wondering when I might find MORE frosted sandwich recipes to share. The long wait is over! (By the way, if you haven’t seen the previous posts in this series, you may want to check out #1, #2, and #3.) Our first […] Continue reading →

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Celebrating 30 Years of the International Archives of Women in Architecture

by archivistwinn Posted on June 11, 2015

This summer, Special Collections will celebrate the 30th anniversary of the International Archives of Women in Architecture (IAWA), a joint initiative by the Virginia Tech University Libraries and the College of Architecture and Urban Studies to document the global contributions of women to the built environment. To commemorate this anniversary, the IAWA has partnered with the International […] Continue reading →

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Joanne Presents on South Africa, the Cape Peninsula University of Technology, and her Libraries’ Vision

by HaveLanguageWillTravel Posted on June 7, 2015

  It was a busy week for CPUT’s Wellington Campus Head Librarian Joanne Arendse! Continue reading →

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Bitters: Thinking Inside AND Outside the Glass

by archivistkira Posted on June 5, 2015

For those of you who follow the cocktail scene, this week (June 1-7) is “Negroni Week.” It’s a relatively new tradition from the people at Imbibe magazine that celebrates the cocktail and is a chance to give back to charity. Bars around the globe serve their own variations of the drink and donate to their favorite […] Continue reading →

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Blue Ridge Mountains & Blue Grass Music

by HaveLanguageWillTravel Posted on June 3, 2015

Joanne Arendse begins her visit to Virginia Tech with a tour of the Blue Ridge Parkway, a jam session of Blue Grass Music in Floyd, and a cookout with Mexican tostadas. “Just in case” Joanne was jet-lagged her first night in Blacksburg, Janna Doyle, University Libraries Metadata Workflow Coordinator and Joanne’s hostess, had prepared a […] Continue reading →

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New Blog Post from NPR

by archivistkira Posted on June 3, 2015

I’m working on a feature post for this week, but in the meantime, The Salt, NPR’s food-related blog, posted a story yesterday that touches on some of the themes I talked about last week: the Civil War, food supplies, and coffee. It also talks about cookbooks published during the Civil War (or lack thereof). You might […] Continue reading →

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