Historical Society of Haddonfield

i need to redo our libguides template so today i will spend the day just looking at academic library libguides. feel free to link a guide you enjoy using or at least enjoy looking at.

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Exciting job opportunity to become St John's College's Special Collections Librarian www.joh.cam.ac.uk/special-coll... - permanent post, salary £41,944-£47,208 (depending on experience) plus benefits. Working with a great collection and a friendly team. @ciliprarebooks.bsky.social #LibraryJobs

Wrinkled orange file folder with the words ‘Quirky Miscellaneous’ written on it found while doing archival appraisal.

This may be a new all-time favourite folder name. 📜

There are so many ways to collect anecdotal feedback on archives class sessions for youth: connections made, trust built, etc. A new tier of feedback for me is a student drawing you and at the end showing you along with their full page of notes 🥹 📜

Black and white photograph of the Benjamin Cooper House (built in 1734), from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS). Source: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/nj0392/

Our 102nd Annual Candlelight Dinner will be on Wednesday, March 19, 2025. Jack O’Byrne and Chris Peaks from the Camden County Historical Society will be speaking on the history of Camden County (NJ) and its impact on the Revolutionary War.

More details at: haddonfieldhistory.org/2025-candlel...

I'm currently looking for a model with an adjustable camera stand, lights, and book cradle. 😊

Hi GLAMS & Skybrarian friends,

We're looking for advice on "photo table" / "Camera stand table" setups so that we can photograph fragile books.

Do any folks know guides or have recommendations?

Thanks! 😊

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Finding Classical Connections | American Philosophical Society My academic training is in Mediterranean archaeology and classical studies. As a child I devoured Greek mythology and Roman history, repeatedly dragging various family members to an exhibition about t...

Our Head of Education Programs Catherine Person has a background in Mediterranean archaeology and classical studies—so what does she find relevant to those interests in the APS's collections? A fair amount, actually! Read this week's blog for more: www.amphilsoc.org/news/finding...

We have a fundraising event!
"Happy Hour & Garden Party in the Greenfield Hall Gardens" in Haddonfield, NJ
Ticket sales will help raise funds for work on our main building's roof & for the acquisition of a railroad shed. www.eventbrite.com/e/roofs-rail...

Is this thing on? (5 months since our last post here. How did that happen?)

From Fire Hazards to Family Trees: The Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps Created for US insurance firms during a period of devastating fires across the 19th and 20th centuries, the Sanborn maps blaze with detail — shops, homes, churches, brothels, and opium dens were equal...

"They stopped creating new maps in 1961 + stopped issuing “paster” updates to their old 🗺️ in 1977. That same yr, the co’s prez... donated 45 atlases... to the LoC. This is where the 2nd act of the Sanborn maps’ lives began" for gov't assessments, urban historians, demographers, genealogists...

Thank you! 🙂

Hello @vfo.bsky.social ! We're just a local historical society in NJ that would very much like to be added to your GLAM feed (📜). We consist of two historic houses, a museum collection, an archive & library, & our dedicated & enthusiastic volunteers. Posts on BlueSky are by the PTE archivist. 🙂

*or archives, historical societies, etc. 📜

Do you work on exhibitions in Special Collections as part of your job? Would you have any interest in joining my Spring class via Zoom, or pre-recorded with me to tell them a little bit about what that's like, and show off some photos of your exhibitions? Large or small, we ❤️ them all! ~30min visit

That's Haddonfield, New Jersey, BTW. Not Haddonfield, Illinois.
Although screenwriter & producer Debra Hill was an alumn of Haddonfield Memorial High School (class of '68).

Why the different handle here? (HaddonfieldHistory, not HSH1914?) Chiefly because it matches the @haddonfieldhistory.org part of our email addresses & character limits aren't as tight as they were in the early days of Twitter.

First BlueSky post by HaddonfieldHistory (the user formerly known as HSH1914 on the Bird Site & Glammr.US -- & the Historical Society of Haddonfield elsewhere). Finding our feet. Please excuse any mess!