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What began as an aspiration to open a history museum in Oberlin morphed into a series of app-based tours that aim to represent the city’s diverse history—including the first 100 years of Oberlin College.

A love of the sciences, paired with a stint at the Oberlin College Library, led Dyani Sabin to a career in science journalism.

The main library in Mudd Center will be named in honor of 1884 graduate Mary Church Terrell, an educator, feminist, civil rights activist, and a founding member of the National Association of Colored Women (NACW) and the NAACP.

Associate Professor of Anthropology Amy Margaris ’96 along with other faculty and staff members on campus are working to digitize the college’s many “dangling collections”—objects and specimens spread across various campus buildings that at one time had a home in the college’s natural history museum.

Oberlin Director of Libraries Alexia Hudson-Ward likes to humblebrag about her namesake and endowed title, Azariah Smith Root, because anyone in the world of librarianship knows about his legendary career.

Students experience the time-honored craft of letterpress printing in this intensive, hands-on winter term project.

She's held court in Oberlin’s libraries since 1885, and she wears a size 6 shoe.

The symposium Complicated Relationships: Mary Church Terrell’s Legacy for 21st Century Activists, happening February 26 and 27, celebrates a significant gift to the Oberlin College Archives and examines what today’s activists can learn from famous educator, feminist, and civil rights activist Mary Church Terrell (Class of 1884).

In the Letterpress Studio, students get hands-on experience with printing presses to learn about literature and create new projects.

Second-year Kate Diamond spent winter term compiling titles of science fiction and fantasy books with diverse characters into an online database, All Our Worlds. The staff of the Oberlin College Library agreed to add 100 such titles to its collection.