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This Friday!! Make sure to stop by the Archives to view the exhibit before you stop by the opening reception. #westernu #archives #lmmmontgomery #kindredspirits

🚢 Are you interested in Canadian maritime history? We’ve digitized and transcribed 84,000 ship registration records dating back as far as 1838! Set sail for the LAC Blog to learn more! wp.me/p1UUMi-4LC 📷 3594713

📢 Fellow archives and memory institutions! We'll be sharing #ArchivesFunFacts, starting on April 7 to kick off Archives Awareness Week in Ontario. 🤝 Join our campaign by sharing your own fun facts related to your history, location, work and collections throughout April.

Unbox history with us! 📦📜 Western Archives's Deborah Meert-Williston and Western Music professor Kate Helsen reveal rare medieval "neumes" that shed light on the origins of written music! 🎶 Full video: youtube.com/watch?v=Q62SvE… #westernu

. @WesternULibs recently acquired two medieval neumes - some of the earliest forms of written music. @WesternuMusic professor Kate Helsen explains to CBC London how to read the neumes, and shares how the songs may have sounded. Western LibrariesARC brnw.ch/21wSymp

We had a small health scare with Noah, our order picker, last week but we are back in business with a clean bill of health. Our order picker is a critical part of our operations here in the ARCC as we need it to reach to the top of our 30 ft high shelving.

Welcome to our Faculty of Information & Media Studies (FIMS) co-op student Abbie. Abbie is with us for 8 months and is working on projects related to the preservation of audio-visual records as well as arrangement and description of the George Henry Collection of Glass Plate Negatives. Welcome Abbie!

🔊 Cue your visit to our Reading Room to check out the Canada Black Music Archives' "B'LACK THEN: Muted Melodies" exhibit and learn about untold stories in Ontario Black music history. More info: ow.ly/tAaR50W0UzN.

Western convocation ceremonies are taking place this week! It’s been a long journey, but you made it! Aerial photo of the 1947 graduating class from The Way We Were collection.

Do you love beautiful books … because we do! Check out this beautifully bound copy of the first edition of Rossetti's posthumously published New Poems, embroidered with silk fruits and foliage. The binding was likely executed by the Working Ladies' Guild, a London organization.

Plant Sciences Graduate Students Jack Berry and Richard Gardiner collecting apples from a tree on University Hill in 1984. Photograph from The Way We Were collection.

Check out this photo from when an excavation was dug for an addition to the Josephine Niblett Law Building. A wooden fence was built along the sidewalk, and the law student society organized a contest: $25 to the artist with the best design. Photo from The Way We Were collection

We will be closed tomorrow July 1st for Canada Day! We will re-open July 2nd at 10am. Enjoy your holiday! Photograph from the London Free Press Collection of Photographic Negatives, 1955.

What summer activities have you been up to? Photograph from the London Free Press Collection of Photographic Negatives, 1955. #westernu #archives #summer

The Emancipation Day Poetry Contest presented by the London Black Heritage Council has extended the deadline for submissions from July 4th to July 11th! There is still time to submit a poem for a chance to win! Please visit antlerriverpoetry.ca for more information.

Are you taking classes this summer? So were these students! Left to right: Suzan Couture, Paul Keillor, Kenneth Elliot, Winnie Gray, Isabel Hanna, and Catherine Ridley. From the LFP newspaper July 5, 1954 Photo from the London Free Press Collection of Photographic Negatives, 1954

Check out this formal announcement of the opening of the Lawson Memorial Library on Friday September 28, 1934!

A painting from the year 1930 of Western’s campus. So much has changed! Photograph from the Way We Were collection.

Check out these postcards featuring buildings from Western’s campus. Which one is your favourite?

We cannot believe it is already August! We will be closed on Monday August 4th for the civic holiday, and will re-open on Tuesday August 5th. Enjoy the long-weekend! Photo from the London Free Press Collection of Photographic Negatives, 1954.