Current Exhibit

Let It Shine

Late Roman cave, Sardis, Turkey. Photo: Holland Hendrix.

The current exhibit in the Stendahl Lobby (on the library's second floor) features books, pamphlets, archaeological slides, postcards of churches, and manuscripts that have been digitized from the collection of Andover-Harvard Theological Library in various cooperative projects.

• Contagion: Historical Views of Contagious Disease
• Harvard-Google Project
• Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930
• New Testament and Archaeological Slides
• Postcards of Unitarian and Universalist Church Buildings
• Thanksgiving Day Sermons

The purpose of the exhibit is to bring together the material objects and their digital representation. It includes introductions to the databases (the HOLLIS Catalog, VIA [Harvard's Visual Information Access catalog], Google Book Search, and the Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative of the American Theological Library Association) that point to the original materials and/or their digital copies, as well as information on how to search for them. With the exception of some of the larger images in VIA, all this material is available to anyone on the Internet.

This exhibit was organized by the Library Exhibits Committee: Michelle Gauthier, Renata Kalnins, Frances O'Donnell, and Clifford Wunderlich.