University Libraries welcomes back alumni with annual Homecoming display
Ohio University Libraries staff was pleased to have many returning alumni visit the annual Homecoming Week display with historic materials from the Libraries’ Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections. The display took place on Alden Library’s fourth floor with archival materials such as yearbooks, photographs, scrapbooks and much more.
The beloved button-making station took place outside of Alden’s fourth floor near the Wolfe Garden. Participants were able to create their own souvenir button out of upcycled yearbooks and magazines to remember the weekend. Both activities are meant to bring past and present students together and back to the Libraries through some classic OHIO school spirit.
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“I saw that they were having this archives display, and of course as a history graduate, I had to come see it,” Balliett said. “[I was] just kind of walking around, seeing what I used to do, and got lucky.”
“I’d be able to be right there and see the leaves just going down and everything,” Saraniti said. “It's just one of those picturesque places, I think in all of Ohio, so it's just nice to be back.”
“This is where you can go and get resources. They [the Libraries’ staff] can help you find what you need to find if you can’t find it.”
“I spent a lot of time here both in undergraduate and graduate school, a lot of time in the stacks way up high doing research” Wilkins said.