Chapin & Archives Podcast
Wayne Hammond, Assistant Chapin Librarian, and Sylvia Kennick Brown, Williams College Archivist and Special Collections Librarian, are featured in a podcast newly added to the Williams online multimedia collection.In an interview with Sean Pegado, Class of 2011, they spoke about the activities of the two special collections departments at Williams, highlighting for the Chapin its earliest book – a manuscript lectionary of the Gospels from Tours, France, produced in Carolingian minuscule around the year 810 – and one of its newest – the 2008 Errantry by Werner Pfeiffer – and for the Archives, the first Williams College laws and rules of conduct for students, published in 1795. We hope that listeners will be intrigued as well as entertained, and attracted to the diverse collections and services the College Archives and Chapin Library offer to the Williams community. – WGH & SKB
Shown above are the Laws of Williams College from 1795, and at right, the artist’s book Errantry by Werner Pfeiffer as issued in an artillery shell casing and wooden box.