A Few Well Selected Books: Exhibition in Magill Library
October 5, 2007 to January 31, 2008
Curated by Christa Williford
Sharpless Gallery
Magill Library, Haverford College
Haverford's first library catalog was a slender 40-page book printed just three years after the first students arrived in 1833. The 770 titles included in this nascent collection give clues to the kind of intellectual life the school's Quaker founders sought to encourage in these young men. In the years that followed, the collection has expanded under many other influences; faculty, alumni, community groups, other libraries, and, most especially, students have all played a role in building Haverford's collections. This exhibition tells the story of the first "few well-chosen books" and honors those who have been responsible for growing this corpus into today's wide-ranging collections.
http://www.haverford.edu/library/special/
