Even with a month under my belt in my new job at AAS, I’m still happening upon new areas in the stacks. I’ve traveled through every main corridor many times over by this point, but am still learning about new collections down individual aisles. Just last week I learned we had a separate section just ...
Assistant Curator of Manuscripts and Assistant Reference Library Tracey Kry comments on her impressions of AAS as a newly-arrived employee. A couple of months ago now, we had a post about creating an AAS Glossary that would talk about terms and collections unique to AAS (http://pastispresent.org/category/aas-glossary/ ). The first post was about people’s confusion with the ...
