An Ode To Moody

This blog will also feature entries about the history of Trinity University as told by the items accessible through Special Collections and Archives. We will introduce the various types of materials we have as well at the tools you will need to locate (and even view!) some of those items.

As noted in a recent press release from University Communications, the William L. Moody, Jr. Engineering Science Building will be demolished in the near future. Special Collections and Archives recently received a new addition to our collection, a t-shirt celebrating Moody and engineering at Trinity University.

Trinity University Engineers T-Shirt

In fact, we have a number of t-shirts in our collection, from organizations such as Alpha Phi Omega, Phonathon, and more for your viewing pleasure. During the school year, we are open Monday-Friday, 1:15pm to 5pm. Check the Special Collections and Archives website for exceptions to those hours.

-Amy Roberson, Special Collections and Archives Librarian, Assistant Professor

Trinity University Acquires the Claude and ZerNona Black Papers

This is the first blog entry for the Claude and ZerNona Black Papers acquisition by the Special Collections and Archives in the Elizabeth Huth Coates Library, Trinity University.  I was hired as a project archivist for the collection in February 2012, and have been busy packing up the collection at the donor's home (I'll have more on that in the following posts -- an adventure in itself!).

I have posted a of couple images of the Trinity University press release from February 28, 2012, as it introduces the significance and the breadth of the collection. One important aspect of the collection is that it fills an historical need for primary resource material about the civil rights movement not only in the city of San Antonio but in the southwest region of the United States.

My entries in this blog will serve in part as a kind of travel diary, on the processing journey of this very large archival collection. It will also provide an opportunity to share discoveries along the way, so that the vigorous activity and influence of both Reverend Black and his wife, ZerNona, will become more widely known.

I look forward to posting here, so check back often!

-- Donna Morales Guerra, Project Archivist for the Claude and ZerNona Black Papers

Trinity University press release from February 28, 2012