Flat, Cool & Acid-Free

In this episode you will hear from several folks like Roscoe Rouse Jr. who succeeded Edmon Low as Head Librarian. You will also hear from the man, the myth, the absolute legend(!), Edmon Low. Edmon Low served as head Librarian from 1940 – 1967 and remains the longest serving head of the OSU Libraries to date.

Help us celebrate 70 years in the Edmon Low Library by visiting https://friends.library.okstate.edu/

Special thanks to Patrick Daglaris, the archivist for the Oklahoma Oral History Research Program at the Oklahoma State University Library, for digitizing the tapes.

What does it mean to be a culture keeper and can we consider the Archives to be one?

This one is for the typographers, the printers, the artist and the constantly curious. Kicking off the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Edmon Low Library, let's explore the first collection the Archives received.

Learn more about the Edmon Low Library's 70th anniversary at https://friends.library.okstate.edu/index/70th-anniversary/

With headlining authors like Ken Burns, Nicholas Sparks, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Jodi Picoult, the H. Louise & H.E. "Ed" Cobb Speaker Series has a 30 year history of being a premiere event for the OSU Libraries. Let's take a look back at past events with Taylor Hatheway and Bonnie Cain-Wood. The Cobb Speaker Series has been the OSU Library's largest fundraising event of the year.

Please consider giving a gift to help the Library at https://secure.osugiving.com/s/giving/library

For more information about the series and past speakers, visit https://friends.library.okstate.edu/index/cobb-series/

What were the rules you followed when you lived in the residence halls on campus? Follow along with Libby as she discovers why residence hall rules have changed over the decades.

A history of strict housing rules: https://dc.library.okstate.edu/digital/collection/centbooks/id/11456/rec/1

Discourse about changing visitation hours: https://dc.library.okstate.edu/digital/collection/centbooks/id/2891/rec/3

Curfew like being in a prison: https://cdm17279.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/ocolly1940/id/13246/rec/1

Reactions to statement about curfew: https://cdm17279.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/ocolly1940/id/13259/rec/1

History of Residence Hall government systems: https://dc.library.okstate.edu/digital/collection/centbooks/id/2891/rec/3

AWS and their statement of concerns: https://dc.library.okstate.edu/digital/collection/centbooks/id/2936/rec/3

Brief history of AWS: https://dc.library.okstate.edu/digital/collection/centbooks/id/2804/rec/3

Charge in being involved with the women's liberation movement: https://dc.library.okstate.edu/digital/collection/centbooks/id/11543/rec/12

Margie Bell quote: https://cdm17279.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/ocolly1965/id/16058/rec/1

Quote about gentle push for women's equality: https://dc.library.okstate.edu/digital/collection/centbooks/id/2871/rec/3

June Tyhurst quote: https://cdm17279.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/ocolly1965/id/16788/rec/1

University reponse to adopted housing resolutions: https://cdm17279.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/ocolly1965/id/17580/rec/1

Willham Hall coed lawsuits: https://dc.library.okstate.edu/digital/collection/centbooks/id/2937/rec/3

Definition of feminism: https://bit.ly/3KteX9w

October 1970 report: https://cdm17279.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/ocolly1965/id/16755/rec/1

Residential Life guest policy: https://reslife.okstate.edu/policies/undergraduate-singles-handbook/guest-policy.html

Join Digital Storytelling Intern Libby Whitlow as she follows some of OSU's biggest organized movements and smaller acts of dissent to see potential threads between protests throughout the university's history. This episode features an interview with former Head of Archives, David Peters, and uses many digital sources from the archives including past O'Colly issues and information from the Centennial Series Collection.

Information on Walton's changes to OSU: https://dc.library.okstate.edu/digital/collection/centbooks/id/9577/rec/1

Protests over Wilson and Walton: https://dc.library.okstate.edu/digital/collection/centbooks/id/4157/rec/1

Protesting the Panhellenic Homecoming budget: https://dc.library.okstate.edu/digital/collection/centbooks/id/2781/rec/3

David's article about the Red Scare at OSU: https://issuu.com/brandosu/docs/issu_osu_state_mag_sp_2018

Free speech protests: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/055e80f860fb408bb1beb8ebf4d234d0

Kent State vigil: https://dc.library.okstate.edu/digital/collection/centbooks/id/2933/rec/3

Nixon rallies: https://cdm17279.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/ocolly1965/id/23850/rec/1

SUAB's (Student Union Activities Board) Last Temptation of Christ: https://dc.library.okstate.edu/digital/collection/centbooks/id/1708/rec/4 https://cdm17279.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/ocolly1980/id/25695/rec/21

Link to the Tea and Glee Society Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1vQGfKVU8M

Streaker Night was a decade-long tradition at OSU in the 70s and 80s. Students would spend the Thursday night before spring break on the Strip and some students would remove their clothes and streak. Taylor Hatheway discusses how this tradition started, what led to its end and some of the funny stories from Streaker Night itself.

Search the University Archives Facebook page for posts that mention Streaker Night

O'Colly ad saying "Christians pray: no streaker night"

O'Colly ad saying "Jesus is Lord of Streaker Night"

Interview with Gary Shutt 

Interview with Bill Dragoo

https://debo.library.okstate.edu/ https://debo.library.okstate.edu/activism/alaska-native-claims-settlement-act-correspondence

Dr. Frohock's contact information can be found at https://honors.okstate.edu/about-honors/meet-the-faculty/richard-frohock-phd.html

Browse through a comprehensive list of Archival material at the OSU Libraries https://library.okstate.edu/search-and-find/collections/digital-collections/scua-collection-guidelines/

On this episode, Libby Whitlow, Digital Storytelling Intern, chats with David Peters, Head of the Archives, about how history was recorded at OSU and some of the challenges in archiving materials from the past.

This episode featured a segment from the Archives Live, a monthly video broadcast on the Archives Facebook page. Watch the episode for more information as well as view photographs from the archival collections at https://fb.watch/8jcGDAEm7I/

Connect with the Archives on their Facebook page and see photos from the collections at www.facebook.com/okstatescua

Find the OSU Archives and the collections online at https://archives.library.okstate.edu/

YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWSTDvKXpqLkLy0ZCcWVd0v1mYDD5r4V-

Elsie Denton Hand had served as head librarian at OAMC for 12 years when she was sacked by the Board of Regents over the purchase of a collection of rare books. Elsie continued working for another two month after her termination, insisting it was all a misunderstanding that had since been smoothed over. We will likely never know the true reason behind Elsie's firing, but in this episode we tell the story leading up to the controversial termination and explore some theory behind it.

Centennial History Series: https://dc.library.okstate.edu/digital/collection/centbooks/id/5664/rec/10

Bennett's letter of recommendation: https://library.okstate.edu/files/news/podcast/flat-cool-acid-free/bennett-recommendation.pdf

“Whose Our Librarian? Public Is Puzzled as Tongues Buzz” Campus newspaper June 16, 1933 https://library.okstate.edu/files/news/podcast/flat-cool-acid-free/who-is-our-librarian.pdf

In 1965, a group of Oklahoma A & M graduates from the class of 1915 gathered on campus to celebrate their 50th anniversary. On May 22, 1965 a bus carried the group though greater Stillwater and into the heart of Oklahoma A & M showing the relationship between the town and the campus. Weldon Barnes, director of Public Information led the tour. David Peters, Head of the Archives at Oklahoma State University looked over a transcript of the tour and a map of Stillwater and charted out a modern day path to recreate the adventure. Our tour will take place over two episodes of Flat Cool and Acid-free.

The Stillwater Sightseeing Tour of 1965 Part 1 highlights the greater Stillwater area and then takes you into what was then a developing Oklahoma State University.

The Stillwater Sightseeing Tour of 1965 Part 2 picks up where part 1 left off in the heart of campus and takes you to Boone Pickens Stadium, through student housing, agriculture points of interest, and then into Greek Life before returning back to the Alumni Center.

Navigation maps, video links and Stillwater maps from 1965 can be found at bit.ly/flatcoolacidfree 

In 1965, a group of Oklahoma A & M graduates from the class of 1915 gathered on campus to celebrate their 50th anniversary. On May 22, 1965 a bus carried the group though greater Stillwater and into the heart of Oklahoma A & M showing the relationship between the town and the campus. Weldon Barnes, director of Public Information led the tour. David Peters, Head of the Archives at Oklahoma State University looked over a transcript of the tour and a map of Stillwater and charted out a modern day path to recreate the adventure. Our tour will take place over two episodes of Flat Cool and Acid-free.

The Stillwater Sightseeing Tour of 1965 Part 1 highlights the greater Stillwater area and then takes you into what was then a developing Oklahoma State University.

The Stillwater Sightseeing Tour of 1965 Part 2 picks up where part 1 left off in The Heart of campus and takes you to Boone Pickens Stadium, through student housing, agriculture points of interest, and then into Greek Life before returning back to the Alumni center.

Navigation maps, video links and Stillwater maps from 1965 can be found at bit.ly/flatcoolacidfree 

Lynn Wallace, director of Oklahoma State University - Tulsa Library and David Peters, Head of the OSU Archives talk with Olivia Turner about the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 Collection housed at the OSU Tulsa Library. Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 Collection documents the history of the event through photographs that are all part of a rich archive of materials from the Ruth Sigler Avery Collection housed at the Oklahoma State University-Tulsa Library. For information about this collection please contact the OSU-Tulsa library at tulsa.libraryreference@okstate.edu or 918-594-8130.

Find items in the collections that are available digitally 

View the OSU-Tulsa Library guide to The Ruth Sigler Avery Archive at https://libguides.osu-tulsa.okstate.edu/tulsaracemassacre

Contact information including phone number, email and chat options for the OSU-Tulsa Library can be found at https://libguides.osu-tulsa.okstate.edu/c.php?g=612031&p=4250300

A complete list of digital collections in the Archives can be found at https://library.okstate.edu/search-and-find/collections/digital-collections/

Find the Archives on Facebook: www.facebook.com/okstatescua/

More than 100 years before the COVID-19 would impact campus, Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College experienced a different pandemic.

"In 1918, an unprepared nation and Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College faced an invisible foe they never anticipated. The initial impact of the Spanish flu pandemic at the beginning of the year had been insignificant in Oklahoma. The second wave struck the campus that fall. This virulent H1N1 flu killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide and about 675,000 in the United States between January 1918 and December 1920." - David Peters, STATE Magazine

In this episode, David Peters, Head of the OSU Archives, and Olivia Turner, Digital Storytelling Intern, talk about the Spanish Flu of 1918 and the impact it had on OAMC. 

Read the full story "Facing Down A Pandemic. Spanish Flu hit an unprepared OAMC campus in 1918" on page 86 of STATE Magazine 

Transcribing Angie Debo's 30 years of letters and journal entries: A project inspired by the challenges of a pandemic.

When the COVID-19 pandemic began, the Oklahoma State University Libraries had a mission to help employees continue working while shifting from in person to work from home. The challenge was that not all jobs could be done remotely so the Libraries needed a bright idea. And what better place to look for a creative solution than the Angie Debo Collection in the OSU Archives. View the Angie Debo collection at http://debo.library.okstate.edu/

Since the 1940s, circus music has been predominantly defined by one song until Matt Margucci entered the scene. Rather than stick solely to creating traditional circus music, Matt created circus music that represented multiple emotions like happiness and fear. Consisting of 260 pieces of music compiled into 20 volumes, the archives received his work in May of 2020 as a loan and will use the collection to educate listeners about the circus and inspire listeners to create something creative and unique.

Special thanks to Mary Larson, Associate Dean for the OSU Libraries, and Matt Margucci, creator of the circus music heard in the episode, for sharing your stories.

Find the OSU Archives online at info.library.okstate.edu/scua/home Explore the Archives Facebook page and see photos from the Archives at www.facebook.com/okstatescua

Olivia Turner is the Archives digital storytelling intern at the Oklahoma State Library and a student at Oklahoma State University. Olivia is majoring in strategic communication because of the variety the major offers and for the once-in-a-lifetime opportunities she has to interview creative and interesting people.

A chat about the life and career of Henry Bellmon.

View interviews with people who worked with Henry Bellmon during his political career in the Remembering Henry Bellmon collection at https://library.okstate.edu/search-and-find/collections/digital-collections/remembering-henry-bellmon-interview-series/

Find the OSU Archives and the collections online at https://archives.library.okstate.edu/

Facebook: www.facebook.com/okstatescua/

YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWSTDvKXpqLkLy0ZCcWVd0v1mYDD5r4V-

Sometimes the process by which the OSU Archives gets materials is a bit of an adventure and sometimes it can be a bit messy. David Peters, head of the OSU Archives, and Ben Hedges, senior archive technician, highlight the 4 ways the OSU Archives receives items.

Find the OSU Archives and the collections online at https://archives.library.okstate.edu/

Facebook: www.facebook.com/okstatescua/

YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWSTDvKXpqLkLy0ZCcWVd0v1mYDD5r4V-

Meet Ben, the senior archive technician in the OSU Archives. Ben is a storyteller, processing collections and organizing them so that researchers have access to a more complete story using Archives' material.

Ben is currently pursuing a Master's of Library Science degree at University of Missouri.

View digital collections on the Archives website at https://archives.library.okstate.edu/

Find the OSU Archives on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/okstatescua/

Watch Archives video content on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWSTDvKXpqLkLy0ZCcWVd0v1mYDD5r4V-