Tag: travel

  • Magazine of the Week

    Welcome back, everyone! This week’s MoW is Holiday. This is a title we only have 3 years of down in PERS, and it’s in the Open Stacks down at our home on the 4th floor of the library. However, we do have sporadic older issues of this title in our Special Collections and Archives area,…

  • Magazine of the Week

    Happy summer, everyone! This week, we encourage you to enjoy the warmer weather and explore the world! Allow us to introduce Travel + Leisure, a monthly title owned by Time Inc.  We subscribe to this title partly for its gorgeous images, partly for its coverage of hotel interiors, and partly for students who need research…

  • Old clothes, new books

    As I mentioned in early May, I took my textile interests on the road last month.  And some good textile-researching friends, too.  We drove ourselves to the Medieval Congress at Western Michigan University, in Kalamazoo. I learned about all kinds of nifty stuff.  A good friend gave a talk about sumptuary laws.  These are medieval…