A treasure chest in more ways than one.
A few weeks ago, we checked our department email and were pleased to read the following message from a patron:
Doing some family history research I typed the address of the house my great-grandfather lived in as a little boy – 707 North Laredo St – into Google Maps, only to find I-10 running right through the general area. Bummer. Google web results turned up something interesting, however:
http://digital.utsa.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p9020coll4/id/166
Your site!
Very, very, WAY cool to see that.
This totally made our day! We’re always happy to hear back from patrons about how they’re able to find or use our material. In this case, we’re especially pleased because this patron didn’t come to Special Collections looking for material—instead, our material made it out to her. Quite a fortuitous result.
Top Shelf readers may be aware of the numerous messages we post to the blog about newly digitized material—we certainly…
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