The Library’s first online exhibit is now up!  This exhibit showcases Henry Bushby’s manuscript “Notes on Knots.”  Composed of eight volumes with over 1,900 hand-written pages and beautifully drawn pen and ink diagrams, Bushby’s manuscript represents an in depth study of knotting and ropework, as well as knot theory.   Be sure to click on the [...]

The past few weeks have conspired to finally make me learn the difference between a sail and a sheet. I can hear many of you, dear readers, chuckling to yourselves right now, and I honestly don’t blame you.  I have been a maritime librarian for several years and still had no firm grasp on the [...]