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Despite ongoing library renovations, researchers carry on their activities in the Archives and Rare Books Reading Room, where sounds of drilling and smells of wet paint do not deter them from delving into the primary sources needed for their projects. From left to right: Randy McGuire of Oak Hills Christian College is consulting documents in the Parks College of Aviation, Engineering, and Technology Collection as he nears completion of his history of Parks College. Jerry Harp of Lewis & Clark College is planning to edit some of the correspondence from the rich and extensive Walter J. Ong Manuscript Collection. Sixteenth-century scholar Nicolas Kiessling from Washington State University is here to examine the provenance markings on hundreds of rare books in the Moore Carpenter Recusant History Collection for his study of the dispersal of recusant books from the U.K. to the U.S. in the 1960s-80s. And finally, incoming SLU freshman and Reference Department assistant Alicen Moser is reading old copies of the University News to find out who performed at a Rush concert at the Ambassador Theater in 1974.
