Bryn Mawr College Scholarship, Research, and Creative Work at Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr College Publications, Special Books, pamphlets, catalogues, and scrapbooks Collections, Digitized Books 2010 Worlds To Discover: 125 Years of Collections at Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr College Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.brynmawr.edu/bmc_books Part of the Liberal Studies Commons, and the Women's History Commons Let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Custom Citation Worlds To Discover: 125 Years of Collections at Bryn Mawr College. (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania: Bryn Mawr College, 2010). This paper is posted at Scholarship, Research, and Creative Work at Bryn Mawr College. https://repository.brynmawr.edu/bmc_books/9 For more information, please contact
[email protected]. WORLDS TO DISCOVER 125 Years of Collections at Bryn Mawr College WORLDS TO DISCOVER 125 Years of Collections at Bryn Mawr College September 24, 2010 – May 28, 2011 BRYN MAWR COLLEGE Class of 1912 Rare Book Room, Canaday Library Foreword Elliott Shore Introduction Eric Pumroy Exhibition Catalogue Eric Pumroy Marianne Hansen Emily Croll Marianne Weldon FOREWORD Elliott Shore Constance Adelaide Jones Director of Libraries Bryn Mawr College opened its doors in 1885 as an less, significant to scholars. We are learning now from institution with a revolutionary agenda: to provide an our libraries something that we already knew, but of education to women that was the equal of any avail- which we needed to be reminded: the original source able to men. For the first time, women would benefit has amazing stories to tell. And some of those stories from—and in turn be expected to originate—scholarly can only emerge when original sources are connected achievement of the highest order, and nothing would by digital means to each other and to the apparatus stand in the way of their chances at success.