The illustration: John Geiser III (left), past president of the Friends of the Tulane Library, and John Kennedy Toole (right), Author Confederacy of Dunces, off to their first day of school; 1943.

We've moved!

Special Collections has completed our move to our new home, Jones Hall. You may now access our Louisiana Collection, Manuscripts Department, Rare Books unit, and University Archives through a central reading room on the second floor. The jazz and architectural archives have separate reading rooms on the third floor. Please drop by for a tour of our new facilities.

May 3, 1999 Finding aid for the B. Bernard Weinstein papers added and business section updated.

April 25, 1999 Military Collections page updated and expanded.

April 20, 1999 The page explaining our use guidelines and how to use our holdings was completely rewritten, expanded, and updated.

April 10, 1999 Information about Tulane campus housing updated and information regarding Loyola University's campus housing added.

February 12, 1999 Medicine, donation, University Archives, Archivist's Daybook, and exhibits files updated.

February 3, 1999 A new page was created listing and describing our resources for researching World War 1.

February 1, 1999 Staff, maps, and waterways transportation pages updated.

January 28, 1999 A new page was created explaining how to retrieve Tulane theses and dissertations.

December 13-14, 1998 Publications page, staff page, donation page, visitors page, local attractions page, performing arts page, and others updated.

December 8-12, 1998 Departmental home pages given a consistent look and project begun to edit and update every page.

November 21-22, 1998 Home page and Archivist's Daybook given major updates; announcement created for Jews of New Orleans: An Archival Guide; and various routine maintenance updates.

September 13, 1998 Archivist's Daybook redesigned.

September 5, 1998 New information about Jones Hall added to the web site.

July 7, 1998 Routine maintenance updates.

June 6, 1998 Information on our move to Jones Hall, our temporary hours, information for visitors from out of town, information on parking, the Special Collections home page, and information on the various archives at Tulane University were updated.

• June 2, 1998 Publications page updated.
• April 8, 1998 "Ready, 'Net, Go! Archival Internet Resources" and the "Archivist's Daybook" updated.
• April 10, 1998 Staff page ("Leadership Log") updated.
• March 12, 1998 "Archivist's Daybook" updated.
• November 11, 1997 Special Events page and Dispatches updated.
• June 27, 1997 The Rare Books, staff, temporary hours, "we're moving", and "special guidelines for using the Manuscripts Department's holdings" pages were updated. 
• June 3, 1997 The visitors, guidelines, speaker's bureau, Archivist's Daybook, and manuscripts course pages were updated.
• April 24, 1997 Home page, staff page, and the page describing the Tulane Manuscripts Department's Carnival holdings were updated.
• April 4, 1997 The main Special Collections home page and "hours" page page were modified to reflect our temporary hours of operations during our Summer move to new quarters, a new page page about our move to Jones Hall was created, the Rare Books page was slightly redesigned, and other pages were updated.
• December 18, 1996 The main Special Collections home page, staff page, Manuscripts Department home page, Special Events page, and Architectural Archives home pages were updated, and a newpage was created describing a new department exhibit.
• December 12, 1996 The "Archival Repositories in New Orleans" page was completely revised and updated and the staff page and Special Collections home page were updated.
• December 10, 1996 A Beginner's Introduction to New Orleans Jazz page, by Bruce Boyd Raeburn, Curator of the Hogan Jazz Archive, was created and added to the Jazz Archive's web site.
• December 9, 1996 The Friends of the Library web site was extensively updated, as were the Special Events page, the Special Collections Home Page, and the Archivist's Daybook.
• December 8, 1996 A new Southeastern Architectural Archive web page was inaugurated; and the Manuscripts Department's home page was updated.
• December 4, 1996 Tech notes and Internet Guide updated.
• November 22, 1966 Main home page, staff page, and information about the Lafcadio Hearn tour updated.
• November 13, 1996 The home page and Friends pages were updated to reflect newly scheduled Friends meetings and other news events.
• October 18, 1996 Several new findings aids have recently been added to the site, including a complete finding aid for the Rouquette papers, Morris papers,and Hanley papers. The Religion, Literature, and Medical History pages in the Manuscripts Department's section were revised, and the staff page greatly expanded.
• October 3, 1996 A new section for the Friends of the Library premiered! The Special Collections home page was slightly edited and it and the Tulane Manuscripts Department's home page were updated with current links to the Howard-Tilton Library web site and the Tulane University web site. Several tables were added to the Manuscripts Department's home page. A "Technical Notes and Credits" page was added explaining the use of a few selected proprietary HTML tags (this site is probably best-viewed with Microsoft Internet Explorer).
• August 18, 1996 A new Special Colletion home page was inaugurated today! The new style uses more advanced tables to simply access to information about the department and to make holdings information easily available. The "Exhibits and Upcoming Events" page and staff news pages were updated, a disclaimer was added, and a new page describing the Lafcadio Hearn exhibit was added.
• April 25, 1996 The Family History, Agriculture, and Military sections of the Manuscripts Department's home page were updated to include references to the finding aid for Cross Keys Plantation (Tensas Parish, Louisiana). The Archivist's Daybook and staff pages were brought up-to-date, a new link was added to "Information for Visitors from Out of Town," and various editing changes were made throughout the site.
• February 27, 1996 The Hogan Jazz Archive's web page was reviewed and rated by The McKinley Group's professional editorial team and designated as a "3-Star" site. This rating is a special mark of achievement in Magellan, McKinley's comprehensive Internet directory of nearly 2 million sites and 40,000 reviews.
• February 11, 1996 Main Special Collections Home Page redesigned; the Manuscripts Department's home page was redesigned; Archivist's Daybook updated with new archival events; "Information for Visitors From out of Town" page redesigned; The "Ready, `Net, Go! Archival Resources on the Internet" page was reorganized and expanded; Exhibits and other events page revised and updated; "Staff Activities" pages updated; Microsoft Internet Explorer extensions added to the Hogan Jazz Archive section. If you use Microsoft Explorer as your brower, you will now hear King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band play part of the Dipper Mouth Blues when you open the page.
• January 3, 1996 Archivist's Daybook updated with new archival events, and "Information for Visitors From out of Town" page updated with more extensive weather information.
• December 11, 1995 "Archivist's Daybook" and "Staff Activities" pages updated.
• November 1, 1995.The Southeastern Architectural Archives Home Page was updated to reflect more current information, the "Staff Activities" page was updated, and other time-related information was brought up-to-date.
• October 1, 1995. To simplify finding information about archives and their holdings on the Internet, The "Ready, `Net, Go! Archival Resources on the Internet" section was reorganized and expanded. Updates were made to about a dozen files concerning time-related information.
• July 31, 1995. Important additions were made to the Ready, 'Net, Go! section devoted to archival resources on the Internet. The Archivists Daybook, Exhibits and other events, and Available Publications pages were updated.
• June 7, 1995. New home page! The Special Collections home page was redesigned to make it easier to use, and a guestbook was added to the main home page. We invite visitors to our site to sign in and give us the benefit of their comments and suggestions. The Archivist's Daybook was greatly expanded, and and the Exhibits and activities section updated.
• May 16, 1995. A major new section on "Waterways Transportation" was added to the Manuscripts Department's home page. Also, the "Exhibits and upcoming events" section on the Special Collections Home Page was revised to include new staff presentations, exhibits, and activities, including the publication of The Russian Collection, compiled by Tulane doctoral student Lee A. Farrow.
• April 24, 1995. "Exhibits and upcoming events" section on the Special Collections Home Page revised to include new staff presentations, exhibits, and activities, including the publication of The Rebellion of 1768, ed. by Wilbur E. Meneray. The "Available Publications" page was completed and added to the site, as was the Archivists Daybook, the most extensive listing of archival events available anywhere. The "Ready, Net, Go!" section greatly expanded to include hyperlinks to new Internet archival resources, and the web search engines section was expanded and given its own web page. On the Manuscripts Department's page, a "Jewish Studies" section now provides information on the department's extensive holdings documenting the Jewish experience in the Southern United States. It includes expanded collection descriptions and some hyperlinks to full-text finding aids. The Jazz Archives page now includes an index to the Jazz Archives's extensive oral history holdings.
• March 29, 1995. Sound is added to the Hogan Jazz Archive section. You may now hear King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band (the band portrayed in the illustration at the top of the page) play part of the Dipper Mouth Blues. Louis Armstrong plays trumpet.
• February 13, 1995: "Exhibits and upcoming events" section on the Special Collections Home Page expanded to include new exhibits in the Howard-Tilton Memorial Library lobby and the Southeastern Architectural Archive. In the "Information for visitors from out of town" section, hyperlinks were added to information about New Orleans and Mardi Gras. The "Other internet resources" section was expanded to include more hyperlinks to Internet resources for history and archives.
• February 6, 1995: "Artists" and "Literature" sections added to the Manuscripts Department's subject selections, replacing the former "Artists and Authors" section. Collection descriptions in those sections were expanded, and full-text finding aids or series descriptions for several collections in those categories were added. See the Manuscripts Department's "What's new" section for more information.
• February 3, 1995: "Ready, Net, Go!" section added to the Special Collections home page. This feature provides access to archival and history Internet resources worldwide via the Tulane University Special Collections web site.

January 1995: the Tulane Special Collections World-Wide Web site is established. Spontaneous celebrations break out around the globe.