The incoming freshmen at Marshall University are soon to realize the convenience and beauty of the Drinko Library when it comes to finding sources for their research papers and essays. Sadly, this library can somewhat overshadow the other library on campus, the Morrow Library.

Morrow Library is a very useful tool for incoming freshmen. Laurie Thompson, the Special Collections Department’s Archivist and Digital Preservation Librarian, said their services at Morrow are helpful if you want to write a paper that maybe sets you apart from your peers who are using only the standardized research gathering tools. She said Morrow is filled with primary sources that students can use to garner the information they need straight from the history of the university and also that of the city of Huntington.

For example, Thompson said if someone was writing a paper on the Vietnam War, then an interesting perspective could be to look through the old editions of The Parthenon and find out what the students on campus were thinking about it as they were living through it.

Besides every Parthenon that has ever been published, some other things that students can find in Morrow Library are old Marshall yearbooks, the Morrow Stacks, government documents, the Blake Library of Confederate History, which was donated by a Marshall Alumni, and the General Chuck Yeager Exhibit. Often they have events such as guest speakers and grand openings of any new collections that they receive. Private and classroom tours of the library are available.

Morrow Library hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on weekdays. The Special Collections department can be found at www.marshall.edu/special-collections, on Twitter @MU_SpecColl and  @marshalluspeccoll on Instagram. “We are the queens of throwback Thursday,” said Thompson.

Noah Gillispie can be contacted at [email protected].