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Following Blues’ Stanley Cup Win, St. Louis Public Library Is Growing The Team’s Official Archive

St. Louis Public Library is looking for all sorts of Blues-related materials.
St. Louis Public Library
St. Louis Public Library is looking for all sorts of Blues-related materials.
St. Louis Public Library is looking for all sorts of Blues-related materials.
Credit St. Louis Public Library
St. Louis Public Library is looking for all sorts of Blues-related materials.

Two and a half weeks ago, the St. Louis Blues made history with their first Stanley Cup, and the memories are still fresh for lifelong and recent fans alike. To help keep those memories alive for many years to come, St. Louis Public Library is encouraging people around the region to contribute Blues-related artifacts to the team’s official archive.

The growing collection is housed at Central Library, the library system's downtown branch. Available for public viewing by appointment, the archive got its start in 2016,when the library partnered with the Blues on an exhibitlooking back on the team’s first five decades.

On Friday’sSt. Louis on the Air, St. Louis Public Radio’s Rachel Lippmann talked about the archive and what sorts of materials the library is seeking to add to it with Amanda Bahr-Evola, manager of special collections and digital archives.

Listen to the conversation:

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Evie Hemphill joined the St. Louis on the Air team in February 2018. After earning a bachelor’s degree in English literature in 2005, she started her career as a reporter for the Westminster Window in Colorado. Several years later she went on to pursue graduate work in creative writing at the University of Wyoming and moved to St. Louis upon earning an MFA in the spring of 2010. She worked as writer and editor for Washington University Libraries until 2014 and then spent several more years in public relations for the University of Missouri–St. Louis before making the shift to St. Louis Public Radio.