Discovery

Follow your curiosity. Unexpected ideas, connections, experiments, and things worth discovering.

Discovery is where the Wagstaff Library leaves room for the unexpected.

Not everything begins with a plan. Sometimes an idea appears while working on something completely different. A question leads to another question. A piece of music opens a new direction. A conversation, experiment, book, image, or mistake creates a path that was not there before.

This section is for those paths.

Some discoveries may eventually become projects, resources, collections, or entirely new areas of the Library. Others may remain small observations, curiosities, or ideas worth sharing simply because they are interesting.

There does not have to be a destination. Curiosity is enough.

Discovery also allows different subjects to collide. Music can lead to psychology. History can lead to technology. Creativity can lead to education. One field can unexpectedly illuminate another.

Explore helps you browse by subject. Discovery works differently. It is a place for surprising connections, experiments, overlooked material, and paths you may not have thought to follow.

Look around. Follow something that catches your attention. You never know where it might lead.

Featured Discoveries

A changing selection of things from across the Library that seem especially worth noticing right now.

A featured song or composition
A project worth revisiting
A newly added resource
A question or reflection
An unexpected item from the Archive

See Featured Discoveries →

Unexpected Connections

Ideas and materials that become more interesting when different subjects are allowed to meet.

Music and psychology
Creativity and education
History and contemporary life
Leadership and human behavior
Art, culture, and identity

Explore Unexpected Connections →

Experiments

Creative, educational, musical, visual, and conceptual experiments that may still be developing—or may simply exist because trying something seemed worthwhile.

Musical experiments
Visual experiments
Educational ideas
Creative prototypes
Unfinished or evolving concepts

Explore Experiments →

Things Worth Noticing

Small observations, resources, works, ideas, and details that may not require an entire collection but
deserve a place on the shelf.

Interesting observations
Short recommendations
Small discoveries
Useful ideas
Things that resist easy categorization

See Things Worth Noticing →

From the Shelves

Selections drawn from elsewhere in the Wagstaff Library and brought forward for another look.

Older work worth revisiting
A resource from Useful Resources
A reflection or assessment
A piece of music
A selection from the Archive

Browse From the Shelves →

Robbit Holes

Starting points for following an idea farther than you intended—and perhaps ending up somewhere
completely different.

A subject to investigate
A chain of related resources
An unusual question
A historical or cultural thread
A musical or creative path

Choose a Rabbit Hole →

Look around. Follow something that catches your attention. You never know where it might lead.