Year: 2013

  • Lockers in the Library

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    eyoung

    Go from this…   to this!   Classes just started, and I bet your backpack is already full of notebooks, textbooks, and your laptop.  And now you need to checkout five library books.  How are you going to carry everything?  Well, you don’t have to schlep all your belongings around campus.  Did you know the…

  • Welcome Back, Paladins!

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    eyoung

    Welcome back to campus and welcome back to the library!  We hope you have a great first day and a great semester.  Remember to Ask a Librarian if you have any questions.

  • Library Collaborates on Peter Wexler Exhibit

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    eyoung

    The work of Peter Wexler, renowned New York theatre designer, producer, painter, sculptor and photographer, will be on display Aug. 26–Oct. 5 in the Thompson Gallery of Furman University’s Roe Art Building. The exhibition, “Creating a Digital Museum: The Art and Theatre Work of Peter Wexler,” is free and open to the public.  It is…

  • Students Return to Campus

    Students Return to Campus

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    Christy Allen

    Students are back on the campus of Furman University today. They are moving into their dorms, signing up for network credentials, setting up their laptops, attending events, and preparing for the start of the fall term on Tuesday. With all the bustle that accompanies the beginning of the school year, it is well worth taking…

  • “Judicial Homicide:” The Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti

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    jmonk

    23 Aug 1927 In April of 1920, five armed robbers stole the payroll of a shoe company in South Braintree, Massachusetts. The paymaster and the guard were both shot and killed in the process. The following month, four men were caught attempting to retrieve a vehicle that was assumed to have been linked to the…

  • Exciting New Changes in Digicenter

    Exciting New Changes in Digicenter

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    Christy Allen

    We are excited to announce that the Digicenter has a new name: The Digital Collections Center. This new name more clearly defines the work being done, and will bring more prominence and attention to the Library’s digital collections. In addition to the name change, the Digital Collections Center has a new manager. Rick Jones, formerly…

  • This Day in History: Plutonium-239 First Weighed

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    jmonk

    This day in history, in 1942, Glenn Seaborg and other University of Chicago scientists weighed the recently explored element plutonium for the first time.  The element was later used as the principal element in the Manhattan Project as well as later in the bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki. In researching this event,…

  • Early English Books Online

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    eyoung

    Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 – from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the…

  • This Day in History: Birth Anniversary of Menachem Begin and T.E. Lawrence

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    jmonk

    T.E. Lawrence, 125th  Birth Anniversary On August 16th, 1888, in Tremadoc, North Wales, T.E. Lawrence was born. He is best known for his alias “Lawrence of Arabia,” but he was also a British soldier, an archaeologist and writer. In the first World War, Lawrence was a British Intelligence Officer. He later lead the Arab revolt…

  • V-J Day: Anniversary

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    jmonk

    Today is Victory in Japan day! The fighting stopped today in 1945. The official ratification was signed on the USS Missouri at Tokyo on September 2nd. In the weeks prior to the surrender, the United States dropped two bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6th and 9th, respectively. On the 9th,…