Year: 2017

  • Library Student Assistant Raises HAVOC!

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    Library Student Worker Raises HAVOC! Susannah Lauber, a senior Spanish major from Wheaton, IL, enjoys her job in the James B Duke Library  as an Interlibrary Loan Assistant. But her work with The Hispanic Alliance of Greenville really tugs on her heartstrings. When Furman’s annual FUNdraising challenge, HAVOC, came around, she triple-Lutzed her way (on…

  • CLICK HERE to win a study room for a month!

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    eyoung

    The library has created a private, upgraded study room reserved for the “Scholar of the Month” and their friends.  Perks include: exclusive access to the upgraded study room for one month (think of it as your own office in the library for the month of November!) floor-to-ceiling dry erase wall comfy lounge chair large study table…

  • An Evening with Thomas Rain Crowe ’72

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    An Evening with Thomas Rain Crowe ’72 Poet, essayist, boat-rocker, translator, publisher, environmentalist, musician, sustainability advocate and owner and editor of New Native Press in Cullowhee, N.C., Thomas Rain Crowe (Furman Class of 1972) will speak on campus Wednesday, October 18 at 7 p.m. in the Watkins Room of the Trone Student Center. “An Evening With Thomas…

  • Database Trial: Life Magazine Archive

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    eyoung

    Life magazine features story-telling through documentary photographs and informative captions. Issues visually depict national and international events and topical stories, providing views of real people and their real life situations. Life Magazine Archive includes coverage from the first issue in November, 1936 through December, 2000.  Search options include limiting your results to publication date and document…

  • Database Trial: Ethnic NewsWatch

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    eyoung

    Ethnic NewsWatch (ENW) is a collection of full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press. This resource includes unique community publications not found in any other database, as well as top scholarly journals on ethnicities and ethnic studies. Ethnic NewsWatch comprehensively covers these ethnic categories: African American/Caribbean/African Arab/Middle Eastern Asian/Pacific Islander European/Eastern…

  • Book Illustration Processes: 1498-2016

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    eyoung

    Illustrations have been important components of books from the start. Woodcut images appeared in the first printed books, and even preceded them in early blockbooks and prints made in Germany in the early- to mid-fifteenth century. Because books were printed using relief processes from the fifteenth through late twentieth centuries, many different types of relief…

  • Indigenous Peoples’ Day

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    Indigenous Peoples’ Day is a holiday that celebrates the Indigenous peoples of North America. It is celebrated in various localities in the United States. It began as a counter-celebration to Columbus Day, promoting Native American culture and commemorating the history of Native American peoples. – from Wikipedia Columbus Day, in the United States, holiday (originally October…

  • Celebrating Disability Inclusion

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    eyoung

    October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month. The Furman Libraries and the Student Office for Accessibility Resources are celebrating with a display in the Research Commons of the Duke Library. The display features an informational poster (with a Braille translation) and a selection of disability-related fiction and non-fiction books available for check-out. There is also…

  • Meet the Scholar of the Month!

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    Congratulations to Aynsley (’19)! She is the lucky winner of the Scholar of the Month contest.  As Scholar of the Month, Aynsley wins a private study room in the library for the month of October. Perks of the Scholar of the Month room include: • floor to ceiling dry erase wall • super-duper comfy chair…

  • Newly Added Audiobooks

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    eyoung

    The Furman University Libraries have a growing collection of popular fiction and non-fiction titles on CD. This collection is located to the left of the Circulation Desk at the James B. Duke Library, and across from the Circulation Desk in the Sanders Science Library. New additions to the audiobook collection include the following titles:       …