Author: Christy Allen
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The Libraries are Here to Help!
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The Furman Libraries are currently closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but we are still here to help you with your research needs! Check out our COVID-19 Remote Learning Guide to learn how we can help you. Read the most up-to-date information regarding Furman’s response to COVID-19.
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Off- Campus Access to Library Databases – Downtime
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Off-campus access to library databases/e-resources will be unavailable beginning tomorrow, March 12th, at 9am due to a server migration. There may be intermittent downtime throughout the morning. As part of this migration, E-Book Central may be unavailable from both on and off-campus, throughout the morning. After the migration is complete, all accounts in E-Book Central…
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Libraries Celebrate Faculty Achievements
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The Furman University Libraries and the Office of the Provost cordially invite you to a celebration of scholarly and creative achievements in 2019. The reception will showcase Furman faculty members who have completed a degree, received a grant from an external funding source totaling more than $1,000, and/or published books, book chapters, journal articles, exhibits,…
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Newspaper Editorials Foreshadow the Civil War
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Back in 1997, Dr. Lloyd Benson, Furman’s Walter Kenneth Mattison Professor of History, launched an ambitious online project titled “Secession Era Editorials.” The purpose of the website was to provide online access to political newspaper editorials written in the “secession era”, a precursor to the American Civil War. On his original website, Dr. Benson noted:…
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Furman Honors Joseph Vaughn
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Jan. 29th is now a day of remembrance, celebration, and hope in honor of Furman’s first African American undergraduate student, Joseph Vaughn. Read more about the Joseph Vaughn Day Commemoration Ceremony held on Jan. 29th, 2020. You can learn more about Joseph Vaughn by exploring Furman’s digital collections: Photos from Yearbooks: 1965 (on steps of…
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Students Enhance Furman’s Coin Collection
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Furman’s Richard Prior Coin Collection is now available online thanks to Furman summer research fellows Rebecca Fulford (’21) and Allyson Stevens (’21). The two fellows, under the direction of Chiara Palladino, Assistant Professor of Classics, collaborated with the Libraries’ Special Collections & Archives and the Digital Collections Center to complete their project. First, they described…
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Jewish Week Events
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Jewish Week is here and the Jewish Student Association has a lot of great events planned. In partnership with them, your Furman Libraries are displaying a series of posters from the U.S. National Holocaust Memorial Museum. See below for a full list of JSA events for the week. Monday, January 27th –…
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A View of Furman’s Past
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Early 20th century Furman viewbooks are now available online in the Furman University Viewbooks collection. According to Merriam-Webster, a viewbook is “a promotional booklet with pictures that is published by a college or university and used especially for recruiting students.” As photographs became easier and cheaper to create and mass-produce in the late 19th century,…
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When is a Bulletin Not a Bulletin?
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The Furman Bulletin is, perhaps, one of the University’s most interesting and confusing publications. And now it’s available online in all its glory as the Furman Bulletins digital collection. The Bulletins began in January 1912 with the dedication of the James C. Furman Hall of Science and ended in 1974 as a 4-page profile of…
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Thanksgiving Holiday Hours
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The Thanksgiving Hours for the Furman Libraries are as follows: Duke Library Nov 26 Tuesday: 8:00am – 5:00pm Nov 27 Wednesday: Closed Nov 28 Thursday: Closed Nov 29 Friday: Closed Nov 30 Saturday: Closed Dec 1 Sunday: 5:00pm – 1:00am Music Library Nov 26 Tuesday: 8:00am – 4:00pm Nov 27 Wednesday: Closed Nov 28 Thursday:…