Author: Christy Allen
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Art Slide Library
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For decades, art students were introduced to famous artwork through in-class slide presentations. Slides are small squares of color film suspended in a cardboard frame. Professors could build an entire slide show for a class by inserting individual slides into cartridges or carousels (pictured right). It was a fairly common practice for a college or…
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Tame Wild Textbook Prices!
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Did you know: Furman students spend an estimated $1,270 on textbooks each year (1) the cost of college textbooks has increased 88% in the last 10 years (2) there are free online open textbooks written by scholars in most academic disciplines there are Furman faculty who are using and creating open textbooks for their classes…
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Libraries Celebrate Faculty Scholarship
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On February 24, the Libraries and the Office of the Provost hosted Furman’s first Faculty Scholarship Reception to recognize and celebrate the scholarly publications and creative works of Furman faculty members. The reception, held in the Blackwell Atrium of the James B. Duke Library, showcased over 170 examples of scholarship published by 87 faculty members…
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Isaqueena
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“Our magazine bears the name of one who is indeed famous in tradition for her perseverance and heroism in bearing such important news to her friends” writes Louise Scarborough, student editor of the Isaqueena, the literary magazine of the Greenville Woman’s College first published in 1906. Over 90 issues of the Isaqueena have been scanned…
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C-SPAN Broadcasts at Furman
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http://www.c-span.org/video/?405030-1/furman-university-special-collections-archives On the weekend of February 20 – 21, the cable networks C-SPAN, C-SPAN2, and C-SPAN3 featured programs about Greenville, SC. Many of the programs involved Furman faculty including Courtney Tollison (History), Akan Malici (Political Science), and Jeff Makala, Furman’s Special Collections Librarian and University Archivist. Read more about the programs in an article…
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Libraries Open at 10am
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Furman University will be operating on a delayed scheduled Tuesday, Feb. 16. The university will open with the start of 10 a.m. classes. As such, the Libraries will be opening at 10am as well.
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Website Maintenance: 2/10 (Completed)
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The Library’s web server maintenance is complete! The library.furman.edu web server will be inaccessible due to scheduled maintenance on Wednesday, February 10th from 12:01am – 2:00am. The following web services will be unavailable during this time: the Special Collections website the http://library.furman.edu URL the “Text a Call Number” function in the Library’s Catalog The computers…
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Library Databases Now Accessible
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Due to unforeseen technical difficulties, the majority of the library’s databases were unavailable both on-campus and off-campus for about 1 hour on February 8th, 2016. Users trying to access the databases received the following cryptic error message: “Maximum sessions reached, please try again later.” We appreciated your patience as we worked to quickly resolve this…
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Color Our Collections!
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Do freshly sharpened color pencils make you smile? Do you wish that perfume came in “crayon scent”? Do you feel the need, the need for a felt-tip marker? Then you might have fallen victim to the new coloring craze that’s sweeping the nation. If you’re on the hunt for new coloring sheets, look no further…
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Furman’s History in Pictures
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The burning of the Furman Bell Tower, the Scarlet fever quarantine of 1906, the May Day pageants of Greenville Woman’s College – all this and more can be found in the new “Furman Historical Images” digital collection. Spanning 150 years, the collection contains nearly 2800 photographs and glass plate negatives of Greenville Woman’s College, Furman’s…