Category: Digital Collections Center

  • “Nothing but rain, rain”

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    Christy Allen

    The Digital Collections Center is partnering with the Furman University Special Collections and Archives on the creation of a new digital collection titled “Civil War Correspondence.” The contents of the collection will include over 100 letters from Furman alumni who served in the Civil War. Among the letters is one written from Charles Manning Furman…

  • Peter Wexler Website Garners Praise

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    Christy Allen

    “The library team at Furman University has done some amazing work with customizing LibGuides v2 CMS templates to create a website for The Peter Wexler Digital Museum at Furman University.” So begins a blog post from Springshare, the company responsible for the library content management system, LibGuides. Dated May 1st, the blog post goes on to…

  • The Furman Cougar Project

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    eyoung

    The Digital Collections Center is proud to announce their first physical exhibit. The display includes beautiful wildlife photography from “The Furman Cougar Project” digital collection as well as animal skulls and a stop-motion camera.  The Furman Cougar Project began in 2008 as an effort to monitor and research cougars in south-central New Mexico.  Each summer…

  • Spring Exam Hours

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    eyoung

  • Furman University Presidents

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    Christy Allen

    The Board of Trustees recently announced the appointment of Dr. Elizabeth Davis as Furman University’s 12th President. See photographs of Furman’s presidents below: Additional Resources: – Presidential items in our digital collections – Presidential information from Special Collections and Archives  

  • Greenville Civil Rights Exhibit

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    Christy Allen

    The exhibit “Protests, Prayers, and Progress: Greenville’s Civil Rights Movement” opens to the public today at the Upcountry History Museum – Furman University. Set against the backdrop of the national Civil Rights movement, the exhibit focuses on the challenges and triumphs of Greenville area civil rights activists during the 1960s, as well as lesser known…

  • Happy New Year!

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    Christy Allen

    Furman University Library’s online Postcard Collections contain many treasures such as this New Year’s postcard from 1910. It was sent from a former student at Greenville Female College named Bessie to Stella Rossignol.                           The reverse of the postcard reads: Miss Stella Rossignol…

  • 391 issues of Paladin now online

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    Christy Allen

    The Furman Student Newspapers digital collection now contains 391 new issues of The Paladin. The additions to the collection span 17 years from September 1982 – October 1999. With this latest addition, the digital collection now contains over 2,000 items including all issues of the University’s original student newspaper the Hornet (1916-1961) and 30 years…

  • Cheer for our Champions

    Cheer for our Champions

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    eyoung

    Congratulations to the Lady Paladins!  On Sunday, they won the Southern Conference Championship.  You can read a recap of the exciting game by visiting the athletics’ site.  Women’s soccer was a varsity sport at Furman for the first time in 1994.  Previously it had been a club sport. A 1963 article in The Furman Paladin, shown below, announced the arrival of…

  • Digital Collections News Has a New Home

    Digital Collections News Has a New Home

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    Christy Allen

    The digital collections news and information that you love is moving to a new home! http://blogs.furman.edu/digitalcollections is being merged with several other Furman Library news blogs to provide our users with a “one stop shop” for news related to library events, resources, services, and more! Please check out our new home for digital collections news…