Category: Events

  • Discover Library Resources: Employee Professional Development Sessions

    Discover Library Resources: Employee Professional Development Sessions

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    Miles Dame

    Are you making the most of the resources available to you through Furman University Libraries? Whether you’re looking for books to read for pleasure or want to stay up to date with the latest news publications, we have two upcoming sessions designed to help you unlock the full potential of our library collections. Shelf Secrets:…

  • Postcard Collections on Display

    Postcard Collections on Display

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    Jeffrey Makala

    The new display in the Duke Library’s foyer showcases postcards. Special Collections and Archives houses several postcard collections: from Furman and the Greenville Woman’s College; from Greenville; tourist sites and locales from around South Carolina; and prominent buildings and sites from around the USA. We also have a collection of postcards from Camp Sevier, the…

  • Discover Stories of Resilience and Resistance at Our Upcoming CLP Events

    Discover Stories of Resilience and Resistance at Our Upcoming CLP Events

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    Miles Dame

    Furman University Libraries are excited to announce two thought-provoking events as part of the Cultural Life Program (CLP) this February. Both events spotlight powerful narratives on the importance of representation, access, and freedom in the world of libraries and education. Mark your calendars and join us for these inspiring evenings! Black Librarianship Through Our EyesThursday,…

  • International Education Week

    International Education Week

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    Miles Dame

    Every year, the Library celebrates the richness that international learning adds to the Furman Advantage. This includes all the international students that come to study at Furman as well as all the opportunities to travel away that come with semester and May X programs. This year, international students participated in hanging flags from around the…

  • Cothran Center Conversations Now Online

    Cothran Center Conversations Now Online

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    Christy Allen

    Recordings of recent Cothran Center Conversations on Meaning and Purpose are now online thanks to a partnership between the Cothran Center and the Libraries’ Digital Collections Center. Cothran Conversations are led by Furman staff and faculty who share their vocational stories, along with their basic beliefs and values. Students, faculty, staff, and community members are…

  • Medieval Manuscripts: Treasures from Furman’s Collections

    Medieval Manuscripts: Treasures from Furman’s Collections

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    Jeffrey Makala

           The largest corpus of objects of material culture from the medieval period in the West come to us as examples of textual culture: handwritten manuscripts on treated animal skin (parchment, or vellum) and, later in the 15th century, early printed books. Considering surviving textiles, household objects, and even architecture in stone, it…

  • Libraries Host Furman’s First Juneteenth Commemoration

    Libraries Host Furman’s First Juneteenth Commemoration

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    Madeline Eastergard

    On June 18th, the day before Furman’s university holiday to mark Juneteenth, several Furman faculty and staff gathered on the front porch of the library to host Furman’s first campus-wide commemoration of Juneteenth. As the summer session’s only CLP event, it was attended by over 60 people on a hot summer day, with everyone pausing…

  • Faculty-Student Collaborative Exhibition: “Mice and Men: Evolutionary Thought and Heredity in Nineteenth Century America”

    Faculty-Student Collaborative Exhibition: “Mice and Men: Evolutionary Thought and Heredity in Nineteenth Century America”

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    Madeline Eastergard

    This spring, the library mounted an exhibition based on two research projects undertaken largely in Special Collections last summer. Curated by Dr. Gretchen Braun (English) and Catherine Davis ’24 with help from Jeffrey Makala, the exhibition traces links between scientific advances in racial science and heredity in the nineteenth century and its reactions, debates, and…

  • Record-breaking grant funds celebrated at reception

    Record-breaking grant funds celebrated at reception

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    Madeline Eastergard

    This article was originally published by Furman News. Written by Jerry Salley. The Furman Scholarship Reception on Feb. 16, sponsored by the Office of the Provost and Furman University Libraries, showcased 159 scholarly and creative works. It was also a celebration of more than 40 external research grant awards received during 2023, totaling upward of…

  • Library Graduates

    Library Graduates

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    Miles Dame

    The libraries are proud to have employed many of the recent graduates. On behalf of all of us in the libraries, congratulations! Read more about a few of these Furman alumni and their post graduation plans below. Anna Clare O’Gorman Anna Clare studied anthropology and linguistics and worked at the research assistance desk. What do…