Library Student Assistant Raises HAVOC!

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 . . .Continue reading Library Student Assistant Raises HAVOC!

An Evening with Thomas Rain Crowe ’72

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 . . .Continue reading An Evening with Thomas Rain Crowe ’72

Book Illustration Processes: 1498-2016

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 . . .Continue reading Book Illustration Processes: 1498-2016

Celebrating Disability Inclusion

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 . . .Continue reading Celebrating Disability Inclusion