Category: From the Director
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The Furman Libraries have 436,707 print books in our collection (at last count). Even with all of those titles, sometimes a member of our University community needs a research resource that we don’t have. Under those circumstances we look first to our South Carolina academic library partners. Over 25 years ago Furman was instrumental in…
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Thanksgiving break is just a week away, and exams will be looming large when we return. I can still vividly recall the stress of college exams, how they seemed to sneak up on me every semester. Despite feeling prepared, I’d often find myself caught in the campus-wide wave of anxiety, surrounded by towering stacks of…
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In July we bid farewell to long time colleague and library faculty member Laura Baker. Laura began her tenure at Furman in 2001 as our Interlibrary Loan Librarian, becoming an Outreach Librarian in 2013. She was promoted to Associate Librarian in 2020. Laura’s outstanding record of librarianship, teaching, advising and mentorship of students, leadership in…