Category: James B. Duke Library

  • Schmooze with the Jews

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    eyoung

    Schmooze with the Jews outside the JBD Library today, September 5th, from 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.  Then visit the library’s book display! Encyclopaedia Judaica. Michael Berenbaum and Fred Skolnik, eds. 2nded. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2007. 18015 pp. 22 vols. Provides an exhaustive and organized overview of Jewish life and knowledge from the Second Temple period…

  • Labor Day Hours

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    eyoung

    In observance of Labor Day, the James B. Duke Library will be operating on an adjusted schedule: Sep 2 Sun 10:00am – 5:00pm Sep 3 Mon 10:00am – 1:00am Learn more about the history of Labor Day by visiting the United States Department of Labor website. Did you know that more than 100 years after the first Labor Day observance, there is still…

  • Help Shape Your University Library: Join LSAG

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    eyoung

    The Library Student Advisory Group (LSAG) is a group of students who: give the Library feedback when we need a student perspective; serve as a focus group for discussion of library issues; bring student needs and concerns to the Library’s attention and participate in discussions on how to respond to these needs (advocating for students); help bring Library…

  • The Senate Buys Jefferson’s Library

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    eyoung

    August 24, 1814 When the invading British army burned the United States Capitol building on this day, August 24, in 1814, they fueled the fire with 3,000 books from a small room that served as the congressional library. Among the Senate’s first orders of business, as it convened in temporary quarters ten blocks from the…

  • Education Curriculum Kit Giveaway

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    eyoung

  • Putting Streaming Video (FoD) in Moodle

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    Mary Fairbairn

    30,000+ documentary films 280,000+ video segments from these films that can stand alone All now available to be integrated into your Moodle courses. Let us know if you have any questions or problems. New to Films on Demand? Check it out.

  • Hungry Drovers Love Poetry

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    eyoung

    Furman University’s Special Collections and Archives is teaming up with The Hungry Drover on Saturday, August 18. Come for lunch and stay for a poetry reading, featuring poets from the newly-published anthology “Archive: South Carolina Poetry Since 2005.” Lunch 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM / Poetry Reading 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Edited by Furman…

  • Summer Interim Hours

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    eyoung

    August 9 is the last day of Summer Session II.  If you will be around between now and the first day of Fall Semester, the library is open so come and see us. Summer Interim Hours August 12 Sunday 1pm-5pm August 13 Monday 9am-5pm August 14 Tuesday 9am-5pm August 15 Wednesday 9am-5pm August 16 Thursday 9am-5pm…

  • Historic Stained Glass Windows

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    eyoung

    The Furman Course Catalog of 1899-1900 describes the new Alumni Hall that had just been erected on the downtown campus at a cost of twenty thousand dollars.  “The building is modern in construction and contains, besides two lecture rooms and two spacious halls for the Adelphian and Philosophian Societies, a large auditorium  . . . will…

  • 4th of July Hours

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    eyoung

    Due to the Independence Day holiday, the James B. Duke Library will close at 5:00 pm on Tuesday, July 3rd and will be closed on Wednesday, July 4th. We will reopen on Thursday, July 5th at 8:00 am. The full text of the Declaration of Independence can be found online via the library’s catalog.  Published by the Government…