Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center This comprehensive resource for career exploration and planning allows users to quickly find the valuable career information they need, whether it’s industry and professions articles, school planning resources, or skills and career advice. This online resource can be accessed from the All Databases link on the library’s homepage. Highlights: Industries and . . .Continue reading Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center
Category: Research Resources
ILL and PASCAL Deadlines
Classes end April 24th! 4/17/18 – the last day to submit Interlibrary Loan requests for books, audiobooks, DVDs, and music scores 4/23/18 – the last day to submit Interlibrary Loan requests for articles These deadlines apply only to those items needed before the end of Spring term. Requests submitted after these deadlines will be addressed . . .Continue reading ILL and PASCAL Deadlines
Recently Activated Database Trials
The Furman University Libraries are offering a selection of database trials. To discover and access trial databases, visit the library’s guide for Electronic Resources Trials. The Princeton Index of Medieval Art The Index of Medieval Art online database includes images and descriptive data relating to works of art produced between early apostolic times and the sixteenth century. . . .Continue reading Recently Activated Database Trials
Freedom of Information Day
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION DAY 2018: LIBERTY AND OPEN ACCESS TO ALL On March 16, we celebrate the anniversary of former President James Madison. But that day, we also celebrate the legacy he and the founders of this country left us – open government. It is only natural that libraries, which promote open access to information . . .Continue reading Freedom of Information Day
Queen Victoria’s Journals
The History Department has chosen to spend a portion of their appropriation for library purchases for Fiscal Year 2018 on perpetual access to Queen Victoria’s Journals. These journals start when Queen Victoria was only 13 years old and continue to her death. This exciting resource is now available through our All Databases Page. Queen Victoria’s Journals . . .Continue reading Queen Victoria’s Journals
Oxford Research Encyclopedias
The Furman University Libraries are offering a trial for seven Oxford Research Encyclopedias through Wednesday, March 7, 2018. To discover and access trial databases, visit the library’s guide for Electronic Resources Trials. The Oxford Research Encyclopedias (OREs) offer long-form overview articles written, peer-reviewed, and edited by leading scholars. The OREs cover both foundational and cutting-edge topics in . . .Continue reading Oxford Research Encyclopedias
Recently Activated Database Trials
The Furman University Libraries are offering a selection of database trials through February 28. To discover and access trial databases, visit the library’s guide for Electronic Resources Trials. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Los Angeles Sentinel ProQuest Historical Newspapers: St. Louis Post Dispatch These historical newspapers provide genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage . . .Continue reading Recently Activated Database Trials
Dr. Johnny Hill’s Publications
The Student Diversity Council (SDC), Mere Christianity Forum (MCF), and the Furman NAACP would like to invite you to an upcoming CLP. Furman will be hosting Dean Johnny Hill. He will address current events of injustice facing our world today including significant moments charged with racial and religious complexity like the riots in Charlottesville, VA and the assassination of 9 . . .Continue reading Dr. Johnny Hill’s Publications
Newly Activated Database Trials
AP: The Middle East Bureaus Collection With stories stemming from Jerusalem, Ankara, Beirut, and their surrounding areas, these records include news stories in the form of typescript carbons or wire copy. Among the most covered topics are military operations, civil and global wars, diplomacy, refugees, cultural clashes, and terrorism, providing dynamic, real-time insights from the . . .Continue reading Newly Activated Database Trials
MLK Holiday Schedule
In observance of the national holiday in Dr. King’s honor, the James B. Duke Library will be operating on an adjusted schedule. January 14 Sunday 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. January 15 Monday 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 a.m. A selection of books by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in the . . .Continue reading MLK Holiday Schedule