Dogs (and the Sanders Science Library) Are Your Best Friends A new display in the Sanders Science Library highlights several books, ebooks, and films from their collection about dogs. Titles include: A dog’s history of America : how our best friend explored, conquered, and settled a continent Origins of the domestic dog : the fossil . . .Continue reading Dogs in the Library
Category: Sanders Science Library
Clean & Sparkling Closure
The James B. Duke Library, including Special Collections will be closed on Thursday, June 2nd at 12 noon and reopen at 8am On Monday, June 6th for our annual carpet cleaning and preventive insect management. Maxwell Music Library and Sanders science Library will also be closed on Friday-Monday. During this time many of our resources . . .Continue reading Clean & Sparkling Closure
Up All Night in the Science Library
Anytime is the right time to study in the Sanders Science Library during finals week. We’ll be open all night before exam days, so come on over when you need that perfect place to review for exams or finish up term papers. And, as always, the snack fairy arrives at midnight! Sanders Science Library Exam Week . . .Continue reading Up All Night in the Science Library
Request This Item
We have activated a new option in the online library catalog – you now have the ability to place a hold for any circulating item (books, DVDs, audiobooks, scores), to pick up at any library location. Simply click through to the item you desire, and click the “Request This Item” button at the top of . . .Continue reading Request This Item
On Display in the Sanders Science Library
Currently on display in the Sanders Science Library is a selection of interesting books about the periodic table. Titles include: The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements Seven Elements That Changed the World: An Adventure of Ingenuity and Discovery A . . .Continue reading On Display in the Sanders Science Library
On Display: Birds and the Bees
Currently on display in the Sanders Science Library is a selection of materials from our collection relating to “the birds and the bees.” Titles include: Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex Dawn of the Deed: The Prehistoric Origins of Sex Sex on Six Legs: Lessons on Life, Love, and Language From the Insect World . . .Continue reading On Display: Birds and the Bees
Free Books
Thank you for assisting us with our science deselection project last semester. Now we are in the process of redistributing the books that we have withdrawn from the collection. Traditionally we send the books we withdraw to Better World Books or to Greenville Literacy. However, based on several requests, we have decided to offer withdrawn . . .Continue reading Free Books
Up All Night in the Science Library!
Anytime is the right time to study in the Sanders Science Library during finals week. We’ll be open all night before exam days, so come on over when you need that perfect place to review for exams or finish up term papers. Sanders Science Library Exam Week Hours: Wednesday, December 9 8:30 . . .Continue reading Up All Night in the Science Library!
What is Open Access?
What is Open Access? Open Access is free, immediate, online availability of research articles with full re-use rights. Open Access is about making all scientific research content available for anyone anywhere in the world to read and access and build upon so people can do interesting things in new ways with the materials. The idea . . .Continue reading What is Open Access?
Open Access Open House
Are you interested in making your research openly accessible online? Come to the Open Access Open House sponsored by the Furman University Libraries. Enjoy a free cupcake, chat with librarians, explore Open Access materials available in the Furman University Scholar Exchange (FUSE), win fee prizes, and play games. Can’t make it to the Open House? . . .Continue reading Open Access Open House