Category: Special Collections
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Sending You Thanksgiving Wishes
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Happy Thanksgiving to all of our Furman family! Enjoy the following Thanksgiving themed postcards from our Mary C. Judson postcard collection. The text of the postcards appears above the images. Best Wishes for a Happy Thanksgiving If Wishes Could Make You Happy If wishes could make you happy I’d Wish and Wish so…
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The Paladin Project
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Hear ye, hear ye, all students and campus clubs! Special Collection and Archives would like to invite you to contribute to the Paladin Project. This ongoing collaboration with student organizations is dedicated to preserving the full story of campus life. No detail is too small and no club is too niche. If it mattered to…
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Digital Collections Now Easier to Use!
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Furman University is in the process of migrating their extensive digital collections to a new software, TIND Digital Archive (TIND DA). With its modern and intuitive user interface and advanced metadata tools, TIND DA will help Furman make its materials more accessible and easier to use for researchers, students, and the public. Explore Furman’s Digital…
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Digital Collections Website Unavailable
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Don’t tear your hair out! Our Digital Collections website is currently unavailable as we migrate our software from CONTENTdm to TIND DA. We anticipate the collections being available by Friday, November 7th. Furman University’s digital collections contain nearly 250K items, including historical photographs, audio recordings of concerts and recitals, University publications, manuscripts, and rare books.…
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Wednesdays are Wonderful All Summer Long
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Every summer, the people who work for and in the Furman Libraries enjoy a fun break on Wednesday afternoons at 3pm. They gather on the front porch, sharing snacks, laughs, and conversation. This tradition, known as “Wonderful Wednesday”, started over 20 years ago, and has been an essential part of the library’s culture ever since.…
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Donate to Help Improve our Digital Collections!
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Do you love looking through old photos? Reading old handwritten letters? Learning about the history of Furman University? Then you should check out the library’s digital collections! This year for Dins Day, we are raising money to improve our digital collections software. We plan to move our historical photographs, manuscripts, and rare books to a…
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Explore Furman’s StoryMaps
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Members of the Furman community are creating compelling digital storytelling and mapping websites thanks to ESRI’s ArcGIS StoryMaps software. For the first time, Furman-created StoryMaps are now accessible in one place. The new Digital Storytelling and Mapping Portal located in the University’s institutional repository (FUSE) allows users to explore a rich selection of StoryMaps created…
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Postcard Collections on Display
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The new display in the Duke Library’s foyer showcases postcards. Special Collections and Archives houses several postcard collections: from Furman and the Greenville Woman’s College; from Greenville; tourist sites and locales from around South Carolina; and prominent buildings and sites from around the USA. We also have a collection of postcards from Camp Sevier, the…
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Skating Along at Furman
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Finals are nearly over and the winter break is fast approaching! The Furman Libraries’ website celebrates the impending break with a festive image of skaters on Furman’s lake. This photograph was most likely taken in January of 1977. It was a particularly cold winter that year with a few snow storms and several weeks of…
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Libraries Receive Gift of 17th and 18th Century Literature
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Earlier this year, Dr. Duncan McArthur (English, emeritus) gave the Furman Libraries a collection of early printing that he has spent a lifetime assembling for his own teaching and research. “The Duncan McArthur Collection of Early Newspapers, Magazines, and Periodical Essays” is rich in some of the earliest printed periodicals and is now available for…