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  • Bonhomie Online (1901-1970)

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    eyoung

    The Furman University Libraries’ Digital Collections Center recently added the years 1961-1970 to the online collection of Bonhomie yearbooks. This latest batch of yearbooks is especially meaningful, because it covers the Civil Rights Era and the integration of Furman University. You can see numerous photographs of Joe Vaughn (the first African-American undergraduate student) starting in the…

  • TV Series on DVD

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    eyoung

    The library’s Media Collection includes television series on DVD. So, we made a Pinterest board of what we have! We have Downton Abbey, The Wire, 24, Battlestar Gallactica, Mad Men, Game of Thrones, House of Cards, Breaking Bad, and the list goes on and on.

  • Straight Talk SC

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    eyoung

    The Riley Institute and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute have partnered to bring to the Greenville community the annual Riley/OLLI Summer Series. This year marks the fifth annual summer series, Straight Talk SC, which takes place 6:30 – 8:30, Tuesday evenings, July 21 – August 11 in the Younts Conference Center on the Furman University campus. The program…

  • Audiobook Extravaganza

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    eyoung

    YES, it’s an audiobook avalanche!  We received a wonderful donation of mysteries and thrillers by authors such as Baldacci, Grafton and Patterson. We’ve got a little horror by Dean Koontz and new horror by Neil Gaiman. We’ve got new fiction by bestselling authors like Kate Atkinson, Dennis Lehane, and Kazuo Ishiguro. And you may not…

  • Furman Cougar Project

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    eyoung

    The Digital Collections Center is pleased to announce the newest collection to be migrated into CONTENTdm: The Furman Cougar Project. The Furman Cougar Project began in 2008 as an effort to monitor and research cougars in south-central New Mexico. Each summer Furman University Biology professor, Dr. Travis Perry, and his students travel to Sierra County, New…

  • A Librarian in Your Pocket

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    eyoung

    Got a question and a cell phone? Text your librarian at (864) 214-7172.

  • Summer O Photos

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    eyoung

    We were excited to meet over 400 incoming Freshmen and their parents during Summer Orientation! Each new student received a bag of library swag and an opportunity to win an iPad mini. Parents were given specially designed postcards to mail to their Paladins in the fall. Librarians Patricia Sasser and Andrea Wright met students and…

  • The Squarcialupi Codex

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    eyoung

    In 2014, the Maxwell Music Library made a large purchase – in every sense of that word! The Squarcialupi Codex is a facsimile of a 15th century manuscript named for its owner, the Italian organist and composer Antonio Squarcialupi. Squarcialupi did not create the Codex himself; rather, it was produced by the monastery of Santa…

  • Get Caught Listening

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    eyoung

    June is Audiobook Month We invite you to visit our display of audiobooks in the James B. Duke Library. Titles on display include Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn and Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Coast Trail by Cheryl Strayed. The books on CD in our Multimedia Collection cover all genres. Browse the shelves…

  • Welcome to Summer O!

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    eyoung

    Congratulations on your acceptance to Furman University!  We look forward to working with you during your academic career. The second day of your Summer Orientation will feature a Resource Fair in the Trone Student Center from 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.  We hope that you will stop by the Library’s information booth at the Fair.…