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SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: October 2024

Publication date November 1, 2024
Categories: Digital Collections
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School Teacher and Students, 1915, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

In October 2024, SMU Libraries uploaded 306 items in SMU Libraries Digital Collections. Highlights include: 116 prints and transparencies, most ca. 1930s-1950s, from the Robert Yarnall Richie Photographs. Highlights include three photographs of men working at Dugan Bakeries as well as 80 images of oil facilities and daily life on oil refinery compounds, which were taken for…Continue Reading SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: October 2024

“Hi! How Can I Help?”: Ask Us at SMU Libraries

Publication date October 31, 2024
Categories: Student Success

Ask Us at SMU Libraries is our chat service that allows people, affiliated with SMU or not, to connect with SMU librarians in real-time. We do our best to answer questions on the spot, but more specialized inquiries are followed up by emails from others, including individuals who work with special collections and subject librarians….Continue Reading “Hi! How Can I Help?”: Ask Us at SMU Libraries

Remembering Joan Gosnell, SMU Treasure

Publication date October 29, 2024
Categories: DeGolyer Library

Everyone who had the chance to know Joan Gosnell immediately loved her. I first encountered Joan during my first year as a student at SMU, when I asked if she might be able to find any information on my great-grandfather who lived in Dallas. In a move that would surprise nobody who has worked with…Continue Reading Remembering Joan Gosnell, SMU Treasure

Spooked by Research? SMU Libraries Can Help!

Publication date October 29, 2024
Categories: Research & Teaching, Student Success

Do you have an upcoming end-of-semester research assignment? If so, you might consider using some of the databases SMU Libraries subscribes to that can make the research and writing process less stressful for you during this busy season. Here are some of our recommendations by area of study: Business Bloomberg: An essential for all Cox…Continue Reading Spooked by Research? SMU Libraries Can Help!

SMU vs Duke, 1952

Publication date October 24, 2024
Categories: DeGolyer Library

When the SMU Mustangs play the Duke Blue Devils on Saturday, Oct. 26, 2024, in Durham, N.C., it will be only the third time the two programs have met on the gridiron. SMU and Duke met for the very first time on Sept. 26, 1952, in the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. SMU lost 14-7 in…Continue Reading SMU vs Duke, 1952

Get ready for Halloween with Psycho (1960) and the Cinematography of John L. Russell

Publication date October 21, 2024
Categories: Events, Hamon Arts Library, Special Collections
Categories: Halloween, Hamon Arts Library, Jones Film Collection

The Jones Film & Video Collection in the Hamon Arts Library will host an evening of film and television history on Tuesday, October 29th, 7pm, in the Jeff Gordon Film Collection and Screening Room, 3rd floor Hamon Library. The event is free and open to the public. Shortly before filming Psycho, Russell worked as the cinematographer for…Continue Reading Get ready for Halloween with Psycho (1960) and the Cinematography of John L. Russell

A League of Our Own

Publication date October 18, 2024
Categories: News

This Saturday, the Mustangs will take on the Stanford University Cardinals football team at Stanford in Palo Alto, CA. I like to think that our SMU family will feel at home on the Stanford campus. While SMU enters a new era as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), we are not new to…Continue Reading A League of Our Own

Seasons of Change at Bridwell Library

Publication date October 16, 2024
Categories: Bridwell Library

In his introduction to the latest edition of the Bridwell Quarterly, library director Anthony Elia writes, “Every season offers us something to consider, reflect upon, and deal with. This spring and summer were no exception.” This is certainly true in the case of Bridwell Library, as is detailed in the newest editions of the Quarterly,…Continue Reading Seasons of Change at Bridwell Library

Getting to Know the Hamon Arts Library New Fine Arts Librarian

Publication date October 15, 2024
Categories: Hamon Arts Library, Research & Teaching
Categories: Art & Art History, Dance, Fashion Media, Hamon Arts Library, meet the librarians

Kate Alleman has joined the staff at the Hamon Arts Library as our Fine Arts Librarian. As part of the Teaching and Learning Team, Kate will handle library instruction for Art History, Studio Art, Dance, and Fashion Media as well as Common Curriculum Writing and Reasoning (WRTR) courses. Kate’s most recent position has been at…Continue Reading Getting to Know the Hamon Arts Library New Fine Arts Librarian

The Plot Thickens…for the Ron Davis Oral History Collection

Publication date October 11, 2024
Categories: DeGolyer Library

Fan of the Golden Age of Hollywood? Then make sure to check out TCM’s newest season of The Plot Thickens, its podcast dedicated to in-depth explorations of Hollywood history. This season is all about director John Ford, winner of six Academy Awards and considered one of Hollywood’s first auteurs. To tell the story of the…Continue Reading The Plot Thickens…for the Ron Davis Oral History Collection