SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: November 2024

Grupo de Tehuanas, ca. 1906, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

In November 2024, SMU Libraries uploaded 330 items into SMU Libraries Digital Collections. Highlights include: 138 negatives, ca.  1930s, from the Robert Yarnall Richie Photograph Collection. Highlights include a series of images of the American Radiator Building (today the Bryant Park Hotel) in New York City and images from the Texas State Fair in the centennial year of 1936….Continue Reading SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: November 2024

Hawn Gallery Opens Student Curated Exhibition

Grey and black drawing with multiple human faces and birds

If you are a regular visitor to the Hamon Arts Library, you will have noticed that the Hawn Gallery has not looked much like a gallery since May. The space has been used as a temporary site for storage and for processing special collections for the last six months. This is about to change as…Continue Reading Hawn Gallery Opens Student Curated Exhibition

Through the Looking Glass: Searching for Scholarship with AI

Many of us are familiar with the problem of hallucination with generative AI tools. ChatGPT produces citations to sources that seem very real yet are utter fabrications. This is because the AI tool, in order to produce an answer, is not referencing actual sources, but rather what it has learned from its training data. In…Continue Reading Through the Looking Glass: Searching for Scholarship with AI

Looking for Databases? The Search is Over!

If you’re conducting research on campus, SMU Libraries has many resources available to support you, whether you are preparing for a class project, conducting a literature review for a conference proposal, or just interested in learning more about a topic. These resources can be found by checking out research guides, which are helpful as starting…Continue Reading Looking for Databases? The Search is Over!

State of the Art Internship Opportunity at Hamon Arts Library

Photo of Hawn Gallery

With the announcement of the Hawn Gallery Internship, open to Art History majors and minors, the Hamon Arts Library is now offering the opportunity to learn about the curatorial process first-hand. The internship will focus on supporting exhibitions in the Hawn Gallery, located in Hamon, and will involve archival and collection management duties in the…Continue Reading State of the Art Internship Opportunity at Hamon Arts Library

SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: October 2024

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

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

Spooked by Research? SMU Libraries Can Help!

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

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

 

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