SMU football fans are celebrating the team’s first ACC season with a playoff against Penn State University this week. The Mustangs and Nittany Lions have only met twice in their long history. The 1948 Cotton Bowl Classic ended in a tie, and Penn State won the 1978 game at home. SMU’s first football game…Continue Reading Pony Up! Over a century of SMU football
Worried about contentious political conversations ruining the holidays? The DeGolyer has just the sign for you! This sign comes from John Crichton of the Brick Row Book Shop in San Francisco. As Crichton recounts, early in his career, he would frequently visit the legendary Vermont bookseller Ken Leach. Ken had this broadside hanging outside his…Continue Reading Blunt Broadsides
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
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
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
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!
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
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
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
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