October 2022

Aquatic Channels: Waterways, Water Resources, Fluvial Imagination opening October 29, 1 – 5 pm

Publication date October 25, 2022
Categories: Events, Exhibits, Hamon Arts Library
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Aquatic channels: waterways, water resources, fluvial imagination reflects on rivers as complex systems shaping human and non-human existence in their multiple roles as fundamental resources for sustenance of life, spaces of political dispute, sites of memory and construction of discourses about possible futures. Presenting the works of Laray Polk (Dallas, Texas), Carolina Caycedo and David…Continue Reading Aquatic Channels: Waterways, Water Resources, Fluvial Imagination opening October 29, 1 – 5 pm

Chili Cookoff

Publication date October 20, 2022
Categories: DeGolyer Library, Special Collections
Categories: books, Manuscripts, Texana

October and early November is chili cookoff season. The first cookoff took place at the State Fair of Texas in October 1952, where Mrs. F.G. Ventura was declared the winner. That same year one of the most essential books on chili was published. Joe E. Cooper’s With or Without Beans includes a recipe from E.L….Continue Reading Chili Cookoff

One foot in front of the other…

Publication date October 14, 2022
Categories: DeGolyer Library, Exhibits, Special Collections
Categories: Archives of Women of the Southwest, Manuscripts

Forty years ago, one sister made a promise to another, that she would end the silence around breast cancer; raise money for research; and to one day cure breast cancer for good. This was what Nancy Brinker promised to her sister Susan Goodman Komen who died of breast cancer in 1980. In 1982, Nancy had…Continue Reading One foot in front of the other…

Business Library 2022 STAR Award Winner – Hilary McIlvain

Publication date October 13, 2022
Categories: Business Library

2022 STAR Award Winner, Hilary McIvain, Business Library staff standing Hilary who is holding the award

The Business Library would like to congratulate Hilary McIlvain as the recipient of the Business Library’s 2022 Super Teacher Advocating Research (STAR) Award. Hilary has been instrumental in advocating for students to utilize library resources to develop next level research and career management skills through engaging with the Business Library through the BLI class series….Continue Reading Business Library 2022 STAR Award Winner – Hilary McIlvain

Video of Lecture: Celebrating the Danse Macabre with Kahn & Selesnick

Publication date October 11, 2022
Categories: Bridwell Library, Events
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Bridwell Library and SMU’s Department of Art History welcomed the collaborative artist team Kahn & Selesnick to campus September 21–23 for a number of public events around the opening of Bridwell’s autumn 2022 exhibition, Lead Stealing the Danse Macabre: Changing Roles & Identities in the Modern Dance of Death. View Bridwell’s current exhibition online or…Continue Reading Video of Lecture: Celebrating the Danse Macabre with Kahn & Selesnick

SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: September 2022

Publication date October 3, 2022
Categories: Digital Collections
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In September 2022, SMU Libraries uploaded 299 items into SMU Libraries Digital Collections. Highlights include: 82 cookbooks and recipes, 1797-1956, were added to the new DeGolyer Library Cookbook Collection. Among these are recipes handwritten in Spanish, as well as a number of printed cookbooks with attractive covers. Highlights include a book of tried and true…Continue Reading SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: September 2022