Baseball fans have waited all season to see who will battle for the World Series championship. The formidable Houston Astros swept the Yankees and now they are looking to beat the wildcard Philadelphia Phillies. Many of these players began their career in the…Continue Reading Texas League: we knew them when…
News from the DeGolyer Library November 2022 Closing Soon! The Joy of Cooking: Two Centuries of Cookbooks at the DeGolyer Library The Joy of Cooking: Two Centuries of Cookbooks at the DeGolyer Library highlights some of the vast collection of cookbooks preserved in our library. These cookbooks are a storehouse of recipes, as well as a…Continue Reading News from the DeGolyer Library November 2022
In October 2022, SMU Libraries uploaded 278 items into SMU Libraries Digital Collections. Highlights include: 140 photographs and postcards, ca. 1903-1975, from the John Miller Morris Real Photographic Postcards and Photographs of Texas collection. This project was made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services and Texas State Library…Continue Reading SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: October 2022
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
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
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…
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
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
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
News from the DeGolyer Library October 2022 Open With Expanded Hours! The Joy of Cooking: Two Centuries of Cookbooks at the DeGolyer Library The Joy of Cooking: Two Centuries of Cookbooks at the DeGolyer Library highlights some of the vast collection of cookbooks preserved in our library. These cookbooks are a storehouse of recipes, as well…Continue Reading News from the DeGolyer Library October 2022