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…
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
In Dallas, the arrival of the fall season may or may not deliver cooler temperatures, but one can always count on the State Fair of Texas to bring plenty of pig races, cattle contests, craft exhibits, corn dogs and yet another new way to fry food. The Dallas Morning News collection, part of the Belo…Continue Reading Let’s Go to the Fair!
Did you know the Business Library has this equipment? stands to elevate computer monitors (Request at the Business Library service desk) ear-plugs for times when more focused studying is necessary (Ask at our service desk) PC mice if yours runs away (Check out with SMU ID from any library staff member) If you have questions…Continue Reading The Business Library has…