Month: July 2024

DeGolyer Library Digital Cookbook Collection

Looking for a little culinary inspiration? The DeGolyer Library Cookbook Collection features dozens of cookbooks and recipes available to browse in our digital library. If you’re fluent in Spanish and able to read cursive, take a look at Resetas de guisos particulares para el uso de Doña Maria Josefa de la Luz Tapia, written in…Continue Reading DeGolyer Library Digital Cookbook Collection

Friends of SMU Libraries awards $49,700

The Friends of SMU Libraries convened on May 6, 2024, for their Annual Dinner and Meeting. The Friends hosted author and journalist Rena Pederson, who served on the Pulitzer Prize Board for nine years and as the Vice President and Editorial Page Editor of the Dallas Morning News for sixteen. Also during the meeting, the…Continue Reading Friends of SMU Libraries awards $49,700

SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: June 2024

With Arthur Luckhaus in France, [Page 43], ca. 1910-1919, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

In June 2024, SMU Libraries uploaded 304 items in SMU Libraries Digital Collections. Highlights include: 47 negatives, ca. 1950s, from the Richard Steinheimer Photograph Collection. Subjects include a Muni bus at San Francisco’s “Playland at the Beach”, the Key System Transit Line in Oakland, California, and a colored image of a Santa Fe train at a station….Continue Reading SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: June 2024