Month: May 2025

Friends of SMU Libraries awards $45,500 in scholarships and grants

  • Publication date May 13, 2025
  • Categories: Giving, News

A true friend of SMU Libraries The Friends of SMU Libraries had another successful year of programming and raising funds to support SMU Libraries. At this year’s Annual Dinner and Meeting, Friends director Amy Carver announced the organization has awarded $45,500 to vital projects and programs at SMU Libraries. The Friends celebrated this achievement and…Continue Reading Friends of SMU Libraries awards $45,500 in scholarships and grants

Art donation on display at Fondren and Hamon Arts Library

Fondren and Hamon Arts Library display works of art The Modern Masters Tapestries series, which hung in the DeGolyer Library Reading Room before a renovation of Fondren was completed in 2016, are on display in Fondren’s Collaborative Commons and other areas of the library. Now, Hamon Arts Library plans to install several remaining items from…Continue Reading Art donation on display at Fondren and Hamon Arts Library

Breaking ground on the Rees-Jones Library of the American West

Forging ahead to a new frontier in scholarship SMU broke ground on the Rees-Jones Library of the American West on May 1, forging ahead to a new frontier of research, discovery and scholarly impact at the University. The library will enhance SMU’s ability to promote teaching and research on the American West, housing the world-class…Continue Reading Breaking ground on the Rees-Jones Library of the American West

SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: April 2025

Queen Mary & Normandie [No. 27], 1936, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

In April 2025, SMU Libraries uploaded 416 items into SMU Libraries Digital Collections. Highlights include: 115 negatives, ca. 1936-1937, from the Robert Yarnall Richie Photographs collection. Highlights include 5 photographs from Merchants Distilling in Terre Haute, Indiana and a series of 32 images depicting the steamships RMS Queen Mary and SS Normandie, which were the…Continue Reading SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: April 2025

 

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