Year: 2025

Faith & ethics in dialogue: A cross-disciplinary collaboration at Bridwell Library

This event will be held at Bridwell Library on October 3, with sessions outlined in the conference program. If attending, please submit your RSVP for the conference. Welcoming scholars and thinkers from coast to coast This fall, Bridwell Library will host a conference welcoming scholars and religious leaders from coast to coast. Liberating Theology and…Continue Reading Faith & ethics in dialogue: A cross-disciplinary collaboration at Bridwell Library

Show me… cats: Searching for primary sources in digital collections

This post was written by Kaitlin Siebert, public services librarian at DeGolyer Library, and is accompanied by an online DeGolyer exhibit. Paws, prints and primary sources Last Friday, August 8, 2025, was International Cat Day. In celebration of this momentous occasion, I explored DeGolyer Library’s digital collections in search of photographs and/or illustrations of cats….Continue Reading Show me… cats: Searching for primary sources in digital collections

SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: July 2025

[Illinois Central Railroad Storm Repair, 1915 New Orleans Hurricane], DeGolyer Library, SMU.

In July 2025, SMU Libraries uploaded 441 items into SMU Libraries Digital Collections. Highlights include: 121 negatives, ca. 1933, from the Robert Yarnall Richie Photograph Collection. Highlights include aerial images of many famous estates, including two mansions owned by Jessie Woolworth Donohue in Southampton and Palm Beach; three images of William K. Vanderbilt II’s Fisher Island property,…Continue Reading SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: July 2025

Generative AI will change how we think about information

A call to scholars and academics As scholars and academics, we understand that knowledge is constructed through varying perspectives, arguments, and evidence. The context of a piece of information, who wrote it and how it was published, is an essential part of understanding what it says and determining its authority and credibility. Outside of scholarly…Continue Reading Generative AI will change how we think about information

Reading, reimagined: Artificial intelligence at SMU Libraries

How AI shapes what we know, and how SMU Libraries is helping As artificial intelligence continues to reshape how we access, analyze, and produce information, SMU Libraries is taking a proactive, campus-wide approach to exploring its impact—integrating AI into student learning, faculty development, and research support through collaborative initiatives led by the Libraries and in…Continue Reading Reading, reimagined: Artificial intelligence at SMU Libraries

Picturing the American West through the Rees-Jones Collection

Lasting impressions: On the art in the Rees-Jones Collection As construction progresses for the 2027 opening of the Rees-Jones Library of the American West, so too does the processing of incoming manuscripts, archival materials and other special collection items, facilitated by Rees-Jones archivist Christina Wood. Shaped and generously given by Jan and Trevor D. Rees-Jones…Continue Reading Picturing the American West through the Rees-Jones Collection

SMU Libraries continues collaboration to enhance student research

Librarians and faculty use expertise to promote student success SMU Libraries is proud to announce the Fall 2025 winners of the Research Assignment Stipend. This $1,000 award supports collaboration between faculty and librarians to promote the integration of information literacy concepts into coursework, ultimately enhancing student research at SMU. To apply, faculty members select a…Continue Reading SMU Libraries continues collaboration to enhance student research

A divine encounter with a mysterious text

Bridwell Library makes headlines In the wake of the announcement of a $2.5 million grant from the Lilly Endowment, which itself follows a major planning grant from the same foundation, Bridwell Library continues to make news for the dedication and expertise of its team. Elisa McCune, special collections and integrative projects librarian, has made news…Continue Reading A divine encounter with a mysterious text

SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: June 2025

LaSalle Automobile, General Motors, [No. 2], ca. 1933, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

In June 2025, SMU Libraries uploaded 326 items into SMU Libraries Digital Collections. Highlights include: 70 negatives, ca. 1933, from the Robert Yarnall Richie Photographs collection. Highlights include a series of promotional images for LaSalle automobiles, with some taken as reflections in a hubcap, and aerials of various estates primarily in the New York City…Continue Reading SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: June 2025

 

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