Category: News

The Bridwell Quarterly Fall 2021 & The Bridwell Quill Issues 39–40

Please enjoy “The Mystic & the Muse” issues 39–40 of Anthony Elia’s newsletter The Bridwell Quill along with issue 13 of Bridwell Library’s The Bridwell Quarterly (Fall 2021). If you have comments or questions, please feel free to contact us at bridadmin@smu.edu.  Happy reading!…Continue Reading The Bridwell Quarterly Fall 2021 & The Bridwell Quill Issues 39–40

SMU Libraries Recognizes Information Literacy in Courses Across Campus

SMU Libraries’ Faculty Information Literacy Stipend awards $1,000 to faculty for proposals that best implement an information literacy assignment into their course. Faculty collaborate with their subject librarians to design an information literacy framework to support student learning activities and assignments. The stipend is awarded upon completion of the course and the submission of a…Continue Reading SMU Libraries Recognizes Information Literacy in Courses Across Campus

Dr. Jacqueline Stewart receives 2021 MacArthur Fellowship

Dr Jaqueline Stewart

SMU Libraries congratulates Dr. Jacqueline Stewart, film curator, archivist and scholar, on her recent 2021 MacArthur Fellowship. Dr. Stewart has published extensively on black film and filmmaking in the United States. In her video post for the MacArthur Foundation, Dr. Stewart describes her interest in the genre of black films from the early 1920s –…Continue Reading Dr. Jacqueline Stewart receives 2021 MacArthur Fellowship

The Bridwell Quarterly & The Bridwell Quill, Summer 2021

Please enjoy Bridwell Library’s publications, The Bridwell Quarterly, Issue 12, Summer 2021 and The Bridwell Quill, August–October 2021 . If you have comments or questions, please feel free to contact us at bridadmin@smu.edu.  Happy reading!…Continue Reading The Bridwell Quarterly & The Bridwell Quill, Summer 2021

Report from the Red Carpet – The Velvet Underground at the Cannes Film Festival

After a thorough bout of negotiations, the previously lost film footage of the Velvet Underground performing at a Vietnam War protest at Dallas’ White Rock Lake in 1969 has made it into The Velvet Underground, a documentary directed by Todd Haynes. The documentary, mirroring the name of the band itself, contains this special footage that…Continue Reading Report from the Red Carpet – The Velvet Underground at the Cannes Film Festival

Love Libraries? Get Involved!

  Guest blogger Brynn Price, sophomore and SMU Libraries Advisory Board Member, answers questions about her SMU Libraries SAB experience: Why serve as a leader on the SMU Libraries Student Advisory Board? The Libraries are the heart of the University, and at the heart of the Libraries is the Student Advisory Board. I began to…Continue Reading Love Libraries? Get Involved!

Greetings from SMU Libraries

Postcard styled image of Dallas Hall, with the text of greetings from SMU Libraries

Welcome! It is so wonderful to have everyone on campus again! It’s been a little too quiet this summer. We want you to start the semester off well, so keep in mind, the librarians and all library staff are here to help. If you have questions, a good place to start is the libraries home…Continue Reading Greetings from SMU Libraries

RSVP for the Dante Festival @ Bridwell Library

  Registration is now open for the Dante Festival @Bridwell Library  Please be sure to scroll to the bottom of the RSVP page and complete the registration form.  The Schedule of Events can be downloaded and printed. Detailed Conference Schedule We look forward to seeing you there!…Continue Reading RSVP for the Dante Festival @ Bridwell Library

The Bridwell Quarterly & The Bridwell Quill

Please enjoy “What is a Museum?” issues 32–35 of Anthony Elia’s newsletter The Bridwell Quill along with issue 11 of Bridwell Library’s The Bridwell Quarterly (Spring 2021), which is dedicated to the World Methodist Council, Museum, and Lake Junaluska Community. If you have comments or questions, please feel free to contact us at bridadmin@smu.edu.  Happy…Continue Reading The Bridwell Quarterly & The Bridwell Quill

“Canvas, the Commons, and Course Design, Oh My.”

On April 21, Leslie Fuller worked with other SMU librarians Megan Heuer, Melissa Johnson, and Ramon Garcia to give a presentation at the Texas Distance Learning Association Conference entitled, “Canvas, the Commons, and Course Design, Oh My.” The presentation was based upon the work of the Online Learning Team, which has created self-directed Canvas modules covering topics such…Continue Reading “Canvas, the Commons, and Course Design, Oh My.”