Keep up with what’s going down đź—Ż The SMU Libraries Newsletters highlight the latest and greatest that happens each semester. Check out our Fall 2022 edition to learn what we’ve been up to lately! …Continue Reading SMU Libraries Newsletter – Fall 2022
Friends of SMU Libraries and DeGolyer Library host a lecture and book signing event for Our Stories: Black Families in Early Dallas, featuring co-editor Judith Garrett Segura. Our Stories: Black Families in Early Dallas combines carefully chosen excerpts from two publications by the late Dr. Mamie McKnight’s organization, Black Dallas Remembered. Through the excerpts chosen by editors George…Continue Reading Our Stories: Black Families in Early Dallas featuring co-editor Judith Garrett Segura
Congratulations to the Research Assignment Stipend Spring 2023 Winners! Dr. Katharine Boswell, in collaboration with Social Science Research Librarian Julia Anderson, for Gender: Images & Perspectives (WGST 2322). Dr. Britta Hanson, in collaboration with Director of Hamon Arts Library Jolene de Verges, for International Film History (FILM 1266). Dr. Richard Hermes, in collaboration with Humanities…Continue Reading Research Assignment Stipend Spring 2023 Winners
In the first of a two-part essay in Glasstire, Ruben C. Cordova writes about the artist, Octavio MedellĂn, featured in his retrospective show at the Dallas Museum of Art. Curated by the DMA’s Mark Castro, Octavio MedellĂn: Spirit and Form extensively features the artist’s archives from SMU Libraries Bywaters Special Collections at the Hamon Arts…Continue Reading Octavio MedellĂn: Spirit and Form at the DMA – featured in Glasstire
In December 2022, SMU Libraries uploaded 283 items into SMU Libraries Digital Collections. Highlights include: 140 postcards, ca. 1907-1948, 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 and Archives…Continue Reading SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: December 2022
The Ebby Halliday Papers contain 25 years of Christmas holiday greetings sent by Ebby and her husband Maurice Acers. These undated, paper postcards and folded cards are all 8 inches by 9 inches and feature a photograph of Ebby and Maurice from a special event or celebration that took place that year. The back of…Continue Reading Ebby’s Christmas Greetings
From the Office of Anthony J. Elia Dear Colleagues: This month we are sharing a Special Edition of The Bridwell Quarterly with highlights of our historic presses, book arts, and printing programs. For SMU departments with interested students, we have an all-university Ecological Sustainability & the Book Student Essay Contest, and encourage people to submit their writing (see p. 31 of…Continue Reading Special Printing Arts Edition of The Bridwell Quarterly and Anthony Elia’s Newsletter The Bridwell Quill
In November 2022, SMU Libraries uploaded 493 items into SMU Libraries Digital Collections. Highlights include: 278 postcards, ca. 1874-1959, 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 and Archives…Continue Reading SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: November 2022
You’re invited to attend A Cool Yule Christmas Concert with The Light Crust Doughboys Thursday, December 15 at 7pm at Perkins Chapel on the SMU campus. Join us for a reception at Bridwell Library after the concert. The concert and reception are free and open to the public. We hope to see you there!…Continue Reading A Cool Yule Christmas Concert with The Light Crust Doughboys
In conjunction with the exhibition, Aquatic Channels: Waterways, Water Resources, Fluvial Imagination, the Hamon Arts Library hosts two programing events this week. On November 28, 5 – 6 pm, there will be a screening of artists Carolina Caycedo and David de Rozas’ fictional documentary, The Teachings of the Hands, in 5.1 surround sound on the…Continue Reading Upcoming Programing Events for Aquatic Channels – Nov. 28 and Dec. 1