Designed for discovery: Tools that help you find more, faster

Unlocking groundbreaking research What if the key to groundbreaking research was just a click away, accessible anytime and anywhere through your library’s digital resources? At SMU Libraries, a vast collection of databases and digital tools empowers scholars and students to explore, innovate, and uncover new insights with ease. Here’s how new digital resources come to…Continue Reading Designed for discovery: Tools that help you find more, faster

AI meets academia: Exploring the future of faculty research

SMU Libraries leading the way What happens when curious minds meet cutting-edge technology? At the intersection of AI and academia, a collaboration between SMU Libraries and faculty reveals insights into the newest AI tools and their potential uses in research. Carrie Johnston, director of research and scholarly initiatives at SMU Libraries, led the inaugural AI…Continue Reading AI meets academia: Exploring the future of faculty research

Leading the Mustang Legacy: The Presidents of SMU exhibition opens

Presidential history comes to life for SMU inauguration From Robert S. Hyer to R. Gerald Turner, this exhibition traces the legacy of SMU’s ten presidents through artifacts preserved in the SMU Archives at DeGolyer Library. Discover the leadership, vision, and milestones that have shaped the University’s history. Brynn Price, communications and engagement specialist at SMU…Continue Reading Leading the Mustang Legacy: The Presidents of SMU exhibition opens

SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: August 2025

The Trinity Heights News, Volume 1, Number 1, 1925, DeGolyer Library, SMU.

In August 2025, the Norwick Center for Digital Solutions uploaded 259 items into SMU Libraries Digital Collections. Highlights include: 22 photographs, 1882-1963, from the Collection of African American Photographs, showing Black people in Texas, including portraits and snapshots of social activities throughout the decades. Examples include a carte de visite portrait of Doc (D.) C….Continue Reading SMU Libraries Digital Collections Update: August 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

 

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