Library News
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Explore St. Lawrence University's rich history of presidential leadership in photographs and documents in the Frank and Anne Piskor Reading Room.
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St. Lawrence University seeks an innovative, creative and service-oriented colleague as our next Science Librarian.
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Diane Graves from Trinity University led a discussion on Open Access and scholarly publishing at this year's May Faculty College.
Services & Technology
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ODY has a new tool for collaboration. The Mediascape is a LCD panel that allows multiple laptop connections and easy switching between displays.
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The installation of our new water bottle filling station and drinking fountain is complete. Located on the main level of ODY on the left as one heads toward the MacAllaster Room.
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Library and IT staff worked together last summer to add over 70 new electrical outlets for laptop use in open-seating and study areas of the ODY library.
New Resources
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OverDrive@SLU includes popular titles, fiction, current events titles, biography, and audiobooks to complement our Browsing Collection.
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The library now subscribes to two streaming media databases from Alexander Street Press, Silent Film Online and New World Cinema!
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Credo's Environmental Studies Collection of eBooks includes sixty-four reference works from eight academic publishers such as Berkshire, Elsevier Science and Technology, and Sage.
Special Collections
Special Collections is the place in the general library where we keep any items that are scarce, fragile, or valuable. Holdings include: printed books, journals, newspapers, maps, atlases, photographs, reports, diaries, correspondence, and more...
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Frank Peter Piskor, former president of St. Lawrence University, first met Robert Frost at the Bread Loaf School of English while Dr. Piskor was a student at Middlebury College in the mid-1930s.
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Alvah and Enos Beach of Russell, NY, and their brother-in-law David Robinson fought on the Union side in the Civil War.