Library News
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Every year the Friends of Owen D. Young and Launders Libraries (FODYLL) awards prizes for outstanding undergraduate research. These are research projects that utilized our collections and databases, and there are prizes for the Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Sciences.
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Senior Caroline Metzger has created an exhibit for the Frank and Anne Piskor Reading Room. The St. Lawrence University Libraries have an outstanding collection of Artist Books, built to a great extent during Mark McMurray’s tenure as Curator of Special Collections & University Archivist to demonstrate the versatility of the book.
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The Libraries and IT have joined the Digital Library Federation - a program of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) that brings together a consortium of libraries that develop and use digital technologies to extend collections and services.
Services & Technology
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The new RefWorks, a streamlined, more fully-functional version of our legacy RefWorks tool, is now available to you at SLU.
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A collection of resources on the topic of Open Access is now available on the library's website. It includes peer institution policies, definitions and ways to get involved.
New Resources
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Edward H. Neary practiced law in the Village of Gouverneur from the mid to late 1800s, and he also held the post of County Judge for 16 years.
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We have added 93 stereoscopic view cards of photographs by Seneca Ray Stoddard to our Adirondack Collection.
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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This material was used in the research of St. Lawrence University student Sadie O'Neill Talmadge ('01) performed as part of a University Fellowship in the summer of 1999.
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The North Country Railroad collection is an on-going collection of materials relating to railroads in the North Country of New York. It was acquired over many years by gift and purchase from a number of sources.