Library News
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On the week of July 1st Special Collections will be closed on the 1st, the 4th, and the 5th.
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Avery Olearczyk has just joined the St. Lawrence University Libraries as Research Fellowship Librarian. Please welcome her as the newest member of our team!
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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.
Services & Technology
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Renovations to the Cole Reading Room in Herring-Cole have restored it to a quiet study space and enhanced the original woodwork in the historic building.
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Photogrammar is a collection of 170,000+ photographs from 1935 to 1945 created by the United State’s Farm Security Admi
New Resources
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In farthest recesses of the archives' vault, what did we find but several boxes of vintage American paperback books!
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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Collection of eight illuminated parchment scrolls and one illuminated parchment codex in Geez and Amharic, pertaining to the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, from the late 19th or early 20th century. This collection was acquired in 1998.
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The Russell family originated in England with the first ancestor settling in Massachusetts. John Leslie Russell was born at Fairfax, Vt., February 11, 1805 and moved to Malone, N.Y. in 1807 with his family.