Library News
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The ground floor of Madill Hall has seen some major changes over the course of the spring semester! Later this summer it will be home to the new Center for Student Achievement.
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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.
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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New to the manuscript collections in the St. Lawrence University Libraries Special Collections are the 470 glass lantern slide images associated with the Emilie V. Clarkson (Moore) collection.
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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.
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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Universally regarded as one of the finest screen and stage directors and producers of the 20th century, George Orson Welles was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin in 1915.
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Philip Harnden, a community activist and passionate gardener, was a founding member of two organizations whose papers are part of this collection. Alternatives to War and North Country Gardener, and the founder of North Country Garden School.