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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In 1803, Joseph Child moved to the North Country from Pennsylvania with his three sons, Daniel, Samuel, and Moses as the first wave of settlers in the town of LeRay. With them came Moses Moon (Middletown, Pennsylvania) and his son James.
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Two account books for the town of Madrid, N.Y. Town Supervisor's account book 1829-1868 and "Book of public land of the town of Madrid", 1840-1859. Both contain names of individuals, dates, and amounts paid.