Library News
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Eric Williams-Bergen, Director of Digital Initiatives, received the Louis and Frances Maslow Award at St. Lawrence’s Convocation on August 30th.
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The Owen D. Young Library’s lower level will be renovated during the Fall ’17 semester. The project is designed to provide space for the Information Technology (IT) department to relocate from Madill Hall. This move is being made to accommodate the creation of new Student Success Center in Madill, which will be providing students with services now available in the Whitman Annex. Details regarding the project can be found at LITSpaces.
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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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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.
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Our research consultation program connects you with a librarian on the reference staff who can give you more extensive one-on-one help with a research paper or project. We also have a new group of
New Resources
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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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The Libraries and Information Technology (LIT) division, in conjunction with the Mellon Humanities Grant, partner with faculty to develop projects which feature innovative approaches and creative uses of digital technologies.
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Located in Chicago, CRL collects and preserves archival documents from developing regions such as Africa, Southeast Asia and Latin America.
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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Thomas Purves was born on September 28, 1785 in Whitebank, Scotland. He brought his family to the United States in 1819 hoping to work for the Parish family at the iron works in Rossie, NY.
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The collection consists of approximately 450 photographic postcards and lithograph images dating from before the turn of the 20th century to the 1960s. The cards are kept in three different binders with two of the binders containing mostly postca