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• Gazing skyward, to heaven
  from LSU Libraries Special Collections Blog by lwood
  “Audubon at Oakley: Louisiana Selections from Birds of America” and “The Pathway of Promise: 1500 Years of Religious Texts and Moral Guidebooks” open on December 1, 2008 and run through February 28, 2009. Each exhibition showcases treasures from our holdings, including John James Audubon’s original pencil sketch studies and a variety of Christian, Jewish, and Muslim religious texts from the Middle Ages to the present.While the two exhibitions focus on very different subjects, both examine devotion to and exploration of the natural and spiritual world. Each, in its own way, invites us to gaze skyward, to heaven.For more information, visit www.lib.lsu.edu/special/exhibits.Images:Detail from Noah and the Flood, Biblia de San Luis, 13th centuryDetail from Carolina Parrot, plate 26, Birds of America folio edition ... Read More >
• Library receives collection of steel dies
  from LSU Libraries Special Collections Blog by mltaylor
  Nancy Sharon Collins, a New Orleans stationer and graphic designer, recently donated a collection of several hundred engraved steel dies to LSU Special Collections. "Most of these are personal monograms, family crests and seals from local New Orleans private social clubs and organizations," she writes. These dies were either produced or used by Dameron-Pierson Co., Ltd., of New Orleans, and although none of them are dated, many appear to date back at least as far as the Art Deco period of the 1920s and '30s.This collection will be the subject of a mini exhibit in February 2009. Stay tuned for more information.And for additional images, visit Nancy's blog at: http://www.typophile.com/blog/14410... Read More >
• An African Man of Letters in 18th-Century London
  from LSU Libraries Special Collections Blog by mltaylor
  Among the many new items recently added to LSU's Rare Book Collection is a copy of Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, An African. Published in London in 1782, these letters were written by one of eighteenth-century England's most well-known and admired men of African descent.Ignatius Sancho was orphaned shortly after his birth in 1729 on a slave ship en route to the West Indies. At the age of two, he was sent to England and eventually became a butler in the service of the Duke of Montagu. The duke recongized the young man's talent and saw to it that he received an education. There were few opportunities for educated Africans in England in those days, however. Sancho attempted a career on the stage, playing roles such as Othello, but he was unsuccessful. Thanks to an annuity from the late duke, he was finally able to set up shop as a grocer in London. By all accounts Sancho was an entertaining figure, hobnobbing with members of fashionable English society as well as the actor David Garrick and the novelist Laurence Sterne. In addition to being a "man of letters," he also composed music and published a now-lost work on music theory.Although slavery was outlawed in England in 1772, it continued to be permitted in the British colonies until the early 1800s. The abolition movement was on the rise, however, and men like Ignatius Sancho were held up as examples of Africans' potential. The editor of his letters, a Miss Crewe, declared: "[My] motive for laying them before the public is the desire of showing that an untutored African may possess abilities equal to a European." The book was popular, and Miss Crewe was pleased to find that the world was not "inattentive to the voice of obscure merit."-- Michael Taylor, Assistant Curator of Books... Read More >
• Research @ Hill
  from LSU Libraries Special Collections Blog by Gabe
  Over the years many authors have published books based on research conducted using materials from the LSU Libraries Special Collections. Thanks to permission granted by several of those authors, the Special Collections website now features a selection of the more recent publications researched here. Visit Research @ Hill to see what books have had at least part of their origins here. ... Read More >
• Middleton Continues Extended Hours
  from LSU Libraries by skelsey
  December 1, 2008, LSU Libraries resumed extended hours in Middleton Library.  The first floor will be open for studying until 2 a.m., Sunday through Thursday nights.  During exam week, the first floor will be open 24.7.  During intersession, Middleton will have reduced hours.  Spring semester, extended hours will be resumed with the first floor open Sunday through Thursday nights until 2 a.m.... Read More >
• Hill Memorial Library closed on November 8th
  from LSU Libraries Special Collections Blog by lwood
  Hill Memorial Library will be closed on Saturday, November 8, due to the early kickoff time of the LSU-Alabama football game. The last day of the exhibition "After Katrina" will be moved up to Friday, November 7.... Read More >
• Upcoming Patent Workshop
  from LSU Libraries by akvbroek
  Monday, November 17th, 7 PM EBR Public Library—Bluebonnet Branch Learn how to develop a patent search strategy and navigate the USPTO website and the classification system. Also, learn what resources the library and the community have to offer. A patent attorney will be present to answer questions at the November 17th workshop. Please email Jan Thomas at jthomas@lsu.edu or call 578-4680 to register for the workshop. You can also register online at: http://www.lib.lsu.edu/sci/ptdl/workshopregistration.htm Reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities will be made if requested at least two weeks in advance. Contact the registration shown above. ... Read More >
• SciFinder Web Demonstration
  from by jryan1
  You are cordially invited to a live demonstration of the new SciFinder Web on Tuesday, Nov. 4, from 2-3pm in room 241A at Middleton Library. Marie Sparks will be here from CAS to provide you with an overview of the various features and components of this new web version of the software that has become so central to your research. Many of the problematic issues with the first release in late Spring have been addressed, so we may well want to consider a timetable for switching over from the client, either partially or completely. I hope you will be able to make it. Your input will be most helpful.... Read More >
• SciFinder Web Demonstration
  from by jryan1
  You are cordially invited to a live demonstration of the new SciFinder Web on Tuesday, Nov. 4, from 2-3pm in room 241A at Middleton Library. Marie Sparks will be here from CAS to provide you with an overview of the various features and components of this new web version of the software that has become so central to your research. Many of the problematic issues with the first release in late Spring have been addressed, so we may well want to consider a timetable for switching over from the client, either partially or completely. I hope you will be able to make it. Your input will be most helpful. ... Read More >
• New Databases Available
  from LSU Libraries by akvbroek
  The LSU Libraries has recently started subscriptions for the following databases: Oxford Scholarship Online Oxford Scholarship Online is a vast and rapidly expanding cross-searchable library, which now offers quick and easy access to the full text of 2,257 Oxford books. Ulrich's Periodical Directory Ulrichsweb.com is the authoritative source of bibliographic and publisher information on more than 300,000 periodicals of all types — academic and scholarly journals, Open Access publications, peer-reviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and more from around the world. And, it's easy to use! The Food Institute Contains access to... The weekly Food Institute Report The industry's most comprehensive website Seminars and webinars on the hottest topics and the latest trends A wide variety of highly respected reports and studies The most respected Daily Update emails in the industry to over 110,000 key decision makers A staff of industry analysts to answer member inquiries and fulfill information requests Modernist Journal Online The MJP is a multi-faceted project, which is intended to become a major resource for the study of the rise of modernism in the English-speaking world, with periodical literature at the center of this study. Read More... E-Resources Management Handbook The ERMH is an open access publication on e-resource management (ISBN: 0-9552448-0-3; 13-digit version: 978-0-9552448-0-3). It forms a valuable and comprehensive guide for the entire information industry, and will continue to grow as new chapters are commissioned to address hot topics as they arise. Biographical Memoirs Published since 1877, Biographical Memoirs are brief biographies of deceased National Academy of Sciences members, written by those who knew them or their work. Read More...... Read More >

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