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COVID-19, Library Instruction, and Me

Posted April 10, 2020

<html><body>By Yitazba Largo-Anderson - Mosaic Fellow

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Work in the Time of Corona: Libby McDaniel, Head of Cataloging & Metadata

Posted April 9, 2020

Librarian Problem Solver: Ebooks to the Rescue

Posted April 8, 2020

Work in the Time of Corona: Justin Dalton, Applications Administrator

Posted April 7, 2020

Work in the Time of Corona: Mildred Sink, Swem Circulation

Posted April 3, 2020

<html><body>Our library staff members are chronicling their experiences living through a pandemic.

Work in the Time of Corona: Carolyn Wilson, SCRC Research Assistant

Posted April 1, 2020

An open book being digitized on a scanner with its reflection on a monitor above, and a hand steadying the pages.

While You Were Gone : We Were Here

Posted March 31, 2020

<html><body>Our library staff members are chronicling their experiences living through a pandemic.

Work in the Time of Corona: Candice Benjes-Small, Head of Research

Posted March 30, 2020

Tis the Season

Posted December 6, 2017

<html><body>In this month's dog series post, we decided to focus on dog books related to the December holidays.

Must Love Dogs: 11/11/18

Posted November 8, 2017

<html><body>In 1918, at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, an armistice was signed between the Allies and Germany, effectively ending World War I.

Must Love Dogs

Posted September 13, 2017

<html><body>If you've ever visited the Special Collections Research Center, you may have learned that we hold the second largest collection of books about dogs in the Unit

"The Looted Book"

Posted August 16, 2017

<html><body>Institutional knowledge is an awesome thing and something that is often taken for granted and/or overlooked.

A Lover of Words Reveal'd

Posted June 28, 2017

<html><body>Swem Library holds two editions of A grammar of the English tongue, with the arts of logick, rhetoric, poetry, &c., but it is in the earl

Remembering World War I

Posted April 12, 2017

<html><body>On April 6, 1917 the United States entered World War I, then known as the Great War.

Jennie's Search for "More to Life" in Maurice Sendak's "Higglety Pigglety Pop!"

Posted March 16, 2017

<html><body>Most of us, if we recognize the name Maurice Sendak, probably think of him as the man who wrote and illustrated the beloved children's book "Where the Wil