New Special Collections Request System (SCRS)
LSU Libraries Special Collections went live with a management software system called Aeon on July 16, 2015. This system allows us to manage collections and requests much more efficiently by closing the...
View ArticleBooks 2 Geaux
This fall, Middleton Library introduced a book delivery service that is available to faculty and staff who are registered with the Libraries, in good standing, and have an LSU departmental address....
View ArticleRare Books Enrich Students’ Classroom Experience
Love Digital, Live Analog. That was the theme of a recent class visit to Special Collections. Doctoral students in Music 7800 (Introduction to Research in Music) have an assignment to research...
View ArticleText Alerts Available for Laptop Availability
As part of the Gear 2 Geaux program, laptops bought with tech fee money are available for students to check in Middleton Library. This program has been in place for over a decade and has always been...
View ArticleStudents Experience the Dutch Golden Age in Special Collections
A little slice of the seventeenth century exists right here on the LSU campus. That’s what students in Professor Christine Kooi’s course on the Dutch Republic and Empire discovered this week when they...
View ArticleCollections in the Classroom: LSU Librarians Talk about Teaching with Archives
Class visits to Special Collections have skyrocketed over the past several years. In the fall and spring semesters of 2014-15, we reached 2,500 students, almost triple the number of the year before! On...
View ArticleTeaching with Special Collections Open House
Have you considered having your class visit Hill Memorial Library but aren’t sure how to plan a visit? Are you curious about how to give your students an active learning experience with primary...
View ArticleAll Floors of Middleton Library Open for 24/7 Studying for Finals
We are making way for a new math lab that will be built on the third floor of Middleton Library, and students are reporting difficulty studying there because of the noise. Quieter places to study are...
View ArticleSpring 2016 E-Textbooks List Posted
LSU Libraries has updated our list of free textbooks for the Spring 2016 semester. Browse to the E-Textbooks for Students page to see the current list. More titles have been purchased and will be added...
View ArticleMicrofilm Articles Now Available by Email
LSU Libraries has added microfilms to its Document Delivery services. Faculty, staff and graduate students can now order pdf files of Middleton Library microfilm articles for delivery by email....
View ArticleRare Books in Action
It has been another busy semester for rare books at LSU. In fact, students are using our collections in all kinds of interesting ways! Here are some photos from three recent class visits to Special...
View ArticleFood for Fines: Pay Library Fines with Food Donations During April
LSU Libraries’ popular Food for Fines initiative is back. Nonperishable food items will be accepted for payment of library fines during April 2016. Non-perishable food items can be brought to the...
View ArticleInterLibrary Loan Becomes Faster and More Cost Efficient
Requests for materials not held by LSU Libraries will now be fulfilled more quickly. LSU Libraries’ interlibrary loan unit has recently joined the new SEC Consortium of resource sharing libraries,...
View ArticleLSU Libraries ranked 15th in U.S. for articles advancing specialized...
LSU was recognized on June 13, 2016, at the annual Special Libraries Association (SLA) convention, during an event that presented a countdown of the top U.S. universities, ranked by the number of...
View ArticleNew location for borrowing books, reserves, and interlibrary loans
Middleton Library’s Access Services unit, which includes the Circulation Department, InterLibrary Loan Department, and Reserves, has moved to room 241 on the second floor of Middleton Library. Books...
View ArticleLSU launches institutional repository
LSU Libraries and the Office of Research & Economic Development have collaborated on the establishment of an Institutional Repository though bepress Digital Commons. Digital Commons (DC) is the...
View ArticleMath journal launched on LSU Libraries ejournal platform
In collaboration with LSU Mathematics Professor emeritus Hui-Hsiung Kuo, LSU Libraries has launched the journal Communications on Stochastic Analysis (COSA) on its journal hosting platform on LSU...
View ArticleFood for Fines: Pay library fines with food donations during November
LSU Libraries’ popular Food for Fines initiative is back. Nonperishable food items will be accepted for payment of library fines during November 2017. Each eligible food donation brought to the Access...
View ArticleResearch 2.0 workshop series
LSU Libraries librarians Hayley Johnson and Sarah Simms will conduct a research workshop series March 13-15. A different area will be covered each day, with two sessions available per day. The first...
View ArticleInventors throughout Louisiana seek out the Patent & Trademark Resource Center
A few years ago, Wayne and Dawn Nix consulted with LSU Libraries’ faculty member David Dunaway about an invention the couple had designed. Dunaway, who then headed the LSU Libraries Patent and...
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