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LGBTQ History Month 2024

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Posted on Oct. 8, 2024, 10 a.m.

Overview of LGBTQ History Month.

Interested in e-Sports? Check out the Libraries’ video game collection.

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Posted on Oct. 7, 2024, 2 p.m.

Libraries has had a video game collection that is available for borrowing for any current students, faculty or staff with an SU ID.

Summer 2024 Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Posted on Oct. 3, 2024, 10 a.m.

The records for the Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) submitted by the Graduate School for August 2024 have been processed and loaded into SURFACE.

Collection Spotlight: Research AI from Statista

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Posted on Oct. 1, 2024, 9 a.m.

Research AI is a generative artificial intelligence tool grounded in Statista data.

Marcel Breuer Digital Archive

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Posted on Sept. 30, 2024, 1 p.m.

The Marcel Breuer Digital Archive (MBDA) moved to its new home on the Quartex platform this past spring.

Presidential Campaigns and Collectibles Display

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Posted on Sept. 25, 2024, 1 p.m.

New display on the 4th floor titled Presidential Campaigns and Collectibles.

Banned Books by the State: Utah and Florida

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Posted on Sept. 24, 2024, 10 a.m.

Two recent occasions of books banned by the state in Utah and Florida, as well as a novel that has frequently appeared on banned and challenged books lists.

Collection Spotlight: Custom Display and Search Results inside PolicyMap

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Posted on Sept. 24, 2024, 9 a.m.

Create a custom search area and display map for your data using PolicyMap.

Collection Spotlight: UrbanNext

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Posted on Sept. 17, 2024, 9 a.m.

Looking for new ways to keep current with architecture? Then look no further than UrbanNext, a multi-media database launched in 2023 which brings together wide-ranging topical information about contemporary architecture and urban design.

Latine Heritage Month

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Posted on Sept. 12, 2024, 11 a.m.

September is Latine Heritage Month and the Syracuse University Libraries is pleased to be a part of this year’s campus celebration

Collection Spotlight: Brand Catalyst by MRI Simmons

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Posted on Sept. 10, 2024, 10 a.m.

Tap into vivid data visualizations about U.S. consumer behaviors and attitudes.

Collection Spotlight: Indigenous Peoples of North America

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Posted on Sept. 3, 2024, 10 a.m.

Linking digitized primary source search results across Indigenous and colonizer terminologies.

Collection Spotlight: Digital Scholarship in Nineteenth Century Collections Online

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Posted on Aug. 27, 2024, 9 a.m.

Gale’s NCCO offers researchers the ability to explore its vast collections via emergent topics drawn from the documents themselves.

June 2024 Electronic Theses and Dissertations now available in SURFACE

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Posted on July 29, 2024, 9 a.m.

June 2024 records for the Graduate School's Electronic Theses and Dissertations are now available in SURFACE, Syracuse University’s Institutional Repository.

Spring 2024 Electronic Theses and Dissertations on SURFACE

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Posted on July 2, 2024, 1 p.m.

The records for the Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) submitted by the Graduate School for the Spring 2024 May Graduates have been processed and loaded into SURFACE – Syracuse University’s Institutional Repository.

Digital Stewardship Completes 3-Year Migration

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Posted on July 2, 2024, 11 a.m.

In June 2024, Department of Digital Stewardship completed a three-year migration to its new collections platform.

New e-Resources February to June 2024

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Posted on July 2, 2024, 9 a.m.

New e-resources from February to June 2024. Note that their inclusion in Libraries Search will be delayed.

Changing Hands: Ownership Erasures in Rare Books

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Posted on May 31, 2024, 2 p.m.

Many books at the SCRC showcase layers of ownership marks; but in some cases, the distinctive marks left by earlier owners were erased by the subsequent keepers.

Memorial Day 2024

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Posted on May 27, 2024, 1:54 p.m.

Books included in the research guide for this year's Memorial Day display relates to the American Vietnam War memorialization.

SOURCE Explore: Finding Yourself in the Archives with Special Collections Research Center

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Posted on May 24, 2024, noon

SCRC partnered with SOURCE on a new undergraduate research program, SOURCE Explore.

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