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Collection Spotlight: SURFACE
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Posted on Nov. 11, 2022, 4 a.m.
SURFACE, Syracuse University’s institutional repository, is a lot of things.
Native American Heritage Month: Indigenous Perspective
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Posted on Nov. 7, 2022, noon
In 2005, Syracuse University created the Haudenosaunee Promise Scholarship to acknowledge the university is founded on the Onondaga Nations' ancestral land and honor cultural legacies.
Collection Spotlight: Mintel Reports
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Posted on Nov. 4, 2022, 2 p.m.
A market research database featuring consumer research in multiple categories and across demographics, Mintel Reports offers broad coverage of many topics.
Native Heritage Month Display
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Posted on Nov. 1, 2022, 9 a.m.
Featuring books and films selected by native students on the themes of oral histories, literature by native authors, decolonization, and Indian residential schools and Hawaiian Sovereignty.
Collection Spotlight: Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
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Posted on Oct. 27, 2022, 2 p.m.
LISTA, an EBSCO-provided database covering topics across the library science, information science and technology landscape.
New Libraries' Collections: July through September 2022
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Posted on Oct. 20, 2022, noon
New resources added to the collections.
Collection Spotlight: SBRnet - featuring Sports Market Analytics
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Posted on Oct. 13, 2022, 5 p.m.
Your one stop shop for sports business industry data, news and analysis.
Collection Spotlight: Dimensions
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Posted on Oct. 7, 2022, 5 a.m.
Dimensions will be an important tool for understanding and reporting on the research and scholarship produced at Syracuse University.
Music History Students Receive Hands-On Lessons
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Posted on Oct. 6, 2022, 9 a.m.
Students in the Department of Art and Music Histories’ European Music Before 1800 class visited Special Collections Research Center
Open Access 101, SU Libraries and You
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Posted on Oct. 3, 2022, noon
An open access primer and an overview of campus author, publishing and research services.
“We have that here?!”: Students Meet Special Collections at the Libraries’ Welcome Fest
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Posted on Sept. 30, 2022, noon
SCRC tabled at Welcome Fest, highlighting the full range of resources, services and spaces available to students.
SU Libraries’ Instruction Support for Faculty, Instructors and Teaching Assistants (TA’s)
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Posted on Sept. 27, 2022, 4 p.m.
Tips for putting items on course reserve, exploring digital resources, showing videos and more.
Meeting Your Printing Needs
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Posted on Sept. 26, 2022, 11 a.m.
Whether you are printing a paper or a large poster, the Libraries offers printing equipment as well as in-person assistance with the process.
Collection Spotlight: On the Cover of the Rolling Stone…
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Posted on Sept. 23, 2022, 3 p.m.
Do you know who’s on the cover of the Rolling Stone this month?
Teaching Representation: K-12 Educator Perspectives on Banned Books
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Posted on Sept. 21, 2022, 8 a.m.
K-12 educators (both teachers and librarians) in the eastern United States were surveyed about perceptions around banned books.
Book Bans are Newsworthy... But They’re Not New
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Posted on Sept. 19, 2022, 9 a.m.
September 18-24, 2022, Syracuse University Libraries is celebrating Banned Books Week.
Collection Spotlight: Engineering Village and Techstreet
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Posted on Sept. 16, 2022, 10 a.m.
Engineering Village offers access to 14 databases covering a range of STEM subjects, and TechStreet is the preferred purchase platform for standards and technical books.
Constitution Day: September 17, 2023
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Posted on Sept. 13, 2022, 9 a.m.
Celebrating Constitution Day at SU Libraries with a display of books and posters from September 15 through 18.
Libraries Celebrate Latinx Hispanic Heritage Month
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Posted on Sept. 12, 2022, 3 p.m.
September is Latinx /Hispanic Heritage Month and the Syracuse University Libraries is pleased to be a part of this year’s campus celebration.
Collection Spotlight: Disability in the Modern World
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Posted on Sept. 9, 2022, 10 a.m.
If you are looking to do research in disability studies, we have a database that must not be missed.