On Wednesday, April 20 at 5:15 pm (informal pre-talk reception and book signing to begin at 4:30 pm), please join us at the Hill Memorial Library Lecture Hall for a conversation with Genevieve “Gen” Trimble on her beautiful new book,…
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Afton Villa: A conversation with Genevieve Munson Trimble
Posted in Announcements, Events, Special Collections Tagged with: gardens, Giving, horticulture, landscape architecture, Louisiana, LSU College of Art + Design, LSU Press, St. Francisville
Southern University class visits Southern Review Exhibition
On January 22, members of an American Literature class from Southern University-Baton Rouge toured our exhibition, “Advancing Scholarship and Learning for 80 Years: LSU Press and The Southern Review.” Dr. Mary Carruth and her students are currently discussing the Agrarian…
The Fine Print: LSU Press and The Southern Review
October 19th marks the opening of the exhibition “Advancing Scholarship & Learning for 80 Years: LSU Press and The Southern Review” at Hill Memorial Library. The timing is particularly appropriate, as October is American Archives month, a celebration of the…
Posted in Announcements, Exhibitions, Special Collections Tagged with: Literature, LSU Press, Publishing, Southern Review, University Presses
Cleaning up after Katrina: A Special Collections Perspective
As a repository of historical materials about Louisiana, it’s only natural that Special Collections look back and remember those harrowing and heartbreaking days after Hurricane Katrina. The library and archives community in Louisiana is a relatively small one, and many…
Posted in Digital Collections, Resources, Special Collections Tagged with: conservation, Giving, Katrina, New Orleans, Photographs, preservation
Comics symposium explores race, gender, and the future of superheroes
On Tuesday, September 22, 2015, LSU Libraries Special Collections hosted a symposium entitled “New Faces under Old Masks: Race, Gender, and the Future of Superheroes.” Recent years have seen increasing attention from critics, readers, and publishers to issues of diversity…
Posted in Announcements, Events, Exhibitions, Special Collections Tagged with: comics, culture, Diversity, gender, race, symposium
Tempests Talks: Storms in the archives, an exhibition program series
In commemoration of the 10th anniversary of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, LSU Libraries presents “Tempests Talks,” a series of public programs held in conjunction with the Lecture Hall Gallery exhibition, “Tempests: Storms in the Archives.” The line-up includes three brown…
Posted in Announcements, Events, Exhibitions, Special Collections Tagged with: Hurricane Katrina, Oral History
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 typical gap between “discovery” and “delivery” and by enabling…
Posted in Announcements, Services, Special Collections Tagged with: Aeon, Archives, Manuscripts, new, Rare Book Collection, software
Pierre Soulé: Histoire d’une mémoire franco-louisianaise retrouvée/Pierre Soulé: The Story of a French-Louisiana Legacy Refound
For your reading pleasure, here is a bilingual blog post by Hill staff member, Dr. Germain Bienvenu, on a new book which was researched in part in Hill Memorial Library. Our occasional series of bi-lingual blog posts by Germain speak…
Posted in Special Collections Tagged with: 19th century, bilingual, biography, French, French culture, LLMVC, Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections, Pierre Soulé, politics
Russell Long: A Life in Politics with Dr. Michael S. Martin: Book talk, signing, and reception
On Wednesday, April 22, 2015. in the Hill Memorial Library, Louisiana State University, Dr. Michael S. Martin, Cheryl Courrégé Burguières/Board of Regents Professor in History, and Director, Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette spoke about his new…
Digital project offers access to the history of free people of color in Louisiana
The award-winning 2013 movie 12 Years a Slave about Solomon Northrup, a free man of color from New York who was sold into slavery in Louisiana, brought unprecedented attention to the history of free people of color in the United…
Posted in Digital Collections, Special Collections Tagged with: Diversity, Free People of Color, Grants, Louisiana History, Open Access
The ExxonMobil Baton Rouge Historic Collection
In the decades following the Civil War, Baton Rouge never grew much beyond its pre-War size–about 5000 people. However, the make-up of that population certainly changed a great deal over the decades. The end of the war meant the end…
A Little Bird Told Me! Audubon Day at LSU Libraries Special Collections
The LSU Libraries will host a viewing of the famed double elephant folio edition of John James Audubon’s Birds of America (London, 1827-1838). The viewing will be held in the McIlhenny Room of Hill Memorial Library on the LSU campus,…
Posted in Announcements, Events, Exhibitions, Special Collections Tagged with: Audubon Day, McIlhenny Collection
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