Monthly Archives: January 2019

LSU Libraries welcomes Narcissa Haskins as Teaching and Learning Librarian

Narcissa Haskins has joined LSU Libraries as Teaching and Learning Librarian in the Research and Instruction Services Department in Middleton Library. Haskins’ duties will include delivering instruction through various methods and platforms to undergraduate and general education courses. She will be maintaining

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Music in Middleton Spring 2019

Cello

Middleton Library is hosting a concert performed by musicians from the LSU School of Music in the Middleton Library lobby. This is an opportunity for these performers to showcase their talents and for other students to enjoy musical entertainment. Music

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LSU Libraries welcomes Jessica Joseph

Jessica Joseph has joined LSU Libraries as Government Documents Needs and Offers Specialist. In her new position, Joseph is responsible for overseeing the needs and offers of federal document materials needed for LSU Libraries to function as a Regional Library for

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LSU Libraries welcomes Ebony McDonald as African & African American Studies Diversity Librarian

Ebony McDonald has joined the LSU Libraries faculty as African and African American Studies Librarian, as part of LSU Libraries’ participation in the ACRL Diversity Alliance program. McDonald holds a B.A. in international studies and history from the University of

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A gift from Dr. James “Jim” Bishop: Part III

In addition to Poissons, Ecrevisses et Crabes and Atlas ichthyologique, the third and final book of Jim Bishop’s donation is Giuseppe Saverio Poli’s Testacea utriusque Siciliae eorumque historia et anatome: tabulis aeneis illustrate. Testacea utriusque Siciliae provides text about and intricately detailed illustrations of

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Meet John Miles, Curator of Books

John Miles has joined LSU Libraries Special Collections as Associate Librarian, Curator of Books and Head of Instruction Services. Miles previously worked as a professional-in-residence in Special Collections from 2015-2016. Miles returned to Special Collections because he is both drawn to

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2019 Friends of the LSU Libraries Book Bazaar

Friends of the LSU Libraries will hold its 2019 Book Bazaar on January 24 and 25 from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. and January 26 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the 4-H Mini Farm & Nelson Memorial on the

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Talk: “In Defense of Reading Reductively” by Sarah Allison

The Digital Scholarship Lab (DSL) is pleased to announce a talk by Sarah Allison, Assistant Professor of English at Loyola University in New Orleans, on January 23, 2019 at 1:00pm in the Hill Memorial Library lecture hall.  Allison will discuss In Defense

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MLK holiday hours

LSU Libraries will have adjusted hours during MLK holiday. Middleton Library will be closed on January 19. Middleton Library will open on January 20 from 12 p.m. – 6 p.m. and January 21 from 2 p.m. – 12 a.m. Hill

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A gift from Dr. James “Jim” Bishop: Part II

In addition to Poissons, Ecrevisses et Crabes, Dr. James Bishop’s generous donation to the LSU Libraries included Pieter Bleeker’s Atlas ichthyologique des Indes orientales néerlandaises: publié sous les auspices du gouvernement colonial néerlandais. Atlas ichthyologique contains over 400 color plates illustrating far more than

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Remembering Margaret Stones

News of the death of internationally renowned botanical artist Margaret Stones on December 26, 2018 in her native Australia at age 98 sent ripples of grateful memories of her special relationship with LSU, the LSU Libraries, and Louisiana, spanning several

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