New Guides to the KCET-TV Collections

October is Archives Month

As American Archives Month comes to an end, the Department of Archives and Special Collections is pleased to announce the posting of four new finding aids to the Online Archive … Read more

Shop the library at Zazzle

LMU's Zazzle shop products

Editor’s note: guest post and interview with Kimberly Chapman ’16, the student manager for the library’s Zazzle store. For a long time, the library has been interested in creating a … Read more

Halloween Books for Kids and Teens

Halloween themed books

Hey LMU Parents and Babysitters! Are you ready for Halloween? The library’s Curriculum Materials Collection (CMC) has lots of Halloween themed books for young ghosts and ghouls, in every reading … Read more

Digitizing Videotapes from the Rosendahl-Adelphia Collection

Betacam tape from 1995 labeled with a ‘Digital ID

Back in spring semester 2013, LMU Library News featured a series of posts celebrating Preservation Week. My contribution to the series discussed digital video preservation and cited the preparatory work involved in gearing up to digitize The Bill Rosendahl-Adelphia Communications … Read more

LMU Special Collections Goes to the Movies

John W. Boyle and silent screen star Anna Q. Nilsson with camera Boyle invented for panorama shots

An important source for film history came more fully into focus when the collection guide for the John W. Boyle Film Stills and Photograph Collection (Collection 061, found in the … Read more

Honors and International Orientation Recap

Exterior campus with international flags

On Wednesday, August 21, 2013, we welcomed more than 150 students for library orientations. Between the Honors Summit and the International Student orientation, librarians conducted five sessions during the middle … Read more

Librarians write books, too

Librarians wear a lot of hats, but one little-known fact outside of librarianship is how much research and writing takes place in our profession. We’re delighted to announce that one … Read more

RIP Huell Howser

Surf and Bath House at Ocean Park

RIP, Huell Howser. Did you know that H.H. visited LMU in 1995 to visit our Werner von Boltenstern Postcard collection? We’re happy to share a teeny tiny part of his … Read more

Found At The Library

This post contains highlights of the library’s collections by library staff and student employees. The Found series was initially posted as a series of short posts. Found: Diccionario de Aztequismos … Read more