LMU Library Book Drive: Success!
Thank you to everyone who donated to our Holiday Book Drive! In just two weeks, we collected 725 books for the Children’s Institute, Inc., an organization dedicated to helping neglected and … Read more
Katherine Donaldson Named 2016 ALA Emerging Leader
Our very own Librarian-in-Residence, Katherine Donaldson, has been named a 2016 Emerging Leader by the American Library Association. The ALA Emerging Leaders Program, which began in 2006, is a leadership development … Read more
Banned Books Week: The Lord of the Rings
Banned Books Week is September 27 to October 3rd. To celebrate we are featuring a few of our staff with their favorite banned books. Photo Description (above): Jennifer Masunaga, Reference Librarian … Read more
Getting Started with Digital Tools: Voyant and TimeMapper
This post is part of a series of blog posts published in 2015 on digital scholarship and digital humanities. Some information may be outdated, but is preserved online for historical/informational … Read more
Digital Humanities is Not Ones and Zeros
This post is part of a series of blog posts published in 2015 on digital scholarship and digital humanities. Some information may be outdated. Questions? Please reach out to us … Read more
What are Digital Scholarship and Digital Humanities?
This post is part of a series of blog posts published in 2015 on digital scholarship and digital humanities. Some information may be outdated. Questions? Please reach out to us … Read more
Seven Days, Seven Pages: Celebrating the Saint John’s Bible & the Papal Visit to the U.S.
This post was originally published as a seven-part series of posts, which has been combined here for readability. In celebration of Pope Francis’s visit to the U.S. from Monday, September … Read more
LMU Digitizes 5 Recordings of one of Los Angeles’ Great Chorale Directors
Last year, LMU began a partnership with the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP). CAVPP provides funds for digitization and establishes low-cost and practical standards to help California libraries, archives, and … Read more
LMU welcomes 2015 IRDL Scholars!
This post is from July 2015. For the most current information about the Institute for Research Design in Librarianship (IRDL), please visit the IRDL website. This week LMU and the … Read more
Congratulations to our 2015 Undergraduate Library Research Award Winners!
We are incredibly proud to announce the winners of our 9th annual Library Undergraduate Research Award, who were honored at an awards reception on April 28, 2015. Our selection committee … Read more
Rack Cards, Pokémon, and a Student Project
In August 2014, the Department of Archives and Special Collections received a large postcard donation, consisting of 4,344 advertisement cards from the 1990s and early 2000s. With contemporary topics of … Read more