How Do College First-Years Conduct Research?

How Do Freshmen Conduct Research cropped

Are you a first-year student? What do you find difficult about research?  Does the following infographic describe you?  Feel free to comment below or on our Facebook page.  We’d love … Read more

Black History through primary sources

The final installation of the library’s Black History month reflections features work from two students enrolled in Stella Setka’s Rhetorical Arts class. The students conducted research to identify sources related … Read more

Black History Month through Film

Free to Dance film

Throughout the rest of the month, we’ll be highlighting a few objects from our collection exploring and celebrating the African American experience. This is just the tip of the iceberg … Read more

We love our student workers! Meet Citlaly.

Student Worker Citlaly Orozco

Name: Citlaly Orozco Year: Sophomore Major: Urban Studies and Chicano Studies double major Hometown: East Los Angeles Where do you work in the library / what do you do here? … Read more

A Tribute to Reverend Mother Dolores Hart

Dolores Hart

Recently I watched two film adaptations of Joan of Arc: La passion de Jeanne d’Arc, a 1928 French silent motion picture with a captivating performance by Renée Jeanne Falconetti, and … Read more

Los Angeles Aqueduct at 100

LA Aquaduct

Water is intimately tied to the growth of Los Angeles and no more so than during the first quarter of the twentieth century when Los Angeles assumed control of water … Read more

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