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

LA as Subject, Archives in Action

LA Archives Bazaar

On the sunny autumn day of October 12, 2013, representatives from more than 80 archives gathered to showcase their collections in the Doheny Memorial Library at USC for the Eighth … Read more

Hannon Library Receives IMLS Grant

Institute of Museum and Library Services logo

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has awarded Loyola Marymount University a 2013 Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program Grant. The award, in the amount of $363,551 over three … 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