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The non-profit organization New Blankets will offer hands-on demonstrations of a Makerbot 3D printer and open source software applications to design items in the first floor Rotunda on April 8-10.

Alison Joseph, Director of the Creative Writing program, wrote A Ghazal for Morris Library for the 2009 rededication.

Morris Library and the Special Collections Research Center are participating in this year's Banned Books Week celebration in the following ways with an exhibit featuring and a reading event.

A new exhibit highlighting R. Buckminster Fuller’s “Inventions: Twelve Around One” will grace Morris Library's Hall of Presidents in April.

The Daily Egyptian recently published a profile of Morris Library's Associate Dean for Support Services, Howard Carter.

A rare 19th century copy of Dante's Inferno with wood-engraved prints by Gustave Dore will be shown at an open house at 3pm Monday, March 25, in Morris Library's Special Collections Research Center.

Barbara Bickel's Dream Working: A Participatory Art Installation will open in the first floor rotunda on Monday, February 11.

Katie Hogan's Booklava Library was selected as the Grand Prize winner at Morris Library's 3rd annual Edible Books Festival on April 1st.

SCRC is commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation (January 1, 1863) with an exhibit that highlights narratives of three former slaves from neighboring states.

Morris Library has received a grant to participate in the project, America’s Music: A Film History of Our Popular Music from Blues to Bluegrass to Broadway from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).

The inaugural event of this year’s Imagining Geographies program, “Southern Illinios: Land, Lives, and Art" will be held in the John C. Guyon auditorium and the Rotunda from 5:30 to 9:00pm on Tuesday, March 5, 2013.

Morris Library faculty members Melissa Hubbard and Amber Loos published research on academic librarian participation in university student recruitment and retention efforts in a recently released special issue of Reference Services Review

Officials honored top research projects at SIU in April during annual Research Town Meeting and Fair, including work by Morris Library's Amber Burtis.

Selected photographs created by former Southern Illinoisan photographer Ben Gelman are on display in the exhibit Illinois Central Railroad: Last Days of Steam.

Morris Library at Southern Illinois University Carbondale will have a two-day sale featuring about 10,0000 albums and 1,500 books on a variety of subjects and interests.

The Saluki Times has written a brief overview of the services offered by SalukiTech as part of its collaboration with Morris Library at the first floor Information Desk.

In honor of National Student Employment Week Morris Library held a reception in honor of its student workers on April 8, 2013. Without student workers, the library would not be able to provide the services and resources to SIU that it does.

Melissa Hubbard, the Special Collections Research Center’s Rare Books Librarian, recently published on Hal W. Trovillion's efforts to document the events that turned Williamson County into “Bloody Williamson”.

Two $1,000 scholarships for Fall 2013 are available from the Bill Potter Memorial Scholarship Fund through the Records Management Department of Morris Library.

The Writing Centers at Morris Library and Trueblood Hall are now open for the spring semester. Morris is open during morning, afternoon, and evening hours; Trueblood is open during evening hours.