Blogs

Morris Library now has access to 62 more reference ebooks through our membership in the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI).

The 2014 James Bennett Childs Award was awarded to Susan E. Tulis. This award honors a person who has made a lifetime and significant contribution to the field of government documents and their use in libraries.

Civil War 150 is coming to Morris Library’s Hall of Presidents April 28 to May 16, 2014.

Morris Library’s Edible Book Festival 2014 is on, and this year it’s taking place April 1 in the first floor rotunda, from 3:00-6:00pm. So get your culinary interpretations of grea

“First Fridays Music at Morris Library,” a free lunchtime concert series open to the university community and the public, continues at noon on Feb. 7, in the library rotunda.

The Special Collections Research Center will be celebrating Archives Month by hosting a tour of Special Collections on Thursday, October 31st from 2-4 PM. 

Check out a new and growing collection of photographs documenting Southern Illinois University Carbondale history.

Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s Morris Library is celebrating and honoring women this month with a special exhibit, lecture and reception. “Images of Women in the Open Court Collection” is now on display at the library’s Hall of Presidents.

Kenneth G. Peterson, who served as dean of Library Affairs from 1976 until 1991, died earlier this year at his home in North Carolina.

She's a very kind and helpful. No matter how busy she is, she will always be the first to offer help.

Shouter: CG

Submitted 5/24/14

It is with a very heavy heart that the Reserves Department announces the death of our staff member, Marc Liberta.

Electronic Resources Librarian Andrea Imre presented "Ebooks in Academic Libraries: Management and Access Issues" at the recent American Library Association annual conference, the largest

Four new periodical databases and three new video collections have been added to Morris Library's holdings.

Morris Library will host an open house on Thursday, January 30, from 3:00 - 4:30pm for people interested in seeing the newly completed sixth and seventh floors.

The “First Fridays Music at Morris Library,” a free lunchtime concert series open to the university community and the public, continues at noon, Friday, November, 1.

The computer lab in Room 139, across the hall from the John C. Guyon auditorium, is now open the same hours as the Extended Hours Area of Morris Library.

Applications for the inaugural Emma Smith Hough Library Research Scholarship Awards are now being accepted from SIU undergraduate and graduate students.

At noon on April 4, the SIU Jazz Combo and the SIU Percussion Ensemble will perform in the 1st floor Rotunda as part of the First Friday Music at Morris series.

Morris Library will offer two brand-new workshops this summer: "Introduction to 3D Printing and Scanning" and "Finding Reliable Health Information Online."

Novelist Ted Morrissey will read from his new novel, An Untimely Frost, on Wednesday, April 16, at noon in Morris Library's 1st floor Rotunda.

A trial of two databases on the EBSCOhost platform, PsycBOOKs and PsycTESTS, will run from until June 30, 2014. These titles are both available from the A - Z database list.

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