Blogs

This Saturday, February 8, 2014, Morris Library and the organization New Blankets will be having a 3D printer event in the third floor rotunda of Morris Library.

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.

Morris Library is seeking funds to reframe 4 pieces of art from our collection.

During Native American Heritage Month, Special Collections Research Center is celebrating Edward S. Curtis’s masterwork: The North American Indian.

On February 21st and 2nd the Friends of Morris Library will be holding a book sale.

The University Archives and Records Management have partnered in an ongoing project to digitize historic issues of the Daily Egyptian newspaper for online access.  The collection is available

Professors Beth Cox, Stephanie Graves, Andrea Imre, and Cassie Wagner's report on changing the default search in I-Share from the Morris Library-only catalog to the full consortial catalog was

Our IRAD facility will be closed Tuesday, July 29 through Tuesday, August 5. IRAD will reopen Wednesday, August 6.

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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