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Every year the Friends of Owen D. Young and Launders Libraries (FODYLL) awards prizes for outstanding undergraduate research. These are research projects that utilized our collections and databases in the name of completing a project-specific to Northern New York (inclusive of the Adirondacks).  There are prizes for the Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Sciences. 

In honor of William Fox’s retirement, after a presidency of twelve years, we have created a display of images and objects related to his time(s) at St Lawrence. 

President Fox played a major role in seeing the college through both the great recession and the current pandemic, and he also has been key in navigating the Campaign for Every Laurentian. 

The Paul & Ruth Jamieson papers (MSS 74) hold a particularly important place in our Adirondack collections, given the lasting significance of Paul Jamieson’s work as a writer and a conservationist.  His four major books taken together offer a twentieth-century version of the Adirondack landscape and ideal, and his work to establish rights of passage for waterways throughout the Adirondacks has positively impacted generations of Adirondack pilgrims. 

1. There are three libraries at SLU—Owen D.

Two very literary collections are on display in the Frank and Anne Piskor Reading Room.  One is in honor of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who died on February 22nd, 2021.  Since we were not doing exhibits at that point in the pandemic, Ferlinghetti’s passing went unobserved, but now that the Reading Room is open we wanted to honor Ferlinghetti’s legacy as a poet, publisher, and bookseller.  Ferlinghetti was the long-time proprietor of City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco, and as part of his business, founded City Lights Press.  Our City Lights Press collection is an important piece o

For a number of years now The SLU Libraries have acknowledged outstanding student work on topics related to northernmost New York, through the North Country Research Prize in the Humanities, Sciences, and Social Sciences.  Although the pandemic threw our usual timing askew, we have made our awards, and they go to:

The WORD Studio provides specialized science writing assistance. Science Writing tutors have appointment-only hours in ODY 137, and these tutorials can be booked on our website here.  

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to reach out to us wordstudio@stlawu.edu.  

This year in the Frank and Anne Piskor Reading Room we are featuring materials from some of our noteworthy collection, and for the new display we turn to Frank himself: The Frank P. Piskor Collection of Robert Frost. 

The thirty online journals used most at SLU during 2021:

1. Nature
2. Science 
3. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
4. Sex Roles
5. Journal of Chemical Education
6. American Economic Review
7. Science of the Total Environment
8. American Journal of Public Health
9. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
10. Scientific American
11. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
12. Social Science & Medicine
13. Journal of Cleaner Production
14. Journal of the American Che

The Frank and Anne Piskor Room is now open for in-person visits by appointment only.  To schedule an appointment, please contact Special Collections and Archives Librarian Paul Doty at 315-229-5483, or by e-mail at pdoty@stlawu.edu. 

We can no longer provide scanning or photocopying of materials in our collections for the public; scanning and photocopying services are limited to members of the SLU Community. We regret any inconvenience of this necessary change.