The Spring 2020 edition of St. Lawrence University Magazine features an article on the Digital Scholarship Program at SLU.
Student Microscopy Exhibit
Each semester, the St. Lawrence community votes to select their favorite confocal microscopy images created by students in Jill Pflugheber's Biol 392 Research Methods in Fluorescence and Confocal Microscopy class. Launders Science Library has teamed up with the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery to create a revolving display of these stunning images in the library. All are welcome to come check out the students' favorite images!
North Country Research Prize
Uprooted like so many things last Spring, the North Country Research Prize contest went forward this summer, and over the course of the summer we received a number of stellar submissions. The winners of the three categories were:
ODY Access Change
Students, faculty, staff, and community members are now welcome to use the main entrance to ODY Library.
All patrons are required to wear appropriate masks at all times in all locations in the library.
John K. Payne
Director of Libraries
St. Lawrence University
Adirondack Maps
In these Covid-ridden times, you may have wished for an Adirondack weekend, which depending on the day’s travel moratorium may or may not have come true. While it is beyond the SLU Libraries magic to make wishes come true, we have acquired a number of interesting Adirondack maps this autumn. Among them is a set “Map of Adirondack Lands” from the New York State Fisheries, Game, and Forest Commission dated 1896 that provides detailed information on the status of the lands in all of the Adirondack Park (in four maps). It is a simply beautiful object. We have
Birdsfoot Farm Records
Birdsfoot Farm is an intentional community in Canton, New York.
Poetry Broadsides Collection
A broadside is a large single-sided printed sheet of paper or vellum. James Sullivan defines poetry broadsides in his book On the Walls and in the Streets: American Poetry Broadsides from the 1960s this way:
Robert D. Graham HALCO Shipping Corporation Research Files
Robert DeMont Graham was a 1961 graduate of St. Lawrence University. In 1954 and 1955, he spent two summers working aboard the Halco Corporation freighter Eastcliffe Hall, sparking a lifelong interest in shipping.
Back to the Land
A digital collection and research portal highlighting the significance of the back-to-the-land movement in St. Lawrence County.
765 KV Line Protest Collection
The North Country Defense Committee and the coalition Upstate People for Safe Energy Technology (UPSET) were the most prominent groups that opposed the implementation of the 765 kV power line by the New York State Power Authority.
