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
UnSplash
Unsplash is a website dedicated to sharing stock photography under the Unsplash license. The website claims over 110,000 contributing photographers and generates more than 11 billion photo impressions per month on their growing library of over 1.5 million photos.
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Google Image Search
Google provides both basic and advanced image searching for over 1 billion images. Google's Advanced Image Search searching allows you to limit results based on usage rights, by size and quite a bit more.
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World Digital Library
The World Digital Library (WDL) is a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, carried out with the support of the United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (UNESCO), and in cooperation with libraries, archives, museums, educational institutions, and international organizations from around the world.
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Artstor on JSTOR
The Artstor Digital Library, now part of JSTOR, is a nonprofit resource that provides over 3.3 million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research. The community-built collections comprise contributions from international museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates.
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Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)
Provides for searching across a massive number of digital collections located in libraries, archives and museums throughout the United States. Includes georeferences and timelines.
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