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Library Access in Houston
We are grateful for our neighbors' support in challenging times! Rice University and the University of Houston will welcome Tulane University faculty, staff, and students who have evacuated to the area. All visitors should abide by each institution's mask and health & safety policies. Contact them directly for further details.
ASERL Members open to Tulanians
Members of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) are opening their doors to students, staff, and faculty from Tulane University. Member locations range from Baltimore (Johns Hopkins University) to Miami, and include Emory University, Vanderbilt University, University of Miami, and more major public institutions. The roster with a map is… (read more)
FAQ for Summer 2021
In line with Tulane's re-opening plans, the following information details the libraries' procedures and policies for Summer 2021. Please follow us on Facebook and instagram and twitter for continued communication.
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Tulane University Libraries (TUL) expands Media Services' Creative Technology Lending Collection (CLTC)
Tulane University Libraries (TUL) are excited to announce the addition of the Creative Technology Lending Collection (CLTC) to Media Services. The CTLC is designed to enable all students, staff, and faculty to engage with new technologies and avenues to share their creative and scholarly work. Developed with first-time users in mind, most equipment is plug-and-play with a low learning curve.… (read more)
2021 Newcomb-Tulane College Senior Theses and Projects now available on TUDL
Celebrate the successful scholarship of recent Tulane graduates through Tulane University Libraries’ (TUL) Digital Repository! Completed earlier this month, the 2021 cohort of Newcomb-Tulane College Senior Theses and Projects are now available to view online. From motherhood… (read more)
Staff Spotlight: Hortensia Calvo, Christine Hernández, and Rachel Stein
This summer, The Latin American Library (LAL) offered a satellite course for the University of Virginia’s Rare Book School (RBS)—a milestone in expanding the RBS curriculum to incorporate forms of writing, recording, and printing from Mexico and Central and South America. Dr. Hortensia Calvo, Doris Stone Librarian and Director of LAL; Dr. Christine Hernández, Curator of Special Collections at… (read more)
The Lunch Tray Series: Noontime Poetry at the Library with Bouchaib Gadir
Connect and reflect after the first week of classes at Tulane University Libraries (TUL)'s Lunch Tray Series: Noontime Poetry at the Library with Bouchaib Gadir on Friday, August 27 at 12pm. A Tulane professor in the Department of French and Italian and American Moroccan poet, Bouchaib Gadir will read his own poetry which explores immigrants' experiences of loneliness and belonging, as well as… (read more)
Tulane University Libraries has completed its migration to Alma
On July 8, 2021, Tulane University Libraries (TUL) completed the large-scale implementation of a new library platform, Alma, impacting the entire Tulane community. After 23 years, TUL has migrated from the Voyager system, which ran a wide range of library functions through separate modules on individual computer hard drives, to Alma for its cloud-based… (read more)
Staff Spotlight: Grace YoungJoo Jeon
Many Tulane University Libraries (TUL) users encounter staff members’ warm welcome at the circulation desk or receive research assistance from subject librarians. Yet there are many active members of the TUL team who diligently work behind the scenes who users may never see, including Grace YoungJoo Jeon, Assessment and User Experience Librarian.
With significant experience in both… (read more)
Collections Highlight: The Lantern
Vacations to far off destinations may be on hold this summer, but readers can travel back in time through The Lantern in Tulane University Libraries’ (TUL) digital library. Published weekly in New Orleans from September 1886 to November 1889, The Lantern was a short-lived newspaper devoted to the dissemination of “useful knowledge and beneficial information on all questions and… (read more)