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The Lunch Tray Series: Noontime Poetry at the Library with Tiana Nobile

Last month, Tulane University Libraries (TUL) launched The Lunch Tray Series, a lunch time poetry reading and discussion event series, starting with poet and Tulane professor Karisma Price. This month, TUL is honored to host Tiana Nobile for the second Lunch Tray Series: Noontime Poetry at the Library event on Friday, May 14, 2021 at 12pm. Tiana Nobile will read her own poetry and then engage… (read more)

Neville Prendergast honored as a 2021 Medical Library Association President’s Award recipient

This April, Neville Prendergast, Director of the Rudolph Matas Library of the Health Sciences, was honored as a recipient of the Medical Library Association’s (MLA) 2021 President’s Award. The President’s Award is presented to an MLA member or group of members for significant contributions made during the past year to enhance… (read more)

Latin American Library offers Rare Book School course

The Latin American Library (LAL) offered a satellite summer course with Rare Book School (RBS), a leading educational institute for topics concerning old and rare books, manuscripts, and special collections, housed at the University of Virginia.

LAL librarians Hortensia Calvo, Christine Hernández, and Rachel Stein co-designed and taught the course, titled "Spanish American Textualities… (read more)

Collections Highlight: Conservation work on the Codex Tulane

In this spring season of renewal, the Codex Tulane, or Códice Huamelulpan, has had a rebirth of its own. A mid-sixteenth century Mesoamerican painted manuscript on deer hide, the codex consists of inscriptions, pictorial and otherwise, likely used in court proceedings for land litigation.  Recorded pictorially is a mythological origin scene to begin the document followed by the genealogies of… (read more)

Staff Spotlight: Amy Corder, Keith Pickett, and Laura Wright

Recently, Amy Corder, Research Support Librarian, Keith Pickett, Coordinator of Research Services & User Resources, and Laura Wright, Research Support Librarian, from Rudolph Matas Library of the Health Sciences (Matas) presented “Mission to MARS: Meta-Analysis & Systematic Review Support” at the South-Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association (… (read more)

Tulanian Spring 2021: Family Papers

4/12/21 by Amanda Morlas, photo by Sally Asher

The Latin American Library at Tulane has acquired by donation the Chamorro Barrios Family Papers (1767–1997), one of Latin America’s most influential families and key players in the national life of Nicaragua since the 18th century.

“The collection is rich in previously unexplored documents which will add new insights on the… (read more)

The Lunch Tray Series: Student Poetry Contest

For National Poetry Month this April, Tulane University Libraries (TUL) is hosting a student poetry contest associated with our new lunch time poetry reading and discussion event series. Students should submit poems by emailing a pdf version to LunchTraySeries@Tulane.edu by midnight April 19th. First prize will receive a $100 gift card to… (read more)

The Lunch Tray Series: Noontime Poetry at the Library

For National Poetry Month this April, Tulane University Libraries (TUL) is launching a lunch time poetry reading and discussion event series starting with Karisma Price. During this first event, Karisma Price will read her own poetry and then engage with attendees in a Q&A session. We will be announcing the winners of the associated student poetry contest and will have the winners read… (read more)

Artist Books at TUSC: In Conversation with Alisa Banks, Kadin Henningsen, and Sara White

Get an introduction to artist books and learn more about our growing collection at Tulane University Special Collections (TUSC)! We are thrilled to host three incredible book artists on April 8 at 2:00 p.m. and explore their artist books held at TUSC. An art form in their own right, artist books have a long history and often use text, book craft, and sculptural elements to convey their ideas.… (read more)

For the humanities and social sciences: large number of Adam Matthew digital collections added

Tulane Libraries recently gained perpetual access to all pre-2016 digital collections offered by the venerable publisher Adam Matthew.  This includes 77 collections, containing more than 12 million pages of content, valued at more than $3.4 million.  The access came through a group-purchase arrangement negotiated with the publisher by the… (read more)