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- McFarlin Library: A View from the Top | From McFarlin Tower on McFarlin Library blueprints are now available online
- Updated Digital Collections: Fall 2017 | From McFarlin Tower on World War I: 1917 – The Yanks are Coming exhibit
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko | From McFarlin Tower on Where did TU’s Picasso go?
- The Great War / World War I collections | From McFarlin Tower on Hugo “Hap” Gruenberg Collection
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Author Archives: KristinaRosenthal
Doris Lessing, Nobel Prize Winner, Dies at 94
The University of Tulsa’s Department of Special Collections and University Archives is sad to announce that adored British author Doris Lessing passed away peacefully at her home in the early morning hours of Sunday November 17th. Lessing, who produced fifty-five … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, collections, Literature, poetry
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Announcement: Anna Kavan at the Zarrow Art Center
The University of Tulsa’s Department of Special Collections and University Archives is proud to announce the opening of an exhibit featuring the works of Anna Kavan. The exhibit will be shown in the Sherman Smith Family Gallery at the Zarrow … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna Kavan, art, collections, events, exhibit, Literature, university of tulsa, Zarrow Arts Center
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H.P. Lovecraft’s Frightening Tales
In celebration of Halloween this Thursday the Department of Special Collections and University Archives would like to showcase the spooky works of famous pulp fiction author H.P. Lovecraft. Lovecraft was an American modernist author who achieved posthumous fame for his … Continue reading
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Closing Announcement
The Department of Special Collections and University Archives will be closed this Friday October 25, 2013 from 8 am to 12:30 pm. We are sorry for any inconveniences this closure causes and appreciate our patrons’ understanding.
Slave Narratives at Special Collections
12 Years A Slave is a movie set to hit theaters this month. The movie is based on the true life story of Solomon Northup. Northup was a free black man living in the north until one day he was … Continue reading
Seamus Heaney Noted Irish Poet Dies
Seamus Heaney, at the age of 74, died this morning at a hospital in Dublin after complications from a short illness. “Heaney was widely recognized as one of the major poets of the twentieth century. Heaney attracted a readership on … Continue reading
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New Acquisition: “Poems by John Donne with Elegies on the Authors Death”
The University of Tulsa’s Department of Special Collections and University Archives recently acquired a posthumous publication of poet John Donne’s work. The book, first published in 1633, features a series of poems and sonnets that had never been published together, … Continue reading
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New Exhibit: The Manly Exhibit
Starting Monday April 29th the Department of Special Collections and University Archives will be showcasing some of our more masculine treasures in a new exhibit titled “The Manly Exhibit”. Student workers Brancen Gregory and Jacob Fritsch have compiled an assortment … Continue reading
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National Library Workers Appreciation Day!
This week is National Library Appreciation Week, and according to the American Library Association, today is National Library Workers Day. Here at The University of Tulsa’s McFarlin Library Department of Special Collections and University Archives we would like to say … Continue reading
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Remembering Martin Luther King Jr.
On April 4th 1968 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot while standing on the balcony of his hotel room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis Tennessee. “The civil rights leader was in Memphis to support a sanitation workers’ strike … Continue reading
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Tagged artists books, fine printing, history, poetry
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