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Jerome McGann, an important critic of Romanticism and Byron studies, and the editor of Byron: The Complete Poetical Works (Clarendon Press, The Oxford English Texts series, 1980-1993), has donated his Byron papers to the Byron Society Collection at Drew University. The materials in Professor McGann’s collection are primarily of three general types. They include his [...]
- By Dean Andrew Scrimgeour As I write this column, the much-anticipated Kean Reading Room & Gallery in the Rose Library is nearing completion. Like a fashion model about to make her entrance on the runway pausing to put on her necklace and earrings, the grand space awaits a few final touches—redupholstered chairs for the [...]
Inspired by the 2012 Leadership conference… Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations… Look under “Leadership” here to see what quotations the Library of Congress can supply on the subject: Reference PN6081 .R435 or http://ezproxy.drew.edu/login?url=http://www.credoreference.com/vol/84 New Dictionary of the History of Ideas Somehow one suspects that this reference has somewhat sanitized Harry Truman’s definition of leadership: [...]
By Ernest Rubinstein, Ph.D., Theological Librarian The library is a wistful place. It attests to the counterfactual. It does so through the books it holds, but also by the very structure that orders the books. That Structure is abstract, intellectual, Platonic. It is an organic object of formal beauty. It aims to survey and embrace [...]
The Rose Window has long reigned as the symbol of the Drew University Library. A dazzling array of reds and blues, it sits in singular splendor above the main entrance, aloof from any aesthetic competition in the Learning Center, the Rose Library, or the Methodist Center. These buildings excel in functionality but offer few places [...]
The Library will be rolling out a new search engine – a “discovery service,” in library-speak – that will provide the ability to efficiently search the Library catalog, subject indexes and our many article databases from one simple search box. This tool will provide fast, relevant results across all our Library resources as well as [...]
Drew Library is proud to announce a new “mobile” site customized for users with mobile devices (smartphone, iPad, etc.). The new service will allow you to easily: Search the library catalog and save results Check library hours (and news) Access the library’s mobile-friendly database services All from your phone or mobile device, through LibraryAnywhere. Both [...]
Now available as a PDF file. Contents include: Mural Graces New Reading Room Enter Ebrary Rooms That Matter Jerome McGann Donates His Byron Papers to the Byron Society Collection at Drew University ILLiad: Drew’s New Interlibrary Loan System Drew LibraryAnywhere: The library in your pocket Libraries, Librarians and Researchers Collecting R.S. Thomas Conversations on Collecting [...]
Oscar Wilde’s Legacy: A Selection from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection May 2, 2012 – June 2, 2012 This display, drawn from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, on loan from the University of Delaware Library, focuses on how Wilde’s friends and associates dealt with his legacy in the early twentieth century. The exhibition is mounted [...]