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    • Library Supports Surf Team Film Screening

      Join the Pepperdine Surf Team for a screening of “Changes” – Friday, March 19, 2010 at 7:30pm on the second floor of Payson Library.

    • George Washington Exhibit Comes to Payson

      This March the Pepperdine University Libraries welcome a special exhibition called The Great Experiment: George Washington and the American Republic to Payson Library.

    • Girls in the Curl Featured Benson and Beck

      February 6th brought great enthusiasm and excitement among those attending the Pepperdine Libraries Girls in the Curl event. The day’s events culminated with intimate conversations featuring surf legends like Gidget, Shelley Merrick, Linda Benson, and current pro surfer Holly Beck.

  • Resources & Reviews

    • Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with Irish Women’s Letters & Diaries

      Two easy ways to locate the Irish content in the database, British & Irish Women’s Letters & Diaries: Go to Browse and select ‘Place’ – Ireland is listed first. Or, go to Search, select Advanced and type ‘Irish’ in the Nationality box.
      This database spans more than 400 years of personal writings, bringing together the voices [...]

    • Featured Database: North American Women’s Letters and Diaries

      Spanning more than 300 years, the database presents the personal experiences of some 1325 women. The collection includes approximately 150,000 pages of letters and diaries from Colonial times to 1950, including 6,000 pages of previously unpublished manuscripts and 1,500 bibliographies. The material is drawn from more than 600 sources, including journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, [...]

    • “The African American Migration Experience”

      Several thousand items ranging from historical documents and rare visual materials to contemporary photo-journalism, relating to the entirety of African American history from the 16th century to the present; selected in the course of developing the NYPL website “African American Migration Experience”