On Founder’s Day, September 20, 1975, as Pepperdine University’s Malibu campus began its fourth year of activity, the university was honored by an official visit from the President of the United States, Gerald R. Ford. This was the first time a sitting President had visited Pepperdine, a milestone indicative of both the prestige the university [...]
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Introducing Historypin: Putting Pepperdine history on the map
Monday, March 4th, 2013
Pepperdine University Libraries is pleased to announce the launch of its new channel with Historypin.com, a website and mobile application that allows the pinning of historical photographs, audio recordings, and moving image files to Google Maps. Would you like to see the Malibu hills in 1969 before the arrival of Pepperdine University, overlaid seamlessly with [...]
Student life 25 years ago today: Today’s featured digital object
Monday, January 7th, 2013
In February of 1988, Pepperdine University’s alumni newspaper, The Pepperdine Voice, featured a photo spread titled “A Day in the Life of Pepperdine University.” The introductory text read: “On Thursday, Jan. 7, 1988, seven photographers were deployed to scour all areas of campus to capture the daily activities of Pepperdine on film…What sort of day [...]
ARTstor now available on-campus and off-campus
Friday, October 19th, 2012
Following a successful trial, Pepperdine University Libraries have subscribed to ARTstor, a nonprofit resource that provides more than one million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research. Its community-built collections comprise contributions from outstanding international museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and [...]
Pepperdine Digital Collections now online
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
Pepperdine University Libraries announces the opening of its new online digital collections. Through the digitization and display of rare or unique materials, each extraordinary collection provides a unique perspective on the history and scholarship of Pepperdine University and the cultural legacy of Malibu. View the Pepperdine Digital Collections here. Inaugural collections include: The Pepperdine Yearbook [...]
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