Library News

  • News

    • New Exhibit Images of the Korean War: One Soldier’s Perspective Opens this Month at Payson Library

      16 Jan 2015

      Pepperdine University Libraries is pleased to announce a new exhibition highlighting the Korean War photos taken by Hanson Williams Jr., a 1950 graduate of Pepperdine, who received a photography scholarship to attend the university. Six months after his graduation, he was drafted by the United States Army and was stationed in California for one year before […]

    • Student Appreciation Day – Friday, January 30, 2015

      13 Jan 2015

      On Friday, January 30, 2015, Pepperdine University Libraries salutes the students of Pepperdine with Student Appreciation Day at Payson Library. Dean of Libraries Mark Roosa says, “Pepperdine students possess an extraordinary intellectual curiosity, a strength of spirit, and goodness of heart that defines this institution. We wish to show our appreciation to them, for it […]

    • Actor and director Micky Moore digital collection now open for research

      13 Jan 2015

      Pepperdine University Libraries is pleased to announce the online release of the Micky Moore Collection, which adds over 2,500 digital objects to our growing film and television research area. The collection features the photographs, correspondence, media clippings, and production materials of Michael D. “Micky” Moore, a child actor turned film director whose career spanned the […]

  • Resources & Reviews

    • Now Streaming: Finding the Gold Within

      16 Feb 2015

      Pepperdine University Libraries now provides online access to the feature-length documentary Finding the Gold Within, via Kanopy Streaming. Finding the Gold Within follows six Black men from Akron, Ohio, through their first years of college. Despite their high levels of confidence and critical thinking, the stark reality of being away from their families and communities […]

    • New Electronic Resource: The Bible in English

      16 Feb 2015

      Pepperdine University Libraries now provides access to The Bible in English. This database includes 20 different versions of the English Bible (including 12 full Bibles, five New Testament texts, two versions of the Gospels only, and William Tyndale’s translations of the Pentateuch, Jonah, and the New Testament). English literature scholars will find this resource particularly […]

    • New for 2015 in Project Muse

      20 Jan 2015

      The following journals, previously announced as joining Project MUSE, are now online: ** From the Liverpool University Press:  European Journal of Language Policy Published by Liverpool University Press, in association with the Conseil europen pour les langues/European Language Council, the journal aims to address major developments in language policy from a European perspective, regarding multilingualism […]