 . Each fall, the A-LEC offers about 40 study strategy workshops; in spring, approximately 20 are offered. Among the topics covered are note taking, time management, test-taking strategies and textbook study and reading.
HDEV 1110 - Reading and Learning Strategies Each academic year, hundreds of SMU students take HDEV 1110 to develop their advanced reading and learning skills. Every fall, some sections are reserved for premed.
Academic Counseling. Full-time staff members are available to work individually with students on study strategies. Some specialize in working with students with learning differences or students on academic probation.. largest of the SMU library units is Central University Libraries (CUL), with holdings of more than three million volumes, including nearly one million e-books. CUL comprises the Fondren Library, the Hamon Arts Library, the DeGolyer Library and the University Archives, the Emily C. Norwick Center for Digital Solutions, and the Fort Burgwin Library at SMU-in-Taos. CUL also supports SMU programs at the SMU-in-Plano campus.
Fondren Library serves students, faculty and staff in the areas of humanities, social sciences, business, education, science, and engineering, with print and online resources. Subject librarians assigned to each discipline offer personal research services to students sustainance and, CUL also manages the SMU Digital Repository, called SMU Scholar, which houses the scholarly output of the SMU faculty and graduate students. To support the research of the university, Fondren Library also provides document delivery to faculty, staff and students, as well as access to holdings from other libraries via interlibrary loan. Strengths of the Fondren Library collections include, but are not limited to, classical studies, late 18th- and early 19th-century English literature, American history, Texas history, contemporary biography and literature, anthropology, political science, economics and other social sciences. and for the Sulphur Springs Collection of pre-nickelodeon films.
DeGolyer Library is a noncirculating special collections branch of CUL that contains more than 160,000 volumes. In addition to rare books, it.
The Norwick Center for Digital Solutions (nCDS), located in the staff-access-only area of the Fondren Library, focuses on digitizing CUL’s collections of rare photo-graphs, manuscripts, imprints, art work, film, musical recordings, and other unique items for increased access via the CUL Digital Collections website (digitalcollections.smu.edu/all/cul). The nCDS serves as a teaching lab, with digital collections development and Digital Humanities practicums available to students. The center is also affiliated with the SMU Digital Repository, SMU Scholar (digitalrepository.smu.edu), and other repositories within the library system.
The Fort Burgwin Library, located in SMU-in-Taos, serves students and faculty in the SMU-in-Taos program. It is focused on the history, literature, cultures and environment of New Mexico and the Southwest. The library contains approximately 9,000 books and a small collection of journals and maps, and houses the Fred Wendorf Information Commons, a computer facility and library constructed in 2004.
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Underwood Law Library, one of the 30 largest law libraries in the country and the largest private law library in the Southwest, houses more than 665,000 volumes and primarily serves the faculty and students of the Dedman School of Law. library’s collection of antiquarian law books, including the McKnight Antiquarian Book Collection, is one of the leading collections of its kind in the country, with volumes printed as early as 1474. The Kay and Ray Hutchison Legal Resource Learning Center in the Underwood Law Library is a computer-learning lab located on the third floor..).