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What's Up at Walsh?: Reference Events

This guide was created by the Walsh Reference Department to highlight some of the fun and interesting things we're doing.

Events

List of dates for Spring 2025 events hosted by Walsh Reference.

Throughout Spring 2025, Walsh Reference will be hosting a series of events, including:

NYPL Card Sign Up (click here for details)
Broaden your horizon with access to the New York Public Library!
Silent Book Club (click here for details)
A chance to read to yourself, with other people.
Citation Station (click here for details)
A drop-in event where you can get answers to your citation, and citation management, questions.
Shut Up & Write! (click here for details)
Dedicated time to commit to your writing practice, no sharing necessary.

Where do I sign up?

You can sign up here to RSVP, get reminder emails, or share feedback.

What's Up at Walsh: Welcome & Announcements

Welcome! This guide highlights some of the events and experiences happening in and around Walsh Library hosted by the Reference Department.

Announcements

Douglass Day is February 14th! Interested in honoring Black history through helping to transcribe historical documents at the Library of Congress to ensure they become free and accessible to all? To participate online on your own, sign up here. If you would like to organize a group to participate in Douglass Day together in person on February 14th, contact tgleason11@fordham.edu for assistance.

On Display in the Reference Area of Walsh Library

On Display Now → Immigrant Communities of New York City & Beyond
A new Rose Hill Reference Research Exhibit covering immigrant communities of New York City and other resources to study immigration at-large in the U.S.

Welcome to the Bronx: A Rose Hill Reference Research Exhibit (ended)
Explore print and digital research materials around the room highlighting Bronx history and culture. Use the link above to access a Zotero library of items in the display.

Image description: Introductory sign on a shelf in the reference room announcing the exhibit.

On Permanent Display in the Reference Area of Walsh Library

Image credit: Johann Baptiste Homann, Nova Anglia Septentrionali Americae implantate (New England Situated in North America) Nuremberg, 1724, 51 1/2 x 61 cm, Archives & Special Collections at Fordham University Libraries.

Antiquarian Map Collection of Bert W.M. Twaalfhoven
Interested in colonial New York & New England? Check out our collection of maps around the Reference Room documenting Dutch settlement in New York. Our New York - Researching guide helps put these maps in context with links to resources from this era including Dutch colonial records translated into English, Indigenous history, and slavery in New York.

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