Stephanie Stillo and KU Libraries' Jason Dean in the Spencer Library North Gallery, taken from further back with crowd members in the foreground.

Stephanie Stillo and KU Libraries' Jason Dean in the Spencer Library North Gallery.

Stephanie Stillo laughs during a question and answer session with KU Libraries students and staff, and campus friends.

Members of the audience listen intently as Stephanie Stillo speaks from the foreground in Spencer Research Library's North Gallery.

Stillo sneak peek for @kulibraries.bsky.social and friends.

Big smiles provide evidence that Thursday's Snyder Book Collecting Contest keynote from Library of Congress Rare Book Chief Stephanie Stillo is going to be first rate. Join us at Watson Library for the contest, keynote and vibes.

Three groups of students gather to work together in "The Kettle" a reimagined space for student engagement in Watson Library on this graphic that reads "KU Libraries: The next big idea starts here. April 28-29, 2026, Noon to Noon CST. One Day One KU" on a griddy cloud laden background.

We're less than two weeks away from #OneDayOneKU! Join us April 28-29, noon to noon, for @universityofkansas.bsky.social annual day of giving.

A gift to KU Libraries supports all Jayhawks and fuels the next BIG idea. Can’t wait? Give now to support One Day One KU.

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KU curator Rebekah Ramos discusses zine making in a circle of students at the Dodge City Community College library.

KU Libraries curator Rebekah Ramos speaks at a podium about Preserving Kansas Latina/o History at Dodge City Community College's library.

East. West. North. South. Delighted to document and share the stories of all Kansans.

Last week Latina/o Collections Curator Rebekah Ramos spent time at Dodge City Community College talking about personal archives and preserving Latina/o history in Kansas, including a zine making activity.

A pair of individuals do work on the tree-trunk-turned-beehive on the top floor of KU's Natural History Museum in Dyche Hall.

Bee there, add to the buzz.

Visit @kunhm.bsky.social Friday from 10 a.m. to noon and offer your take on the "Bee Tree" in Dyche Hall as part of the KU Reads-connected Lawrence Reviewed pop-up series.

📝 lawrencereviewed.com/pop-ups

Graphic depicting a pair of students in the stacks, one balancing a stack of books that cover their face. Text on the left reads 68th Annual Snyder Book Collecting Contest.

View amazing student book collections during the 68th Annual Snyder Book Collecting Contest with awards and keynote from Library of Congress Rare Books Chief and KU alumna Stephanie Stillo.

📅Thursday, April 16
⏰4/4:30 p.m.
📍Watson Library, 3 West

The John Dardess Research Forum is an annual showcase of East Asian scholarly activity at KU, which is bolstered by the collections and experts in the libraries' East Asian Collection. This year's event highlighted 13 faculty and student presenters from a variety of departments.

A view of Spencer Research Library's terrace-level entrance.

Six scholars were recently selected as KU Libraries travel award winners, enabling visiting faculty, students and independent researchers to connect to the Kenneth Spencer Research Library’s rare materials and expert curators.

🗞️ rockcha.lk/travawards26

Student Research Gallery | KU Libraries, CURF launch research exhibition in Anschutz Library YouTube video by KU Libraries

"This space is grounded in a simple but powerful idea, that student research matters..." 🎙Gwen Geiger Wolfe, @kulibraries.bsky.social Science & Engineering Librarian

Connect with student research, opportunities in a new gallery featuring KU's CURF at Anschutz Library.

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Student research deserves a spotlight. KU Libraries is opening a brand-new research gallery at Anschutz Library - featuring KU Center for Undergraduate Research & Fellowships posters from this year's Undergraduate Research Day at the Capitol.

Reception today at 2 p.m.!

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New at Spencer Research Library: "Aging, Art, and Activism" - archival treasures meet contemporary art in a conversation about growing older. Opening reception March 31 at 5:30 p.m. Don't miss it.

🗞️ rockcha.lk/ageartactex

Rare Irish manuscripts. Cold pints. A pirate queen. Wednesday night's History on Tap at Free State Brewering Company featuring Spencer Research Library Special Collections Curator Elspeth Healy did not disappoint. 🍺☘️

A Scottish bibliophile with a taste for swans, knight's helmets, and monograms - meet William Stirling Maxwell's extraordinary bookplate collection in this recent Kenneth Spencer Research Library blog post.

📝 rockcha.lk/maxplates

Textbook Hero | Trevor Rivers named 2026 Textbook Hero for creating biology open resource YouTube video by KU Libraries

A win, win, win.

“I don’t want to go back … it was pedagogically driven, as well as cost driven.” 🎙️ Trevor Rivers, Textbook Hero

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Trevor Rivers, associate teaching professor of
@kubiology.bsky.social, has been named KU Libraries 2026 Textbook Hero for extending his student-centered, curiosity-driven teaching style into the creation of open educational resources (OER). #OEWeek26

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Library of Congress rare books chief to return to KU for Snyder Book Collecting Contest as keynote and guest judge. The contest is now accepting student entries through March 24, celebrating 68 years of encouraging student book collections.

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The KU community and campus partners gathered in Watson Library for a global transcribe-a-thon as part of the annual #DouglassDay celebration Friday, enjoying birthday cake and digitizing historical documents. Related materials from Spencer Library were on display in the lobby.

A taste of talent.

The Gorton Music and Dance Library welcomed Reed Five for a lunchtime concert Monday in celebration of the library’s 25th anniversary, the second of three Brown Bag performances leading up to a Y2K-themed party for students on Wednesday, Feb. 18.

𝘉𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘉𝘪𝘰𝘴: Associate librarian and rare materials cataloger Jason W. Dean (@jasonwdean.com) is working to expand access to Spencer Research Library's collections.

Get to know Jason and find a link to important information and resources by connecting with libraries staff.

📝 rockcha.lk/bbiojdean

Sharing the re-cat'd + previously unreported 1855 1st ed of Whitman's Leaves of Grass at Spencer @kulibraries.bsky.social ! We've had this copy for decades, but in the card cat - not in our online catalog: 📜 #bookhistory #booksky #libsky #rarebooks : kuprimo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/...

As KU Libraries' Sprints Week enters 10 years of moving forward research or teaching projects, partnering over the years with 19 faculty partners from 17 different academic units, it welcomes applications for the next cohort of sprinters.

🗞️ rockcha.lk/sprintapp26

This Valentine's season, don't let your research be a data disaster. 💔➡️💖

Join KU Libraries and the global community for Love Data Week (Feb 9-13). Discover library data resources and learn to organize, protect, and cherish your data.

🗞️ rockcha.lk/lovedata26

KU Reads continues university, community connections with slate of spring events, including a Kansas Day collab with Lawrence Public Library. Join the conversation around the KU Reads 2025-26 Common Book, “The Anthropocene Reviewed,” by John Green.

📝 rockcha.lk/kureadssp26

Meet the Hinman Collator: a 400-pound bibliographic detective that spots tiny differences between copies of books by rapidly blinking between images. Created by KU's Charlton Hinman in the 1940s, it revolutionized how we study rare books.

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A new travel grant program will support the use of KU Libraries International Collections and in-person consultation with librarians, with researchers from across the U.S. and around the globe encouraged to apply online through March 1, 2026.

🗞️ rockcha.lk/igel-travel

Newly ordered zines - self-published, specialized, mini magazines - for the Wilcox Collection of Contemporary Movements have arrived at Spencer Research Library and will soon be available to encounter among the rare and unique items in Spencer's collections.

Stock up and unwind.

Positive vibes, school supplies, hot cocoa, coffee and crafts were available at Fuel up for Finals in Anschutz Library on Wednesday, in partnership with Hawk Link and @KULibraries.

It's cozy inside ... just take care entering and exiting library buildings today after this morning's continuing snowfall.

WWII airman's letters to his future wife reveal intimate side of war - not missions, but longing for home. Spencer Research Library collection chronicles James Coffin's military service in North Africa and Italy. #VeteransDay

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🌱 Grow a little joy.

Distributed plants and plant knowledge at another fun Plant-shootz at Anschutz event on Monday.

𝘉𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘉𝘪𝘰𝘴: Scholar, author, librarian, Paul Thomas leverages his experiences to support KU researchers.

Get to know Paul and find your link to important information and resources by connecting with our faculty and staff.

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