April 17-18! exercise your powerladen paws ๐พ reach into the knotty braids of time and two-step with Walt Whitman! ๐ชข ink the press, press the paper, see a 3D image arise, astounding! astounding the power of the well-loved, time-traveling, hand-made, paw-printed paper! ๐ป https://bit.ly/3JChaDP
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90s baby smelled like Cat spirit ๐ป
In the latest episode of WUKY's Saving Stories, Doug Boyd, Director of the Nunn Center for Oral History, shares audio from an interview with Sargent Shriver, the diplomat tabbed by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 to lead the Peace Corps.
Listen here: https://bit.ly/4c2mzOB
stormcat โ๏ธ๐ป stormkitten ๐ด๐
feel the power! ๐ซ of a Kentucky wonder! ๐๏ธ it's Cumberland Falls! ๐ฟ roaring wild like a Cat's teeming heart! ๐ป
this Wednesday! ๐ป Cats just want to have fun! โก you miss every shot you don't take! ๐ playfully and good-naturedly turn your friends into temporary foes and crush them beneath the pads of your paws while roaring your pleas to the Floating Cat Eyes of Luck and Fate to guide your tumbling die! ๐ฒ
books are heavy! ๐ but Cats are strong! ๐ธ you can balance them on your head!!
remember of course all excellent jokes aside that it is important to exercise both your body and your mind, to breathe fresh air, to surround yourself with uplifting Cats who honor you, and to honor them! ๐ป
one day the sun rose bright into the sky ๐ pop! from the top of a Catโs head came a very hungry book worm ๐
achoo! excuse us! just a little Sneeze of Spring Fever here at the start of Spring Break ๐ชป๐๐
oh innocence! ๐ผ in these pelted hours how lamblike all our longings are ๐ in these brute midterm'd sleepless nights how solaceful the tender days of youth appear, when we knew no chemistry, needed no prereqs, had tasted no failure! ๐
โArchives provide a window into history that allow us to tell stories of the past from the bottom up,โ said Dr. Miriam Kienle. โItโs powerful to be touched by a photograph or feel the texture of a wooden spoon.โ
Learn more about our Balkan, Kentucky archive here: https://bit.ly/4denyNM
ranked the moonfullest album of 1998 by the infinite scrolling stone ๐
attn hardworking Cat$~~ you can turn your paper or project into a thou$$and big one$! ๐ธ๐ป๐ฐ
by applying to the UK Libraries Research Award ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ
apply by Tuesday, March 24 at 11:59 PM ๐ฐ๏ธ
more details here: https://bit.ly/4la7oqK
Cats! ๐ป your spirits are voracious! ๐ช๏ธ you are bedizzened with great Claws! ๐
victory is in the pads of your Paws, read it there! ๐ฎ
and explore a whole Century of Victory at one of the finest university athletic collections in the US, the Big Blue Sports Archive ๐ here: https://bit.ly/4rPWoBi
โbe with me always ๐ซ oh, take any form, drive me mad if you must! ๐ป only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you ๐ฅฝ oh, Great Cat of the Stars Above, with what unutterabilities you afflict me! ๐ I cannot live without this Tower, my soul!โ โ Willy T
oh, my! the Cats are coming to the library ๐ฒ they are sitting in the carrels ๐ they are learning and growing ๐ท the words they read are like seeds to the spirit that flower into dreams-come-true! ๐ฑ it's the most peaceful place on a busy, busy campus ๐ and all Cats are invited, even you ๐ซถ
y'all ๐ญ
Join us on Sunday, March 1 from 3โ5pm to celebrate the opening of a new traveling exhibit from the Kentucky Peace Corps Association commemorating the 65th anniversary of the United States Peace Corps.
Find more information here: https://bit.ly/4b4Maam
Join us for the Not A Book Club Book Club! On Tuesday, February 24, book enthusiasts from across campus will have a chance to meet over light refreshments and snacks to recommend books, learn about exciting new titles, and hear from student book clubs, librarians, and guest speakers!
don't doom scroll, bloom scroll! ๐ผ through the incredible images from the UK Agricultural Experiment Station Collection, freely available on ExploreUK ๐
๐ฑ get reaping here: https://bit.ly/4tWfVSi
welcome to the Year of the Fire Horse ๐ฅ
love pervades the universe, dear Cats! ๐ป it races riotous through your rumbling glottis! ๐ช it is in the library, yes! an inexhaustible fount of it! open your heart and let it in, let it in, awash yourself in it, distill it, bathe in it, breathe! breathe it in!
see the glory, Cats ๐
oh yes, it's difficult to bring happiness to the world: a deeply unhappy place! ๐
Next week! Where's the data? It's at UK Libraries! Join us Monday through Friday for daily dives into Libraries-licensed datasets, including Statista, PolicyMap, and Roper iPoll ๐ป๐
Find more information here: https://bit.ly/3NNyY0B
u r a miracle ๐ป be ur miracle
One more snow day! โ๏ธ UK Libraries will be closed Wednesday, January 28 due to inclement weather and re-open Thursday, January 29.
For more information, visit uky.edu/alerts
UK Libraries will be closed Tuesday, January 27 due to inclement weather. We will re-open at 8am on Wednesday, January 28.
Stay warm, Cats! ๐ป
For more information, visit https://www.uky.edu/alerts/
UK Libraries will be closed Monday, January 26 due to inclement weather. We will re-open at 8am on Tuesday, January 27.
Stay warm, Cats! ๐ป
For more information, visit https://www.uky.edu/alerts/
there is nothing heroically stronger than Getting Out Of Bed and reminding ourselves that C's Get Degrees, Cats, there is nothing heroically stronger than Making It Through Another Day ๐ป remember your claws! dig deep!