Second year students from the College of Medicine will have exclusive access to the “Faculty Study” Room 3-34 located in the William T. Young Library through Friday, June 30 as they prepare for their Step-2 exams.
“Guides for Queer Folks” includes travel guides, maps, magazines, postcards, and advertising from the 1930s to the mid 2000s to highlight how the physical arrangement of queer spatial media and the work taken to preserve them reveal the politics and perils of the past.
University of Kentucky faculty who would like to replace a traditional textbook with alternative course content in the academic year 2023-24 are welcome to submit a proposal to UK Libraries’ Alternative Textbook Grant Program. The grants will support adoption, adaptation or revision of existing open textbooks and creation of new course content. The deadline to apply to March 31.
Jennifer A. Bartlett, Oral History Librarian at UK Libraries Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, recently received the 2022 Larry Besant Professional Award from the Special Libraries Association (SLA) Kentucky Community.
In the Black History Month edition of WUKY's award winning history series Saving Stories, Dr. Doug Boyd highlights an extraordinary interview with Malcolm X from June 1964.
UK Libraries’ Academic Liaison for Literature and Humanities, Peter Hesseldenz, contributed “Rock, Hard-Boiled: The Mekons and American Crime Fiction” in the newly published anthology, Lit-Rock: Literary Capital in Popular Music, edited by Ryan Hibbett, Associate Professor at Northern Illinois University.
Carol Street, Undergraduate Research Archivist in our Special Collections Research Center, was a guest speaker on the “Hoosier History Live '' radio program (WIICR-Indianapolis) to discuss the architecture of Edward Pierre.
Terry L. Birdwhistell – former Dean of Libraries and William T. Young Endowed Chair at the University of Kentucky, who was considered UK’s historian and one of the country’s pre-eminent oral historians – passed away Sunday after a brief illness. He was 72.
Wi-Fi network maintenance scheduled for Young Library January 26 and 27.
With help through UK Facilities' Management's "Let's Make a Difference Initiative," students and researchers can now enjoy refreshed reading space in the New Books area at Young Library.
