Due to a planned power outage, the King Library Annex and the Special Collections Research Center will both be closed during Spring Break, March 15-23.
Each year, UK Libraries awards two $1,000 prizes to undergraduate students whose research projects make substantive and creative use of UK Libraries collections, services, and resources. Apply by March 25.
Study outside on one of the Young Library balconies, accessible from the Third Floor from mid-March to early November.
The Postcard Collection at the Special Collections Research Center consists of over 50,000 postcards published between 1890-1990. 4,400 of these, drawn from all across the state, have been digitized and are freely available to view on ExploreUK.
Next week, join us for the OER Author Panel, a virtual conversation with five UK faculty members who will share their experiences writing open educational resources (OER) as part of the OER Grant Program. UK Libraries is accepting applications for the grant program through March 31.
The latest episode of Saving Stories shines a light on a 1985 Nunn Center interview with educator and activist Audrey Grevious, in which she describes her involvement in demonstrations and lunch counter sit-ins in downtown Lexington in the early 1960s.
Submit your ORCID iD to be entered into a drawing to win UK Libraries-branded prizes. Don't have an ORCID id? You can create one for free!
The University of Kentucky’s open access institutional repository, UKnowledge, makes scholarship, research data, and creative work from the UK community freely available to a global audience. Join in the fun with free birthday cake, ice cream, and coffee during the UKnowledge Birthday Celebration in The Stacks on Friday, February 14 from 2pm to 3:30pm.
Positioned at the doorway to the exponentially expanding universe of information, UK Libraries can help you discover the data you need – and make sense of what it means. Join us for more data fun, including workshops, a movie screening, and crafts during Love Data Week, Feb. 10-14.
The grant program supports the adoption and creation of open educational resources (OER) for use in UK courses. OER are class materials – including textbooks, assignments, podcasts, slides, videos, and more – that are free for anyone to use, share, or revise.
