Every spring, UK Libraries awards two $1,000 prizes to recognize and celebrate exceptional, original scholarship by undergraduates whose research projects make substantive and creative use of UK Libraries’ collections, services, and resources.
Photographs from the James Walters Photograph Collection are part of a special exhibit, "Chain of Wooded Mountains: Remembering the Coal Town of Balkan, Kentucky," on display in the Great Hall through the end of the Spring semester.
Ten interns under the mentorship of Undergraduate Research Archivist Carol Street will travel to Richmond, Virginia for the National Conference on Undergraduate Research, April 13-15.
Planning is underway for a full-scale, multi-year renovation of the Margaret I. King Library building to begin Fall 2026. The project will affect access to services at both the Special Collections Research Center and the King Library Annex.
Study outside on one of the Young Library balconies, accessible from the Third Floor from mid-March to early November.
The Prichard Lecture will be held on Wednesday, March 11 at 5:30pm in the Young Library Auditorium. Friss will speak about his most recent book, The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore.
The campus community is invited to attend the opening reception on February 26. The exhibit is on display in the Medical Center Library through March 21.
To commemorate the 65th anniversary of the United States Peace Corps, the Kentucky Peace Corps Association is highlighting the service of Kentucky's returned Peace Corps volunteers in a new traveling exhibit that will open at the William T. Young Library on March 1, 2026.
Held on Zoom, the virtual seminars help students, faculty, and staff improve and expand their research skills and make more efficient use of library resources. The Spring 2026 series will equip participants with practical techniques for a number of research skills and cover key features and search strategies for commonly-used databases.
From February 9–13, our Digital Scholarship & Data Librarians will lead daily online sessions that take a deep dive into a single popular dataset. Discover the ins and outs of a wide range of data sources accessible to UK Libraries users.
