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Now the traditional residence of the university president, Maxwell Place was once home to one of Lexington's most prominent families — and the site of an attempted murder. Associate Dean for Research and Discovery Deirdre Scaggs tells the story in the latest episode of Lex Talk History.
Doug Boyd, Director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, has worked with the public station and "Kentucky's largest classroom" for years to collect and share stories from across the Commonwealth.
Nearly 200 issues of two Kentucky abolitionist newspapers, the True American and the Examiner, are freely available online through the Kentucky Digital Newspaper Program (KDNP), the Libraries’ online newspaper repository.
Over 100 students visited UK Libraries in May to explore William T. Young Library and gain hands-on experience with academic research.
James Robert Southard’s ongoing photography series, The Kentuckian, explores the rich and varied landscape of labor across Kentucky. The images — featured here in the Oxford American — are being preserved by UK Libraries.
Mitchell Scott, Coordinator of Collections Strategies Librarian, was featured alongside Christine Haynes, Professor of History at the University of North Carolina and David Givens, Director of Resource Acquisitions at Brown University Library.
One of UK Libraries’ new electronic resources, Gale Digital Scholar Lab (GDSL), integrates archival collections with popular text analysis tools to interrogate hundreds or thousands of documents to uncover trends, patterns, and insights that would be impossible to discover using traditional methods.
The OER Grant Program supports the adoption and creation of open educational resources for use in University of Kentucky courses. The ten recipients of the 2025 cycle span a wide variety of disciplines and their projects range from open textbooks to interactive assignments. When completed, all materials will be openly licensed and freely available to the public.
Nominated by their peers, award winners demonstrate exemplary professionalism and collegiality, creativity and initiative in the performance of their duties and responsibilities, and dedication and commitment to furthering the mission of UK Libraries.
