Working in partnership with the Keeneland Association, UK Libraries has recently added the Daily Racing Form Archives to its digital collections, allowing users to explore the fascinating history of thoroughbred horse racing in incredibly granular detail.
All UK students, faculty, and staff, along with the wider Lexington community, are invited to get a taste of the unique process of letterpress printing during the two-day event.
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.
UK Libraries is proud to honor award-winning and critically acclaimed novelist, short story writer, essayist, poet, and professor Crystal Wilkinson as the 2026 recipient of the UK Libraries Medallion for Intellectual Achievement.
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.
