UK Libraries is now accepting applications for the Open Educational Resources (OER) Grant Program, known formerly as the Alternative Textbook Grant Program. The grant program encourages the adoption and creation of OER for use in UK courses. Available to students at no cost, OER are crucial to providing equitable access to higher education by eliminating the financial burden of traditional commercial textbooks.
UK Libraries has received the 2024 Library Excellence in Access and Diversity (LEAD) Award from Insight Into Diversity magazine, the largest and oldest diversity and inclusion publication in higher education. The LEAD Award honors academic libraries’ programs and initiatives that encourage and support diversity, equity, and inclusion across their campus.
From Jan. 3 to Feb. 29, 2024, William T. Young Library will host The Heart of the Turf: Racing’s Black Pioneers, a traveling exhibit developed by the Keeneland Library. The exhibit highlights the lives and careers of 80 Black horsemen and -women from the mid-1800s to the present through unique materials from Keeneland Library collections.
It’s late December, and you know what that means: it’s end-of-year round-up time! We love an annual retrospective as much as the next nostalgic Wildcat, but even more when it means we can look back on the achievements of our accomplished UK Libraries’ faculty and staff.
Happy Holidays from UK Libraries! We’ve selected a few classic tunes from turn-of-the-century songbooks that are among our favorite new additions to our digital collections. Throw another yule log on the fire, warm up your voice with some do-re-mi’s, and join us in kindling the holiday spirit.
On the evening of Dec. 10, 2021, a catastrophic EF4 tornado claimed the lives of 74 people in Western Kentucky. Six months after the disaster, Dr. Rebecca Freihaut partnered with UK Libraries Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History to speak with Mayfield, Kentucky residents about their experiences.
Last week, students passing through William T. Young Library stopped to contribute a few brushstrokes to a paint-by-number mural depicting the library on a lovely fall day. A timelapse video recorded by the Student Media Depot shows the scene coming slowly to life, one block of color at a time.
A rich and dynamic resource available to all UK Libraries users, the eHRAF World Cultures Database contains descriptive information on over 360 cultures and ethnic groups from around the world. The database is useful to a wide variety of disciplines across the social sciences, humanities, and medicine, and ideal for interdisciplinary and cross-cultural studies.
Former Kentucky Governor Paul E. Patton has teamed up with UK Libraries Oral Historian Jeffrey Suchanek to co-author Patton’s memoir, The Coal Miner Who Became Governor, released Nov. 7 by the University Press of Kentucky.
UK Archivist Matthew Strandmark’s new biography of the colorful and controversial Kentuckian Louis Gatewood Galbraith was released Nov. 7 by the University Press of Kentucky. Gatewood: Kentucky’s Uncommon Man provides a comprehensive overview of the life and career of a political activist decades ahead of his time.
