UK Libraries is accepting nominations for the 2024 Medallion for Intellectual Achievement now until Saturday, October 7.
Remediation work in designated library storage areas at the Special Collections Research Center is scheduled to begin Tuesday, September 5, and access to some print and archival materials in our Kentucky & Regional Collections will be limited while remediation efforts are underway.
UK Libraries has been selected as one of 12 institutions across the United States to receive funding in 2023 for the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). Awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the grant will allow UK Libraries to add 100,000 pages of historic Kentucky newspapers to the Chronicling America database.
Courtney Taulbee, Head of UK Libraries' Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery services, has been named as the Visiting Program Officer for Expanded Resource Sharing by the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL).
New acquisitions to the Gwen Curtis Map Collection push the boundaries of conventional cartographic methods. They include maps that use new or unique mapping techniques and highlight historically marginalized perspectives, populations, and areas.
UK Libraries is excited to welcome new and returning students to campus for the start of the Fall 2023 semester. As the new year gets under way, we would like to remind all of our users of the world-class collections, resources, services, and spaces available across UK Libraries.
The National Archives and the UK Libraries Wendell H. Ford Public Policy Research Center honored four Kentucky teachers with the 2023 Earle C. Clements Innovation in Education Award on Tuesday, August 1.
On Monday, July 17, UK Libraries will begin using the OpenAthens platform to access electronic resources, including databases, electronic journals, and other subscription resources.
The Freedom on the Move project aims to create a database containing every runaway slave ad published in the United States. UK Libraries research librarians and historian Dr. Vanessa Holden are creating tools to make the work of discovery and preservation possible.
In 2023 UKL SCRC and Henry Clay Memorial Foundation agreed to transfer a copy of the stereograph of Aaron Dupuy to the Ashland estate to be displayed on public tours. Once registered and framed, the stereograph will be displayed next to the drawing of his son Charles by early July.
