The Library is excited to announce we are hosting Designing Libraries, XIII, where librarians, architects, planners, designers, information technologists, and others will gather to explore the achievements and challenges of designing libraries and learning spaces for the 21st century.
Registration is now open!
Two hundred and fifty years of American history is neither simple nor settled. Our Archives & Special Collections preserve the voices, images, and stories that make up that history in its full complexity — the celebrated and the contested, the familiar and the forgotten.
A $190,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities will support the ULS's work to preserve and share the Charles and Frankie Pace Collection, one of the earliest archives of modern Black gospel music.
In 2021, music librarian Christopher Lynch began a project to promote research and use of the collection, which consists mostly of printing plates that Pace used to publish his own music....more
On Wednesday, September 9 from 4-7 pm on the third floor of Hillman Library, artists and community members from the University of Pittsburgh and beyond are invited to visit the library to see collections, learn about current exhibits, participate in creative activities at the library’s makerspaces, and explore this year's theme of 'home'...more
