GIS Day is an international forum to showcase real-world GIS applications.
To celebrate GIS Day 2025, the Pitt Urban Studies Program (GIS Section) and the University Library System (ULS) are hosting an original map competition open to the entire Pitt community. Learn more about GIS and the Map Competition here.
The University of Pittsburgh Library System is pleased to announce the acquisition of the archive of Bill Cole, a jazz musician, ethnomusicologist, educator, author, and composer known for his use of non-western instruments.
You may have been selected to take the Pitt Library Student Survey — share your voice, earn OCC credit, and enter to win Pixel Buds, AirPods, or a $130 Saxbys gift card!
Questions?
ULS-Surveys@pitt.edu
Join us on Friday, November 21, 2025 from 10-11:30 a.m. in Archives & Special Collections Instruction Room, Hillman Library with Kenn Kaufman, naturalist and author of The Birds That Audubon Missed, as he explores the historic rivalry that helped to shape Audubon's spectacular Birds of America. When Audubon set out to compile his Birds of America, he faced a challenge: Alexander Wilson was already regarded as the ultimate expert on our birds,...more
Explore the latest soundscape radio-art piece by August Wilson Archive Community-Artist Scholar, Ricardo iamuuri Robinson. “The Gospel According to WILSON” uses excerpts from interviews with the late playwright August Wilson to convey contemporary messages. It transforms Wilson’s spoken words into a cohesive experimental jazz vocalese, creating a recycled stream of consciousness that bridges historical language with current societal issues....more
The University of Pittsburgh Library System receives a National Endowment of the Humanities grant for the third time since 2022, to fund the program called the “Homestead Steel Strike and the Growth of America as an Industrial Power,” a two-week-long workshop hosted at the University of Pittsburgh Library System. ...more
