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 library has signed an agreement with the National Central Library of Taiwan for the Taiwan Resource Center for Chinese Studies (TRCCS), which will offer access to a wide range of materials for ULS patrons and the Pitt community related to Taiwan's history, culture, politics, society, and other relevant topics.
Corresponding authors currently enrolled as students or employed at the University of Pittsburgh or UPMC may publish open access at no charge in most hybrid Elsevier journals to which Pitt is a paid subscriber. See our agreements page for details.
The University of Pittsburgh Library System received the generous gift of 130 Japanese woodblock prints from Pitt alumni Barry and Elizabeth Rosensteel, adding to their previous donations.
We are pleased to announce the online availability of 300+ oral histories of African American migrant and European immigrant populations to the Steel Valley!
Audio oral history collections highlighting the experiences of minority communities, their lives, and their voices in Western PA from the 1970s - early 2000s are now available online, made possible through a grant from the Recordings at Risk Program of the Council on Library and Information Resources.
