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!
Dr. Avinoff is known locally as a former Director of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History and as the designer of Pitt's Russian Nationality Room
Get news, event information, collection updates, and more from the August Wilson Archive and Black arts and culture collections at Pitt! Our collections include the records of the Kuntu Repertory Theatre along with several others that document the history of Black performing arts in Pittsburgh. Sign up here to receive this quarterly email newsletter from the University of Pittsburgh Library System!
Pittsburgh was selected to join cities worldwide on Google Arts & Culture, and the library is helping to tell Pittsburgh's story
The ULS was recently awarded $200,000 by the Heinz Endowments to support the acquisition of the August Wilson Archive, as well as community outreach and engagement with the Collection. The materials document a wide array of Wilson’s career and interests from the 1960s to 2010s. Included are materials from his American Century Cycle plays, artwork, poetry, and more.
Actor, bibliophile and philanthropist Richard E. Rauh (A&S ’62, ’64G) has donated his extraordinary collection of rare books and manuscripts valued at more than $1.4 million to the University of Pittsburgh Library System (ULS). The Rare Book Library of Richard E. Rauh will be housed in the Archives & Special Collections department of Hillman Library alongside nearly 100,000 other rare books, broadsides, pamphlets, sheet music and serials. For more information, see this PittWire story.
