University of Pittsburgh Library System

Do you like to write your name in your personal books? Join us for on Tuesday, November 10, 2026 from 4-5:30 pm in Text & conText Lab at Hillman Library and learn about the history of ex libris or bookplates, labels with a printed design intended to indicate ownership usually pasted inside the…

Join us on Tuesday, November 17, 2026 from 6-8 p.m. at Archives & Special Collections Instruction Room, Hillman Library, Third Floor as we toast 50 years of the Elizabeth Nesbitt Collection at the University of Pittsburgh and 125 years of the Training School for…

Two hundred and fifty years of American history is neither simple nor settled. Our Archives…

The ULS is a partner in the creation of a comprehensive digital critical edition of the complete works of Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970), a pioneer of Analytic Philosophy and a key figure in the Vienna Circle, profoundly shaped 20th-century thought. This 25-year €400,000-per year funded international…

The ULS 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....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…

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…