The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) welcomes the University of Pittsburgh Library System this week, as they become the Coalition’s newest Associate Member. The University of Pittsburgh Library System is dedicated to collecting, preserving, and providing access to a wide variety of materials…
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…
We are pleased to announce the opening of the archival papers of Dr. Peter J. Jannetta. The collection documents the life and career of Dr. Jannetta (1932-2016), an innovator in neurosurgery who made early use of the operative microscope to work effectively on a scale not before possible.
We are pleased to announce the acquisition of an archival collection documenting the research and career of Dr. Jonas Salk, who developed the first successful polio vaccine.
Rivers was an American jazz musician and composer. Though most famously a tenor saxophonist, he also performed on soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, flute, harmonica, piano, and viola. With a thorough command of music theory, orchestration, and composition, Rivers was an influential and prominent…