University of Maryland BC Libraries has a full schedule of events for National Library Week, including a panel on libraries and democracy, a read-in, and maker event 📚 my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/libra...

Seattle University Libraries offers travel awards to undergraduate students who have been accepted to present at professional conferences 📚 library.seattleu.edu/blogs/system...

Villanova Library has put together a deep dive on Jesse Jackson: blog.library.villanova.edu/2026/04/01/d... 📚

They say libraries have a LibGuide for everything. Well, Wayne State does not disappoint. May I present to you: Doors, a LibGuide. guides.lib.wayne.edu/sotm/2026/04 📚

Next month it will be all finals stress busting events, but this March academic libraries are: 🤖 forming critical AI learning communities 🗺️ repairing rare maps 🥕 starting seed libraries 👁️ revisiting the 1990s 📚 promoting collections for Women's History Month www.johnxlibris.com/2026/03/rece...

I think Indiana University Libraries' website has to be one of my favorite academic library homepages. So clean and easy to navigate: libraries.indiana.edu 📚

Tisch Library at Tufts U. offers a “workshop by request” catalog for faculty, research teams, and departments: tischlibrary.tufts.edu/whats-happen... 📚

Clemson Libraries is piloting a seed library events.clemson.edu/event/23823-... 📚

Check out all the activities UC Riverside has panned for Finals Week! 📚 library.ucr.edu/news/2026/02...

NYU Libraries offers regular mediation sessions in the library nyu.libcal.com/event/16154988 📚

The fire that transformed Johns Hopkins’ libraries, part one www.library.jhu.edu/news/2026/02... 📚

Clara Drummond, the new director of the McCormick Library at Northwestern, promotes some of the library's treasures youtu.be/uNuiQ9hQ_yo?... 📚

Pokemon terrariums, drag bingo, and more! Check out all these amazing outreach-y events from UMass Amherst Libraries 📚 guides.library.umass.edu/fun

The University of Oregon Libraries discusses how they recently repaired a Qur’an manuscript blogs.uoregon.edu/scua/2026/01... 📚

What are academic libraries up to this month? In February we saw: 👹 k-pop data hunters 📚 local bookstore partnerships 🎮 games spaces, tech spaces, and maker spaces 🤖 AI task forces 👶🏼 lots of baby photos Read about this and more! www.johnxlibris.com/2026/03/rece...

From Stanford Libraries: "enough K-Pop data to seal the Honmoon” 📚 library.stanford.edu/news/meet-k-...

UChicago Library is celebrating a "Year of Games" and has added Steam PC Cafés to its library 📚 www.lib.uchicago.edu/about/news/s...

From Binghamton University Library: Evaluating and expanding collections through the Decolonizing Collections Committee libnews.binghamton.edu/news/2026/02... 📚

What were academic libraries up to this past month? Making plans for the future, that’s what! We saw things like: ♻️ Upcycled art in study rooms ❤️ Love Data Week plans 💡Planner and vision board workshops 📚 Reading challenges 🏒 And many trips to the cottage www.johnxlibris.com/2026/02/rece...

The University of Mississippi offers ukulele classes. And yes there's a LibGuide: calendar.lib.olemiss.edu/event/162102... 📚

Love seeing art in library study rooms! From UC Davis Libraries: library.ucdavis.edu/news/aggie-t... 📚

From the University of Cincinnati Libraries: Explaining academic librarianship to 3rd and 4th graders libapps.libraries.uc.edu/liblog/2026/... 📚

If I had had this in college, I would have never left the lab! Wash U has a new Synth Lab: libraries.wsu.edu/blog/2026/01... 📚

Oooo, RIT Libraries are hosting a “data poisoning” workshop in Feb: www.rit.edu/events/love-... (plus other Love Data Week events) 📚

UCF Libraries is hosting “make your own planner” workshops: library.ucf.edu/news/diy-pla... 📚

57 years of service to the university library. I can only image the stories she has, the things she's seen! 📚 library.stonybrook.edu/2026/01/16/h...

The University of Houston has launched a peer mentoring program that trains students to develop their own info lit workshops, connect with student organizations, and represent the library at outreach and tabling events. 📚 libraries.uh.edu/reimagined/f...

The University of Utah Library is spotlighting some of the most prolific and renowned fine presses established in the Intermountain West 📚 blog.lib.utah.edu/we-recommend...

Here's what academic libraries have been up to on social so far this month www.johnxlibris.com/2026/01/acad... 📚

The D'Amour Library at WNE University has started lending out a sewing machine 🧵📚 library.wne.edu/blog/New-Sew...

The UC Berkeley Library has a few recommended reads by Muslim and Muslim-heritage authors 📚 update.lib.berkeley.edu/2026/01/08/j...

Northwestern University Libraries is helping their faculty understand the Anthropic copyright class action litigation. 📚 sites.northwestern.edu/northwestern...

“Help University Libraries, Get Free Books!” Ohio University makes its deaccession list publicly searchable 📚 youtu.be/nJTBPQBwRq4?...

"As I have been working on an inventory of our medical instruments..." Archivists really do have the coolest jobs in libraries. From University of Louisville Libraries 📚 uofllibraries.wordpress.com/2026/01/07/f...

Duke University Libraries asks: why are LLMs still hallucinating? 📚 blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2026/01...

For National Science Fiction Day, the Marriott Library at U of Utah dives into the importance of readings sci-fi. 📚 blog.lib.utah.edu/national-sci...

With fall semester coming to a close, what are academic libraries up to? Well, since November here's what we've seen: ✈️ airport exhibits 🛠️ maker spaces 🥽 VR drop-ins 👗 creative databases promos 💰 $10 million saved in textbook costs Read about this and more: www.johnxlibris.com/2025/12/rece... 📚

Stony Brook University launched a Library AI Steering Committee 📚 library.stonybrook.edu/2025/11/18/s...

SMU Libraries hides stress balls in the stacks. Find one and students score a Stress Reduction Kit libcal.smu.edu/event/15792415 📚

Stony Brook University Libraries hosts violin concerts in their library atrium library.stonybrook.edu/2025/11/17/b... 📚

The University of Idaho Libraries hosted a lecture by a Native American cookbook author and paired that with a cooking class on indigenous inspired recipes: www.instagram.com/p/DQxlXFMj7R...

It would be so cool to have so many libraries on campus you could run a 5K around them. From UF Libraries: 😆📚https://communications.uflib.ufl.edu/2025/10/30/intrepid-5k-runners-visit-all-six-campus-libraries/

Heard Libraries at Vanderbilt has created a new position for a librarian for creative and instructional technologies newsonline.library.vanderbilt.edu/2025/10/hear... 📚

CalTech Library’s TechHub invites students to sew plushies for Mole Day 😆 📚 library.caltech.edu/blog/TechHub...

Now THIS is how you promote databases (from Tulane Libraries) 📚🔥 www.instagram.com/reel/DQuIikI...

Y'all.... Y'ALL! The Univ of Wyoming marketing team has an official webpage dedicated to their pets! www.uwyo.edu/publicrelati...

The J. Willard Marriott Library at U of Utah is hosting what looks like an amazing panel with booksellers. 📚 blog.lib.utah.edu/booksellersp...

It's spooky season in academic libraries across the U.S. This month we saw: 💀 explorations of memento mori 🌎 celebrations of open data sets ✍️ postcards as creative writing prompts 🔨 new makerspaces ☠️ lots of skeletons www.johnxlibris.com/2025/10/rece...

Students at Stony Brook University Libraries used postcards as creative writing prompts 📚 library.stonybrook.edu/2025/10/23/g...