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...

This past month in academic libraries, we saw everything from a plushie conservation project to a major grant to preserve HBCUs archives www.johnxlibris.com/2025/10/rece... 📚

Vanderbilt’s Heard Libraries plans to allow Google to digitize 260K of its volumes, including a notable Baudelaire collection and playing card company gaming collection 📚 newsonline.library.vanderbilt.edu/2025/09/2600...

The Emory Open Education Initiative is a new program that provides mini-grants to faculty members who want to transition from commercial course materials to open educational resources (OER). 📚 scholarblogs.emory.edu/woodruff/new...

The Falvey Library at Villanova organized a "free cycle" event at their library to help keep items out of landfills blog.library.villanova.edu/2025/09/26/f... 📚

This is so Berkeley and I love it: "Documenting the Legacy of California Cannabis" 📚 update.lib.berkeley.edu/2025/09/26/d...

At LMU Library, we're back to having a full line-up of Banned Books Week events, including an author talk, movie showing, merch, and a themed drink at the student cafe ("Fahrenheit 451 Freeze" = toasted marshmallow and cinnamon) librarynews.lmu.edu/2025/09/bann... 📚

Falvey Library at Villanova has a great lineup of virtual library workshops this semester (and I love that it's all scheduled and set out in advance so students have plenty of time to discover it) 📚 blog.library.villanova.edu/2025/09/02/f...

Students are back, so academic libraries are ramping back up as well. This month, we saw: 📸 cataloging pop star libraries 🪡 makerspaces and radical mending workshops 🌱 hydroponics and propogation exchanges 🍸 AI-themed mocktails 👹 Labubus This and more: www.johnxlibris.com/2025/08/rece... 📚

You can now explore President William McKinley’s 1901 autopsy files online thanks to the University at Buffalo Libraries. 📚 library.buffalo.edu/news/stories...

From Berkeley Library: "Documenting Italian-American Communities in California" 📚 update.lib.berkeley.edu/2025/08/18/d...

UNF Library has a LibGuide to support transfer student academic success libguides.unf.edu/lifts

Duke University Libraries prepares faculty for some of the changes coming to library services 📚 blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2025/08...

Aw, I love this demonstration of support from campus student leaders. 📚 communications.uflib.ufl.edu/2025/08/05/s...

More art in libraries, please! 📚 The Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections at Washington State U. is getting a Virginia Woolf mural: libraries.wsu.edu/blog/2025/07...

Kallie Stahl over at Villanova's Falvey Library does a quick deep dive into the Green Lantern (with citations, of course) 📚: blog.library.villanova.edu/2025/08/01/i...

This July in academic libraries 📚, we've got: 🧪 experiments with bioplastics 🔥 Banned Books datasets ⚓️ books on a boat 🧦 custom library socks 🍇 CA wine history Plus, I'm seeing quite a few moves in library leadership. www.johnxlibris.com/2025/07/rece...

DePaul University Library and the College of DuPage Library cohosted the 23rd (!!!) Annual Information Literacy Summit last month. 📚 news.library.depaul.press/full-text/20...

In case you missed it, here's a snapshot of what academic libraries were up to last month. We've got: 🧩 puzzle collections 🎥 student video contests 👨‍🏫 OER communities of practice 🏔️ new leadership 🥰 wholesome social content Read about this and more: www.johnxlibris.com/2025/07/rece... 📚

Stony Brook U. Libraries has hired a "Director of AI" 📚 library.stonybrook.edu/2025/06/09/w...

UW Libraries have release the results of their annual student video competition. I love watching these! 📚 sites.uw.edu/libstrat/202...

This May, academic libraries were showcasing: 🤖 new AI and pedagogy initiatives 🧘‍♂️ de-stress events (including miniature horses) 🕹️ legacy video games 🗺️ restoration of rare state maps 🏆 library research awards 👩‍🎓 profiles of graduating student workers and more! www.johnxlibris.com/2025/05/rece... 📚

UF’s “Humans of the Libraries” photo story celebrates their centennial student employee class of 2025. (the random Sasquatch hand just kills me. 🤣) 📚 communications.uflib.ufl.edu/2025/04/24/h...

File this under things I’d like to try eventually: Woodruff Library at Emory University is launching a board game collect📚 scholarblogs.emory.edu/woodruff/new...

Next time I have any leftover library merch, I know what I’m doing with it. 📚 blog.smu.edu/smulibraries...

An archival internship at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries helps one student explore history through 123 distinct quilting collections 📚 news.unl.edu/article/univ...