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...

Someone crashed a car into our local bookstore last night. It's Independent Bookstore Day. 📚 If you're looking to support a local business, might I suggest The Book Jewel thebookjewel.com

“Seeing texts in their earliest printed forms allows students to reflect on the labor that went into their production and to consider the conditions under which that labor was performed.” From the U. of Vermont Libraries 📚 www.uvm.edu/libraries/ne...

Oh dear: our friends at Falvey Library at Villanova are having a very bad day 😬

Looking for your next climate and sustainability book read? Binghamton University Library has a few recommendations 📚 libnews.binghamton.edu/news/2025/04...

What a wonderful and empowering experience for students! “Illinois State University (in collab with library) hosts second annual Women as Transformational Leaders Event” 📚 news.illinoisstate.edu/2025/04/illi...

The ZSR Library at Wake Forest pulled together resources from its collections in honor of Earth Month 📚 zsr.wfu.edu/2025/resourc...

This was the first year I felt just the tiniest bit of FOMO for not participating in April Fools, one of the internet's highest of holy days. But academic libraries did not disappoint! 📚 www.johnxlibris.com/2025/04/acad...

IU Bloomington Libraries does a deep dive into its archives to explore IU's Women’s Athletic Association and its mission to secure recreation opportunities for women at IU. 📚 blogs.libraries.indiana.edu/iubarchives/...

One student at the J. Willard Marriott Library (U. of Utah) uses the library’s lab to host a podcast on children’s book illustrators 📚 blog.lib.utah.edu/children-pic...

My path, like so many other librarians, began because of an incredible experience I had in a library. Love to see other stories like these! 📚 library.ucr.edu/news/2025/03...

The mix of wisdom, practical experience, and hope… This would be an AMAZING event to host at any academic library 📚 “The panel will feature ZSR Dean Emeritus Lynn Sutton, current ZSR Dean Tim Pyatt, and the incoming Dean Lauren Pressley.” zsr.wfu.edu/2025/zsr-pas...

This is one of the many amazing things the IMLS funds: West Chester University Libraries, Stanford University, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign just wrapped up a project to help raise academic librarians’ awareness of data quality issues 📚 library.wcupa.edu/blog/imls-gr...

This has to have been difficult. Washington State University Libraries is considering cutting more than $700,000 in subscriptions and collections cost. 📚 libraries.wsu.edu/blog/2025/03...

With our powers combined... The University of Georgia Libraries created a Captain Planet exhibit 📚 www.libs.uga.edu/news/captain...

Duke University Libraries pulled together a list of its archival collections plus popular reads for Trans Day of Visibility 2025 📚 blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2025/03...

I don't only post about libraries: 🍷 www.johnxlibris.com/2025/03/2020...

What are academic libraries up to this month? We've got: 🎶 musical collabs in the archives 🎤 oral history toolkits 🖨️ Braille and PIAF printers 🎷 jazz inspired by library collections 📺 1990s TV nostalgia 🦺 library renovation walkthroughs, and more! #libraries 📚 www.johnxlibris.com/2025/03/rece...

This month on academic library socials, we've got Severance references, feel-good student confessionals, OER faculty champions, and the hottest video about whiteboard markers that I've ever seen. 🥵 wp.me/p4OGrt-1MF