Before there was soccer, there was "foot-ball" – trace the origins of the beautiful game, alongside 400+ years of Algerian history in our new World Cup pop-up exhibit. Free and open in Spencer Research Library through Aug 14. 📝 rockcha.lk/fifa26

How did 17th-century antiquarians, Victorian collectors, and modern librarians shape what we know about medieval seals? Find out at this free hybrid symposium, July 2-3, with scholars from KU, Oxford, France & beyond – live from Oxford's Weston Library. rockcha.lk/seals26

The Connecting Codes conference is LIVE! 🌍 Scholars, librarians, and technologists from across Africa and beyond - including KU - are gathering to explore AI, digital humanities, and the future of information. Join the live sessions: lib.ku.edu/igel/connecting-codes

Discover children's books in Special Collections. "(These books) are more than paper and ink. They are anchors ... memory‑keepers ... the quiet, steady companions that shaped childhoods, sparked imaginations, and offered refuge on difficult days." 📝 rockcha.lk/ksrlkids2

Bringing a perspective that reaches across continents, KU Libraries has welcomed Patience Ocloo from Ghana as its first International Librarian-in-Residence — the latest step in a partnership years in the making. Learn more in the story 👇 🗞️ rockcha.lk/igelocloo

Knowledge is best when it's shared ... thanks to our friends at Lawrence Public Library for organizing another great "How-to Festival" highlighting tremendous community resources.

American Girl turns 40 this year 🎉 Our staff is celebrating by connecting Spencer Research Library's distinctive collections to AG's original historical characters. First up: Felicity Merriman, set in 1774 Williamsburg. Read to see what we found! 📝 rockcha.lk/ksrlag1

More than a century of KU student journalism is now freely available online through Kenneth Spencer Research Library's digital repository. 🗞️ rockcha.lk/digistudentnews 🔗 digital.lib.ku.edu/

A love of language and libraries leads KU graduate Daphne Tibbetts to Rubinstein/Mason scholarship, as announced recently by the KU Libraries committee. 🗞️ rockcha.lk/rm-tibbetts

Work on three KU Libraries Sprints Week projects is underway - focusing on utilizing open access materials, a course redesign, and research data management. Hear from participants during the Sprints Showcase in Watson Library on Friday. 🗞️ rockcha.lk/sprintselect26

Two student employees who do vital work in Spencer Research Library's public services and a KU Libraries student ambassador were recently honored among their peers at the 14th annual Dean's Award for Student Employee Excellence (DASEE) luncheon. 📝 rockcha.lk/dasee26

How can libraries build more open, inclusive & connected systems of knowledge? Hear from former KU Libraries Dean lorraine haricombe at the next Global Conversations in Librarianship in Watson 3 West – May 20 at 10 a.m. Free & open via Zoom! More Info & Registration ⬇️ rockcha.lk/IGELharicombe

What's inside a 16th-century book binding? Medieval manuscripts. KU's Spencer Library is tracking down fragments of handwritten texts – including a hymn to St. Louis and music from "Lauda Sion" – repurposed as bookbinding scraps centuries ago. 📝 rockcha.lk/ksrlblog

Digital Humanities Librarian John McEwan and a team of students in @idrh-ku.bsky.social have been working to recover out-dated files in order to give a fuller sense of the KC Call newspaper in digital archives. They'll present their work Friday in Watson Library. 🗞️ rockcha.lk/idrhkccall

KU Libraries recently honored 11 student finalists and awarded cash prizes at the 68th annual Snyder Book Collecting Contest. Jessina Emmert (graduate) and Riley Verdict (undergraduate) won top honors. Explore the contest, keynote and related events. 🗞️ rockcha.lk/snyder26recap

"Thank you for supporting and sustaining the academic success of every student who uses and engages with the libraries." A gift to KU Libraries is a gift to all Jayhawks. Fuel the next BIG idea by contributing on #OneDayOneKU, noon-noon April 28-29. 📝 rockcha.lk/odoku26-libsm

Stillo sneak peek for @kulibraries.bsky.social and friends. Big smiles provide evidence that Thursday's Snyder Book Collecting Contest keynote from Library of Congress Rare Book Chief Stephanie Stillo is going to be first rate. Join us at Watson Library for the contest, keynote and vibes.

We're less than two weeks away from #OneDayOneKU! Join us April 28-29, noon to noon, for @universityofkansas.bsky.social annual day of giving. A gift to KU Libraries supports all Jayhawks and fuels the next BIG idea. Can’t wait? Give now to support One Day One KU. 📝 rockcha.lk/odoku26-libsm

East. West. North. South. Delighted to document and share the stories of all Kansans. Last week Latina/o Collections Curator Rebekah Ramos spent time at Dodge City Community College talking about personal archives and preserving Latina/o history in Kansas, including a zine making activity.

Bee there, add to the buzz. Visit @kunhm.bsky.social Friday from 10 a.m. to noon and offer your take on the "Bee Tree" in Dyche Hall as part of the KU Reads-connected Lawrence Reviewed pop-up series. 📝 lawrencereviewed.com/pop-ups

View amazing student book collections during the 68th Annual Snyder Book Collecting Contest with awards and keynote from Library of Congress Rare Books Chief and KU alumna Stephanie Stillo. 📅Thursday, April 16 ⏰4/4:30 p.m. 📍Watson Library, 3 West

The John Dardess Research Forum is an annual showcase of East Asian scholarly activity at KU, which is bolstered by the collections and experts in the libraries' East Asian Collection. This year's event highlighted 13 faculty and student presenters from a variety of departments.

Six scholars were recently selected as KU Libraries travel award winners, enabling visiting faculty, students and independent researchers to connect to the Kenneth Spencer Research Library’s rare materials and expert curators. 🗞️ rockcha.lk/travawards26

"This space is grounded in a simple but powerful idea, that student research matters..." 🎙Gwen Geiger Wolfe, @kulibraries.bsky.social Science & Engineering Librarian Connect with student research, opportunities in a new gallery featuring KU's CURF at Anschutz Library. youtu.be/ca_zaURFnPE

Student research deserves a spotlight. KU Libraries is opening a brand-new research gallery at Anschutz Library - featuring KU Center for Undergraduate Research & Fellowships posters from this year's Undergraduate Research Day at the Capitol. Reception today at 2 p.m.! 🗞️ rockcha.lk/regalopen

New at Spencer Research Library: "Aging, Art, and Activism" - archival treasures meet contemporary art in a conversation about growing older. Opening reception March 31 at 5:30 p.m. Don't miss it. 🗞️ rockcha.lk/ageartactex

Rare Irish manuscripts. Cold pints. A pirate queen. Wednesday night's History on Tap at Free State Brewering Company featuring Spencer Research Library Special Collections Curator Elspeth Healy did not disappoint. 🍺☘️

A Scottish bibliophile with a taste for swans, knight's helmets, and monograms - meet William Stirling Maxwell's extraordinary bookplate collection in this recent Kenneth Spencer Research Library blog post. 📝 rockcha.lk/maxplates

Trevor Rivers, associate teaching professor of @kubiology.bsky.social, has been named KU Libraries 2026 Textbook Hero for extending his student-centered, curiosity-driven teaching style into the creation of open educational resources (OER). #OEWeek26 🗞️ rockcha.lk/tbherorivers

Library of Congress rare books chief to return to KU for Snyder Book Collecting Contest as keynote and guest judge. The contest is now accepting student entries through March 24, celebrating 68 years of encouraging student book collections. 🗞️ rockcha.lk/stillo26

The KU community and campus partners gathered in Watson Library for a global transcribe-a-thon as part of the annual #DouglassDay celebration Friday, enjoying birthday cake and digitizing historical documents. Related materials from Spencer Library were on display in the lobby.

A taste of talent. The Gorton Music and Dance Library welcomed Reed Five for a lunchtime concert Monday in celebration of the library’s 25th anniversary, the second of three Brown Bag performances leading up to a Y2K-themed party for students on Wednesday, Feb. 18.

𝘉𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘉𝘪𝘰𝘴: Associate librarian and rare materials cataloger Jason W. Dean (@jasonwdean.com) is working to expand access to Spencer Research Library's collections. Get to know Jason and find a link to important information and resources by connecting with libraries staff. 📝 rockcha.lk/bbiojdean

Sharing the re-cat'd + previously unreported 1855 1st ed of Whitman's Leaves of Grass at Spencer @kulibraries.bsky.social ! We've had this copy for decades, but in the card cat - not in our online catalog: 📜 #bookhistory #booksky #libsky #rarebooks : kuprimo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/...

As KU Libraries' Sprints Week enters 10 years of moving forward research or teaching projects, partnering over the years with 19 faculty partners from 17 different academic units, it welcomes applications for the next cohort of sprinters. 🗞️ rockcha.lk/sprintapp26

This Valentine's season, don't let your research be a data disaster. 💔➡️💖 Join KU Libraries and the global community for Love Data Week (Feb 9-13). Discover library data resources and learn to organize, protect, and cherish your data. 🗞️ rockcha.lk/lovedata26

KU Reads continues university, community connections with slate of spring events, including a Kansas Day collab with Lawrence Public Library. Join the conversation around the KU Reads 2025-26 Common Book, “The Anthropocene Reviewed,” by John Green. 📝 rockcha.lk/kureadssp26

Meet the Hinman Collator: a 400-pound bibliographic detective that spots tiny differences between copies of books by rapidly blinking between images. Created by KU's Charlton Hinman in the 1940s, it revolutionized how we study rare books. 📝 rockcha.lk/ksrlblog

A new travel grant program will support the use of KU Libraries International Collections and in-person consultation with librarians, with researchers from across the U.S. and around the globe encouraged to apply online through March 1, 2026. 🗞️ rockcha.lk/igel-travel

Newly ordered zines - self-published, specialized, mini magazines - for the Wilcox Collection of Contemporary Movements have arrived at Spencer Research Library and will soon be available to encounter among the rare and unique items in Spencer's collections.

Stock up and unwind. Positive vibes, school supplies, hot cocoa, coffee and crafts were available at Fuel up for Finals in Anschutz Library on Wednesday, in partnership with Hawk Link and @KULibraries.

It's cozy inside ... just take care entering and exiting library buildings today after this morning's continuing snowfall.

WWII airman's letters to his future wife reveal intimate side of war - not missions, but longing for home. Spencer Research Library collection chronicles James Coffin's military service in North Africa and Italy. #VeteransDay 📝 rockcha.lk/ksrlblog

🌱 Grow a little joy. Distributed plants and plant knowledge at another fun Plant-shootz at Anschutz event on Monday.

𝘉𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘉𝘪𝘰𝘴: Scholar, author, librarian, Paul Thomas leverages his experiences to support KU researchers. Get to know Paul and find your link to important information and resources by connecting with our faculty and staff. 📝 rockcha.lk/bbiopt

Explore sci-fi history at Kenneth Spencer Research Library: manuscripts, original artwork, papers - even a typewriter - from some of speculative fiction's biggest names. Discover more in the latest KSRL blog post. 📝 rockcha.lk/ksrlblog

A great day for a stroll on the boulevard. Teamed up with the Marching Jayhawks and KU Wellness with Watson Library as the start/finish for today's MoveTober event, and displayed our "Jayhawk Jukebox" traveling exhibit on the library steps.

2025 LibArt participants honored at annual awards ceremony. “This is one of the greatest feelings I've had at KU ... It's all just so magical, and I think that's what makes education so important and what makes KU so wonderful.” 🎙️Kaden Cogdill 🗞️ rockcha.lk/25libartrecap

Spooky season. It may be foggy outside today but it's all treats, no tricks inside of KU Libraries.

Had a scary good time at Haunting Humanities. KU Libraries collaborated on four interactive exhibits: Haunted Lawrence: A Digital Tour; Early Modern Monstrosities; Poisonous Publications: Hazard a Guess; and Haunted by the Ghosts of Your Own Making.