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Spaces

Eminent medievalist, amateur curator

Known for his scholarship and teaching, Russell Peck turned a medieval studies library into a literary art gallery.

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Eileen Daly-Boas standing in front of doors to LeChase Hall
Staff

Checking In with Eileen Daly-Boas

Frequently lauded by students and faculty, Daly-Boas becomes an ‘all-star.’

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Spaces

Beyond Frontispace

Hiding in plain sight, the Art & Music Library is one of the River Campus Libraries’ most popular spaces

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Collection

A library way to get away

Feed your wanderlust with these well-traveled exhibits at the River Campus Libraries.

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Q&i desk in Rush Rhees Library
Programs

Experiential Learning Program 'Meliora-fies' student employment

Student employees and the River Campus Libraries are poised to benefit from a new patron services-based program.

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Evans Lam next to a plaque for Lam Square
Giving

Trustee commits $2 million to River Campus Libraries

University Trustee Evans Lam includes bequest to the libraries in a transformational gift.

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Students

Karp Library Fellows, Cohort III

In May, two fellows will move on while two continue their work. Here’s a close look at the state of the fellowship and its third cohort.

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Services

When new federal grant policies call, the libraries answer

The library met a new NIH requirement with a new Data Management and Sharing (DMS) Service.

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Tina Lifford as Violet Bordelon in Queen Sugar
Research

Close-up on close-ups

Members of the digital scholarship team are supporting a study on one of film and television’s most powerful techniques.

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Messinger Reading Room
Research

2022 Research Initiative Awards

Undergraduate students were recognized for their efforts to manifest Meliora by friends of the Rochester libraries.

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Collection

Local grants helps archive Black Lives Matter movement in Rochester

Funds from the Rochester Area Community Foundation create new digital archive in the Department of Rare Books, Special Collection, and Preservation.

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Research

Fall 2022 data grants

Research being conducted by graduate students in the Department of Economics moves forward thanks to data set grants.

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Meaghan Moody
Staff

Checking In with Meaghan Moody

We caught up with the immersive technologies librarian, who now has a new—and well-deserved—title.

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Neilly Series

Neilly Author Series: Gitanjali Rao

The teen inventor, scientist, engineer, and now author gives us her approach to scientific problem-solving.

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David Peter Coppen with German dignitaries at Sibley Music Library
Staff

2022 Messinger Award: David Peter Coppen

Special collections librarian and archivist David Peter Coppen has demonstrated virtuosic service for more than two decades.

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In Review

Editor’s Picks 2022

The writer and editor of the libraries’ newsletter, Tower Talk, delivers a hand-crafted, locally sourced selection of the past year’s stories.

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Neilly Series

Neilly Author Series: Dayna Bowen Matthew

A leader in public health and civil rights law, Matthew shines a light on racial inequality in health care.

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Collection

Collections project seeks to highlight and develop BIPOC STEM resources

Staff from the POA and Carlson Libraries have launched a new and ongoing effort to dissolve collection bias.

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Erin Gruwell
Neilly Series

Neilly Author Series: Erin Gruwell

A teacher and author, Gruwell has experience and expertise that will inspire you and help you become an agent of change.

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Collection

Rare Rochester Tour (ʼ22–ʼ23)

The University of Rochester Libraries is putting on three “shows” for some of its most extraordinary and valuable materials.

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Christopher Hoolihan in Miner Library holding open a very large, old book
Staff

2022 Metzdorf Award: Christopher Hoolihan

Over the course of more than 40 years, the impassioned former head of Rare Books and Manuscripts left an enduring mark on Miner Library.

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