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Gleason library in full swing in the middle of the night
Spaces

'No-Sleepover' at Gleason, Part I

Tower Talk Editor Matt Cook stayed up with Gleason to see what never closing looks like

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Data Grant recipients
Research

Data Granted

A new program is helping to keep student research from hitting a wall, through grants that enable the purchase of critical data.

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Cover of Elaine Marieb and Katja Hoehn’s textbook Human Anatomy & Physiology
Open Resource

Open for Learning

A biology professor has turned his class resources into "freesources" by making the shift to open education

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A screenshot from the video game Hollow Knight
Event

Game Knight

A virtual quest to better understand the use of medieval motifs in video games.

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Large letters spelling out MELIORA in the quad in front of Rush Rhees Library
Meliora Weekend

Libraries (Meliora) Weekend

A guide to having the ultimate libraries experience during Meliora Weekend

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iZone's Norris Piazza
iZone

iZone among 'most impressive' of 2019

The creative problem-solving space is among 13 libraries being recognized for its design

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"Censorship leaves us in the dark"; above "Banned Books Week"; next to a light bulb reading a book
Awareness

Do not read this

River Campus Libraries is shining a light on censorship by highlighting ‘controversial’ reads for Banned Books Week

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A star-shaped graphic, with the UR logo at the center and president signatures creating the star beams
Exhibit

To Reach Our Farthest Star

A new exhibit puts University leadership in context as Rochester prepares to inaugurate Sarah Mangelsdorf as its eleventh president

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A side-by-side image of Queen Victoria and Susan B. Anthony
Lecture

A tale of two contemporaries

How much could a 19th-century British monarch and an American women's rights activist have in common? More than you might think.

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Judi Briden, Digital Librarian for Public Services atRush Rhees Library, and Lisa Peters ’97, look atthe library’s former system, Voyager, one of the library’s old Geac terminals, also known as “Chester.”
System

Have you met Alma?

The University of Rochester Libraries welcomes a new library system.

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William’s 600-page manuscript, De universo (On the Universe)
Middle Ages

One scholar’s universe is another scholar’s treasure

Students and the faculty are marveling at a 15th-century manuscript on the cosmos. And it's not just because it's close to 600 years old.

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Lauren Dimonte
Research

Lauren Di Monte is protecting Rochester's scholarly rep

A conversation on disambiguation, bibliometrics, and University of Rochester research-related initiatives

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The "cover sheet" from a volume of sheet music for "Farewell Song of Frederick Douglass"
Collection

An ARLIES winner

The River Campus Libraries was recognized at the fourth annual ARLIES Film Festival

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Evans Lam at a podium
Metzdorf Award

Trustee named Robert F. Metzdorf Award recipient

Friends of the University of Rochester Libraries select Trustee Evans Y. Lam as the 2019 Metzdorf Award recipient

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A close up of one of the bells from the Hopeman carillon
Carillon

Keep calm and carillon

A celebration to the instrument that creates the iconic sounds of the River Campus

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A blue network of lines and bright points that could be the inner-workings of AI; at the center there's an outline of a human head and brain
Data

Visualizing data in the Arts

An event held in collaboration with The Humanities Project showcased the connection between data visualization and art

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A red heart icon nested within lines of computer code
Data

Love Data Week

The libraries shared and showed their love of data through a series of events and workshops

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Part of the cover of John A. Williams' novel Captain Blackman
Collection

Writing of consequence

The enduring and growing significance of the John A. Williams Papers

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Photo of renowned Zimbabwean mbira player, oral historian, and ritual specialist Sekuru Tute Chigamba
Humanities

Sekuru’s Stories

A digital humanities project featuring the renowned Zimbabwean mbira player, oral historian, and ritual specialist Sekuru Tute Chigamba.

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Book cover for "Images of Sainthood in Medieval Europe" showing a saint speaking to others
Medieval

Visions of the Crusades

Rossell Hope Robbins Library hosts a conversation on two powerful medieval women in an edition of the Helen Ann Mins Robbins Lecture Series

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Students gathered around a laptop on a table
Open Resource

The Disappearance of Daniel Bennett

The River Campus Libraries teamed up with regional peers to create a literacy escape room

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