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Pressbooks publishing platform available to all University employees, students

Pressbooks offers a user-friendly way to publish books, guides, and other texts (for online use or printing). Anyone at the University of Arizona can sign up for a free account. Featuring a variety of templates and plug-ins, Pressbooks easily integrates...
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Giving Day is February 14: Support what you love

Save the date February 14 is Giving Day, an annual 24-hour fundraising effort to inspire Wildcats in the University of Arizona community to make a gift in support of students and the university. It's a great opportunity to give back...
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Student Success District focuses on concentrated learning and more

At the University of Arizona, educational excellence to create tomorrow’s leaders is the driving force behind the Student Success District, a new, four-building constellation that aims to transform the way Wildcats learn. The Winter 2022 issue of the Arizona Alumni...
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Warm and fuzzy finals with Pet Partners

During finals week, Pet Partners of Southern Arizona brought therapy animals to the Main Library for a few hours to help students de-stress. More than 100 people showed up. Jackson Whether they were studying for exams or writing papers, students...
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University Libraries awarded Teaching with Primary Sources grant

The Library of Congress , the world’s largest library, recently awarded a $83,226 grant to the University Libraries. This funding will bring our library and archival experts together with a multidisciplinary group of University of Arizona faculty to create teaching...
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Call for Proposals: Libraries announce second round of Digital Borderlands Mellon grant

Note: New proposal development workshop dates added on Jan. 14 and Jan. 21. The University of Arizona Libraries invite faculty, scholars, and interdisciplinary teams from the university to submit applications for the second round of grants to support research and...
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Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month at the Libraries

University Libraries is celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15) by highlighting history, people, digital collections, and online exhibits that include and represent Hispanic, Latinx, and Chicano/a/x communities. Stay tuned as new highlights are added. Using newspapers to expand...
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Health Sciences Library launches new website September 20

You asked, and we delivered. The University of Arizona Health Sciences Library (UAHSL) will launch a new, improved website on September 20. A team of University Libraries staff has been transitioning the website to the university’s UA Sites platform over...
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Looking back, looking forward, preserving A.E. Douglass materials for the future

A.E. Douglass and colleagues working in the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research under the Arizona Stadium, undated. Enjoy the last story in a four-part series about the Andrew Ellicott Douglass films digitization project funded by the Council on Library and Information...
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How the library is building data science skills for students and faculty

The Harvard Business Review once described the work of a data scientist as the "sexiest job of the 21st century." One University of Arizona data scientist looked at 10 universities in the United States to better understand what a job...

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