Last October, the Libraries’ Office of Digital Innovation & Stewardship launched the University of Arizona Research Data Repository , also known as ReDATA. ReDATA, which is free to University of Arizona faculty, staff, designated campus colleagues, and enrolled undergraduate and...
Lois Olsrud , a former library faculty member and long-time colleague, passed away June 2, 2021. Hired in 1966 as a Humanities Librarian, she retired June 28, 1996, after 30 years of service at the University Libraries. Lois worked closely...
Our Special Collections department contributes research work and support that results in course curricula, manuscripts and books, articles, films, and much more. Even podcasts. Trent Purdy Amanda Howard In October 2019, Canadian podcaster Adam Huggins traveled to Tucson to do...
The spring semester has ended, but we wanted to give a special shout-out to the student employees in Special Collections who made great contributions over the past academic year. From August 10, 2020, to May 4, 2021, they served over...
People who live and work on the U.S.-Mexico borderlands will be able to see more perspectives of their history, culture and experiences thanks to a grant project created by the University Libraries to support the development of research projects that...
From May 17-August 22, we're ready when you are. Drop by the Main Library lobby, visit the Weaver Library, or contact us by chat, text, and email during these hours: Monday-Thursday 9am-7pm Friday 9am-6pm Saturday 11am-6pm Sunday 1pm-6pm The...
We’re happy to announce the winners of the 2021 Data Visualization Challenge . Undergraduate and graduate students from different disciplines were invited to submit visual displays of data to tell stories. This is the second year that the Libraries’ Office...
The University of Arizona Health Sciences Library is partnering with the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library at the University of Utah to expand outreach to communities through regional and national programs in nine states. The University of Utah was...
Congratulations to our student employees who are graduating this spring or summer! They support the work we do in our departments by: helping people at our Ask Us desks and researching archival materials assisting with business operations and technology requests...
Here's the third story in a series about the Andrew Ellicott Douglass films digitization project funded by the Council on Library and Information Resources Recordings at Risk grant. Douglass, a University of Arizona professor, was the founder of the...
The COVID-19 pandemic is easily the most global story of the 21st century, yet it is also an intensely local story with striking differences across cities and regions. To preserve accounts of COVID-19's impact upon Tucson, our Oral Historian and...
We are pleased to announce that Associate Librarian Niamh Wallace is the 2021 recipient of the University of Arizona Libraries’ Lois Olsrud Faculty Excellence Award! This award is given annually to honor one of our faculty members who has...
The University of Arizona Libraries are happy to announce the winner of our first Data Grant Program . We invited university-affiliated researchers across campus to apply to the program to purchase commercially available datasets that would support their work. The...
Join us in congratulating Associate Librarian Nicole Pagowsky ! Nicole was selected as the 2021 winner of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Instruction Section’s (IS) Miriam Dudley Instruction Librarian Award . The award is named for Miriam...
Congratulations to Jeanne Pfander! Jeanne, Associate Librarian at the Health Sciences Library, received the United States Agricultural Information Network (USAIN) Service to the Profession Award at the 2020 USAIN Virtual Conference. She was recognized for her leadership and collaborative...
It's March, and it's Women's History Month! Every Wednesday, we're sharing a good story from Archive Tucson , a wide collection of interviews curated by our oral historian Aengus Anderson . Each of these interviews is about three minutes. Frances...
Libraries and research go hand in hand. This year, we celebrated our 10th annual Katheryne B. Willock Library Research Award by recognizing six students for their research and how they connect to the University of Arizona Libraries. The Willock Award...
For many years, the University of Arizona Health Sciences Library (HSL) has connected with underrepresented communities through outreach programs to help them navigate and understand health-related information. Improving information literacy is the key to closing the gap between the community...
We're proud to host the University of Arizona Women's+ Hackathon once again on March 8-10! This non-competitive, free hackathon is designed by and for women and allies to bring together as many voices, experiences, and networks as possible to create...
Join us in welcoming Alicen Astorga , Jan Carlo Acuña Estrada , Anab Iman , Gabriel Marquez , Izu Sampson , and Amaya Singleton to the libraries! We hired six students in January to launch our Student Space Planning...
