Responding to COVID-19

Chat and email with us from 9am-9pm, 7 days a week! The Weaver Library is open Sunday through Friday 9am-9pm, and we’re providing limited services in the Main Library lobby. The Health Sciences Library is open to Health Sciences affiliates. Learn more about access during COVID-19.

Past news

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Current guidelines for using the Health Sciences Library

Update effective Friday, September 18: The library remains accessible to UAHS affiliates with an active CatCard at the main entrance. The library is now open for limited hours , seven days a week. The library will not be staffed for...
"It is not enough to condemn racism" graphic

A message on anti-racism and our way forward

The recent murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and Rayshard Brooks are stark illustrations of the long-standing racism, injustice, and inequity that shape our history and our daily lives. The protests that erupted in the wake of George...
Tory Middlebrooks with face shield

Our response to COVID-19

When the COVID-19 pandemic shifted teaching, learning and research to remote and online environments, we were here to meet the most pressing needs of students, faculty, instructors and staff. We made a big difference in a short amount of time...
Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Sonora border

Mellon Foundation grant will support research and storytelling on U.S.-Mexico Border [UANews]

The $750,000 grant to University Libraries will allow researchers to produce open-access humanities research from the border for both academic and popular audiences.
Elizabeth Kline with Olsrud Award

Elizabeth Kline receives 2020 Lois Olsrud Faculty Excellence Award

We are pleased to announce that Associate Librarian Elizabeth Kline is the 2020 recipient of the Lois Olsrud Faculty Excellence Award. This award is given annually to honor of one of our faculty members who has embodied our organizational...
Academy of American Poets and University of Arizona Press

University of Arizona Press announces new partnership with the Academy of American Poets

The University of Arizona Press is thrilled to announce a new partnership with the Academy of American Poets. Beginning in 2020, recipients of the Academy of American Poets’ Ambroggio Prize will have their winning manuscript published in Spanish with the...
New PubMed interface

University Libraries transitions to new PubMed

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has completed its transition to a new PubMed platform. This new interface incorporates changes to both the inner workings of PubMed (e.g. search algorithms/term mapping) as well as to the look and feel of...
COVID-19 data visualization

2020 Data Visualization Challenge winners announced

Congratulations to the winners of the 2020 Data Visualization Challenge hosted by the Office of Digital Innovation & Stewardship at the University of Arizona Libraries. They are Kelsey Gonzalez, Reagen Leimbach, Rob Lucha, Stephanie Martin, Miranda Rintoul and Jazmyn Winzer...
Andrew Ellicott Douglass

Special Collections awarded grant to digitize Andrew Ellicott Douglass films

The University of Arizona Libraries Special Collections has been awarded a Recordings at Risk grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) . The $39,175 grant supports the project, "Preserving the Films of Andrew Ellicott Douglass, Astronomer, Archaeologist,...
HathiTrust

HathiTrust offers online emergency access to Libraries print collection

Through a strategic partnership with HathiTrust, over 1 million of the UA Libraries’ physical books are available to UA students, faculty, researchers and staff in electronic format through the HathiTrust Digital Library. Books can be checked out for renewable one-hour...
Jerry Perry

Jerry Perry receives 2020 Marcia C. Noyes Award

Jerry Perry , associate dean for health sciences for the University of Arizona Libraries and director of the University of Arizona Health Sciences Library, was recognized by the Medical Library Association with the 2020 Marcia C. Noyes Award. The Medical...
Laser cut face shield on person

University makers race to provide personal protective equipment [UANews]

Creators across campus are designing and manufacturing solutions for local hospitals short on equipment like masks, face shields and more.
Main Library at 4th St. and Cherry Ave.

A message from University Libraries Dean Shan Sutton

Dear colleagues, students and community members, It goes without saying that things have changed for all of us over the last few weeks. In these uncertain times, our commitment at University Libraries to support UA students, faculty and researchers remains...
Jason Dewland and Yvonne Mery

Startup responds to coronavirus with free online tools for educators [UANews]

Librarians who developed a novel online instructional system are giving it away until the end of spring semester.
University of Arizona Press monographs

University of Arizona Press opens up access to monographs and textbooks in response to COVID-19 crisis

In an effort to support instructors and students as they transition to remote learning arrangements in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, The University of Arizona Press has opened up access to its digital scholarly monographs, including its widely adopted Latinx...
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17 online and remote learning tips for students

We know that transitioning to online and remote learning is not easy. To support you, we compiled 17 tips from our librarians and staff members. Library resources You can live chat with experts at the library every day of the...
New Play Exchange

New trial database: New Play Exchange

The New Play Exchange, a National New Play Network project, is the world’s largest digital library of scripts by living writers. Designed and built with the needs of the entire new play sector in mind, this database serves writers, producers,...
Lucy Provost

#WeAreUAZLibraries: Lucy Provost

#WeAreUAZLibraries is a bi-weekly series that introduces our staff on Facebook and Instagram . Meet Lucy Provost! What do you do? I have a public-facing role and a behind-the-scenes role at the library. Mornings you can find me at the...
Technology borrowing & 3D service move

Technology borrowing and 3D printing return to Main Library

During the week of spring break (March 9-13), we’ll move our technology borrowing and 3D printing services back to the Main Library 1st floor. These services were temporarily located in room 200S of the Albert B. Weaver Science-Engineering Library due...
COVID-19

Coronavirus (COVID-19) prevention and updates

What you need to know about the coronavirus and our campus community.

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