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Tisch Library at Tufts U. offers a “workshop by request” catalog for faculty, research teams, and departments: tischlibrary.tufts.edu/whats-happen... 📚

Seed Library Launch In collaboration with the Horticulture Club, Clemson Libraries is piloting a seed library located in the Learning Commons (3rd floor of Cooper Libr...

Clemson Libraries is piloting a seed library events.clemson.edu/event/23823-...
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Winter 2026 Finals Week Stress Relief at the UCR Library The UCR Library's Finals Week Stress Relief event series is back, Monday, March 9 - Thursday, March 19. Special thanks to our partners this quarter Academic Resource Center, ASUCR, Basic Needs, and Th...

Check out all the activities UC Riverside has panned for Finals Week! 📚 library.ucr.edu/news/2026/02...

Mindfulness Moment at Bobst “What we practice in the quiet of meditation, we can hopefully find more easily in the heat of the moment.” - Jeff Warren Take a mindfulness moment and join us in community...

NYU Libraries offers regular mediation sessions in the library nyu.libcal.com/event/16154988 📚

The fire that transformed Johns Hopkins' libraries, part one Special Collections First-Year Fellow Nandini Rastogi, who's majoring in public health and minoring in business and environmental studies, explores the impact of a disastrous fire on the university's ...

The fire that transformed Johns Hopkins’ libraries, part one www.library.jhu.edu/news/2026/02...
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Explore the Treasures of Deering Library YouTube video by Northwestern University Alumni Association

Clara Drummond, the new director of the McCormick Library at Northwestern, promotes some of the library's treasures youtu.be/uNuiQ9hQ_yo?...
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LibGuides: UMass Amherst Libraries Outreach Series: Home Come here to learn about offerings to connect with others on campus! UMass Amherst Libraries Outreach Series 2025-26

Pokemon terrariums, drag bingo, and more! Check out all these amazing outreach-y events from UMass Amherst Libraries 📚 guides.library.umass.edu/fun

The University of Oregon Libraries discusses how they recently repaired a Qur’an manuscript blogs.uoregon.edu/scua/2026/01... 📚

Recently in Academic Libraries: February 2026 - john, from the library This month, academic libraries are exploring K-pop data, developing AI policies, partnering with local bookstores, and sharing baby photos.

What are academic libraries up to this month? In February we saw:

👹 k-pop data hunters
📚 local bookstore partnerships
🎮 games spaces, tech spaces, and maker spaces
🤖 AI task forces
👶🏼 lots of baby photos

Read about this and more! www.johnxlibris.com/2026/03/rece...

Meet the K-Pop Data Hunters | University Libraries The Stanford community and the XTRM dance team unite to celebrate K-Pop at the East Asia Library during Love Data Week.

From Stanford Libraries: "enough K-Pop data to seal the Honmoon” 📚 library.stanford.edu/news/meet-k-...

UChicago Library is celebrating a "Year of Games" and has added Steam PC Cafés to its library 📚 www.lib.uchicago.edu/about/news/s...

Evaluating and expanding collections through the Decolonizing Collections Committee

From Binghamton University Library: Evaluating and expanding collections through the Decolonizing Collections Committee libnews.binghamton.edu/news/2026/02... 📚

Recently in Academic Libraries: January 2026 - john, from the library This January, academic libraries made plans for the future, established new partnerships, fell in love with data, and went to the cottage.

What were academic libraries up to this past month? Making plans for the future, that’s what! We saw things like:

♻️ Upcycled art in study rooms
❤️ Love Data Week plans
💡Planner and vision board workshops
📚 Reading challenges
🏒 And many trips to the cottage

www.johnxlibris.com/2026/02/rece...

Ukulele Funshop - Running Up That Hill (ST Kate Bush) With the finale for Stranger Things, I think we've gotta learn Running Up That Hill by Kate Bush. We provide ukuleles. We'll show you how to form the chords and then slowly walk...

The University of Mississippi offers ukulele classes. And yes there's a LibGuide: calendar.lib.olemiss.edu/event/162102... 📚

Love seeing art in library study rooms! From UC Davis Libraries: library.ucdavis.edu/news/aggie-t...
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From the University of Cincinnati Libraries: Explaining academic librarianship to 3rd and 4th graders libapps.libraries.uc.edu/liblog/2026/... 📚

If I had had this in college, I would have never left the lab! Wash U has a new Synth Lab: libraries.wsu.edu/blog/2026/01... 📚

Love Data: Data Poisoning with Glaze and Nightshade | Events | RIT Learn from Shawn Shan (Dartmouth College) about how Glaze and Nightshade can "poison" data to protect human art from AI scraping.  Glaze is a system designed to protect human artists by disrupting sty...

Oooo, RIT Libraries are hosting a “data poisoning” workshop in Feb: www.rit.edu/events/love-... (plus other Love Data Week events) 📚

DIY Planner Making Workshop at the Downtown Campus Library! - UCF Libraries Get organized and stay on top of those New Year’s resolutions with your very own custom planner! Your Downtown Campus Library invites you to create your own planner to keep track of your classes, assi...

UCF Libraries is hosting “make your own planner” workshops: library.ucf.edu/news/diy-pla... 📚

57 years of service to the university library. I can only image the stories she has, the things she's seen! 📚 library.stonybrook.edu/2026/01/16/h...

University of Houston Libraries The University of Houston Libraries serves University of Houston students, faculty, staff, and the scholarly community. The system consists of MD Anderson Library, the William R. Jenkins Architecture,...

Weird! Maybe try this URL and then scroll down to “pioneer peers” libraries.uh.edu/reimagined/f...

University of Houston Libraries The University of Houston Libraries serves University of Houston students, faculty, staff, and the scholarly community. The system consists of MD Anderson Library, the William R. Jenkins Architecture,...

The University of Houston has launched a peer mentoring program that trains students to develop their own info lit workshops, connect with student organizations, and represent the library at outreach and tabling events. 📚 libraries.uh.edu/reimagined/f...

The University of Utah Library is spotlighting some of the most prolific and renowned fine presses established in the Intermountain West 📚 blog.lib.utah.edu/we-recommend...

Academic libraries on social: January 2026 - john, from the library Academic libraries are determining what's in and what's out, leaning into carousels, and celebrating analog. This month on social media.

Here's what academic libraries have been up to on social so far this month www.johnxlibris.com/2026/01/acad... 📚

The D'Amour Library at WNE University has started lending out a sewing machine 🧵📚 library.wne.edu/blog/New-Sew...

January 2026 Muslim-American Heritage Month - UC Berkeley Library Update Celebrate Muslim-American Heritage Month this January with our featured collection of books by Muslim and Muslim-heritage authors. Celebrate Muslim-American Heritage Month this January with our featur...

The UC Berkeley Library has a few recommended reads by Muslim and Muslim-heritage authors 📚 update.lib.berkeley.edu/2026/01/08/j...

University authors, don’t sleep on Anthropic AI settlement | LIBRARIES | Blog By Liz Hamilton, Copyright Librarian If you are one of the many authors in the Northwestern community who has received an email titled “Court Notice:...

Northwestern University Libraries is helping their faculty understand the Anthropic copyright class action litigation. 📚 sites.northwestern.edu/northwestern...

How to Find Books in the Deaccession List Spreadsheet YouTube video by OhioULibraries

“Help University Libraries, Get Free Books!” Ohio University makes its deaccession list publicly searchable 📚 youtu.be/nJTBPQBwRq4?...

From the archives: When poison was medicine By Cassidy Polack As I have been working on an inventory of our medical instruments in the Kornhauser Health Sciences Library’s historical collection, I have come across a wide variety of items. Su…

"As I have been working on an inventory of our medical instruments..." Archivists really do have the coolest jobs in libraries. From University of Louisville Libraries 📚 uofllibraries.wordpress.com/2026/01/07/f...