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The UO Libraries and the UO Judaic Studies Program invite you to explore Sovetish Heymland and the Making of Socialist Yiddish Culture after Stalin. This exhibition celebrates the recently gifted Sovetish Heymland journal, generously donated by Esther Frank. Enriching UO’s collections, the journal offers a unique window into Jewish/Yiddish cultural history under Soviet rule. Located in the lobby of Knight Library, this exhibit will be on display through April 18.
The UO Libraries Tiny Galleries Team invites UO students to submit proposals for site-specific installations in Knight Library and the Design Library. Showcase your coursework and research through 3D or 2D installations, transforming spaces into immersive experiences while engaging with the campus community and academic discourse.
Join us on Thursday, April 10 for a lecture by E.J. Dionne, Jr., renowned journalist, political commentator for The Washington Post, Georgetown professor, and author of eight New York Times bestsellers. This event is free and open to the public. Arrive early—seating is limited!
Movie fans may know James Ivory as the director of such beloved films as “A Room With a View” and “Howards End,” and a 2018 Oscar winner. But before he became famous for bringing works by authors such as E.M. Forster and Henry James to the screen, Ivory was an Oregonian, raised in Klamath Falls, who in 1951 earned a degree in fine arts from the University of Oregon School of Architecture and Allied Arts.
KLCC covered the UO Libraries' recent presentation and panel led by Joe Whittle (Caddo/Delaware), a photographer and journalist promoting the Landback movement across the U.S. for territory ceded or taken during colonization. Photo courtesy of Joe Whittle. Learn more...
Did you know you can find new books by UO faculty in Knight Library?📚 They're on the New Books bookcase at the west end of the main lobby near the checkout desk. Check them out—literally—and learn more about faculty books in this story from the Office for Research and Innovation.
A century of music resonates within Beall Concert Hall, yet its namesake, Robert Vinton "Vintie" Beall Jr., a deaf 1897 alumnus of the University of Oregon, never heard its melodies.
UO Libraries has added two subscriptions to prize-winning periodicals to its catalog for the entire UO community: The Atlantic and The Economist. Read on for how to get yours.
At Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA), we take pride in fostering a spirit of collaboration, inquiry, and research. So, we are thrilled to announce the newest cohort of research fellows who will be joining us in our mission to explore, preserve, and discover scholarly insight.
Four archivists from UO's Special Collections and University Archives have been certified as Digital Archives Specialists by the Society of American Archivists.
Join UO campus partners in a compelling conversation on March 11 about the Landback movement, featuring Indigenous photographer and journalist Joe Whittle (Caddo/Delaware) alongside a panel of scholars, activists, and storytellers beginning at 4:30 p.m. in the Knight Library Browsing Room 105.
The UO's archivist and historian, Ben Murphy, plays a crucial role in deciding what to include in the University Archives and ensuring the preservation of those materials. He also introduces students to the collections and teaches them how to conduct research using primary sources. Learn more about Ben.
Read how Library Manager Michael Brown and his team of two staff and a dozen student employees spent eight months organizing, weeding, and deciding how to handle hundreds of thousands of items from the former Concordia library. Now, the UO Libraries collections in Northeast Portland are a seamless blend of former Concordia and UO Portland items easily available for students, faculty and community members.
The recently refurbished Asian Collection in Knight Library is already drawing students and others into its serene spaces to explore materials from graphic novels to ancient folklore across many Asian cultures.
The Oregon Digital Newspaper Program recently finished digitizing the complete run of the Portland Observer, an African American newspaper published in Portland from 1970 to the present. The Portland Observer joins the growing collection of African American newspapers in Historic Oregon Newspapers as well as other African American publications available through UO Libraries.