University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries

10/29/2025

Husker students -- Enter Imagining the Research Library of Tomorrow contest
Share their vision for the future of academic research libraries for a chance to win one of three visa gift cards and Libraries swag. The top prize gift card is valued at $350.

Your entry needs to address the following prompt:
Explore your hopes, dreams, and sense of possibilities for how research libraries will evolve to support discovery, knowledge, and human connection in the years to come.
See the full list of possibilities in the submission guidelines. https://go.unl.edu/library_contest
Deadline to submit contest entries: December 4, 2025.

10/28/2025

Thanks to all 230 of you who came into Love Library/Adele Hall Learning Commons last Saturday for the Libraries Gameday event. We had fun and hope you did too!

10/22/2025

The Libraries is celebrating Open Access Week with an article on all the ways we support your Open Access to Nebraska research, data, and the ability to publish in OA journals. Check it out:

The University Libraries addresses the question "Who Owns Our Knowledge?" with many options including Open Access (OA) publishing agreements, the Digital Commons institutional repository (IR), SANDY, Nebraska’s Research Data Repository, and as a partner in STAR.

10/20/2025

Join us for the Libraries Gameday Saturday on Oct 25 for a chance to win a football signed by Coach Rhule. The fun starts 3 hours before the game. Drop in for coffee, cocoa, and snacks. Adele Hall Learning Commons

10/14/2025

The Libraries is co-sponsoring the Women’s & Gender Studies Annual Lecture. Mark your calendars to attend. University of Nebraska-Lincoln

10/08/2025

Big news today for the Libraries!

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The University Libraries’ Course Materials program has saved Nebraska students more than $3 million. A recent pilot shows even more savings are possible by partnering with faculty to provide affordable or no-cost course resources, making college more accessible for all students.

10/03/2025

Herbie Husker is helping the Libraries celebrate our Libraries with the Pages to Paths initiative. We've got more events coming up in the future. https://go.unl.edu/pages-paths

10/01/2025

Give Now UNL LIBRARIES Honoring the Past. Empowering the Future. Celebrate the milestones of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries and help write the next chapter. Support Student Success Milestone Anniversaries A Legacy of Learning From Love Library’s 80 years of service to the cutting-e...

09/26/2025

Have you been in Love Library to see "The Muck, the Seeds, the Weeds, the Blossoming: The Journals of Karen Blessen" yet?

See this brief video of last week's opening and 1973 graduate Karen Blessen. Be inspired!
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Jeanne Clinker, a 1970 University of Nebraska–Lincoln graduate, explores “The Muck, the Seeds, the Weeds, the Blossoming: The Journals of Karen Blessen,” an exhibition in Love Library. Open through February, the show features 24 of Blessen’s personal journals. Clinker and Blessen go way back...

09/23/2025

The GIS Day Map Competition is open and taking entries. Submission deadline is October 25. This will be the 3rd annual competition. For more details for the link below.

https://researchmoment.unl.edu/celebrate-gis-day-join-the-map-competition/

09/19/2025

Walk down memory lane this Homecoming with the Archives & Special Collections Husker History 2025 event, “Campus Memories in Motion,” October 2, 3:00-5:00 p.m. in the lower level of Love Library South.

Share your memories of campus by contributing to a collaborative, crowd-sourced art journal that will be created at the event and preserved by the UNL Archives.

See up close

Artists’ books and journals, including examples by UNL alum and Pulitzer Prize winner Karen Blessen and Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006

Photographic depictions of Lincoln and campus past and present

All are welcome at this free event. Refreshments will be served.

RSVPs: https://go.unl.edu/husker_history

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