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University Archives exhibition creates an audio-visual time machine
A collection that includes hundreds of recordings makes it possible to ‘attend’ University of Rochester events from the 1920s to the present.

Slaughter family papers help complete the story of a life in politics
The University libraries received the Robert and Louise Slaughter Family Papers, adding to the previously acquired Slaughter congressional collection.

Ukraine’s ally in Rochester’s libraries
A war that has targeted Ukrainian heritage has made the Department of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation a cultural refuge.

Digital justice through data dictionaries
A seed grant from the American Council of Learned Societies launches a project that has the River Campus Libraries helping to diversify the digital domain.

Check out these immersive tech gadgets at Rochester’s extended reality hub
Studio X’s existing technology library was built to grow as the University community’s needs and the extended reality (XR) market evolve.

Local publisher’s papers to live at Rochester
The Department of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation has acquired a 30-year writing and editing archive from author, poet, and BOA Edition, Ltd. publisher Peter Conners.

New poster exhibit documents urgency, complexity of HIV/AIDS messaging
On display at the Memorial Art Gallery through June 19, the first major exhibition of the University’s AIDS Education Posters highlights the role of poster art during the global epidemic.

Libraries encourage—and help fund—array of early-stage student research projects
Nanoparticles. Black romance novels. Crime and education. Amid a record number of applications for the Research Initiative Awards, five undergraduate student research projects stood out.

University libraries acquire Confederate spy’s letter to William Henry Seward
A manuscript letter from Rose O’Neal Greenhow is the latest addition to the William Henry Seward Papers, the University’s largest and most cited archival collection.

New imaging system captures text from barely open books
Rochester textual scientist Gregory Heyworth led the development of a digitization method for books with fragile binding.