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Students being initiated into PKP at USC's 2026 Spring Initiation Ceremony (Credit: Sarah M. Golonka)

May 15, 2026

PKP Initiation Ceremony Honors Scholarly Excellence During USC’s Commencement Week

Rwanda survivor Kizito D. Kalima

May 8, 2026

Voices of Survival Platform Launched with Illinois Holocaust Museum

A scene from the December 2025 Paperpalooza event

April 21, 2026

Paperpalooza Returning to Doheny Library

Winners of the 2026 USC Libraries Research Award (photo credit: Anne-Marie Maxwell)

April 14, 2026

Research Award Celebrates Exceptional Student Use of USC Libraries Resources

March 26, 2026

Scholarships and Fellowships for USC Students through Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society

The Death of Socrates (La Mort de Socrate) by Jacques-Louis David

March 25, 2026

A USC Librarian Brings Philosophy—and Punk-Rock Librarianship—to L.A. Correctional Facilities

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February 26, 2026

USC's Sam Gustman Honored by National Academy of Inventors

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February 23, 2026

Introducing Our Annual Impact Report

Voices of the Renaissance: Harlem’s Literary Revolution

February 20, 2026

New Special Collections Exhibition Highlights Voices of the Harlem Renaissance

Ad Astra per Aspera mural designed by Robert Arenivar and Jose Luis Gonzalez

February 16, 2026

How Did the Nation’s Bicentennial Animate L.A.’s Social Movements of the 1970s? A New USC Libraries Exhibition Looks Back

Left to right: USC Libraries dean Melissa Just; Scripter Selection Committee chair Howard Rodman; Scripter Award winner Mike Makowsky (“Death by Lightning”); Scripter Literary Achievement Award honoree Michael Connelly; actor Titus Welliver; USC President Beong-Soo Kim. (Credit: Sarah Golonka)

January 24, 2026

38th-Annual Scripter Awards Go to Writers Behind “One Battle After Another,” “Death by Lightning”

Lost LA Season 8

January 15, 2026

Lost LA, a USC Libraries Co-Production With PBS SoCal, Returns for an Eighth Season

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Events and Exhibitions

Oct 29

Oct 30

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Trojan Family Weekend at the USC Libraries

Time: 9am - 4pm

Doheny Memorial Library

Add to Calendar 2026-10-29 09:00:00 2026-10-30 16:00:00 Trojan Family Weekend at the USC Libraries Doheny Memorial Library 09:00 am 04:00 pm America/Los_Angeles public

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Primary Source Highlights

Special Collections

Osaka Shosen Kaisha Poster

Special Collections

The Allan Hancock Foundation Archive

East Asian Library

West Lake Couplets 西湖楹聯

East Asian Library

The Collection of Songs among the Flowers 花間集

Special Collections

Biography of Zhang Yi 張儀列傳

Special Collections

The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaidō Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi 東海道五十三次

Special Collections

“Coloured Memories”: A German American soldier’s illustrated notebook

Special Collections

John J. Audubon's Birds of America

Alice in Wonderland Playing Card

Special Collections

Alice In Wonderland Playing Cards

Special Collections

Albert Einstein's Appendix II: Generalized Theory of Gravitation

Hamlin Garland's name written on a school slate carved with his initials.

Special Collections

Hamlin Garland Papers

Page from Excursion Round the World

Special Collections

"An Excursion 'Round the World"

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Collections in Use

La Venta, Mexico, in the state of Tabasco is the site of an ancient Olmec civilization archaeological site featuring massive stone sculptures, including giant heads, as well as smaller artificts.

Digital Project

Restoring the Visual Record of Mesoamerican and Spanish Colonial Cultures

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Digital Exhibitions

Alice Chat Thumbnail

Special Collections

An Interactive, Natural-Language Adventure through Wonderland

Digital Project

Welcome to Venice West

An instructor shows students an item from Special Collections.

Special Collections

Primary Source Literacy

Lost L.A. Curriculum Project

K-12 Curriculum

Lost L.A. Curriculum Project

Lost LA Title Card

Television Series

Lost L.A.

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