The newly acquired collection offers scholars a remarkable opportunity to round out our understandings of post-war civil rights efforts in the era prior to the 1965 Watts uprising.Read more
Currently on display are highlights from the Ralph Fertig collection that showcase his participation in the 1961 Freedom Rides, along with various achievements from different stages in his career. Ralph Fertig led an eventful career at the Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work from 2002 to 2016...Read more
The Scripter Awards honor the year's best adaptations of the written word for film and television. Winners will be announced at a Feb. 10 ceremony.Read more
Dean Catherine Quinlan's 2017 holiday message highlights the USC Libraries' essential role in helping students, faculty, researchers, and storytellers discover, create, and think critically about their stories and themselves. The video – which you can watch on YouTube or stream below – celebrates...Read more
The USC Libraries have digitized 156 hours of original field recordings of Spanish speakers in Los Angeles, California, and Santiago, Chile, from the 1970s to the early 1990s.Read more
The new initiative will engage researchers and artists in building library collections and integrating them more deeply into artistic and scholarly work at USC and beyond.Read more
The USC Libraries have overhauled their behind-the-scenes systems to make it easier for USC students, faculty, and staff to discover and request library resources.Read more
As part of the USC Libraries' continuing efforts to better serve the needs of students through upgraded library spaces, summer work is now underway in USC's Leavey and Science & Engineering libraries. Students returning to Leavey Library for the fall semester will find renovations on the third...Read more
The USC Libraries joined with the rest of the Trojan family to celebrate the academic achievements of exceptional student scholars on May 10-12, 2017.Read more
USC Libraries Dean Catherine Quinlan (center) with Wonderland Award judges and winners Three USC students from the Interactive Media and Games division of the School of Cinematic Arts, and another from the Thornton School of Music, earned first prize at the thirteenth-annual USC Libraries...Read more
In conjunction with Women's History Month (March) and International Women's Day (March 8), the USC Science & Engineering Library is displaying materials related to the three African-American women highlighted in the Scripter-nominated book and film Hidden Figures . The exhibit, Revealing Hidden...Read more
The American Library Association (ALA) Committee on Accreditation has granted full, 7-year accreditation to the Master of Management in Library and Information Science (MMLIS) program at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business. Effective retroactively, the accreditation...Read more
The artifacts, acquired as part of a longstanding partnership with the USC Shoah Foundation's Center for Advanced Genocide Research, were brought back from Nazi Germany by an American Jewish soldier.Read more
The USC Libraries have named the finalists for the 29 th -annual USC Libraries Scripter Award. Since 1988, Scripter has honored the authors of printed works alongside the screenwriters who adapt their stories. Last year, the USC Libraries inaugurated a new Scripter award, for television adaptation...Read more
The National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) is generously supporting a project by the USC Libraries to digitize a trove of 10,200 letters between writer Hamlin Garland and important figures in late 19 th and early 20 th century American life. Once the project is complete,...Read more
Thanks to two generous grants from the Getty Foundation, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries will present Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A. at the ONE Gallery, West Hollywood, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles’ Pacific Design Center location from...Read more
The NEH-funded project will provide public access to documentary materials on catastrophic events that resulted in 58 deaths, 2,383 injuries, and $1 billion in property damage throughout Southern California.Read more
The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), recently added a Member of the Week feature to the ACRL Insider blog . This week, the blog featured a profile of USC's science and...Read more
Leavey library tours will be conducted Thursday and Friday, August 21 and 22, at 10 a.m., 1 p.m., and 2 p.m. Meet in the lobby for a guided tour of the Information Commons, Multimedia Commons, book...Read more
Welcome new students to Leavey Library! To discover what collections, research and computing consultation, and digital equipment checkout are available in Leavey, drop by our greeter table: Wednesday...Read more
Leavey Library's hours through August and Labor Day Weekend are: Aug 18-22 (M-F) 8 am – 10 pm Aug 23 (Sat) 9am – 5 pm Aug 24 (Sun) noon – 8 pm Aug 25 (M) 8 am – 24 hrs Classes begin Aug 26-29 (Tu-F)...Read more
The following journals were added to the JSTOR archive today. The full details for the journals are: Acquisitions (Fogg Art Museum) (Arts & Sciences V) URL: https://libproxy.usc.edu/login?url=...Read more
Dance in Video lets you view a wide selection of performances from nearly every dance genre, including jazz, tap, experimental, and ballet. In addition, it provides in-depth information about the...Read more
The USC community has another wonderful resource for historical study, Cambridge Histories Online. It includes the completely searchable full text of the 247 volumes in the Cambridge Histories series...Read more
Shahla Bahavar and Judy Truelson co-wrote “Strategic Planning for Reference in a Team Environment: The Preferred Futuring Model,” which will appear in the upcoming summer 2008 issue of the Reference...Read more
USC librarian Alan Stevens investigated recent usage patterns for nine of the most popular science indexes and electronic journals. His findings were dramatic, showing that students and faculty have...Read more
Biblioclasm: the Assault on Ideas from Homer to Harry Potter explores the persistent threat of the suppression of ideas. The exhibition opens in Doheny Library on September 26, 2008. In addition, we...Read more
Anna Yoo has joined the East Asian Library for one year as a visiting librarian. During her appointment, she will conduct research and share her technical expertise with the East Asian Library. Yoo...Read more
Catherine Quinlan, dean of the USC Libraries, announced the changes to the USC community in an open letter, which you can read below: Dear Colleagues and Friends, In support of the objectives defined...Read more
Stacey Dunn, Lynn Sipe, and Sara Tompson, the associate deans of finance and facilities, collections, and public services respectively, moved into new offices in Doheny Memorial Library this week...Read more
Joy Kim, head of USC's Korean Heritage Library, co-wrote a chapter with Daegu University Library director Eun-Kyung Kwon for Jingfeng Xia's Scholarly Communication in China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan...Read more