USC Libraries Research Award winners at the April 24, 2018, reception. Photo: Anne-Marie Maxwell At the end of the spring 2018 semester, the USC Libraries honored the most exceptional student research completed at USC in a for-credit class or through independent study during the previous calendar...Read more

The rich collection includes recordings of more than 1,200 culturally significant dance performances.Read more

Punctuated by USC’s main commencement ceremony on Doheny Library’s doorstep, the USC Libraries joined with the rest of the Trojan family to celebrate the academic achievements of exceptional student scholars in series of events on May 9-11, 2018. The festivities began on the afternoon of May 9 with...Read more

USC undergraduate Justice Shellan’s short story “Roklif” won first prize in the 14th-annual USC Libraries Wonderland Award competition.Read more

The project will make some 17,000 previously hidden items from 6 community archives publicly accessible through the USC Digital Library.Read more

Corbett is Japanese studies librarian for the USC Libraries. Her research focuses on women in tea history.Read more

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

Francis Ford Coppola received the libraries’ Literary Achievement Award at the 30th-annual celebrationRead 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 are now accepting submissions for the 14th-annual USC Libraries Wonderland Award, due March 28.Read more

The USC Digital Library and USC's Spatial Sciences Institute are working together to unlock important information from historic maps.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

“Lost L.A.,” the USC Libraries’ collaboration with public media company KCETLink, has earned two Emmy Award nominations.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

The USC Libraries Research Award recognizes exceptional student papers completed at USC.Read more

With funding from the NEH, the libraries are making records related to the 1991 Rodney King beating and 1992 riots publicly accessible.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