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
Our fall exhibition traces the history of suppressed literature from Homer and Confucius to the Harry Potter books. To highlight the fact that censorship is an ongoing problem that impacts nearby...Read more
Stephanie Bonjack, head of USC's Music Library, was elected to serve as vice-chair of the Southern California chapter of the Music Library Association (MLA). After her one-year term, she will serve...Read more
As part of the 2008 summer orientation program, the libraries will offer academic success workshops for incoming students on June 5, 12, 17, and 24 and July 10, 17, and 22 at 3 p.m. The sessions will...Read more
USC Libraries have joined the RAPID Consortium. RAPID is an organization of libraries from around the world that share resources to improve customer service. Once RAPID is fully implemented this...Read more
The Venerable Guo Dong visited USC’S East Asian Library to donate the one-hundred-volume collected works of Master Sheng Yen. One of the most important living teachers of Chan Buddhism, Master Sheng...Read more
The Academic Senate honored Danielle Mihram with the Distinguished Faculty Service Award at a May 7 meeting. Mihram recently rejoined the USC Libraries after leading the USC Center for Excellence in...Read more
TIP: Precise phrase searching allows a set of terms to be marked as a single phrase by enclosing the expression in single quotes . This enclosed search expression must be matched in the catalog...Read more
Locations for Reserve Titles Items are frequently borrowed by one library to be placed on reserve in another library. When this happens, the "Search Results" listings are misleading (e.g., says "1...Read more