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An inspiring visit at Spencer Research Library on Saturday.
"If we get a generation of young readers out there who love books the way we've grown up loving books, our civilization, our society will be better for it." - Angela Cervantes, KU Grad & American Girl Author
KU Libraries retweeted
KU alumna Angela Cervantes is the award-winning author behind American Girl’s character Raquel Reyes of Kansas City. 🎀 She will speak Oct. 17 at the Spencer Research Library as part of Hispanic Heritage Month and American Girl’s 40th anniversary. bit.ly/4ytpJov
KU Libraries are "Stacked with Impact." Our Hawk Week activities provided thousands with a link to library spaces and resources but broader effects extend beyond the data.
From a freshman: “I feel more likely to visit and use those spaces than I would have exploring on my own.”
A curator went looking for one thing in the stacks and found another. That detour led to the Kiowa Six. Likewise, the resulting exhibit at Spencer Research Library, Kiowa Indian Art, is “a springboard to learn more about these artists and the purpose behind this portfolio."
🚀 Fantastic flight crew for last night’s “From Lawrence to Low-Earth Orbit: An Evening with Loral O’Hara,” part of the KU Reads program.
Had a blast with KU alumni astronaut Loral O’Hara and our friends at @lawrencelibrary Friday morning, extending KU Reads: A Common Book Experience into the community.
"And we have touchdown!" 🤝 KU astronaut connection.
Join us for the KU Reads keynote, "From Lawrence to Low-Earth Orbit: An Evening with Loral O'Hara," Thursday night at the Union Ballroom, starting at 7 p.m.
🚀 From Lawrence to Low-Earth Orbit. KU alum & NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara returns to campus for a free, public conversation about her time aboard the ISS — part of KU Reads' "Orbital" programming.
📅 Oct. 8, 7-8:30 p.m. | Kansas Union Ballroom
🗞️ rockcha.lk/oharaoct8
Take a behind-the-scenes tours of Spencer Research Library for American Archives Month (reg. required):
🗓️ 10/8 - Digital Lab
🗓️ 10/15 - Stacks Flashlight Tour
🗓️ 10/22 - Conservation Lab
🗓️ 10/29 - Manuscripts Processing
🗞️ rockcha.lk/aamtours
📝 rockcha.lk/ksrlblog
KU Libraries retweeted
Loral O’Hara, a KU alumna and NASA astronaut who worked on the International Space Station, will provide a real-life perspective of life in space at the Oct. 8 KU Reads event discussing "Orbital,” an acclaimed work of fiction about life on the ISS. 👩🚀 bit.ly/3VrGamN
New at KU Libraries: the Library of Things.
Check out board games, console games, crafting supplies, kitchen items and more for 7 days with pick-up and return at the Anschutz Library Service Desk.
🗞️ rockcha.lk/lotnews
📝 guides.lib.ku.edu/LOT
Day on the Hill is back Oct. 6! 🎶
Explore its prior run through University Archives posters, VIP badges & photos, plus year-by-year lineups from the newly digitized UDK.
📝 rockcha.lk/ksrlblog
Rising together.
KU Libraries faculty and staff celebrated its mural collaboration with KU Visual Communications and student artist Danny Duong in a signing ceremony in the Kettle in Watson Library on Thursday.
From engineering and biology to journalism and fine arts, 101 KU students are showcasing 228 pieces in the 2026 LibArt exhibition. Congratulations to our category winners and all the artists helping make KU Libraries a more inspiring place.
🗞️ rockcha.lk/26libartresult
Book people are our people … visit KU Libraries at @suaevents’ Book Fair on the Plaza (indoors at Alderson) from noon to 2 p.m. on Friday (9/25).
With activities for this year’s KU Reads common book, “Orbital,” in full swing, planning is already underway for next year’s experience. Have a favorite book you’d like to see featured? Submit nominations for the 2027-28 common book by Sept. 22.
📝 rockcha.lk/KUReadsNomination…
Our exploration of American Girl's 40th anniversary continues. Meet Josefina Montoya through @KULibraries Spencer Research Library collections — 1820s maps of Mexico, Santa Fe Trail journals & more bring her 1824 New Mexico world to life. 🌵
📝 rockcha.lk/ksrlblog
ALT The front cover of the first book in Josefina’s series, first published in 1997. The book was also published in Spanish with the title Así es Josefina: Una Niña Americana.
![A French map of Mexico and Central America [Carte générale du Méxique et des provinces-unies de l’Amérique centrale on Guatemala], 1826. Call Number: Orbis Maps 1:144.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HSRJFF4XcAAmsu_.jpg?name=orig)
ALT A French map of Mexico and Central America [Carte générale du Méxique et des provinces-unies de l’Amérique centrale on Guatemala], 1826. Call Number: Orbis Maps 1:144.
![The title page of the pocket-sized Calendario manual para el año del señor de 1823. Dispuesto para la ciudad de Puebla [Manual Calendar for the Year of Our Lord 1823. Prepared for the City of Puebla]. Josefina’s birthday is March 19, the feast day of San José (St. Joseph). Call Number: t131.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HSRJFF4XMAA6Sqo.jpg?name=orig)
ALT The title page of the pocket-sized Calendario manual para el año del señor de 1823. Dispuesto para la ciudad de Puebla [Manual Calendar for the Year of Our Lord 1823. Prepared for the City of Puebla]. Josefina’s birthday is March 19, the feast day of San José (St. Joseph). Call Number: t131.
Thursday night's "Ad Astra: A Kansas Story Written in the Stars" exhibit opening with Steve Hawley was, dare we say it, out of this world.
Full Program 📹: youtu.be/VzBn9B143Qs
KU Libraries' Kettle programming is exploring zines - a small-batch, independently published work - in September and the Rock Chalk Reading Challenge Meet-Up today in Watson 325 from 4-5:30 p.m. will give participants an opportunity to learn more and create.
Librarians Michiko Ito & Cecilia Zhang hosted a workshop on navigating library resources for East Asian research Wednesday, the first in a series offered this fall.
🗓️ 9/16 - Beyond the Shelves
🗓️ 9/30 - Chinese Databases
🗓️ 10/7 - Japanese Databases
🔗 bit.ly/EACWorkshops26
