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Seeking Members for Student Advisory Council

The University Libraries Student Advisory Council is seeking new membership for the 2024-2025 academic year. All undergraduate and graduate students are welcome to apply.

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Welcome New and Returning Students

Carnegie Mellon University Libraries welcomes all new and returning students, staff, and faculty to the start of the fall 2024 semester! Feel free to reach out to our friendly faculty and staff at CMU Libraries at any time to help you get acquainted with our many services, events, workshops, and technologies available to you.

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For the Love of Sci-Fi

Science fiction today offers readers an escape from the monotony of modern living. We get a rare invitation to play in worlds rooted in science, but exploring the biggest questions humans have the capacity to ask. See the works of sci-fi selected by Libraries faculty and staff.

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CMU Strengthens Shakespeare Expertise With Folger Institute Consortium Membership

The Folger Shakespeare Library, which boasts the largest collection of Shakespeare in the world, is home to incredibly valuable resources and services that transform education and drive discovery about the early modern period. At the conclusion of two years of Shakespeare-focused programming at the University Libraries, Carnegie Mellon University has joined the Folger and more than 40 universities in the United States and abroad as a part of the Folger Institute Consortium. The Libraries will contribute a portion of the membership fee, which funds core institute activities.

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Service Updates: Fall 2024

Feel free to reach out to our friendly faculty and staff in the Libraries at any time to help you get acquainted with our many services, events, workshops, and technologies available to you.

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Libraries Celebrates Two Years of CMU OSPO

July 2024 marks two years since Helen and Henry Posner, Jr. Dean of the University Libraries Keith Webster established the Carnegie Mellon University Open Source Programs Office (OSPO) with funds from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Led by Associate Dean for Digital Infrastructure Sayeed Choudhury, the OSPO has grown as a community resource for open source activity across campus, while continuing to provide strategic guidance and thought leadership in key areas.

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DEI Book / Streaming Movie Display: Accessibility & Inclusion

As a new semester begins and the campus fills with both new and familiar faces, it is important to be aware that people experience and interact with their environment in a variety of ways. This month's diversity display will revolve around the themes of disability, accessibility, neurodiversity and inclusion. Awareness of differences will allow barriers to be removed and inclusive spaces to be created. This in turn will allow individuals of all abilities to thrive. Enjoy!

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Engaging Students In Community Data

For Data Education Librarian Emma Slayton, it’s critical that students at Carnegie Mellon have the opportunity to explore working with data in an organic, interesting, and community-based way. That’s why she created an interactive installation on the window just outside her office, allowing visitors in Sorrells Library to help shape information gathered about themselves and their peers.

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Welcome, Erin Swift, Events Manager, Outreach & Engagement

Please join us in welcoming Erin Swift to the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries as Events Manager, Outreach & Engagement – University Libraries and Entertainment Technology Center. Prior to joining the Libraries, Erin was a Program Manager, Global Open Enrollment Programs in the Tepper School of Business. We asked Erin a few questions about herself and her plans for her new role.