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National Parks

Photography throughout the years in the national parks.

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Celebrating Animal Crossing: New Horizon's 1 Year Anniversary!

Hey, folks! For fans of the Animal Crossing games, tomorrow is an exciting, momentus day. On March 20th, 2020, Animal Crossing: New Horizons was released and gained millions of players across the world during its first year.

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Exhibit: Cipher Discs - Renaissance Encryption Machines

Cipher discs are paper encryting machines made up of two or more rotating dials (called volvelles) embellished with alphabets, numbers, or other symbols. The central volvelle, called the 'index', revolves to encode or decode a message. 

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Mesco Finds It All in the Archives

Ann Marie Mesco taught herself hypertext markup language in the 1990s while managing a culinary school's library. Ever since coding that first website, she has built a career around guiding libraries into a digital future.

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Preserving the Legacy of CS at CMU

The image from the videotape is blurry, deteriorated from the passage of time, but the professor is razor-sharp as he talks about the future. Herb Simon stands in front of a class at Carnegie Mellon University, musing about the difference between artificial and natural intelligence.

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Reader Finds Tales and a Tail in Library Book

Readers expect to find tales, not tails, in books. This story is about the latter.

A Carnegie Mellon University Libraries patron discovered a bagged, flattened snake in a copy of Brenda Shaughnessy's "The Octopus Museum."

Samuel L. Jackson would not be pleased.

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Upcoming Event: Inside CMU Libraries' Special Collections

Fine & Rare: Inside CMU Libraries' Special Collections
Wednesday, April 28
1-2 p.m. ET
Virtual Program

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MFA Class of 2021 Group Portrait in Mellon Library

How do you shoot a group portrait during a global pandemic?

With a little social distancing, a lot of technology, and a cameo appearance from the Mellon Institute Library.

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Big Data Accelerates Biodiversity Research

As the planet continues to warm and humans encroach on more wilderness areas, scientists warn of the unfolding sixth mass extinction on the planet.

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Open Access Publishing with Cambridge University Press

Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and Cambridge University Press have entered into a three-year read and publish agreement that allows researchers to publish in Cambridge's suite of journals without incurring article processing charges (APC)