University of Arkansas Libraries is pleased to announce the contribution of 2,392 items to the innovative, open, and growing, digital discovery tool, Umbra: Search African American History. …Continue Reading University Libraries Contributes Arkansas African American History to Umbra
We congratulate #UARK16 this weekend and look to the future, but we also celebrate more than 175,000 names already on the Senior Walk and look back at historic commencements through “Commence and Go Forth,” a collection of commencement speeches. …Continue Reading Commence and Go Forth – U of A Commencement Speeches
Celebrate Children’s Book Week 2016 with us! Special Collections is sharing a bit about the Newbery Award-winning author Charles J. Finger, who moved to Fayetteville in 1920 and whose papers are preserved and available for researchers in the department. …Continue Reading Charles J. Finger and Children’s Book Week 2016
The Pulitzer Prize turns 100 this year. The papers and book collection of Arkansas’s only Pulitzer-winning poet, John Gould Fletcher, are in the University Libraries’ Special Collections, and we would like to share a few examples of manuscripts, letters, and other materials available to researchers. …Continue Reading Arkansas’s Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet, John Gould Fletcher
With a diverse career including over 40 years of public service, Ray Thornton created a meaningful legacy in Arkansas. A graduate of the University of Arkansas School of Law, Thornton served as Arkansas Attorney General, an Arkansas Supreme Court Justice, president of the University of Arkansas system, and as a two-term U.S. congressman….Continue Reading Congressman Ray Thornton, 1928-2016
National Library Week this year celebrates how #LibrariesTransform. Here on campus, Vol Walker Library was a tremendous improvement on library space when it opened in 1935. Find out more about how the University Libraries have transformed from modest beginnings – just 137 books – to over two million volumes and five satellite locations, with this post from University Archivist Amy Allen. (NLW16)…Continue Reading University Libraries and Transformation – Our Growth From 1872 to Today