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April is Earth Month, and many of us are “going green” and doing good things for the environment. Sustainability, however, is a much bigger idea. The Libraries Student Sustainability Challenge on…

The NC State Open Textbook Grants are a faculty incentive initiative encouraging the use of open textbooks while maintaining high-quality course design and instruction. Through this granting program…

A 2017 study showed that 14% of NC State students had been food insecure in the past 30 days and that 9.6% had experienced homelessness in the past year. And those numbers are from well before the…

The NC State University Libraries is excited to announce a partnership with NC State’s Department of Nuclear Engineering and the Stephen and Phyllis Rea Endowment for Mechanical Engineering…

“Engineers are innovators,” says Michelle Leonard, Research Librarian for Engineering. “They are asked to solve problems and develop solutions where there is no manual or guidebook. And they…

Hackers have hidden the access codes to a campus lab that’s developing a vaccine. Can you follow clues to retrieve it? That’s the storyline of the Libraries’ new Virtual Mystery Game—a scavenger…

The NC State University Libraries offers its Library Technology Career Jumpstart Program on August 2-6, 2021. The application window is now open for this free, immersive, weeklong virtual experience…

Hands-on learning experiences have been one of the many things we’ve gone without because of COVID this past year. The Libraries Makerspace has come up with a creative solution. “Makerspace Hands-on…

Jill Sexton, the Libraries’ Associate Director for Digital & Organizational Strategy, has been chosen as the winner of the 2021 Equity for Women Award in the faculty category from the Council on…

The Special Collections Research Center is pleased to announce that the newly updated collection guide for the Scott Green Collection of Speculative Fiction is now available online. This …

What if every new NC State student had their own personal librarian on call to help them with their every scholarly need?  “But that’s impossible,” you answer. “Between first-year students and…

The Special Collections Research Center is pleased to announce that researchers can now access a great collection of agricultural drawings through our Rare and Unique Digital Collections site. Many…

Most of us won’t soon forget the historically important moments that occurred in January 2021, from the attack on the Capitol to a transfer of presidential power in a politically divisive moment.…

We see some of the greatest peeks into the past of student life over a century ago in letters from students attending NC State University when it was still known as the the North Carolina…

Join us live on the Libraries Twitch channel on Wednesdays in February at 12:00 p.m. for conversations about open science and tea! Open Knowledge Librarian Micah Vandegrift and Postdoctoral Research…

Bring some happiness to your garden—and local bees—by building a bee hotel just in time for spring! On Saturday, Feb. 27, 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m., resident bee expert and Applied Ecology urban…

Are you ready to shape the future? Then join the Libraries in launching the Innovation Studio in the Hill Library with an online tour of exhibits and a short teaching program on Monday, Feb. 8, from…

Whether you’re dreaming of DJing or just want to make a good graph in Excel, whether you’re desperate to make your website or curious about virtual reality or 3D printing, the NC State University…

Registration is now open for the Open Education Southern Symposium (OESS), to be held online July 12-16. The OESS provides equitable access and opportunities for open education professional…

If you have been wanting to know more about Open Education and Open Pedagogy, tune into the Libraries on Thursday mornings at 10:00 a.m. throughout the spring for topical mini-workshops about getting…