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The Libraries Fellows Program turns 25

11/7/2025

Former Fellows gathered recently to reflect upon the legacy of NC State’s commitment to early-career librarians.How do you measure the Libraries’ legacy? Perhaps you might track the Libraries’ growth…

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The Gilded Age comes to the Libraries

10/28/2025

A bit of the Gilded Age now resides at the Libraries. While many North Carolinians and visitors have been to the Biltmore in Asheville, many might not know that in the late 1800s and early 1900s,…

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The Libraries’ Makerspace is the most restless place on campus

9/26/2025

The Makerspace program celebrates ten years. The Hill Library bustles all day into evening with students meeting and studying, but it quiets down late at night. Except, that is, for the…

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Researchers helping researchers—Data Science Consulting at the Libraries

4/21/2025

When describing his work as a consultant for the Data Science Consulting program, Abhinandra (Abhi) Singh modified a popular quote from the Harry Potter series: “Help will always be given at NC …

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Try out student furniture design at the Hunt Library on April 24

4/21/2025

Museum furniture—it needs to be durable, comfortable, and somewhat unobtrusive. It needs to look appropriate in a gallery among works of art or artifacts on display while supporting active learning…

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The Libraries’ partnership with Pressbooks opens OERs to all

4/15/2025

More faculty are submitting more Alt-Textbook grant requests for larger-impact projects. That’s a good thing. But how can the Libraries scale up its support of their development while lowering…

Video still of growing microcolonies of the single-celled fungus, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which is used to produce bread and wine. The green masks on top of some cells represent how a computer algorithm learns to detect mating yeast cells. (Miranda Lab)

The Libraries’ Research Facilitation Service helps a CALS researcher open up “a bottleneck of scientific progress”

3/10/2025

Sometimes small problems lead to big solutions. When Plant and Microbial Biology researcher Orlando Arguello-Miranda needed a central place to store large image files for a 50-person workshop, he…

"College of Design: 75 Years of Designing Tomorrow,” an exhibit in the Hill Library’s Exhibit Gallery, continues through February 10.

Last chance to see Libraries exhibit on the College of Design at 75

1/31/2025

Good designers pursue both the new and the universal. While the basic designs of common concepts like the house and the book have remained consistent over centuries, generations of designers have…

Wolf Tales is the Libraries’ story-collecting program to document and archive NC State’s history in the voices of the Pack.

A new Libraries endowment preserves two important legacies

7/8/2024

What projects and people inspire you? Alumni Mitchell Moravec (BS ‘18, BA ‘18, MPA ‘20) has a ready answer, and he’s creating a Libraries endowment in order to tell you.Moravec’s donation creates the…

Director of NC State Esports Cody Elsen plays Mr. Wuf in the Gaming and Esports Lab at the Hunt Library.

The Libraries levels up with the new Gaming and Esports Lab

6/3/2024

When the NC State Gaming and Esports Lab opened on the fourth floor of the Hunt Library in January, students were excited to play. By the second week, over 300 students had already completed the…