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The Libraries remembers Gov. Jim Hunt

1/5/2026

“Leadership arises from necessity.” This was the opening sentence of the Libraries’ 2014 exhibit “James B. Hunt, Jr.: A Legacy of Leadership,” displayed at the NC State library that is named for him.…

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Hunt at 10 — The First Decade of the Hunt Library

3/20/2025

By Gracie White, Business Administration, ‘25  An early concept of the Hunt Library was made on a napkin in 2009 by Craig Dykers, Founding Partner of Snøhetta. Over twelve years ago, in the…

The new bookBot touchscreen at the Hunt Library.

The bookBot has a new look!

2/13/2023

We know you love the bookBot in the Hunt Library—now you’ll love using it too. The Libraries has updated the touchscreen in front of the bookBot to better serve our patrons and visitors. The…

Second Place, Graduate Students and Postdocs: Shelby Boyd, a postdoctoral researcher in the College of Sciences, for “Microscopic Peacock Tail: Fanning Zinc Chloride Trihydrate Crystals.”

Serious eye candy

9/2/2021

Check out the Commons Wall in the Hunt Library to see the fabulous, winning images from the 6th annual NC State Envisioning Research contest! NC State researchers regularly see spectacular things…

Wolf Tales viewing kiosk now open in the Lawrence & Ella Apple Technology Showcase in the James B. Hunt Jr. Library.

Wolf Tales Viewing Kiosk in James B. Hunt Jr. Library

10/9/2018

Visitors to the James B. Hunt Jr. Library can now explore videos in the Wolf Tales collection in a new interactive iPad kiosk, recently debuted in the Lawrence & Ella Apple Technology Showcase.…

Coffee & Viz Mapping Resilient Landscapes

NCSU Libraries hosts “Mapping Resilient Landscapes” presentation on mapping and landscape restoration

2/24/2016

The NCSU Libraries is hosting Dr. Robin Grossinger, a senior scientist at the San Francisco Estuary Institute and director of its Resilient Landscapes program, to demonstrate how he has used…

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Make-A-Thon teams take on sustainability challenges at NCSU Libraries

2/24/2016

Sensor-enabled rubber ducks. Intelligent dumpsters. Collapsible coffee cups. These are some of the sustainability project ideas that student teams developed over a busy weekend in NC State’s first…

Network Visualization Lightning Talks

NCSU Libraries Hosts Network Analysis and Visualization “Lightning Talks”

2/8/2016

The NCSU Libraries is hosting researchers from NC State and the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation to give three short “lightning talks” on network analysis and visualization across a…

Coronal loops are found around sunspots and in active regions. They are associated with the closed magnetic field lines that connect magnetic regions on the solar surface. Energetic particles spinning along magnetic field lines make visible to us. Many coronal loops last for days or weeks, but most change quite rapidly. Credit: Solar Dynamics Observatory/NASA.

“The Dynamic Sun” Combines Solar Physics and Visualization

1/26/2016

The NCSU Libraries and NC State’s College of Sciences present two events celebrating a large, HD video feed of near-real time solar activity The NCSU Libraries and NC State College of Sciences…

Students and researchers can utilize tangible landscape.

NCSU Libraries Announces “Coffee & Viz” Event Schedule For Spring 2016

1/14/2016

The NCSU Libraries is hosting six “Coffee & Viz” events throughout Spring 2016 in its popular series of demonstrations and talks about visualization methods for data and information. The…