In this ongoing series, Dean Elaine Westbrooks of the University of North Carolina Library explains why the status quo in scholarly publishing is unsustainable, and how UNC will begin to confront the issue.
Curated by the Small Special Collections Library’s Reference Team, the exhibition takes a deeper dive into the closed catacombs of UVA’s archival nether world. Leaving no page unturned or manuscript box unopened, they have ferreted out the most frightening and ghoulish collections.
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For decades, Patrick Oliphant’s political cartoons filled the editorial pages of newspapers across the United States. Now, for the first time, an extensive collection of those cartoons, as well
University of North Carolina Libraries is poised to resist Elsevier’s marketing model where taxpayers fund research and pay a second time to access it.
With an expiration date of Dec. 31 looming, the University of Buffalo holds town halls on potential outcomes of SUNY Libraries Consortium negotiations with Elsevier.
A new exhibition celebrates political cartoonist Patrick Oliphant’s work and shows how and why he became the most widely syndicated, influential political cartoonist in America.
We are living in the midst of Earth's sixth mass extinction event. The ongoing loss of biodiversity is hard to see in our daily lives. This exhibition documents extinction’s emergence in unexpected places and reveals the signs of extinction that surround us—from menus to fashion, botanical prints to children's books.
Celebrating the recent acquisition of editorial cartoonist Patrick Oliphant’s voluminous archive.
September 23, 2019 - May 30, 2020