The 2025–2026 Libraries Year in Reflection celebrates a year of innovation, collaboration, and community at Carnegie Mellon University Libraries. From the opening of the Posner Center for Special Collections and expanded support for research and open science to new opportunities for students to learn, connect, and engage, the publication showcases the people, partnerships, and milestones that shaped the past year.
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The University Libraries Student Advisory Council is seeking new membership for the 2025-2026 academic year. All undergraduate and graduate students are welcome to apply.
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This semester’s workshops at the University Libraries offer numerous opportunities to connect with resources to support your teaching, learning, and research needs.
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Hours, seating, borrowing, and more. Feel free to reach out to our friendly faculty and staff in the Libraries at any time to help you get acquainted with our many services, events, workshops, and technologies available to you.
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At Carnegie Mellon University Libraries, we celebrate the many contributions of the faculty and staff who make the Libraries the destination for scholarly information, creative inquiry, and intellectual collaboration across disciplines, propelling the significance, reach, and impact of the university.
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Through the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Computing and Information MLIS Partners Program, the Architecture Archives welcomes a Master of Library and Information Science student each year to work closely with Arts and Humanities Librarian and Manager of the Architecture Archives Lynn Kawaratani, and experience the collections firsthand.
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Please join us in welcoming Frankie Checchio to the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries as Undergraduate Experience and Student Success Librarian. We asked Frankie a few questions about himself and his plans for his new role.
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Carnegie Mellon University Libraries welcomes all new and returning students, staff, and faculty to the start of the fall 2026 semester! Feel free to reach out to our friendly faculty and staff at CMU Libraries at any time to help you get acquainted with our many services, events, workshops, and technologies available to you.
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Two newly released publications — the “Open at CMU Year in Review” and the “Evidence Synthesis Program Year in Review” — showcase how the Libraries is supporting researchers across every stage of the research lifecycle. Together, the reports highlight a growing ecosystem of services, partnerships, and expertise that make research more transparent, reproducible, collaborative, and accessible.
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Leslie Liu, who holds an MS in Computational Design from the School of Architecture, spent a few weeks at the beginning of the summer working with the Libraries' Special Collections as the inaugural recipient of the Posner Fellowship for Creative Practice. This fellowship gives access to materials held by the Posner Center for Special Collections and the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, including rare books, archival materials, early technologies, and botanical art.
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