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Two members of the digitization lab staff handle a reel of film.
In celebration of American Archives Month, KU Libraries will offer a series of behind-the-scenes tours at Kenneth Spencer Research Library, giving visitors rare access to the spaces, specialized labs, and work areas where library staff preserve historical materials and make them available for research.
A patron is handed a deck of cards with other Library of Things items in the background.
KU Libraries has launched a Library of Things, a new collection of non-book items that students, faculty and staff can borrow from the Anschutz Library Service Desk.
KU Libraries Dean Carol E. Smith at the podium in Watson Library's 3 West Reading Room.
KU Libraries Dean Carol Smith was elected to the 2027 board of directors of the Association of Research Libraries during the association’s fall meeting in Alexandria, Virginia. She will begin her three-year term Jan. 1, 2027.