Fondren Library

Fondren Library shares the love on Valentine’s Day

Fondren Library hosted a Valentine’s Day crafting table, allowing students and faculty to make cards for their friends and loved ones.

Rice’s Houston Asian American Archive highlighted in new exhibition

A wide variety of items from Rice University’s Houston Asian American Archive (HAAA) are now highlighted in a new public exhibition at the Julia Ideson Gallery at the Houston Public Library downtown.

Hitting the paws button

Restarting a once annual tradition, the Rice Student Association along with Fondren Library sponsored three sessions of end-of-semester de-stressing with therapy dogs.

Rice’s Houston Jewish History Archive to become Joan and Stanford Alexander South Texas Jewish Archives

In appreciation of the Alexander family of Houston's longtime support of Jewish Studies in the School of Humanities and the Woodson Research Center in Fondren Library, Rice will name the Houston Jewish History Archive the Joan and Stanford Alexander South Texas Jewish Archives effective Jan. 1.

Comic Art Teaching & Study Workshop receives original comic art gift worth six figures

A rare art collection featuring some of the most famous cartoon characters in American history has been acquired by Rice University’s Comic Art Teaching and Study Workshop (CATS) within the School of Humanities’ Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts.

Rice, coalition of Texas universities ink historic library agreement with research publisher Elsevier

The Texas Library Coalition for United Action (TLCUA), a coalition of 44 Texas university libraries chaired by Rice University Vice Provost and University Librarian Sara Lowman, recently reached an agreement with leading science research publisher Elsevier to receive a significant discount on journal subscriptions and to revamp policies around open access and copyright ownership of research.

Reading to beat the ban

Multiple Rice organizations hosted a Banned Books Read Out Oct. 6 in response to the resurgent national movement to ban books deemed by some political activists as controversial from school libraries.

Rice’s Kelley Center to celebrate 45 years as patent and trademark resource center

The Kelley Center for Government Information, part of Rice University’s Fondren Library, is celebrating 45 years as a patent and trademark resource center with a party July 28.

Read all about it: Access Services team honored with Shapiro Library Staff Innovation Award

Fondren Library’s Access Services team, a group of 19 people, has won the 2022 Shapiro Library Staff Innovation Award.

Ambitious ‘Archives of the Impossible’ conference convenes international audience

“We are here for just one little thing: to change reality itself.”

Fondren updates collection of William Blake replica prints and plates

Michael Phillips’ recreated Blake sets offer a rare opportunity to interact with 19th-century printing technology and artistry

Writing about women across the disciplines

The Friends of Fondren Library annual event Feb. 16 honored Rice-affiliated authors, editors and composers

Rice to host international conference on scholarship of the paranormal March 3-6

“Opening the Archives of the Impossible” will also showcase collections housed in university library

‘Bound Away’ conference bringing new research on slave voyages

Art exhibitions at Moody, MFAH will contextualize research presented Dec. 3-4

Morín’s new book of poetry, “Machete,” roars onto the scene

Assistant professor’s latest book of poetry incredibly intimate, rebelliously joyful