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.
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
Starting from the bottom: Grad student charts an unconventional path from Venezuela to Rice
'Everybody needs to learn from him that nothing in the world is impossible'
Friends of Fondren break bread
Rice University Representative Y. Ping Sun addressed the Friends of Fondren Library Oct. 21.
Design competition announced for Little Free Libraries
Jury of Rice judges will consider feasibility, durability, creativity and public impact
Rice remembers Hugh Davis, access services assistant at Fondren Library
Hugh “Hughy” Davis III, an access services assistant at Fondren Library, died Sept. 23. He was 30 years old.
Woodson Research Center team honored with Shapiro award
Library staff worked throughout pandemic to deliver invaluable documents, digitization and much more.
