Carnegie Mellon University Libraries

Recently a researcher, Phil Vicini, was looking for information on his uncle, James Soisson, in the University Archives. While doing some deep digging in our digital collections, Vicini spotted a familiar face in this image of a CFA class–Andy Warhol! Seen pictured second from the left, Warhol is sitting across a table from his friend, NYC roommate, and fellow artist Philip Pearlstein. This photograph was previously unidentified so even the archivists were surprised–proving there’s always something new to see in the University Archives!

Today we’re remembering @cmu.edu alumnus #AndyWarhol on his birthday! 🎂

Can you find him in this archival image? 🔍

Warhol (BFA 1949) attended Carnegie Tech in the late 1940s before leaving his hometown of Pittsburgh for New York City.

Image of book titles in the display.

Our current book display offers a range of perspectives on justice - spanning economics, education, environmental equity, civil rights, & more. Engage with these works to better understand the structural challenges we face and the ideas that continue to shape a more equitable future. bit.ly/4lTVqRv

A leather chair in front of a wall of paperback books. Photo by John Salvino on Unsplash.

DYK the paperback book revolutionized reading? 📖

In the 1930s, PenguinBooks (UK) & Pocket Books (US) introduced affordable, portable books that made literature accessible to the masses. These lightweight editions fueled reading on the go and expanded access to education.

#NationalPaperbackBookDay

Reading in a hammock outdoors. Photo by Robert Norton on Unsplash.

There are so many great shaded spaces around @cmu.edu campus to celebrate #NationalHammockDay! 📖💤 What are some of your favorite spots?

Now, five years from 2030, the target year for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), issues related to equity and justice have taken on new urgency. At this pivotal moment, @cmu.edu is focused on creating Sustainable Futures. 🌎

Read more: library.cmu.edu/about/news/2...

Open Science workshop

Since launching one of the first #OpenScience programs in an academic library, we've emerged as a model for how libraries can lead in transparent and collaborative research. See how we're expanding that leadership through training opportunities, events, and published resources. bit.ly/os-train

"The main objective is to lay the foundation for the new “born digital” processing arm of our University Archives. This involves devising new workflows and processing guidelines, setting up digital processing environments, tracking down born digital materials, networking with various departments, liaising with colleagues, and more. I am very excited to get this initiative off the ground!"

Please join us in welcoming Alex Daniels to the Libraries as our new Digital Archivist.

💻 Learn more about Alex and his plans for the new role.

library.cmu.edu/about/news/2...

The Implementation of Keenious at Carnegie Mellon University In the fall of 2022, the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Libraries began investigating Keenious—an artificial intelligence (AI)-based article recommender tool—for a possible trial implementation to…

🏆 June Top Viewed Article 2️⃣ The Implementation of Keenious at Carnegie Mellon University by Joelen Pastva et al. @library.cmu.edu #DataLibs #ArtificialIntelligence doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

“A quick introduction probably won’t make a student an expert on major research skills, and that’s okay. What’s important is that first-year students come away knowing where to go to ask for help throughout their undergraduate career.”- Arts and Humanities Librarian Ashley Werlinich

Prior to arriving at @cmu.edu, many first-year students have never encountered an academic library. Over the last year, our librarians have worked to address this, turning one-off orientation sessions into a dynamic, personalized introduction to the Libraries’ offerings.

💻 Read more: bit.ly/1stYR

Reboot the Earth fosters a new intercontinental partnership CMU’s OSPO and the Upanzi Network spark a new partnership at the United Nation’s Reboot the Earth hackathon.

Reboot the Earth Open Source Hackathon, a social coding event to build tech solutions for the climate crisis, focused on #agriculture and #AI. The winning team will develop their solution—an AI chatbot to connect rural farmers with local transporters.

Read more: engineering.cmu.edu/news-events/...

Caption from the CMU Digital Collections: (c.1963) During the special exhibition heat of the Spring Carnival buggy races, the concrete wheels on Sigma Nu fraternity's "Sailboat" entry fall apart just 10 feet from the finish line on Frew Street.

We hope you're staying safe and finding creative ways to beat this heat! 🥵

If you feel faint, dizzy, or unusually tired - seek help and let someone know. Heat exhaustion is real!

🛀 Check out this archival image from 1963 Spring Carnival, available online in CMU Digital Collections.

YouTube video by Carnegie Mellon University Libraries Posner Center Renovation Reimagines Space for Special Collections at CMU

The University Libraries is transforming the Posner Center into a dedicated Special Collections library.

The Special Collections is @library.cmu.edu's repository for rare books, manuscripts, early calculating devices and cryptographic machines.

COMBEE by Edda L. Fields-Black

“The month after I signed an advance contract to write COMBEE, the world shut down, because of the COVID-19 global pandemic. Carnegie Mellon’s Hunt Library helped me to keep going as I dove into my primary and secondary source research, even ordering books and having them delivered to my home when the library was closed. And, in the final weeks as I made final changes before COMBEE was sent to the printer, CMU’s Hunt Library helped me identity documents and quotations therein so I could finalize my endnotes.” - Edda Fields-Black, Professor, Director of Dietrich College Humanities Center

In 2024, Edda Fields-Black of @cmu.edu's Dietrich College Humanities Center published "COMBEE" on Harriet Tubman’s involvement in the Combahee River Raid, the largest rebellion of enslaved people in US history.

Read how we supported her Pulitzer Prize-winning research: bit.ly/4kFtT5O

"When...[federal] funding is the coin of the realm, artistic and humanistic ways of knowing are disadvantaged and our understanding of the world impoverished."

Associate Dean for Academic Engagement Nicky Agate @terrainsvagues.bsky.social recently posted this op-ed in The LSE Impact blog along with other collaborators from @humetricshss.bsky.social.

The piece addresses the viability of federal funding in the current climate.

💻 bit.ly/4l85be3

Adirondack chairs outside of Hunt Library

Here at CMU Libraries, we celebrate researchers within the @cmu.edu community who choose to make their innovative work openly available and reusable.

Check out our ten free and easy ways to be an open researcher at CMU 👉 library.cmu.edu/about/news/2...

#OpenAccess #OpenScience #OpenResearch

Collections Archivist Emily Davis with Archives intern Jackie Ruhnke

It's #InternationalArchivesWeek! DYK the University Archives is open to researchers + the @cmu.edu community?

Drop-in Thurs. 10-4p to check out the item of the week, explore our collections, or learn how to navigate our discovery tools. All levels of curiosity are welcomed!

#ArchivesAreAccessible

Participant in the hackathon in March at CMU

A new BioHackrXiv preprint describes public outputs from an international hybrid collaborative hackathon held at @cmu.edu, focusing on using machine learning methods to study the background genomic and environmental effects underlying complex genotype-phenotype relationships. bit.ly/bioinfohacka...

The Open at CMU team at Carnegie Mellon University Libraries supports researchers in making their work more transparent, accessible, and reproducible by providing expertise in open science, open data, open access publishing, and open-source software.

A national study put out by our incredible team of librarians is shedding light on how libraries are keeping up with the fast-changing world of #OpenScience. The study appears last month in The Journal of Academic Librarianship.

💻 Read the full story here: library.cmu.edu/about/news/2...

Posner Center rendering by Perkins Eastman

We're thrilled to announce the interior of the Posner Center is undergoing a major renovation to support and promote our Special Collections.

This transformation is made possible through a landmark $8 million gift from the Posner Foundation of Pittsburgh.

Learn more here: bit.ly/posner-reno

AI for Science This automated lab at CMU is ushering in the future of science, research collaboration, and data sharing.

We're not just supporting research, we're helping to reinvent it.
In a video spotlighting @cmu.edu's unique automated lab, 2/3 of the featured voices were from the Libraries. Melanie Gainey and @sayeedc.bsky.social have emerged as key leaders in the #OpenScience movement. Watch here: bit.ly/45oiP8D

Students in the library on laptops.

In this month's installment of our Discover & Discuss series, we explore books and movies on the topic of blending #AI into our lives, while retaining the skills and knowledge that makes us human. 👩‍💻🤖👨‍💻

💻 View eBooks + streaming videos available at the Libraries: library.cmu.edu/about/news/2...

The Implementation of Keenious at Carnegie Mellon University In the fall of 2022, the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Libraries began investigating Keenious—an artificial intelligence (AI)-based article recommender tool—for a possible trial implementation to i...

🏆 May Top Viewed Article 1️⃣ The Implementation of Keenious at Carnegie Mellon University by Joelen Pastva et al. @library.cmu.edu #DataLibs #ArtificialIntelligence doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

A student looking inside the fridge. Photo by Rebecca Devereaux.

Notebook sketch of the fridge project, courtesy of Nicholas Madjerick

For over thirty years, an old refrigerator has baffled and amused visitors to the 4th floor of Hunt Library.

Where did it come from? Why is it here? What's with the pencil sharpener? 🤔

Learn more and see the notebook of the @cmu.edu alum who built the fridge here: library.cmu.edu/about/news/2...

Eason Chen, leading a workshop on Move at Emory University

Eason Chen, a Ph.D. student at @hcii.cmu.edu, created a tool called SuiGPT MAD to help increase transparency around blockchain technologies. His innovative work was brought to the attention of our Open Source Programs Office (OSPO), who helped to support his project.

💻 Read more: bit.ly/SuiGPT-MAD

KiltHub: weaving the fabric of your research

KiltHub is a comprehensive institutional repository maintained by the University Libraries, where @cmu.edu researchers can share scholarly outputs and research data produced in the course of their research. 📈

🔍 View our latest #OpenAccess upload/download data here: library.cmu.edu/about/news/2...

Screenshot from the CMU Libraries catalog search results page for "living dead"

What will you watch on National #ClassicMovieDay? 🍿

We chose a fav, "Night of the Living Dead" (1968) directed by @cmu.edu alum, George A. Romero (BFA, 1961). 🧟‍♂️

Did you know we have lots of classic and modern movies available for checkout and streaming?

🔍 Search our catalog: bit.ly/ExploreCatalog

a woman is sitting on a couch and pointing at something . ALT: a woman is sitting on a couch and pointing at something .

I want to give a special shoutout to @library.cmu.edu for allowing me to maintain alumni access. If my current institutions don't have access to certain articles/databases, I know I could always count on you 😘

Delighted to share the latest Open@CMU newsletter from @library.cmu.edu - mailchi.mp/be93e83c7fa4...

Fifth Annual Voluntary University Review of the Sustainable Development Goals 2024-2025

The Sustainability Initiative has released the fifth Voluntary University Review detailing @cmu.edu’s progress in advancing the United Nations' #SustainableDevelopmentGoals (SDGs). 🌎

The 2024-25 VUR highlights engagement, student leadership, and a growing sustainability network. cmu.is/2024-25-VUR

“...great changes never occur through an influence of one dominant force, whether it be art, science, or religion, but through a confluence of many forces, which in unison have a power to transcend the contributions of all individual elements.” - Romare Bearden, 1975 Commencement Speech

CMU students huddle together under umbrellas. Image from the University Archives.

CMU faculty under umbrellas for the 1975 Commencement. Image from the University Archives.

CMU students stand for Commencement in the rain. Image from the University Archives.

Happy graduation, @cmu.edu! 🎓 Congratulations on all your hard work, and good luck with your next big steps! To celebrate, let's travel back 50 years to a rainy ceremony in 1975. 👩‍🎓☔👨‍🎓

Artist Romare Bearden’s commencement speech focused on how artists and technologists can work together in the world.