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Gritty, Grainy, Intimate, & Fragile: New Fine Arts & Design Library Exhibit Highlights the Unique Art of the Japanese Photobook

A new exhibit at UK's Fine Arts & Design Library highlights the artistry, craftsmanship and cultural significance of Japanese photobooks from the library’s collections

UK Art Museum finds connections between art and natural history

The UK Art Museum's “Museum of Natural History and Artificial Curiosities” connects art, science, research and history through rare artifacts and contemporary works.

2026 ‘Great Teacher’ Patrick Lee Lucas connects design history to everyday spaces

This episode of Behind the Blue spotlights one of the six Great Teacher Award winners for 2025: Patrick Lee Lucas, a professor of Interior Design in the UK College of Design.

New University of Kentucky Authors Collection Showcases Faculty Work & Research

UK Libraries has assembled a new curated collection that highlights the work and research of the university’s many industrious scribblers and keen-eyed editors. The University of Kentucky Authors Collection makes available in one place all the monographs whose authors or editors are affiliated with UK: a whopping 893 titles published since 2006, including 272 e-books and 621 print titles.

Making history accessible: Doug Boyd’s CURATE research

Doug Boyd is transforming access to oral history through CURATE-supported research, using innovative indexing tools, community partnerships and AI technologies to make more than 21,000 historical interviews searchable, discoverable and accessible.

Rapid Response Grants 2026 awardees advance community-focused research

The Sustainable Futures Design Lab, a founding area of UK Innovate’s TRUST Hub, selected three UK research teams to receive the 2026 Rapid Response Grants.

UK researcher explores how communities remember the Underground Railroad

Daniel Vivian examines how communities along the Ohio River remember the Underground Railroad, revealing how public memory shapes understanding of slavery, freedom-seeking and anti-slavery activism.

Doug Boyd: 2026-27 University Research Professor Q&A

Douglas A. Boyd, director of the UK Libraries Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History and recent president of the Oral History Association, has been honored as a 2026-27 University Research Professor.

Documenting disaster: Kopana Terry’s oral history research

Kopana Terry, the oral history archivist at the UK Libraries Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, is examining how the rapid loss of buildings during natural disasters affects the psychological well-being of survivors.

The day the Herculaneum scrolls began speaking again

For more than 2,000 years, wisdom from the only library to survive from ancient times remained locked away. Until now.

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