Library, Museums and Press News

Article by Allison Ebner | Photos courtesy of Alyssa DePaolis   If you’re looking for UD alumna Alyssa DePaolis, our advice is to check the local library. Before graduating from UD in 2019, Alyssa was a mainstay of Morris Library, ...Read More

  The University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press recently entered into an agreement with Cambridge University Press to support open access publishing, which helps broaden the reach and availability of academic scholarship. The agreement allows UD-affiliated authors to publish ...Read More

By Rebecca Johnson Melvin In the early 20th century, 150 families lived in “Little Ukraine,” an immigrant community in Wilmington that was anchored by two Ukrainian churches* and an active National Ukrainian Association on Heald Street in Southbridge. Ten of ...Read More

Article by Allison Ebner | Photos courtesy of Margaret O’Neil This is the second in a series of articles highlighting the winners of the third annual Seth Trotter Book Collecting Contest, sponsored by the Friends of the University of Delaware ...Read More

Mobile app and kiosk allow for faster, easier checkout service Contactless self-checkout options are now available in Morris Library, the Physics Library in Sharp Lab and the Chemistry Library in Brown Lab, making it faster and easier to borrow books. ...Read More

Newly acquired African American primary source materials highlight untold, overlooked histories Article by Allison Ebner | Illustration by Jaynell Keely This article also appeared in UDaily.   Newspapers, photographs, postcards, maps and other primary sources offer firsthand testimonies of the ...Read More

Updated January 10 Various locations within the UD Library, Museums and Press reopened Monday, January 10, for the remainder of Winter Session. Morris Library is open to students, faculty, staff and the greater UD community Monday through Thursday from 8 ...Read More

Article by Allison Ebner This is the first in a series of articles highlighting the winners of the third annual Seth Trotter Book Collecting Contest, sponsored by the Friends of the University of Delaware Library.   Her parents said it ...Read More

Edward Field is a literary giant in the poetry and LGBTQ+ communities, but his entry into the world of poetry may surprise you. He first began to write poems while serving in the U.S. Air Force during World War II ...Read More