At the University Libraries, faculty and staff bring diverse backgrounds and interests to their roles, elevating the Libraries’ culture of interdisciplinary collaboration and lifelong learning and curiosity. We asked Data Education Librarian Emma Slayton a few questions about her work, to find out more about the inspiration behind her contributions to the campus community. "I value collaboration, as I have learned through my career there is always more than one way to approach a problem. What we lose by only going to one person, one tool (yes even AI), or one method is immeasurable, and different perspectives help us build the way we think about the world and develop a critical lens that provides a new view of how past and current people think." 💻 Read the full interview: https://lnkd.in/ehh4UAun
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Hunt Library is the largest library, housing four floors of volumes comprising the university's collections in the arts, humanities, and social science. Special Collections, University Archives, and the video collection are located in Hunt Library. The university's IDeATe program, which offers nine undergraduate minors in domains that merge technology and arts expertise, is housed in the basement. The building opened in 1961, thanks to the generosity of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hunt. The Roger Sorrells Engineering and Science Library, located on the fourth floor of Wean Hall, focuses on research support for the fields of computer science, engineering, mathematical sciences, physics and robotics. The 2016 renovation of Sorrells Library resulted in a 25% increase in individual study spaces as well as new technology-equipped group study and project rooms for collaborative work. The library is named in honor of the late Roger Sorrells, thanks to a generous gift from his longtime partner, Dean emeritus of University Libraries Gloriana St. Clair. Read more about Roger Sorrells. The Mellon Institute Library was established in 1913 when the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research was located in a wooden frame house and moved into its current space in 1937. As the Mellon Institute expanded in size and importance, the library rapidly evolved as well. By the 1950s, it was generally regarded as one of the best libraries in the nation for chemistry literature, and had expanded its collection to include materials related to physics and biology. The Qatar campus Library is a physical and virtual space to help you learn, research, study, collaborate, innovate, and succeed. The Library is located on the ground floor of the CMU-Q building in Education City. The Library houses a physical collection of more than 15,000 print volumes on topics related to the major programs.
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We're excited to announce that Carnegie Mellon University Libraries Associate Dean Sayeed Choudhury has received a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to launch the Ecosystem for Next Generation Infrastructure (ENGIN) Software Foundation. This initiative addresses a critical challenge: while open source software has become essential to academic research, university projects often lack the organizational structures and sustainable funding models to grow beyond their initial research teams. The ENGIN Software Foundation will work with three CMU open source projects —Temoa (Open Energy Outlook), SPIRAL, and Penrose — to create models that help university software grow from research projects into lasting tools that benefit wider communities. This work builds on the success of the CMU Open Source Programs Office (OSPO) and represents CMU's continued leadership in supporting academic open source software. The models we develop will be shared with universities nationwide through the CURIOSS network. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eKmp3TN9
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Thanks to all who joined us for the 2025 Open Science Symposium at Carnegie Mellon University! 💻 Watch the recording! https://lnkd.in/eAR_wsuW The Open Science Symposium is our signature open science event, a full day of virtual talks and panels from researchers and thought leaders in academia, industry, and publishing. The conference explored how open science is transforming the ways in which we do research and share it across STEM, social science, and humanities disciplines. The event featured the following talks and more! Rethinking how we publish to support open science, Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, Director, Open Research Solutions, PLOS Can GenAI Be a True Friend to Open Science?, Mohammad Hosseini, Assistant Professor, Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Open Source in the Context of AI Policy, Katie Steen-James, Senior U.S. Policy Manager, Open Source Initiative (OSI) Collaborative Community Review, Christopher Long, Provost, University of Oregon Preserving for the Future: The Data Rescue Project, Lynda Kellam, Ph.D., Snyder-Granader Director of Research Data & Digital Scholarship, Penn Libraries, Founding Member of the Data Rescue Project
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Hey, Carnegie Mellon University! We've reopened the doors of the newly-renovated Posner Center for Special Collections on December 2 with an inaugural exhibition titled “Rare Books & Ancestral Machines.” 📜+🧮 New hours listed on the Libraries' website. Plan your visit today! 👩💻 Take a look inside: https://lnkd.in/eRjp4Acp
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Check out our new Digital Transitions BC100 scanner that was recently assembled in the newly renovated Posner Center for Special Collections! 👩💻📜 Billed as the world's highest quality book scanner, the Digitization and Imaging Services department is thrilled to start using this equipment to expand access to our rarest and most fragile materials and support ongoing digital scholarship. Learn more about our Digitization Lab: https://lnkd.in/eEqE2TGt
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Thank you to everyone who supported the University Libraries on #GivingCMUDay. 💝 Your generosity helped us surpass our donor goal and unlock an additional $20K to strengthen the resources, collections, and expertise that fuel learning and research at Carnegie Mellon University. Your support helps us build the library of the future, one that empowers scholars, fosters innovation, and elevates CMU’s global impact. We deeply appreciate this community. Image of Hunt Library Dedication (c.1961), found in the CMU Digital Collections
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Meet Tommy from University of Pittsburgh — our first registered reader in the newly renovated Posner Center! He's interested in the history of computing, and we're thrilled to support his work. Want to explore what's in Special Collections? Stop by during operating hours to register and start your research journey! 👩💻 View our hours here: https://lnkd.in/eqvvRDvu
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It's beginning to look a lot like #GivingCMUday! ☃️ At Carnegie Mellon University, the Libraries stand at the center of learning, discovery and innovation. 💝 Give now! https://bit.ly/give-lib Libraries Donation Challenge: If 100 unique donors make a gift of $10 or more to any University Libraries fund, a family foundation in Pittsburgh will contribute $20,000 to the Dean’s Discretionary Fund. Our funds include: 📚 Friends of the Library 📜 Special Collections 📦 University Archives 📂 Open at CMU 📖 CMU Press 💡 IDeATe
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Thanks to Dr. Sam Lemley, picoCTF had an incredible opportunity touring the Posner Center for Special Collections and viewing the Enigma Machines. It was absolutely fascinating to see the origins of cryptography and explore the treasures housed in one of Pittsburgh's most fascinating special collections. The Carnegie Mellon University Libraries joined a select list of American institutions in 2018, when two World War II era Enigma machines were added to a growing collection of rare historically-significant artifacts from the world of computing. The encryption devices were part of a generous gift of over 50 calculating machines, historical letters , and rare books. The Enigma machine was invented by a German businessman and sold commercially during the 1920s. However, they were later adopted by various governments for highly classified military communication, such as Nazi Germany before and during World War II. Due to the relentless work of Allied codebreakers, most notably Alan Turing and CMU alumna Julia Parsons, the Nazis’ Enigma-encoded messages were ultimately intercepted and decoded. These machines encoded terrible things, such as coordinating UBOAT strategies. It can decrypt and encrypt. Fun fact: these machines had a dark mode capability, as well as being able to dim the lights. We were also able to see a copy of De Furtivis Literarum Notis(On the Secret Symbols of Letters), a 16th century novel on cryptography written by Giambattista della Porta. The book is in Latin. Its polyalphabetic cipher was used by noblemen and royalty to keep their messages secret. We look forward to engaging in other activities with Dr. Sam Lemley and “Katie” Catherine Blauvelt at CMU Libraries. Heartfelt thanks for everything you do. Please keep up the spectacular work on preserving history for future generations. This is PRICELESS! Megan Kearns Aadi Jain NISARGA GONDI Neha Malla Danielle W. Micah Baldonado Logan O'Brien
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We are pleased to announce four fellowships to support original research and creative work in Carnegie Mellon University’s rare and distinctive collections, hosted jointly by the Posner Center for Special Collections and Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation. Fellowship applications are now open, and close on January 11, 2026. Open to graduate students, scholars, artists, digital humanists, designers, and makers, fellowships support a 2–4 week residency during the 2025–2026 academic year (including summer 2026). Fellows receive access to materials held by both collections, including rare books, archival materials, early technologies, and botanical art, as well as a $3,500 stipend. “With space available in the newly renovated Posner Center, we’re excited to welcome researchers not only comfortably, but in style,” said Sam Lemley, Curator of Special Collections. “Thanks to the extraordinary generosity of the Posner Foundation of Pittsburgh, we can now engage the scholarly community on a much larger scale. By offering these fellowships annually, we hope to build out a national cohort of researchers and artists whose work is strengthened by time spent in the Posner Center, the Hunt Institute, and across CMU Libraries’ collections.” 📜 Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eMj-WvEc
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