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We can't wait to see everyone at our first SciPop Presentation this Wednesday, September 20th, at 7 PM! Learn all about the crazy and cool connections between science and pop culture, and enjoy some fries and wings while you're there! #scipop #americanuniversity #aulibrary

Come learn about where science meets Pop Culture at SciPop Talks, as AU Professor of Chemistry Dr. Raychelle Burks explores the weird and wonderful connection between science, the U.S. courts, and superheroes! Come for the pop culture, stay for the wings.

In light of the incoming storm and in order to keep our staff and faculty safe, Bender Library service points will closed after 3pm on 8/7. Our 1st floor will still be open 24/7 to those with a valid AU ID. Thanks for your understanding.

60 Minutes’ newest piece highlights the impressive woman who founded HistoryMakers, the largest Black oral histories archive in the world. Access these stories and more through Media Services at the AU Library, available to all to highlight Black stories!

We are excited to partner with OIT, Financial Aid, and @aucampuslife on this important initiative to expand access to technology for all of our Eagles!

As Head Archivist Leslie Nellis told @TheEagleOnline about our ukiyo-e prints collection, “[We’re] hoping that people will continue to have interest in using them for scholarship, but also just to appreciate that they're beautiful.”

Happy Pride Month from your friends and allies at Media Services🌈 Here are some classic queer & trans films to binge this month🎥🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Comment below your favorites and let us know what you think of this collection⬇️

60 years ago today, President John F. Kennedy gave AU's 1963 commencement speech saying "For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future." jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/a…

Happy 60th Birthday to the @AUKayChapel! The Right Reverend John B. Roeder (in front) and Rabbi Stanley Rabinowitz (on right), broke ground on the site June 9th, 1963. Photo from the American University Archives, AU History Photograph and Print Collection.

The Library's Media Services team does it again!

The University Library is leading change to close the digital divide with AU's Inclusive Technology Initiative that provides laptops to our students with the greatest need. american.edu/change-cant-wa…

The Japanese Doll Festival is a revered celebration of families’ daughters. This 1749 print from the Edo period depicts several women (and even some #ArchivesBabies) preparing their Hina dolls and tea. #ArchivesHashtagParty

This Toy Book Keepsake, published in 1872, features some illustrated #ArchivesBabies! This volume was published by the English Religious Tract Society, whose aim was to distribute all kinds of literature to working-class citizens in order to spread literacy and Christian morals

Did you know baby-proofing has been around for centuries? This 1904 edition of May and Her Dolly is printed on linen, which became common in the 19th century as more children became literate and parents needed durable books. #ArchivesBabies #ArchivesHashtagParty

Remember toys in your cereal? Published in 1909, the first-ever prize included in a box of Kellogg’s corn flakes was this “Funny Jungleland” moving picture book #ArchivesBabies #ArchivesHashtagParty

Where can you find #ArchivesBabies and children in the #AUArchives? In our #rarebooks! This #ArchivesHashtagParty we’ll feature some depictions of little ones you can find throughout our stacks.

Find the graduating ducklings hidden in Bender Library and turn them into Circulation (9am-9pm) for a stress reDUCKtion gift!

Check out @TheEagleOnline's article about how AU's Music Library in Katzen creates a community space for musicians @AmericanU theeagleonline.com/article/2023/0…

In partnership with students from the AU Chapter of ItsOnUs, the Library presents a vetted, if not comprehensive, subject guide of on and off campus resources for survivors of sexual violence. subjectguides.library.american.edu/c.php?g=1308012