Giving Opportunities and Impact

2024 Giving CMU Day “Energizes” Libraries’ Impact

The tenth annual Giving CMU Day, themed “24 Hours of Tartan Power,” was celebrated on campus and online on Tuesday, December 3. Thanks to the incredible support from faculty, staff, students, alumni, and friends of the University Libraries, over $66,000 was raised for four priority funds: Friends of the Library, Special Collections Acquisition Fund, Enhance Library Learning Spaces, and the IDeATe General Fund.

2023 Giving CMU Day “Levels Up” Libraries’ Impact

The ninth annual Giving CMU Day was celebrated on campus and online on Tuesday, November 28. With the support of faculty, staff, students, alumni, and friends of the University Libraries and the Integrative Design, Arts, and Technology (IDeATe) network, over $11,000 was raised for four priority funds: Friends of the Library, Special Collections Acquisition Fund, Enhance Library Learning Spaces, and IDeATe.

IMLS Grant Will Support Open Science Training

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has awarded a grant of $241,147 to a team from CMU Libraries to support the implementation of a training program and curriculum to prepare library practitioners to meet the evolving open science needs and expectations of the research communities they support.

Sloan Foundation Funds OSPO Community Building Efforts

Associate Dean for Digital Infrastructure G. Sayeed Choudhury has received a grant of $249,896 from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to launch community building efforts to support those who are enabling open source in academia and research institutions, including the growing number of university open source programs offices (OSPOs).

One Year Into Digitization Efforts Smith Gift Expands Digital Photograph Collection

Thanks to a 2021 gift from Michael and Lonna Smith, the Libraries’ Digitization Lab, in close partnership with the University Archives, has now completed the first year of a four-year project to digitize this extensive collection.

Robotics Project Releases Toolkit, Digital Robotics Archive

The Carnegie Mellon University Archives has joined forces with a cross-campus team of faculty and subject matter experts, to release research on the collection, preservation and presentation of robot artifacts and history.

“From Stage to Page” Opening Reception

On April 1, friends and supporters of Carnegie Mellon University Libraries and The Frick Pittsburgh gathered for an opening celebration for the joint exhibition, “From Stage to Page: 400 Years of Shakespeare in Print.”

New to CMU Libraries’ Special Collections: The First Western Treatise on Cryptography & Mechanical Encryption

This month the Libraries acquired a copy of Leon Battista Alberti’s posthumously published Opuscoli Morali, which includes a short work on ciphers and cryptanalysis, “La Cifra”, commissioned by papal secretary Leonardo Dati in 1466 or 7.

New to Special Collections: The First Published Book on Computer Programming

One book recently relocated to Special Collections from the Libraries’ off-site facility is "The Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer" by Maurice Wilkes, David Wheeler, and Stanley Gill.

Robotics Project Acquires HiTech Chess Machine

The Carnegie Mellon University Libraries became steward of yet another important artifact in the history of computing on September 19. The Robotics Project added the HiTech chess machine to the University Archives, moving it to Hunt Library from Newell Simon Hall.