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The University of Kansas Libraries invite the campus community to attend Thursday Movie Matinees, a new monthly curated film experience designed to bring cinema and scholarship together. Each screening will take place in The Kettle, Watson Library 325, offering an opportunity to watch movies, participate in optional facilitated discussions, and hear commentary from experts.

KU Libraries is preparing to go live this summer with a new library services platform (LSP), FOLIO, and a suite of integrated products to empower essential backend capabilities and user-facing upgrades. The new open‑source system will enhance functionality for instructors and students, increase efficiencies in essential libraries services, unify systems across the Lawrence campus, Wheat Law Library, and KU Medical Center, and better support library user needs.

KU Libraries are building bridges and forging new paths as the academic community navigates rapidly evolving information needs and changing publishing practices. A set of new deals and renewals, with more in the works, demonstrates librarians’ ongoing efforts to build collections and resources while carefully managing limited funding, a complex and intricate process.

Stephanie Stillo’s journey has stretched coast to coast, but it was in Kansas where an extraordinary path began to reveal itself. Stillo, who graduated from KU in 2014 with a doctorate in modern European history, returns to the university April 16 as the keynote speaker for KU Libraries’ Snyder Book Collecting Contest. The contest is now accepting student entries through March 24, celebrating 68 years of encouraging student book collections.