University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries

04/17/2026

Happening now until 2 pm on Love Library's lawn. Food, games and fun.

04/16/2026

Some days the lawn in front of Love Library is used for dance practice.

04/13/2026

Calling all Gamers! We'll have classic consoles and laptops for emulating retro games. From Legend of Zelda to L*D: Dream Emulator, and Dr. Mario to Donkey Konga, drop in and play anytime! Staff will be present to demonstrate how to back up your cartridge games and save files to preserve them. Coffee and cookies will be served.
This event is part of LoveFest, a week-long celebration of 80 years of Love Library South and 50 years of Love Library North being open to students.
⏰: Tuesday April 14, 2 - 3:30 pm
📍: Love Library South, 221, Peterson Room.

04/13/2026

LoveFest has begun! A ping pong table is set up on the 2nd floor in homage of the WWII Army cadets that lived and learned in Love Library before it was a library. The table is here all week, come and play! Can't guarantee you'll see Marty Supreme.

Nebraska Alumni Association University of Nebraska-Lincoln

04/13/2026

Students from the Glenn Korff School of Music will perform new compositions inspired by their experience and interaction with materials from the Archives & Special Collections. Light refreshments and the Libraries’ signature mocktails will be served.

This event is part of LoveFest, a week-long celebration of 80 years of Love Library South and 50 years of Love Library North being open to students.


⏰: Monday, April 13, 5:30 - 7:30 pm

📍: Love North, 2nd Floor

04/10/2026

Relax and join us for some fun with LoveFest on the Lawn!
Free charcuterie-style box (meat/cheese/fruit &
vegetarian options) in individual containers, provided for up to 250 people by University Housing & Dining Services. Blankets spread on the lawn for
naps or studying. Lawn games provided by Campus Rec and the Lincoln Children’s
Museum, including: giant Jenga, jumbo Tetris, lawn bowling, oversized checkers,
ladderball, washers, and co****le. The Libraries
will provide a cart of books (fiction and literature) if you just want to read
something fun.
⏰: April 17, 11 a.m. – 2
p.m.
📍: Love Library, south lawn facing R St.

UNL Student Life
University Housing & Dining Services

04/09/2026

New post on our Research Moment blog -- where to search for academic literature.
For more information read the full post at: https://researchmoment.unl.edu/searching-the-academic-literature-part-1/

04/09/2026

One of the five anniversaries we have celebrated this past year is the 20th anniversary of the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities. Significant progress and innovation has been made in the digital humanities and UNL's Center has been at the forefront.

Read about its history: https://news.unl.edu/article/nebraska-center-celebrates-20-years-of-transforming-humanities-research

The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities is celebrating 20 years of innovation. From early experiments to global projects, the center has transformed scholarship, expanded access to hidden texts, and built a community of students, faculty, and researchers making an impact worldwide.

04/06/2026

Next week is LoveFest -- where we will be celebrating the 80th anniversary of Love South being open to students and 50 years of Love Library North! Join us for activities each day including: music & mocktails, retro gaming, AI & ice cream, the Visiting Scholar's presentation on AI, lawn games, snacks, and play ping pong.

04/01/2026

Big issue of the Libraries newsletter out today features the activities we have planned for LoveFest during the week of April 13-17.
Everyone is welcome to participate.
https://newsroom.unl.edu/announce/libraries/20151

03/20/2026

Add to your calendars -- The UNL Libraries sponsored Visiting Scholar, Benjamin Charles Germain Lee will present on the state of the artificial intelligence field with a focus on efforts to apply AI to library collections. This event will be hybrid online and in-person. Reception follows presentation.

For more information follow this link: https://events.unl.edu/lib/2026/04/15/198241/

03/10/2026

For more than 40 years, "Laurus," the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s undergraduate literary magazine, has been a launchpad for emerging writers and artists, but past issues have largely disappeared into small libraries and personal collections.

Soon, the magazine’s legacy as an incubator for the future of literature will be accessible to all through a digitization project that will publish past issues online.

“If anything happened, we'd lose all of that history, which just felt pretty painful to think about,” said Pascha Stevenson, adviser for "Laurus" and organizer of the project.

Learn more: https://go.unl.edu/p2c8