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February 26, 2026

USC's Sam Gustman Honored by National Academy of Inventors

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February 23, 2026

Introducing Our Annual Impact Report

Voices of the Renaissance: Harlem’s Literary Revolution

February 20, 2026

New Special Collections Exhibition Highlights Voices of the Harlem Renaissance

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February 16, 2026

How Did the Nation’s Bicentennial Animate L.A.’s Social Movements of the 1970s? A New USC Libraries Exhibition Looks Back

Left to right: USC Libraries dean Melissa Just; Scripter Selection Committee chair Howard Rodman; Scripter Award winner Mike Makowsky (“Death by Lightning”); Scripter Literary Achievement Award honoree Michael Connelly; actor Titus Welliver; USC President Beong-Soo Kim. (Credit: Sarah Golonka)

January 24, 2026

38th-Annual Scripter Awards Go to Writers Behind “One Battle After Another,” “Death by Lightning”

Lost LA Season 8

January 15, 2026

Lost LA, a USC Libraries Co-Production With PBS SoCal, Returns for an Eighth Season

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January 12, 2026

Author Michael Connelly to be Honored with 2026 USC Libraries Scripter Literary Achievement Award

December 22, 2025

News Coverage of 38th-Annual Scripter Finalists Announcement

December 22, 2025

Update on Library Collections

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December 18, 2025

Librarian Cari Kaurloto to Receive MLA-EBSCO Information Literacy Prize for USC Viterbi Course

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December 15, 2025

Finalists Named for 38th annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards

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December 4, 2025

Rare Smog Memorabilia from USC Libraries Featured in Los Angeles Times' Smoglandia Podcast

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Polymathic Pizza: Queerness and Metamorphoses

Time: 5pm - 6:30pm

Harman Academy for Polymathic Study, DML 241

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Quadrants 3 & 4

Time: 5pm - 7pm

Harman Academy for Polymathic Study, DML 241

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Apr 29

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Polymathic Pizza: Dinner with the Board

Time: 5pm - 6:30pm

Harman Academy for Polymathic Study, DML 241

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Osaka Shosen Kaisha Poster

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The Allan Hancock Foundation Archive

East Asian Library

West Lake Couplets 西湖楹聯

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The Collection of Songs among the Flowers 花間集

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Biography of Zhang Yi 張儀列傳

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The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaidō Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi 東海道五十三次

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“Coloured Memories”: A German American soldier’s illustrated notebook

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John J. Audubon's Birds of America

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Alice In Wonderland Playing Cards

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Albert Einstein's Appendix II: Generalized Theory of Gravitation

Hamlin Garland's name written on a school slate carved with his initials.

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Hamlin Garland Papers

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"An Excursion 'Round the World"

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La Venta, Mexico, in the state of Tabasco is the site of an ancient Olmec civilization archaeological site featuring massive stone sculptures, including giant heads, as well as smaller artificts.

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Restoring the Visual Record of Mesoamerican and Spanish Colonial Cultures

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An Interactive, Natural-Language Adventure through Wonderland

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Welcome to Venice West

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Lost L.A. Curriculum Project

K-12 Curriculum

Lost L.A. Curriculum Project

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Lost L.A.

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