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May 18 is International Museum Day! This year’s theme is “Museums Uniting a Divided World”.

Museums are continuing to evolve, shifting from temples of treasures toward more community-centered spaces for dialogue, learning, and connection. Today we celebrate museums as places for sharing difficult knowledge, unlearning and relearning in respectful ways, and appreciating both the beauty of human creativity and the natural world around us.

Some of the faculty in the Museum Studies MA program contributed these vignettes about their favorite museums:

Celebrating International Museum Day Museums are continuing to evolve, shifting from temples of treasures toward more community-centered spaces for dialogue, learning, and connection. Today we celebrate museums as places for sharing difficult knowledge, unlearning and relearning in respectful ways, and appreciating both the beauty of h...

Join us this weekend in celebrating our Spring 2026 Graduates! Our students are are marking the milestone of completing Bachelors, Masters, and PhD programs. We are excited to see what our new information professionals will accomplish, congratulations!

🎉Find ceremony info at ou.edu/commencement

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Join us now (04/23 at Noon, Central Time)! National Library Week: Why I Became a Librarian- Panel Discussion
Panel Description: Please join us on April 23, 2026 at 12:00pm (Central Time) to hear from our panel of librarians and prospective librarians at:

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Come connect with us outside the Bookmark Cafe in Bizzell Library Lower Level 1 through 3:00pm to learn more about National Library Week

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Find out what we are doing for National Library Week at: https://www.ou.edu/cas/slis/news/articles/2026/april/celebrate-national-library-week-slis

Join us and OU Libraries in celebrating National Library Week starting on Monday, April 20:

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Library & Information Studies Fund - OU Giving Day

Starts tomorrow on April 14th! This annual 24-hour fundraising event helps support our students and our department. Make a gift to SLIS on April 14th at: https://givesooner.org/campaigns/library-and-information-studies-fund

Starts in 6 Days on April 14th! This annual 24-hour fundraising event helps support our students and our department. Make a gift to SLIS on April 14th at: https://givesooner.org/campaigns/library-and-information-studies-fund