NC State University Libraries

"Discover" launches June 24!

The new Libraries search unifies the Catalog, Summon, and Journals into a single easy-to-use tool!

Although the transition process will be nearly seamless, the Libraries will experience some downtimes and reduced services June 15-23. Learn more at lib.ncsu.edu/about-discover

Our own Shannon Ricci and Kristy Borda led an April 1 workshop, demystifying terms related to AI, outlining AI’s powerful capabilities and significant pitfalls, and demonstrating ways it could be put to use for Extension education. Read about it here! https://cals.ncsu.edu/psi/news/extension-agents-explore-ways-to-use-ai-to-maximize-their-impact/

Need data science help this summer? ☀️📊

The Data Science Consulting Program is here to support NC State students, faculty and staff with:
✨ Data analysis + Statistics
✨ Coding + AI
✨ Data visualization
✨ R, Python, ArcGIS and more

📍 Find us at:
Dataspace in the James B. Hunt Jr. Library
DXL in the D. H. Hill Jr. Library
Virtually via Zoom

📅 Book an appointment or contact us:
go.ncsu.edu/getdatahelp

The Libraries' own Colin Nickels, Lead Librarian for Experiential Learning Services, is among Library Journal's 2026 Movers & Shakers Award winners. This is the sixteenth time an NC State librarian has won the award, most of any academic library.

"Colin Nickels thinks about libraries as systems: interconnected networks of people, technologies, and policies that can lower barriers to access. As Lead Librarian for Experiential Learning Services at North Carolina State University Libraries, Nickels oversees The Studios, a network of learning spaces that include a makerspace, digital media and virtual reality studios, and innovation labs. Together, they serve students campuswide. "

https://www.libraryjournal.com/story/colin-nickels-movers-shakers-2026-innovators

NC State’s hallowed Brickyard will be renovated this summer as part of the Woodson Hall construction. Scheduled to take place between May 11 and August 16, the work will affect the Brickyard entrance to the Hill Library.

Starting on May 11, the ramp leading to the Hill Library’s Brickyard entrance will be closed. The stairs will remain open. The ADA ramp that goes from the Brickyard level down to the basement level will be closed. All public ADA access will be from the Hillsborough Street entrance. The Brickyard’s existing brick pavers will be replaced with new permeable pavers in the same pattern, and some areas will be regraded to improve accessibility. The regraded areas include the sidewalks in front of the Hill Library’s East Wing and South Tower.

Read more and keep up to date at go.ncsu.edu/brickyard-entrance-2026

In February, one of our very own student workers and scholarship recipients was featured as a "Howling Success" by NC State Academic and Student Affairs. Check out the cool stuff that Daniel gets up to in the video feature. Congrats, Daniel! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6isHnLsRAk

We’ve reached the final stretch of the semester, so let’s get our grading done! Join us in the D.H. Hill Jr. Library's Faculty Research Commons on May 4 for tea, coffee, snacks, and between-grading mandala coloring activities, puzzles, and summer beach reads to recenter, destress, and accomplish your grading goals. DELTA LearnTech team representatives will also be on hand to answer your Moodle Gradebook questions. Bring your teaching team, final projects, exams, and essays, and grade in community! Drop in any time between 10am and 3pm for as long as you need to tackle your grading to-do list.

Join us this week at the Libraries! Finally finals time, and we're here to support you!

Events:
04/27, Mon
• NC: State of Recreation Virtual Reality Spring Reception
• Gallery Walk: Joe Cox’s artwork at the D. H. Hill Jr. Library
04/28, Tues
• LoFi and Chill in the Landing
• De-Stress Fest: Exam Essentials Kits Giveaway & Academic Success Center Wheel of Success
• De-Stress Fest: Exam Essentials Kits Giveaway at the Hunt Library
04/29, Wed
• First-Year Writing Showcase
• Fuel Your Final
• De-Stress Fest: Exam Essentials Kits Giveaway at the Hunt Library
• De-Stress Fest: Exam Essentials Kits Giveaway & Academic Success Center Wheel of Success
• Pause for Paws
04/30, Thurs
• De-Stress Fest: Exam Essentials Kits Giveaway & Academic Success Center Wheel of Success
• De-Stress Fest: Exam Essentials Kits Giveaway at the Hunt Library
"The Medium Is..." a Humanities Fair
• A Series of Questions: Team Trivia at 321 Coffee
• Pause for Paws
04/30, Fri
• Tom Regan Visiting Research Fellowship Presentation
• Communication is the Essence of Human Life

The Special Collections Research Center invites you to an engaging virtual presentation to listen to a thought-provoking presentation by the 2025 Tom Regan Visiting Research Fellow, Zachary Ferguson. A Ph.D. candidate in Philosophy at UNC–Chapel Hill, Ferguson is currently researching his dissertation on the evolution of philosophical discussions surrounding vegetarianism and veganism. His presentation is titled “Moral Character and Meat Eating.”

According to Ferguson, “it is not hard to show that industrial animal farming is morally wrong. However, it is surprisingly difficult to show that the wrongness of farming practices means that it is wrong for consumers to eat meat. This is something that early advocates overlooked, and some philosophers have recently argued that the same principles that support animal advocacy also give us moral reasons to sometimes eat meat. In this talk, I argue against these views and show that we do have compelling moral reasons not to eat meat. To do so, I focus on elements of moral character, including the ways that we perceive animal products and how we feel towards them."

Where: Zoom (Virtual Event)When: Fri, May 1 12:00-1:00pm Eastern Time (US and Canada)

This event is free and open to the public.

Register at go.ncsu.edu/trvrf-presentation

NC State University Libraries expands Esports Program thanks to a generous gift from Lenovo!

Lenovo has made a transformational gift to the NC State University Libraries that will name the Lenovo Esports Arena on Main Campus and the Lenovo Esports and Gaming Lab at the Hunt Library. As the most significant corporate gift to the Libraries and NC State Esports to date, Lenovo’s support establishes the university’s program as a national esports leader.
https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/news/main-news/nc-state-university-libraries-expands-esports-program-lenovo-support-naming-arena