November 19, 2024

The National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) awarded the University of Cincinnati Libraries Archives and Rare Books Library a $109,349 grant to support a project to complete archival processing of the records of the Cincinnati Branch of the NAACP related to the 1974 Bronson v. Cincinnati Board of Education desegregation case, the city’s most significant case in the fight for school desegregation.

October 17, 2024

Following seven years of funding support, the University of Cincinnati (UC) has determined that the long-term financial sustainment of the University of Cincinnati Press is not feasible. Funding resources, including start-up funds have been exhausted and the press is not in a self-sustaining financial position. Therefore, the University of Cincinnati Press imprint will cease to operate June 30, 2025.

February 21, 2023

Christopher Harter will join the University of Cincinnati Libraries effective March 15, 2023 as the university archivist and head of the Archives & Rare Books Library.

October 18, 2022

Al Gerhardstein, noted Cincinnati civil rights attorney, has donated to the University of Cincinnati Libraries’ Archive and Rare Books Library, papers documenting his nearly 50-year career in civil rights litigation and advocacy, with focuses in reproductive rights, prisoner’s rights, policing, employment discrimination, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights.

June 30, 2022

Lori Harris will begin her tenure July 1.