Updated: Oct 7th, 2026
Applications are currently open for three funded library fellowships:
Apply by October 31st!
The Library regularly hosts student and faculty fellowships that foster experiential learning and impact, learn more about our Fellowship Programs.
Updated: Oct 6th, 2026
GIS Day @ U of I 2026 is coming up Nov 18th, and the Call for GIS Day short talks and posters is now open!
We invite submissions from across the geospatial and GIS community for ten minute presentations or research posters highlighting your recent geospatial-related work, project, organization, or research. Please submit using our form by Oct 23rd.
GIS Day @ University of Idaho is a free event made possible by the U of I Library that brings together scholars, students, professionals, businesses, and the public to discuss geospatial technologies and demonstrate their many uses. This year’s theme is From Risk to Recovery: GIS and Wildfire, exploring the ways GIS is helping us navigate increasing fire impacts across our region.
The sessions will take place on Wednesday, Nov 18th, 2026 as a hybrid event hosted at Clearwater room of the Idaho Student Union Building and streaming live via Zoom.
Updated: Oct 5th, 2026
Special Collections & Archives has collaborated with Engineering to launch the new College of Engineering Repository. This digital collection brings together materials that document the college’s work and its connections with the wider community. The collection includes student posters from the annual Engineering Design EXPO, programs from the Idaho Asphalt Conference, and departmental newsletters. These materials offer a lasting record of the college’s scholarship, public engagement, and student work–highlighting stories that can be hard to find in other sources.
Updated: Sep 10th, 2026
A newly digitized diary offers a rare window into daily life inside concentration camps across the United States during World War II. The Bunro Sakaino Concentration Camp Diary digital collection provides new access to a historical record preserved in the University Library’s Special Collections and Archives. Kept by Portland-based newspaper editor Bunro Sakaino, the diary offers an informative and sobering account of his daily life and its uncertainties during incarceration at several camps, beginning with Fort Missoula and ending with his release from the Santa Fe Internment Camp in February 1946. The digital collection includes a facsimile of the Japanese-language diary alongside English translations by Naoko Tanabe.
Updated: Jul 10th, 2026
The U of I Library has entered into a new Read and Publish agreement with Wiley. For any manuscript where at least one author is an U of I affiliated author, Wiley provides a waiver of OA publishing fees for close to 1,250 hybrid journals.
Visit our Transformative Publishing Agreements page to learn more.
Updated: May 5th, 2026
In fall 2026, the Library will implement new hours, remaining open from 7am to midnight most weekdays. This change in hours will better align with library usage and traffic patterns.
Updated: Mar 23rd, 2026
Open Invitation is a new podcast that highlights open access efforts from across the University of Idaho. Interviews feature U of I faculty, staff, and students discussing their cutting-edge research, as well as the benefits and challenges of navigating the open access landscape.
Three episodes are available now, visit the Open Invitation website to find all the ways to listen and subscribe!
Updated: Feb 11th, 2026
Visit our completely revised U of I Library Copyright Guide. Librarians have carefully edited, updated, and reorganized the content to improve usability. You will find updated links and resources, including challenging emerging topics such as Generative AI.
You can always email the Library Copyright team with questions!
Updated: Jan 21st, 2026
University of Idaho professor Miranda Wilson has published her project, Mechanics and Aesthetics of Cello Playing, a new translation of Hugo Becker’s influential 1929 cello book, as an open access edition through the Library. Wilson’s new translation addresses the challenging technical language used in this important text, which was the first to discuss the biomechanics of cello playing.
Join us February 10th, 12:30pm to learn more about the project from Miranda Wilson, as part of the Renfrew Interdisciplinary Colloquium series.
Updated: Sep 2nd, 2025
Navigating the textbook adoption process for your courses is always complicated! Recent “inclusive access” platforms are further muddying the waters.
The Library wants you to know you have choices! We can help lower costs to your students through course reserves, Leganto reading lists, finding OER, or even creating your own custom open textbooks.
Check out our University of Idaho Course Materials Options graphic for a quick visual summary, including student costs, availability, and where to learn more.
Updated: Aug 27th, 2025
With the recent launch of the University’s new website, much of the previous site content has been removed or moved to the intranet. Anticipating this, the Library preserved past versions of the site through our Archive-It subscription, in partnership with the Internet Archive. This means you and your students can continue to access older university content and resources via the Wayback Machine.
Please visit our How to Use Web Archives tutorial to learn about accessing these resources and finding broken links.
Updated: Aug 26th, 2025
As part of the university website redesign, faculty profiles in VERSO, the Library’s Research Information System, are now more prominent, with many departmental and college web pages linking directly to them.
Faculty can edit and update their profiles at any time by logging in with their U of I credentials. If you encounter issues or would like support in making your profile accurate and current, the Library is available to help!
Find out more at our VERSO documentation, email lib-verso@uidaho.edu with question, or use our VERSO contact form.