UK Libraries Welcomes Campus Back Sesquicentennial Style
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Aug. 25, 2015) — As part of the welcome back events offered to students during the first day of classes, the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center will host an open house featuring a photo booth, free ice cream and reproduction souvenir pennants from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 26, in the foyer of the Margaret I. King Library Building. The open house and corresponding exhibit celebrating UK’s sesquicentennial are free and open to the public.
The exhibit showcases more than 150 artifacts, photographs, documents, publications and memorabilia related to UK’s campus life, academics, athletics, student organizations and traditions such as the “Little Kentucky Derby,” tug-of-war at Clifton pond, and of course, UK basketball. Items rarely seen by the public, such as a ball of presidential cat fur, a 1912 winning football, cadet button, vintage K Books and event posters, and sorority serveware, will be out for viewing.
Examples of items available online using ExploreUK, such as the recently added collection of UK football media guides, Commencement programs, yearbooks and Kentucky Kernel editions will also be on display.
The exhibition will remain in place through Oct. 15. King Library is open to the public from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
UK Special Collections Research Center is home to UK Libraries' collection of rare books, Kentuckiana, the Archives, the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, the King Library Press, the Wendell H. Ford Public Policy Research Center and the Bert T. Combs Appalachian collection. The mission of the Special Collections Research Center is to locate and preserve materials documenting the social, cultural, economic and political history of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
MEDIA CONTACT: Whitney Hale, 859-257-8716; whitney.hale@uky.edu