The Lost L.A. Curriculum Project will bring together Southern California educational and media organizations to create lesson plans that pull from the city’s rich history.
Wolf Gruner, founding director of USC Shoah Foundation’s Center for Advanced Genocide Research, began his quest to build a Holocaust library as soon as he arrived at USC a decade ago.
The Feb. 9 ceremony honors the year’s best film and television adaptations, as well as the works on which they are based.
From its priceless manuscripts to its unique architecture, the Hoose Library of Philosophy is a beloved USC landmark.
Phi Kappa Phi, Sidney Harman Academy and Wall of Scholars all pay tribute to top USC scholars.
Armchair quarterbacks and Trojan fans could make their own calls with this vintage Howard Jones board game.
The project puts curators in direct working relationships with scholars who will use the collections to produce findings at USC and beyond.
From traveling abroad to digging through treasures, USC undergraduates go beyond the book to interpret history.
New leader of a USC Marshall master’s program says public libraries are alive and well in today’s fast-paced society.
A mixed-reality game centers on a 1930s gangster and half a million in missing gold.
In celebrity-crazy LA, hand-scripted words by C.L. Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) about fame find a fitting home—123 years later.
Once a year, around Halloween and Día de los Muertos, we dwell on death. That isn’t nearly often enough, according to Megan Rosenbloom, for whom the “undiscovered country” is a year-round scholarly pursuit.
The USC Libraries Shelf Life program pairs special library books with devoted readers.
New exhibit combs the records of the past for clues about how the city might adapt to the forces that shape it.
The collection bolsters USC’s position as a source for understanding Los Angeles as a Pacific Rim metropolis, Dean Quinlan says.
Universities rely on endowments to support libraries, financial aid and professorships.
Awards go to papers on women in Russia, language and works by Charles Dickens.
Alum’s firm designed expansion of the USC School of Social Work building and created master plan for renovating the library at the USC Gould School of Law.
The university’s unique asset allows users to manage complex collections of books, film, TV, video tape and digital assets.
Lewis Carroll’s fantasy world shoots into the modern age with a multimedia show at Doheny.
“Lewis Carroll Through Two Lenses” is a photographic meditation on the life and career of the renowned author.
USC Libraries recently purchased a coveted letter written by the author, who regretted his celebrity status.
USC had kept the purchase under wraps to surprise benefactors George and Linda Cassady.