River Campus Libraries

⚠️ Carlson Library will be closed from June 17 through July 6, 2026, while crews update the building's fire alarm system—an important safety improvement for everyone who uses the space.

The collection stays within reach throughout the closure. Materials from Carlson can be requested online via DiscoverUR (www.library.rochester.edu) and picked up at the Q&i Desk in Rush Rhees Library.

Thank you for your patience as we make these updates. 💙💛 We look forward to welcoming you back to Carlson in early July.

This past Thursday, a group of eight River Campus Libraries staff members traded their desks for garden gloves and joined the United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes's annual Day of Caring. 🌿💪🪏

We partnered with the Swillburg Neighborhood to clean up Otto Henderburg Park and the Labyrinth Garden — weeding, pruning, raking, picking up trash, and getting the spaces ready for the community to enjoy. ☺️

A huge thank you to everyone who participated, and especially to Katie Papas, who organizes this effort every year and makes sure our libraries show up for our broader Rochester community. 💙💛

Here's to clean parks, good neighbors, and muddy shoes for a good cause.👏

154 people chose River Campus Libraries yesterday. 🤩👏

154 alumni, students, colleagues, friends, and members of this community—made a deliberate decision to invest in what happens here. In the students who discover their research voice for the first time. 🥰 In the scholars accessing rare materials from across the world. 📜 In the spaces where creativity and curiosity find room to breathe. 💫

Together, those 154 gifts added up to $47,000 — and every dollar will go directly toward the spaces, resources, and opportunities that our libraries what they are. 🐝

We are genuinely moved. This is what community looks like.
Thank you. From all of us at River Campus Libraries. 💙💛