USC graduate student Andrew Woodham accepted first prize in the USC Libraries Wonderland Award competition at a ceremony in Doheny Memorial Library on Thursday, April 19. The other winners were USC graduate students Lindsey Jones, who won second prize, and Stylés Akira, who won third prize. Click through for photos from the ceremony and to learn more about the award and this year's winners.

A recent post to AMC's blog for its Hell on Wheels television series referenced the USC Digital Library's Los Angeles Star Collection. As Mina Hochberg explains, a character in the period drama was based on Olive Oatman, a real-life historical figure whose story of abduction and captivity by Native Americans appeared in the April 19, 1856, Los Angeles Star. Keep reading to learn more about Oatman and the USC Digital Library's Los Angeles Star Collection.

Stop by Doheny Library's Horton Rare Books Room before or after the Wonderland Award ceremony on Thursday, April 19, to view rare books and other items from G. Edward Cassady, M.D., and Margaret Elizabeth Cassady, R.N., Lewis Carroll Collection. Through more than 3,000 books, pamphlets, games, and other items, the collection reveals the breadth of scholarship and creative work produced by Lewis Carroll, the nineteenth-century English author and logician. Keep reading to learn more about the special exhibit.

A new Special Collections exhibit on the second floor of Doheny Memorial Library celebrates the USC Libraries Wonderland Award and the G. Edward Cassady, M.D., and Margaret Elizabeth Cassady, R.N., Lewis Carroll Collection. Highlights from past Wonderland Award contests are on display alongside selected books and artifacts from the Cassady Collection, providing a fanciful look at the world Lewis Carroll created in his Alice stories. Keep reading to learn more about the exhibit, on display through April 20.

Seventy years ago this month, the U.S. government forcibly relocated Japanese Americans across the West Coast to internment camps. Now, a new exhibit on the second floor of Doheny Memorial Library remembers the Japanese American internment through rare books, photographs, and other items culled from the USC Libraries' Special Collections. Click through for photos from the exhibit, and stop by Special Collections display case in Doheny Library soon to see it for yourself.

A recent Curbed LA post about Thomas Mann's 1941 Pacific Palisades house--available for rent for $15,000 a month--highlighted USC's Feuchtwanger Memorial Library, Villa Aurora, and Los Angeles' German exile community. "You know what Angelenos don't talk about enough? The German intellectual scene in LA in the thirties and forties," writes Adrian Glick Kudler. "There's been lots of scholarly work done (USC's Feuchtwanger Memorial Library is dedicated to the subject), but the topic hasn't really had its moment in the sun the way, say, Red Cars or Aimee Semple McPherson or anything Old Hollywood have."

Discover another side of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland this Wednesday, February 22 at 11:00 a.m., when the USC Academy for Polymathic Study and USC Libraries present "Wonderland and the Mathematical Imaginary." The multidisciplinary discussion--sponsored by Visions and Voices--features science writer and USC Libraries Discovery Fellow Margaret Wertheim, mathematics professor Francis Bonahon, and English professor Jim Kincaid. Keep reading to learn more about the event.

The USC Libraries' Christa Zinner Collection of fashion photography documents over three decades of work by Zinner, whom Dan Knapp calls a "pioneering woman in a field once dominated by men" in a recent article for the USC News website. Zinner's photography appeared in countless publications, from Los Angeles Magazine to Seventeen and from Sports Illustrated to Glamour. Zinner donated the collection, which includes prints, negatives, proofs, slides, and magazine clippings of her work, to the USC Libraries in 1998. Click through for Knapp's article and selected images from the Zinner Collection.

In a page 2 article by Faaria Aalam, today's Daily Trojan highlights the new USC Libraries Special Collections exhibit on the civil rights movement. Keep reading to learn more about Aalam's article, and stop by Special Collections on the second floor of Doheny Library by the end of the month to view Civil Rights: A View of the Struggle.

The USC Libraries' five student ambassadors recently completed their capstone projects. For their projects, each ambassador staged an event that introduced students in their residence halls to library collections, services, and spaces. Keep reading to learn more about the ambassadors' projects.