Pi(e) Day: Home

Pi(e) Day 2025 is just around the corner--err, crust!

Registration is live! Want to join us for a 2025 Petite Pi(e) Day Zoom chat? We'll be talking recipes, crust, and fillings for our small pies and tartlets at 3pm E/2p C/1p M/12p P on Friday, March 14. If you can't join us, we'll be sharing out our whiteboard here on the guide after the event. 

This year, we invite you to combine books and baking by joining us for Petite Pi(e) Day. For the seventh year running, we'll be celebrating Pie Day on March 14th, 2025 with The Great Library Pie Bake-Off (#GLPBO). Together, library colleagues & culinary historians from across the world will bake historical recipes from their collections and share the results, successes, and spectacular failures. 

This year, we're inviting everyone to think small with the theme of Petite Pi(e) Day. This is your chance to experiment with historic hand pies, pasties, tartlets, or a miniaturized version of any pie you choose. 

We'll be updating the LibGuide with recipe ideas and more as we go, but in the meantime, if you're interested in participating by baking, sharing on social media, and/or joining a Pi(e) Day zoom party, please fill out this form, so that we can keep you up-to-date on plans. Also, feel free to forward this to anyone you know working with recipes or collections in libraries or archives who may want to be involved. The more (petite pies), the merrier!

Looking forward to baking with you! Your Pi(e) Day 2025 planning team,

• Kira Dietz, Virginia Tech Special Collections & University Archives
• Juli McLoone, University of Michigan Special Collections Research Center
• Maggie Vanderford, University of Michigan, Clements Library
• Helen Harding, University of Michigan, Clements Library
• Chris Nautly, Folger Shakespeare Library

As you're baking or sharing (if you baked ahead of time), tell your story on social media and let us know. Include our hashtags:

#GLPBO #PieDay #UnpieDay #GLPBO2025

You can Tweet, blog, share on IG, or your favorite social media channels!

Pi(e) Day and the Great Library Pie Bake-off events happen on or around 3/14 of each year. Depending on the organizers' planning, which starts in the fall, we try to announce our theme and plans in January for March. This LibGuide is our living resource that includes links to materials produced in past events, some of our collected recipes, our shared history, and even content that talk about Pi(e) Day. If you have suggestions for or questions about the LibGuide, contact Kira Dietz (kadietz@vt.edu)! If you have questions about Pi(e) Day, contact Kira and she'll connect you with the other organizers!