National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) “Write-In” at Library West
Have you ever wanted to write a novel? November is the perfect chance to do it, as people world-wide participate in National Novel Writing Month – aka NaNoWriMo — (http://www.nanowrimo.org). Come to the Library West third floor InfoCommons on Tuesday, November 17 from 5:00 p.m. –10 :00 p.m. You will have the opportunity to get words of inspiration, and your questions about writing answered by guest authors. Local Gainesville Web site: http://tricitynano.wordpress.com/gainesville-events
Three sheduled online chats with three published authors who will offer writing advice andencouragement to NaNoWriMo participants:
6:30 – 7:00pm – J.V. Jones
7:30 – 8:00pm – J.C. Hutchins
8:30 – 9:00pm – Mur Lafferty
J.V. JONES (http://jvj.com/jjbio.html)
J.V. Jones is author of the bestselling Book of Words series published by TOR. Born in England, she now makes her home in San Diego, California.
J.C. HUTCHINS (http://jchutchins.net/site/about-the-author)
J.C. Hutchins is an award-winning novelist best known for his 7th Son technothriller trilogy, which he released as free serialized audiobooks from 2006-07. With approximately 100,000 downloads of his episodic fiction still occurring each month, 7th Son is the most popular “podcast novel” series in history. Hutchins has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME.com, Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine, etc., and is also the author of the popular transmedia book, “Personal Effects: Dark Art” which was co-written with Jordan Weisman.
MUR LAFFERTY (http://murverse.com/about/about-mur)
Mur Lafferty is an award winning American podcaster and writer based in Durham, NC. She was, until July 2007, the host and co-editor of Pseudopod. She is also the host and creator of the podcasts Geek Fu Action Grip and I Should Be Writing.
Refreshments will be provided.
“Idea Jar” & “Jar of Fortunes” will be available along with other fun games & giveaways to spark imagination and help overcome writer’s block.
Questions? Contact Stacey Ewing, staewin@uflib.ufl.edu or
Laura Jordan, laujord@uflib.ufl.edu
How to apply for November NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Funds (3-year awards)
NSF Fellowship Funds are $30,000 per year for three years. This free workshop explains application requirements, options and methods; provides strategies and tips from a winning applicant’s viewpoint; and strategies, tips and errors from a reviewer’s viewpoint.
WHEN: October 12, 2009, 4-5 p.m.
WHERE: Marston Science Library, Room 107
WHO: Seniors and first year graduate students
PRESENTERS:
Matt Williams, doctoral candidate, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Douglas Levey, Ph.D., professor and evolutionary biologist, Department of Zoology
Bess de Farber, grants manager, UF Libraries
Architecture Archives @ UF tour Saturday, October 10
The George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida will host a tour of the Architecture Archives on Saturday, October 10, 2009. The tour is part of a “North America Tour Day” organized by DOCOMOMO US, an organization that promotes the documentation and conservation of buildings, sites and neighborhoods of the Modern Movement. October also is American Archives Month, so it is the ideal time to focus on the importance of the historical records preserved in the Architecture Archives at UF.
The Architecture Archives was established in 2004 by the Smathers Libraries in collaboration with the UF School of Architecture to collect and preserve important historical records pertaining to the architecture and architects of Florida. The collections in the Architectural Archives are available to students, faculty, visiting scholars and the general public for research and education.
The tour will highlight the collections, facilities and activities of the Architecture Archives, located in the Special Collections Research Room. The historical materials on display will include models, drawings, blueprints, and photographs from the collections of Alfred Browning Parker, Rufus Nims, Kenneth Treister, William Morgan and others.
Three tours will begin at 9:30, 10:30 and 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, October 10. Each will last about 30 minutes. The Architecture Archives is located on the 2nd floor of the Smathers Library building (Library East) on the UF campus, Gainesville.
Information about the Architecture Archives is available at http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/architecture/, and information about the Florida chapter of DOCOMOMO is available at http://www.docomomofl.org/. For more information about the tour, please contact archivist John Nemmers in the Architecture Archives at 352-273-2766 or jnemmers@ufl.edu.
Open Access Week – October 19-23, 2009
Greater Reach for Gator Research
The George A. Smathers Libraries are planning a week of activities in support of Open Access.
What is Open Access? Open Access (OA) is free, permanent web-based access to scholarly articles for everyone. For further information see www.uflib.ufl.edu/oa
All programs are free and open to the public.
Open Access: Is it the Future for All Scientific Publications?
Monday 10/19 1:30-2:30 Smathers Library, Room 1A
Dr. Grant McFadden, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of PLoS Pathogens, will discuss open access and the impact it is having on traditional research cycles, including T&P implications. He will also discuss his experience as an open access editor and author.
Copyright & Creative Commons
Tuesday 10/20 1:30-2:30 Smathers Library, Room 1A
What are your rights as an author and researcher? As a creator of new knowledge, learn about alternative licensing and how to retain your author rights.
Digital Scholarship: Institutional Repositories & Open Textbooks
Wednesday 10/21 1:30-2:30 Smathers Library, Room 1A
Learn about publications available to researchers for free through digital repositories. As members of the University of Florida community, find out how you can contribute and access your academic materials using the Institutional Repository’s new self-submittal tool.
Public Funding = Public Access
Thursday 10/22 10:00-11:00 Health Science Center, C1-17 Communicore Building
Dr. David Guzick, Senior Vice President for Health Affairs, President UF&Shands Health System, will discuss how public access initiatives speed research from bench to bedside.
Open Access @ UF
Friday 10/23 10:00-11:00 Smathers Library, Room 1A
A panel discussion about Open Access from the viewpoints of various UF stakeholders: researchers, librarians, academic departments, and students. This will be followed by an audience discussion of what the next steps on UF campus should be.
open access
Book Talk & Signing
Thursday, October 8, 2009, 3:00-5:00 p.m.
Smathers Library, Room 1A
Robert H. Hughes, author of Ahorca Lagarto: An historical novel about life and love in Panama during the construction of the Panama Railroad, 1851-1856, and the events that unfolded on the banks of the Chagres River in a tiny town called Hang the Lizard will discuss his book. Books will be available for sale.
Design a Card Contest
The George A. Smathers Libraries is accepting entries for a Thanksgiving greeting card that will be sent to library friends and donors.
All UF students are eligible to enter. The prize for the winning entry is $100. The design must relate to libraries.
Entry deadline: Friday, October 23, 2009 at 5:00 p.m. E-mail entries to bhood@ufl.edu or mail on disk to: Barbara Hood, George A. Smathers Libraries, PO Box 117000, Gainesville, FL 32611-7000
Artwork requirements: Adobe Acrobat (high quality pdf) or pc-based original files: Adobe CS3 or lower – Illustrator (.ai, .eps), PhotoShop (file must be created 300 dpi or higher; .psd, .tif, .eps), InDesign (.indd). Convert any fonts to curves, outlines or paths and include fonts. Send layered files. Finished size card will be 5×7 horizontal or vertical so art should be proportionate.
Questions? Contact Barbara Hood @ 352-273-2505 or bhood@ufl.edu.
Florida Free Culture “Mind MashUp” Workshop
Members of the UF student group, Florida Free Culture, will hold a free workshop to show you how to use Open Source software programs (Audacity, Blender, Inkscape & The Gimp) to “remix” images, music, and videos licensed under Creative Commons to create new content.
Attendees are encouraged to bring their own laptop so that they can bookmark and/or download these free resources and use them again.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009, 5:30pm – 7:30pm
InfoCommons @ Library West – 3rd Floor Presentation Area
Light refreshments will be served.
Digital Literacy Contest at UF Libraries
The George A. Smathers Libraries will host the Digital Literacy Contest, a competition that tests Internet literacy and cognitive agility, on Thursday, October 8 from 5:30-7:00 p.m. in the Library West InfoCommons on the third floor. The contest is free and open to all students. Contestants will be given 30 minutes, 20 questions and Internet access. Correct answers earn points and incorrect answers are penalized. The highest score wins cash prizes.
Space is limited. Register online at http://www.DigitalLiteracyContest.org or edit and text the following to 41411: signmeup your@email.com. For more information contact Daniel Poynter at Daniel.Poynter@gnic.org or (765) 588-3620.
Following the competition the libraries will host a discussion about the future of libraries, technology and society. Free food and drinks will be provided.
The Digital Literacy Contest was created in 2007 by Perdue University students and in 2009 the MacArthur Foundation awarded the group a Young Innovator grant. Cornell University, Indiana University, Northwestern University and the University of Michigan have participated. This is UF’s third contest.
“Our age is both unprecedented and pivotal,” contest creator Daniel Scott Poynter said. “Unparalleled global access to information is accelerating technological and social change. Making sense of our increasingly complex world depends upon becoming better information filters through the help of libraries. This competition is one way to ease ourselves into this exciting future.
“This is the first competition in which people wield the Internet as a cognitive prosthetic. It’s a high speed battle of Internet-enabled intelligence. It has three main objectives,” Poynter said. “To identify people who thrive in information overload; to disseminate their insights; and to create a discussion about how the Internet is affecting the development of our minds.”
The libraries will also host a free 45 minute workshop on digital literacy on Friday, October 9 at 11:45 a.m. in the same location. Registration for the workshop is not necessary.
Banned and Challenged Children’s Books exhibit
Banned and Challenged Children’s Books, 1990-2008
September 16 – November 4, 2009
Smathers Library second floor gallery
Open Mon-Fri, 9:00 a.m. – 4:45 p.m.
Presented by Rita Smith, curator of the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature
Conversations in Children’s Literature – A Boy’s Book of the Scrub: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and the Writing of The Yearling
Conversations in Children's LiteratureSeptember 15, 7pm at Goering's Book Store, 1717 NW First Avenue
“A Boy’s Book of the Scrub: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and the Writing of The Yearling,” Florence M. Turcotte, Literary Manuscripts Archivist, UF Special Collections
American writer Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moved from New York to the tiny hamlet of Cross Creek, Florida in 1929. In her letters, she began to write about the colorful North Florida Cracker people and folkways to her editor Maxwell Perkins at Scribner’s. He encouraged her to write about the locals in her fiction, and together they negotiated the writing of a “boys’ book” about the Big Scrub area of North Central Florida. Through their correspondence, this notion evolved into the writing of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Yearling. Turcotte will uncover the story behind this intriguing creative relationship, and show how Perkins was able to nurture and reinforce Rawlings’ s instincts as a novelist.
Conversations in Children’s Literature is a regular series of presentations and discussions about various aspects of children’s literature and culture sponsored by the Center for the Study of Children’s Literature and Culture and the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature, University of Florida. The series is aimed at teachers, librarians, academics, writers, and all adults who value the books and cultural materials that are produced for children. A talk, followed by discussion and refreshments, will take place on the third Tuesday of each month at 7:00 PM at Goerings Book Store (1717 NW First Avenue). Parking is available for a fee in the St. Augustine lot facing the book store or for free on the street or on campus.
For more information please contact Ramona Caponegro at ramonac@ufl.edu or at (352) 392-6650, ext. 290.