News, Events, & Updates

Pop-up, Spin, Pull, Fold: Toy Books from the Baldwin Library is an exhibition featuring pop-up and movable books from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature. The exhibition will run from September 2 through October 31, 2008, in the second floor exhibit gallery in Smathers Library East. The exhibition will be a chronological display of children’s books which foster an interactive experience between the reader and the book. The earliest item on display is a geography book published in 1789 “for youth at school” that contains a vovelle, a moveable chart that appeared in early science books. The rest of the exhibition displays examples of continually refined techniques of mechanical movement up through the complex pop-up books of current paper engineers such as Robert Sabuda.

A presentation and reception in conjunction with the exhibit will take place on October 2, 2008, in Smathers Library East, which will include a talk at 1:30 pm in Room 1A by paper engineer, Kyle Olmon, entitled, “How to Build a Castle: Contemporary Pop-up Book Production with a Look at the Past.” Olmon has worked in the art studio of Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart, and was the paper engineer for Castle: Medieval Days and Knights, a pop-up book published in 2006 by Orchard Books. This presentation will be followed by a reception in the exhibit area, providing an opportunity to view the exhibition.

At 1:00 pm, preceding the Olmon presentation, there will be the special dedication ceremony for a marker designating the Baldwin Library as an historical campus site. This ceremony will take place in the courtyard to the west of Smathers Library. The UF Alumni Association is sponsoring the markers throughout campus with the intention of providing returning alumni the opportunity to take a “walking tour” of the various historical markers. With the project, the Alumni Association hopes to highlight and publicize the research that is accomplished on campus and draw attention to the rich resources that are available to both students and alumni. The 103,000 volume Baldwin Library, one of the largest collections of historical English language children’s books in the world, is cited for the depth of its collection and for pioneering and supporting the study of children’s literature as an academic discipline.

Library orientations will be held in Library West, Room 212 at the following times:

September 30th, 10:00a - 11:00a
October 2nd, 11:00a - 12:00p
October 7th, 1:00a - 2:00p
October 8th, 3:00p - 4:00p
October 15th, 11:00p - 12:00p
October 16th, 2:00p - 3:00p
October 21st, 3:00p - 4:00p
October 22nd, 11:00a - 12:00p
October 29th, 1:00p - 2:00p
October 30 2:00p - 3:00p

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Library West

Sessions will be held in Room 211. For more information, contact Blake Landor (273-2644 email: landor@ufl.edu)

Sept 15:10-11:30 a.m.
Sept 25: 1:30-3:00 p.m.
Oct 14: 2:30-4:00 p.m.
Oct 29: 10-11:30 a.m.
Nov 14: 11-12:30 p.m.
Dec 16: 2:30-4:00 p.m

Education Library

Sessions held at the Education Library in Norman Hall will emphasize education-related resources. For more information, contact Marilyn Ochoa (273-2627 or mnochoa@ufl.edu).

Introduction to RefWorks

Wednesday, October 15: 12-1 PM
Thursday, November 13: 12-1 PM

Using RefWorks Write-N-Cite and RefGrab-It

Wednesday, October 22: 12-1PM
Thursday, November 20: 12-1PM

The Library Tech Expo, hosted by the InfoCommons @ West, will take place on Wednesday, August 27, from 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. in the InfoCommons @ West on the third floor of Library West. Various tech trends offered by the UF’s George A. Smathers Libraries, including Bioactive (a library video game), InfoZombies and other library YouTube videos, RefWorks, Ask-a-Librarian and much more will be showcased. Guitar Hero will also be available during this time for students to play while viewing the new tech trends. The TechExpo is free and open to all and snacks will be provided.

Due to construction, the Map & Imagery Library is temporarily relocating its collection and staff. The Map & Imagery Library collection will be available and reference assistance will continue before, during, and after the move. The construction is predicted to last through most of the Fall Semester.

Reference assistance for the Map & Imagery collection will now be given from the Documents Reference Desk on the 1st floor of the Marston Science Library. Staff from the Map & Imagery Library will be available during the normal Map & Imagery Library hours, Monday - Thursday 8:30 - 7:00, Friday 8:30 - 5:00, and Sunday 10:00 - 7:00.

Class sessions to introduce classes to the Map & Imagery Library can still be arranged with the Map Librarian, Carol McAuliffe. Two weeks notice should be given so that suitable arrangements can be made.

More information and details.