Archive for August, 2008

Pop-up, Spin, Pull, Fold: Toy Books from the Baldwin Library

Barbara Hood -

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 [...]

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Library Orientations in Library West

Barbara Hood -

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 [...]

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Fall Semester RefWorks Citation Manager sessions at Library West and the Education Library

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Interested in learning how to compose footnotes, in-text citations, and bibliographies for your papers in correct bibliographic style? Better still, interested in learning an easy application that does the work of forming footnotes, in-text citations, and bibliographies for you? No longer do you need to consult complicated citation style manuals (Turabian, APA, MLA, etc.) every [...]

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TechExpo showcases new tech trends at the libraries

Barbara Hood -

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 [...]

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Map & Imagery Library is Temporarily Relocating

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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 [...]

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