Archive for September, 2009
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 [...]
Read More..>>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 [...]
Read More..>>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 [...]
Read More..>>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 [...]
Read More..>>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 [...]
Read More..>>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 [...]
Read More..>>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
Read More..>>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 Literature September 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. [...]
Read More..>>Nominations open for 2009 Carnegie Corporation Of New York/New York Times I Love My Librarian Award
NEW YORK – Nominations are open for the 2009 Carnegie Corporation of New York/New York Times I Love My Librarian Award. http://www.ilovelibraries.org/lovemylibrarian/home.cfm The award invites library users to recognize the accomplishments of librarians in public, school, college, community college and university libraries for their efforts to improve the lives of people in their community. Nominations [...]
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