Archive for January, 2012
Award-winning poet Peter Sears to speak at Smathers Library
Award-winning poet Peter Sears will be at Smathers Library, room 1A, on Wednesday, February 15, from 3:00-4:00 p.m. for a talk and reading of his poetry. His book The Brink won the 1999 Peregrine Smith Poetry Competition and the 2000 Western States Book Award in Poetry. In 2009 it was named one of Oregon’s best [...]
Read More..>>Sacred Trash: the lost and found world of the Cairo Genizah
A talk by Peter Cole and Adina Hoffman February 9, 2012 7:00 p.m. UF Hillel Described by the literary critic Harold Bloom as “a small masterpiece,” Sacred Trash (Nextbook Press, 2011) tells the exciting story of the greatest discovery of Jewish manuscripts ever made. Its authors are award winning biographer and critic Adina Hoffman and [...]
Read More..>>Chemical Engineering Education journal now online
The University of Florida Libraries Digital Services and Shared Collections department and Marston Science Library announce the online launch of the Chemical Engineering Education journal (CEE). The Chemical Engineering Education online project is a UF Libraries-funded project based on the digitization of all retrospective issues of the journal from 1962-2010. Future issues will be added [...]
Read More..>>Holocaust Perpetrators, Allied Intelligence and the Cold War
Campus Conversations: Authors@UF Wednesday, February 22, 2012 6:00-7:00 p.m. Smathers Library, Room 1A Professor Norman Goda will discuss his book Hitler’s Shadow – Nazi War Criminals, US Intelligence, and the Cold War. The book investigates how and why numerous Nazi war criminals, including high officials of the Gestapo, escaped prosecution at the end of the [...]
Read More..>>Tales from the Source: PIRATES!
Arrrrgggggg! Watch videos on the Golden Age of Piracy: Pyrates! Truth Be Told and Captain Kidd: Pirate or Privateer? Learn where to find primary documents like the transcript of Captain William Kidd’s trial. Discover the ties between Daniel Defoe (author of Robinson Crusoe) and real pirates. You, too, can uncover the mysteries and legends of [...]
Read More..>>Final exam extended hours in Library West and Marston Science Library
Library West will remain open continuously through 6:00p.m., Friday, May 4. Starbucks on the first floor will stay open the same hours. Marston Science Library will be open 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 a.m. through Wednesday, May 2; 8:00 a.m. – 1:00 a.m. Thursday, May 3; and 8:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Friday, May 4. The [...]
Read More..>>Lincoln: the Constitution and the Civil War – A traveling exhibition
February 1 – March 7, 2012 Library West 3rd floor Wed., February 29, 2012 Closing Ceremony, co-sponsored with the UF History Department and the Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations, Room 1A, Smathers Library (East), noon to 1:30pm Prof. Matt Gallman (UF History), “Abraham Lincoln and Photography” Prof. Elizabeth Dale (UF History/Levin [...]
Read More..>>Spring Semester Library Workshops
RefWorks RefWorks is a web-based citation management tool that makes creating and formatting bibliographies easy. In this workshop our librarians introduce you to basics of the program and demonstrate advanced features like Write-n-Cite. Marston Science Library – Register at http://apps.uflib.ufl.edu/Registration/ Wednesday, March 14, 1:00-2:30 p.m., Room 308 For more information, contact Margeaux Johnson at margeaux@ufl.edu [...]
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