Archive for February, 2013
Collaborating with Strangers on Books and Objects of Study
WHEN: Wednesday, March 20, 2013, 3:00-5:00 p.m. WHERE: Smathers Library (East), Room1A WHO: Open to all UF grad & undergrad students, post-docs, faculty, staff & administrators Refreshments will be served. To register go to http://apps.uflib.ufl.edu/Registration/ and click on Schedule then Collaborating with Strangers and Register. Space is limited. Collaborating with Strangers website: http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/communications/colab/home.html Hey Stranger, [...]
Read More..>>New online exhibition presents documents of Jewish life in the period immediately before the Second World War
The George A. Smathers Libraries have released a new online only exhibition entitled The Gathering Storm: Jewish Life in Germany and Eastern Europe in the 1930s. The exhibition features rarely seen items produced by European Jewry before the advent of the Second World War. While the subject of Jewish experience during the war has been [...]
Read More..>>Joel Buchanan receives Meritorious Service Award
Joseph M. (Joel) Buchanan was presented the University of Florida Meritorious Service Award for dedicated service to the George A. Smathers Libraries from 1985-1994 and 2004-2010. Dean of University Libraries Judith Russell presented the framed certificate on Sunday, February 10, 2013, at the 75th celebration of the Visionaires, held in Smathers Library. Buchanan was an [...]
Read More..>>FDR and the Holocaust: A talk by Richard Breitman
Thursday, March 14, 2013 at 7:30 p.m. Smathers Library Grand Reading Room (2nd floor) Richard Breitman, American University, is the author of The Architect of Genocide: Himmler and the Final Solution, Official Secrets: What the Germans Planned, What the British and Americans Knew and American Refugee Policy and European Jewry, 1933-1945. Made possible by the [...]
Read More..>>Provost launches UF faculty survey on teaching and research
The Provost of the University of Florida invites all faculty to participate in an important study of their attitudes and practices relating to research and teaching in a rapidly changing environment. This local instance of a national survey will provide specific insight into how faculty are managing their major responsibilities under increasingly digital conditions and [...]
Read More..>>Values in Action: 75 Years of the Visionaires Exhibit
February 1, 2013 – March 1, 2013 Smathers Library, Special & Area Studies Research Room (2nd floor) Founded in February 1938, The Visionaires sought to establish a community organization that could foster civic, cultural and social affairs for African Americans in Gainesville, Florida. Values in Action celebrates the extraordinary young female activists who founded Gainesville’s [...]
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