Archive for the 'Exhibits' Category
A Voyage to Health traveling exhibit at Health Science Center Library
The Health Science Center Library (HSCL) is hosting “A Voyage to Health,” a traveling exhibit from the National Library of Medicine about the revival of Native Hawaiian traditions. Accompanying the exhibit will be a speaker and film series featuring presentations by faculty from the University of Florida and beyond. Members of the UF community and [...]
Read More..>>George A. Smathers Libraries showcase testimonies to the Holocaust
Testimony Exhibition Open April 1 through June 14, 2013 Smathers Library (East) Gallery, 2nd floor Hours: Monday through Friday 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., unless otherwise specified and with occasional exceptions for maintenance. Gallery Talk: Thursday April 4, 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Smathers Library Gallery, 2nd Floor Join Curator Rebecca Jefferson as she discusses Testimony. [...]
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..>>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..>>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 [...]
Read More..>>George A. Smathers Libraries celebrate Florida’s Quincentennial with exhibit
January 24-March 15, 2013 Smathers Library (East) Gallery, 2nd floor The expeditions of Juan Ponce de León in 1513 and 1521 opened Spanish exploration of what became the southeastern United States and started efforts to bring Florida into Spain’s colonial empire. As counties and cities all over the state of Florida commemorate the first voyage [...]
Read More..>>Antique maps and rare books depicting Jerusalem showcased in exhibition
November 13-December 14, 2012 Smathers Library (East) Gallery (second floor) Gallery Talk: Sunday December 9, 2012 3:00 pm – 4:00pm Smathers Library Gallery, 2nd Floor Join Curators Rebecca Jefferson and Carol McAuliffe for an afternoon discussion about selected items featured in Imagining Jerusalem. The George A. Smathers Libraries will present Imagining Jerusalem to coincide with [...]
Read More..>>New online exhibition celebrates the 50th anniversary of Jamaica’s independence
The George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida have debuted the online exhibition About Face: Revisiting Jamaica’s First Exhibition in Europe (http://exhibits.uflib.ufl.edu/aboutface). The exhibition, which is only available online, celebrates Jamaica’s 50th anniversary of independence by revisiting the country’s first post-independence exhibition to tour Europe. The exhibition Face of Jamaica toured Europe for [...]
Read More..>>International Education Week 2012 at the Libraries
The Libraries will join the UF campus in celebrating International Education Week featuring six events during the week of November 13-16. All events are free and open to the public. Tuesday, November 13 • 2:00 p.m. Smathers Library (East), Latin American Collection Reference Room, 4th floor Authors@UF: A Conversation with Benjamin Hebblethwaite on Haitian Creole [...]
Read More..>>“Grimm Changes: from folk tale to fairy tale” Exhibit
The George A. Smathers Libraries present an exhibition in honor of the 200th anniversary of the publication of the Brothers Grimm, Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Children and Household Tales). Grimm Changes: from folk tale to fairy tale will be on view through December 14, 2012 in the Smathers Library (East) 2nd floor Special and Area Studies [...]
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