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New exhibit: The Broadway Melody: Musical Theatre Highlights from the Great White Way 1900-1950
Smathers Library 2nd floor gallery
Through April 30, 2010
At the turn of the 20th century, the Broadway musical theatre was an amalgam of European operettas, minstrelsy and ethnic stereotypes. Eventually this innocent patchwork quilt of entertainment would evolve into a more sophisticated product and, by the second decade, Broadway was the entertainment capital of America, and [...]
The Art of Curating an Art Exhibit
A presentation by Barbara Elleman
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 7:00 p.m.
UF Education Library, Norman Hall
Using examples from the Virginia Lee Burton and Tomie dePaola exhibitions that she curated at The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Ms. Elleman will discuss the pleasures and challenges of curating an art exhibit.
Barbara Elleman is a writer, critic, [...]
Government House-St. Augustine Affiliated Library
Through a partnership between the University of Florida Libraries and the City of St. Augustine’s Department of Heritage Tourism, the inventory of the Government House Research Collection is now accessible through the libraries’ online catalog [ http://uf.catalog.fcla.edu/uf.jsp?ADV=S ] as an “Affiliated Library.” By doing an “Advanced Search” in the catalog, users can limit their search [...]
Read More..>>ARTstor Sessions
ARTstor is a nonprofit digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities and social sciences with a suite of software tools to view, present and manage images for research and teaching purposes. The collections comprise contributions from outstanding museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives and artists and artists’ Estates.
A representative [...]
Grace’s Daughter: Bea Nettles reading and discussion
March 15, 2010, 2:00–3:30 p.m., Smathers Library, Room 1A
Bea Nettles, renowned photographer, artist and alumna of the University of Florida, will, in conjunction with her exhibition at The Harn Museum of Art, give a reading of her mother’s poetry from their collaborative works. Grace Noble Nettles (1919–2007) was a wife, mother, teacher and writer of [...]
EndNote Web Workshop @ MSL for Graduate Students
Learn how to collect, organize and format citations using EndNote Web. Michael Flowers, the EndNote Web support specialist for IFAS will demonstrate how to quickly export citations from a variety of science & engineering databases to create a bibliography. All classes will be in Marston Science Library, room L308. No registration required. For more information [...]
Read More..>>The Elegance of Science Reception & Awards Ceremony
The Elegance of Science Art Contest reception and awards ceremony will be Thursday, February 25, 2010 from 4:30-6:00 p.m. at Marston Science Library, 2nd floor. All entries will be displayed and the winners announced. The reception is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.
For more information on the contest, please see [...]
Places&Spaces — Mapping Science on display
The Places&Spaces — Mapping Science exhibit is on display in the Marston Science Library on the second floor through April 30, 2010.
Are you interested in seeing science from above? Curious to see what impact one single person or invention can have? Keen to find pockets of innovation? Desperate for better tools to manage the information [...]
UF to participate in global library software development
A $2.38 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to Indiana University (IU) will be used to develop software created specifically for the management of print and electronic collections for academic and research libraries around the world. The University of Florida is the lead partner for the Florida Consortium (Florida International University, Florida State [...]
Read More..>>Lacrosse Team READ Poster
Check out the UF Libraries’ newest READ poster featuring the inaugural lacrosse team!
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