Friends of the UNCG Libraries

The North Carolina Literary Map has received a 2012-2013 LSTA grant from the State Library of North Carolina in the amount of $21,880.00. The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Libraries, partnering with the North Carolina Center for the Book, has developed an online literary resource to support public interests, encourage student research, and document writers from all geographical areas of North Carolina.  The North Carolina Literary Map is a database-driven, searchable/browse-able, multi-level, multi-media online research tool that includes novels, biographies, historical works, poetry, plays, short stories, children’s books, and young adult literature.   Presently, the Map contains 2348 authors and 3655 books or publications relating to 601 locations in North Carolina.  The North Carolina Literary Map is available at http://library.uncg.edu/dp/ nclitmap .  This year's grant will pay the wages of graduate students who will work on upd...

Dr. Sha Li Zhang and Dr. Clara Chu have received the Association’s 2012 President’s Recognition Award, along with a third colleague from San Jose State University. According to the citation on their award, "the award recipients, as individuals and as a group, possess a philosophy of dedication, quality of service, and professional integrity for their significant contributions to the library community that have shown leadership in many areas of great importance to the mission and goals of CALA, and particularly in their important roles to advise, support, and shape CALA’s long term success through the Presidential Initiatives this year in the theme of diversity and international collaboration. " Dr. Sha Li Zhang is the Assistant Dean for Collections & Technical Services at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. In her distinguished service and contribution to CALA, as a president and a board member, among many other roles, she has tirelessly promoted intern...

The University Libraries have been informed by the State Library of North Carolina that it has received a 2012-2013 LSTA Project Digitization Grant in the amount of $203,910. The grant will fund a project called Textiles, Teachers, and Troops: Greensboro, North Carolina, 1881-1945. Digital Projects Coordinator David Gwynn, is the principal investigator for the grant. Textiles, Teachers, and Troops: Greensboro, North Carolina, 1881-1945 will make available some 165,000 digital images including photographs, manuscripts, rare books, scrapbooks, printed materials, and oral histories documenting the social and cultural development of Greensboro. For the first time, all five colleges and universities in Greensboro, along with the Greensboro Historical Museum, will be collaborating on a project to make primary source materials available online. The participating colleges and universities are UNCG, N.C. A&T State University, Guilford College, Bennett College and Greensboro College....

The University of North Carolina at Greensboro announces a $2 million planned gift from Dr. Harold A. Schiffman and Dr. Jane Perry-Camp.   The couple’s gift will provide music scholarships and support the University Libraries, and the Music Library will be named for this gift.   A naming ceremony will take place in September. Dr. Schiffman was born in Greensboro.  “ During my childhood days,” Schiffman says, “ the Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina (now UNCG) was very important, even crucial, to my development as a musician.  I attended many concerts and even had some performances of my music there.  Now, UNCG has become a home for my musical archive, and I am truly grateful for the wonderful care for it from the staff of the Jackson Library and the School of Music, Theater, and Dance.”   John Deal, Dean of the School of Music, Theatre and Dance at UNCG, says, "This generous bequest from Harold Schiffman and Jane Perry-Camp, along ...

A grant from the Open Access Publishing Support Fund was recently awarded in the amount of $400 to Ethan Zell, Professor of Psychology, for his article, Zell E, Balcetis E (2012)  The Influence of Social Comparison on Visual Representation of One's Face. PLoS ONE 7(5): e36742. doi:10.1371/journal.pone. 0036742. The University Libraries and the Office of Research & Economic Development created the Open Access Publishing Support Fund in order  to support faculty, EPA employees, and graduate students who are becoming increasingly involved in open access publishing.The Open Access Publishing Support Fund is a pilot project, and the primary guidelines for the fund are: the author/applicant must be a member of the full-time faculty, a full-time EPA employee, or an enrolled graduate student; the article must be published in a peer-reviewed open-access journal; the article processing fee must have been paid no more than three months prior to submission of the a...

Children’s book author, storyteller, and musical artist John McCutcheon will appear at UNCG on Monday, September 10, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. in the Elliott University Center Auditorium on the UNCG campus.  The program is free and open to the public.  NOTE: John will also appear at the BOOK MARKS Festival in Winston-Salem’s downtown arts district on Saturday, September 8, 2012.  His Triad appearances are being sponsored by the University Libraries at UNCG through the generosity of the Pam and David Sprinkle Children’s Book Author and Storyteller Series Fund, with additional support from the  O. Henry Hotel and the Green Valley Grill.  “He has an uncanny ability to breathe new life into the familiar. His storytelling has the richness of fine literature.” — Washington Post No one remembers when their neighbors started calling the McCutcheons to complain about the loud singing from young John’s bedroom. It didn’t seem to do much good, though, because after...

It’s summertime, and perhaps your life slows down a bit.   Maybe you have a few more minutes to read for pleasure, listen to books on CD, or watch a few films.   If that’s the case, the University Libraries want to remind you about some resources that might be of interest.   We have  audio books on CD, a current literature collection, and a paperback collection.   We also have several thousand entertainment DVDS available for the University community (students, faculty, staff) and members of the Friends of the UNCG Libraries.   All are available in the Jackson Library Reading Room on the first floor of Jackson Library, where they may be checked out.   You can come and browse or search our catalog , where searches may be limited to formats such as video, audio book on CD, current literature, and paperback. If your interest is in audiobooks, Recorded Books will offer a patron-focused webinar that demonstrates the features of its OneClickDigital B...