Friends of the UNCG Libraries

Steve Cramer, the UNCG Business Librarian, is one of the new Coleman Faculty Fellows for 2013-14. According to the Coleman Foundation , the Coleman Fellows are “typically professors from outside the school of business at their institution” who “engage in the development of courses and leadership of projects in support of entrepreneurship education on their campus.” Steve was recruited for the fellowship by the Hayes Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship Dianne Welsh, with whom he collaborates on teaching and research projects. Steve is creating the course “ENT/LIS/GEO 530, Researching Opportunities in Entrepreneurship  & Economic Development”, to be offered in Spring 2014. The course will be cross-listed with the Geography and Library & Information Studies departments and will be open to graduate and advanced undergraduate students. Besides creating and teaching the interdisciplinary class, the Coleman Fellows also are required to participate in learning and networ...

As the University Libraries welcome students and faculty back to the campus and the summer recess comes to a close, it is perhaps appropriate to reflect on the Libraries’ historic and current place in serving our community. As the repository of the University’s archives, we offer a unique resource in assessing our university’s tradition and relationship to its many constituencies, and are a major resource for exploring the evolution of higher education for women from our founding in the late nineteenth century. Indeed, as I was just discussing with a colleague walking back from the Chancellor’s State of the Campus address, the old Forney Building that served as the first library building on campus was built through the generosity of Andrew Carnegie at the urging of Normal School founder and first president Charles Duncan McIver. Carnegie is best known for building public libraries, but he was willing to support libraries for colleges offering practical education, and McIver convinced h...

Friday, September 6 in Jackson Library Reading Room. UNCG, 1st Floor. 4 pm. Dr. McPherson will also appear on Saturday, September 7 at the BOOKMARKS Festival, Winston-Salem 1:30-2:15, Main Stage, corner of 6th and Trade Streets James McPherson is one of the country's premier historians, and one of its most respected and honored.  He graduated in 1958 from Gustavus Adolphus College.  He did his graduate work at Johns Hopkins University, where he earned a Ph.D. in History with distinction in 1963.  From 1962 to his retirement in 2004 he taught at Princeton University, where he now holds the chair of George Henry Davis '86 Professor of American History Emeritus.  He is the author of some fifteen books and the editor of another ten, mostly on the era of the American Civil War and Reconstruction.  His books have won several prizes, including the Pulitzer Prize in History (1989) for Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era , The Lincoln Prize (1998) for For Cause...

Henry Frye: North Carolina's First African American Chief Justice We invite you to join Greensboro writer and past Friends of the UNCG Libraries Board chair Howard Covington and North Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Henry Frye for a booksigning at the Greensboro Barnes & Noble. This new biography traces Frye's career, along with African American participation in the civic, social and political life of North Carolina. Wednesday August 07, 2013 7:00 PM Greensboro Barnes and Noble Greensboro: Friendly Center, 3102 Northline Avenue, Greensboro, NC 27408, 336-854-4200

We are pleased to announce the schedule for the 2013/2014 FOL Book Discussions.  This is the 12th season, and once again we invite our Friends and other interested community members to join us as we discuss books from past and present.  Each discussion will be led by a UNCG faculty member.  To reserve a spot at one or more discussion, please register on our website, or contact Barry Miller at 336-256-0112. All book discussions will meet on Mondays in the Hodges Reading Room Monday, September 16, 2013 at 4:00 pm: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander.   Faculty Discussion Leader: Dr. Steven Cureton, Sociology. This year, the Sociology Department is celebrating its Centennial with a series of events that look at "Inequality and Social Justice in a Changing World." The Friends of the UNCG Libraries are excited to team up with Sociology for our first book discussion.  As The New York Review ...

Principal investigator David Gwynn of the University Libraries has received notification that our application for a second year of funding for "Textiles, Teachers and Troops" has received support from the State Library of North Carolina in the amount of $103,333. Textiles, Teachers, and Troops will make available more than 175,000 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. By documenting the vitally important influence of the textile industry, public and postsecondary education, and the massive World War II military presence, Textiles, Teachers, and Troops will provide context for understanding the growth of Greensboro from a town of two thousa...

“Stories are how we make sense of our lives...  Stories are at the very center of what it means to be human.” – Bill Harley Two-time Grammy Award Winner, NPR commentator and acclaimed storyteller/musician/author Bill Harley will perform free family concerts in the Triad on Saturday, September 7 and Monday, September 9, as well as for schoolchildren in Greensboro and Winston-Salem at other times during his visit. Bill uses song and story to paint a vibrant picture of growing up, parenting and family life. Poignant and hilarious, his work spans the generation gap, reminds us of our common humanity and challenges us to be our very best selves. A prolific author and recording artist, Bill is also a regular commentator for NPR’s “All Things Considered” and has been featured on PBS.  His thoughtful remarks at a Ted Conference about the importance of storytelling are moving and inspiring.  Bill is a long-time audience favorite at the National Storytelling Festival in Jone...