Friends of the UNCG Libraries

University Archivist Erin Lawrimore has been appointed Vice Chair/Chair Elect for the Society of American Archivists' Committee on Public Awareness. She will take over as Chair for the 2016-17 year starting in July.

  Thursday, October 29: A Conversation with Emeritus Authors Ann Saab and Lollie White. 4 p.m. Hodges Reading Room Jackson Library 2nd floor, UNCG.  Alex Haley, author of Roots , once answered the question of why his novel became so popular.  "It came at the right time," he modestly replied. When is the best time to publish a novel?  When it’s ready, two recent novelists with long ties to UNCG might reply. Ann Saab Lollie White Ann Saab (History) and Laura (Lollie) White (English) are two retired professors at UNCG who have recently published novels after retiring from the classroom and other university responsibilities.  The Friends of the UNCG Libraries invite you to an afternoon conversation between the two at 4 pm on Thursday, October 29 in the Hodges Reading Room of Jackson Library on the second floor. Dr. Saab, now retired after a long tenure as a UNCG history professor and department head, is the author of Bathsheba’s Book: A Woman’s T...

Sarah Dorsey Louise Talma Sarah B. Dorsey, Head of UNCG's Harold Schiffman Music Library, is the recipient of the 2014-15 Women’s and Gender Studies Linda Arnold Carlisle Research Grant Award. Dorsey’s award supports her work on a biography of composer, pianist and pedagogue, Louise Talma (1906-1996), which she will complete while on Research Assignment during the spring semester of 2016. Talma was a pioneering American composer of the twentieth century. The second female composer to receive a Guggenheim fellowship, she was the first to win two consecutively (in 1946 and ‘47). She was the first American to teach with famed French pedagogue Nadia Boulanger at Fontainebleau. Thirteen years after receiving an award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters for her three act grand opera ( The Alcestiad , written on a libretto by Thornton Wilder), Talma was finally invited to join the august institution in 1974, the first female composer so honored. The concert will ta...

Charlaine Harris, photo by D. Woldan Margaret Maron photo by Bob Witchger Note: The  audience will be limited to 125 persons.  There is no charge for the event, but those wishing to attend are asked to email Barry Miller at barry_miller@uncg.edu to assure their place for this unique program. What happens when Judge Deborah Knott meets Sookie Stackhouse?  Do vampires indulge in the products produced by alleged North Carolina bootleggers? Find out when authors Margaret Maron and Charlaine Harris settle down with their famous protagonists for a conversation at UNCG on October 22 at 7 pm in the Virginia Dare Room of UNCG’s Alumni House for the second installment in the Margaret Maron Presents Women of Mystery Series.  It is no accident, they say, that the visit is timed only a few days before Halloween. Margaret Maron and Charlaine Harris are both highly successful writers with legions of fans, and the appearances of their new books are always hi...

October 5 at  7 p.m.  Book discussion of  Being Mortal , by Atul Gawande.   Discussion leaders: Drs. Janne and Rob Cannon.  Hodges Reading Room, Jackson Library. Atul Gawande, MD, MPH, is a surgeon, writer, and public health researcher who will speak in Greensboro as part of Guilford College’s Bryan Series on October 20. He practices general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health and the Samuel O. Thier Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. The book’s website says "Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming the dangers of childbirth, injury, and disease from harrowing to manageable. But when it comes to the inescapable realities of aging and death, what medicine can do often runs counter to what it should. Through eye-opening research and gripping stories of his own patients and family, Gawande reveals the...

Michael Crumpton, Assistant Dean for Administrative Services at UNCG’s University Libraries, has been elected Vice-President, President Elect of the North Carolina Library Association.  He will be installed at the biennial NCLA conference being held in Greensboro in October. Crumpton came to UNCG as Assistant Dean for Administrative Services in 2007.  Previously, he was Director of Library Services at the Wake Technical Community College in Raleigh, and Manager of Access and Information Services at the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County OH. His experience with professional library associations is extensive. He was Chair of the 2012 & 2014 NCLA Leadership Institute Planning Committees; co-chair of the NCLA Biennial Conference Programs Committee, 2011 & 2013; and has been a Board member of the NCLA Leadership and Management Section since 2012.  For the North Carolina Community College Library Association he served as VP/President Elect from 2005-2006...

Mae Douglas has spent much of her life mentoring others.  With her recent gift to the University Libraries, she continues to do so. To honor her nephew Sterling, Douglas has made a major gift to the University Libraries Enrichment Fund that will name the Presentation Practice Room in the Digital Media Commons (DMC).  The gift is a current restricted fund to support the Digital Media Commons in the Libraries, for furniture, equipment, and updated technology for the Practice Room and throughout the DMC.  A native of Greensboro, North Carolina, Douglas graduated from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a degree in sociology. She went on to enjoy a storied and well-decorated career as a Human Resources executive that spanned two major industries and culminated with her tenure as a highly revered executive vice-president and chief people officer for Cox Communications. Douglas held positions of progressive responsibility in Human Resources before Cox, inc...