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UNCG's celebration of the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens opens with "Windows to the World: The Immortal Works of Charles Dickens " now on exhibit in the Hodges Reading Room on the second floor of Jackson Library through March 30. Exhibited are a number of items from the Special Collections in Jackson Library, as well as items from local collectors. Browse a catalog of the exhibit here . "A Dickens of a Celebration" will continue with a series of programs sponsored by the University Libraries, the English Department, the Freshman Seminar Program, the Atlantic World Research Network, the Friends of the UNCG Libraries, the Greensboro Public Library and others. For a schedule of events, including visits by novelist Matthew Pearl and scholars Eliot Engel and Eileen Gillooly, as well as a birthday party, a book discussion and films at the Greensboro Public Library, see http://tinyurl.com/DickensUNCG or http://www.uncgfol.blogspot.com/2012/01/dickens-of-celebration...

In December, 2011, the University Libraries published the first volume of The Journal of Learning Spaces , a new peer-reviewed, open access title that provides a scholarly, multidisciplinary forum on all aspects of learning space design, operation, pedagogy, and assessment. In celebration of this achievement, we have invited Interior Architecture professor, Patrick Lee Lucas to discuss learning spaces from a design perspective. Join us at 4 pm on Thursday, January 26 in the Maple Room, EUC for Dr. Lucas's talk: "SPACES THAT LEARN : LEARNING SPACES." Dr. Lucas describes, "As repositories of knowledge, libraries expand and contract as media and user needs shift over time. According to architect Stewart Brand, institutional buildings have the most restriction in their form and the greatest opportunity for adaptability as a a result. In this presentation, I will trace the evolution of libraries as learning spaces, and offer a perspective on the latest trends...

Local artist C.P. Logan is exhibiting her work in Jackson Library through May 2012. The exhibit, entitled "The World Is My Garden," is installed in the first floor Reading Room. Logan, who has taught hundreds of artists in her Greensboro studio since the 1990s, regularly leads painting excursions all over the world. She has exhibited in many countries, including in Hungary where she had a one-woman show at Budapest's National Opera House. Twice featured in Artist's Magazine, Logan is well known in Greensboro as the original founder of the Artstock Annual Open Studio Tour. Logan majored in art and art education at Virginia Tech and has continued her studies at UNCG. For more information about Logan, please visit her website . Please join us on Thursday, February 2, between 5-7 pm, in the Jackson Library Reading Room for a reception to celebrate the exhibit. All of Logan's paintings are on sale, and a percentage of each sale helps to support the collections an...

Poet Eleanor Ross Taylor, 1940 graduate of Woman's College, has died. She was the author of six books and published numerous poems in literary journals over a fifty year career. The widow of author and former UNCG faculty member Peter Taylor, she died December 30 in Charlottesville, VA. Some of her papers are in the Hodges Special Collections Department of the University Libraries at UNCG. For more about her life and career, see http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/01/03/2894402/poet-eleanor-ross-taylor-dies.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/eleanor-ross-taylor-poet-of-womens-lives-in-the-south-dies-at-91/2012/01/10/gIQALoIdpP_story.html

Linda Burr and I had the pleasure of visiting Margaret Maron at her home in Willow Spring on January 4, 2012. She has a beautiful home with lots of big windows to let in the sunlight! In addition to a wonderful lunch that she prepared for us (scrumptious homemade pea soup and salad), she also told us some great stories behind the plots of many of her books. She also gave us insight into how she does her research for each book. Plus, we were able to see the room in which she actually does her writing! Margaret sent us back to the Libraries with many books, manuscripts for four of her books, video and audio tapes of interviews, a coffee mug, and many other wonderful items for the Margaret Maron Collections housed in Hodges Special Collections and University Archives. Posted by Rosann Bazirjian, Dean of University Libraries

The year 2012 marks the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens. UNCG will mark the occasion with a series of events sponsored by the University Libraries, the English Department, the Freshman Seminar Program, the Atlantic World Research Network, the Greensboro Public Library and others. As of January 3, these are the events scheduled. Follow this blog to learn about other events as they are scheduled. Events at UNCG Exhibit of Charles Dickens Collection Hodges Reading Room, Jackson Library 2nd Floor 9 a.m.—5 p.m. Monday-Friday, January 23—March 30, 2012 Grab a Book by Dickens display Jackson Library, First Floor February 2012 Friends of the UNCG Libraries book discussion of Great Expectations , led by Hepsie Roskelly, of the UNCG English Department Monday, February 6 at 4 p.m. Hodges Reading Room, Jackson Library Dickens's 200th Birthday Party/favorite readings Tuesday, Feb. 7, from 2-4 p.m. Cake and libations throughout Brief readings beginning at about 3, followed by a toast to Dicken...