Friends of the UNCG Libraries

Here's a list of our public events this fall semester.  If you don’t see a link to a blog entry, we will provide more information on this blog nearer to each event, but suggest you save the dates and times on your calendar for those you are interested in.  Friends of the UNCG Libraries Book discussions   Fall discussions are September 17, October 29, and December 3. See http://www.uncgfol.blogspot.com/2012/07/20122013-fol-book-discussion-schedule.html .   Friday, September 7.   Author Tony Horwitz, Jackson Library Reading Room, 4-5 p.m. http://www.uncgfol.blogspot.com/2012/07/author-tony-horwitz-to-visit-uncg.html . Monday, September 10 .  Author, storyteller and musical artist John McCutcheon, Elliott University Center Auditorium.  7 p.m.  See http://www.uncgfol.blogspot.com/2012/05/john-mccutcheon-to-appear-in-greensboro.html Wednesday, September 12 .  Author Doc Hendley , whose book Wine to Water: A Bartender's Quest to...

Tony Horwitz, one of the nation’s leading non-fiction writers will appear at UNCG on Friday, September 7 at the invitation of the University Libraries.  He will address a campus audience and Friends of the UNCG Libraries and sign copies of his books at 4 p.m. in the  Jackson Library Reading Room on the UNCG campus. Tony will also appear Saturday, September 8 at the BOOKMARKS Festival in Winston-Salem’s downtown Arts District.  It is through the courtesy of BOOKMARKS that he appears at UNCG for this event. Horwitz is a native of Washington, D.C., and a graduate of Brown University and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. He worked for many years as a reporter, first in Indiana and then during a decade overseas in Australia, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, mostly covering wars and conflicts as a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal . After returning to the U.S., he won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting and worked as a staff wr...

We are pleased to announce the schedule for the 2012/2013 FOL Book Discussions.  This is the 11th 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 Kimberly Lutz at 336-256-8598 or by email .   All book discussions will meet on Mondays in the Hodges Reading Room  click on book covers for more information about each title Monday, September 17 at 7:00 pm: Persuasion by Jane Austen. Faculty Leader: Dr. Hephzibah Roskelly, English. Persuasion, the last novel that Jane Austen completed, " participates in the revolutionary spirit of its age through Austen 's penetrating critique of the sacred ideals of the British class system and her documentation and support of the changes that were emerging at the end of the Age of ...

D r. William Finley, Head of the Department, reports: Special Collections & University Archives at UNCG has recently made several significant additions to its large and important research collection on the writings and life of the prominent seventeenth-century English religious poet George Herbert .   The recent acquisitions include copies of the seventh (two printings), eighth, and eleventh editions of Herbert 's well-known collection of religious verse, THE TEMPLE.  These editions give UNCG's collection a complete run of the first fourteen editions of THE TEMPLE, issued between 1633 and 1799.  The George Herbert Collection includes a total of more than seventy printings of THE TEMPLE, along with other important Herbert titles and a large research collection of books and manuscripts, one of the largest concentrations of George Herbert material in the world.  

University Archivist Erin Lawrimore and Digital Technology Consultant Richard Cox have been awarded the University Libraries’ Innovation and Program Enrichment grant for 2012.   Their project is to build upon the existing interactive UNCG campus map  by adding walking paths, and to repurpose existing information/digital objects to create individual web pages that focus on the history of each building on campus and enhance the map. Short term, the project will enhance the historic campus tours already conducted by staff of the Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) staff. Currently, SCUA staff lead hour-long historic walking tours of campus for undergraduate and graduate classes, alumni, donors, potential students, and other groups visiting campus. Interest in these tours grows each year. The project will more readily allow SCUA staff to incorporate multimedia (such as digitized photographs) into their own walking tours. Additionally, the development of a histo...

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...