Friends of the UNCG Libraries

UNCG's  Digital Library on American Slavery, which recently added a collection of runaway slave ads , has been cited favorably in some recent news stories: African-American genealogy research difficult, but possible http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/art_life/display_features.htm?StoryID=147139 New database lets Britons find slave-owning ancestors http://www.denverpost.com/nationworld/ci_22683198/new-database-lets-britons-find-slave-owning-ancestors

Armondo Collins of the University Libraries submitted an essay to the National Council for Black Studies titled "Breaking a Slave's Mind: A New Reading of Omar Ibn Said and Solomon Northrup" last Spring. He wrote the essay for Sallyann Ferguson's ENG 735: Slave Narratives course.  In additiion to his work with the Digital Media Commons in the University Libraries, Armondo is a graduate student in the English Department. For the essay, Armondo did a close reading of narratives written by two men who were taken into slavery as adults, one from Africa, the other New York. The essay tied for 3rd place in the graduate division. Congratulations Armondo on this prestigious award!

Posting prepared by Shawn Delgado for the Center for Creative Writing in the Arts at UNCG: UNCG-Related Literary Events: Front Porch Friday with the Galen Kipar Project —Friday, March 1 st , 4:00PM Center for Creative Writing in the Arts, 127 McIver St., UNCG Free and open to the public      Front porch Fridays are designed to be intimate events wherein songwriters share their music as well as answer your questions about their composition processes, influences, ideas about writing, etc. This month, the Center for Creative Writing in the Arts is happy to welcome two members of the Galen Kipar Project, including Aaron Balance, a current poet in the MFA Creative Writing Program at UNCG.      Based in Asheville, NC, the Galen Kipar Project has been busy touring in support of their fourth album in five years, featuring the unique sonorous music that has become the band’s trademark. Effortlessly crafting a fusion of folk, classical, jazz, an...

Ms. Ann Fisher of Hendersonville, NC has established The Audrey Ann Fisher Women Veterans Historical Project Oral History and Program Fund at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.  Her gift  will support the collections and ongoing educational programming of the project.  Fisher enlisted in the Women’s Army Corps in 1946. During her career she served in Korea and Vietnam, among other posts.  She was assigned to work in the Pentagon in 1967, and retired as a Commander from Training and Doctrine Command at Fort Monroe, VA.  She received a bachelor’s degree from Park College in Missouri in 1965.  Her papers and  oral history interview are included in the Betty Carter Women Veterans Historical Project in the University Libraries at UNC Greensboro.

The state of North Carolina has a proud heritage of Poets Laureate, including two poets closely associated with UNC Greensboro, Fred Chappell and Kathryn Stripling Byer.  So it is with special pleasure that the University Libraries and the Friends of the UNCG Libraries welcome Joseph Bathanti, who was named the new Poet Laureate on August 30, 2012.  He will appear at the Hodges Reading Room in Jackson Library at 4 p.m. on March 20.  Admission is free. “Joseph Bathanti is an award-winning poet and novelist with a robust commitment to social causes. He first came to North Carolina to work in the VISTA program and has taught writing workshops in prisons for 35 years,” Governor Bev Perdue said in announcing the selection last fall. “As North Carolina’s new Poet Laureate he plans to work with veterans to share their stories through poetry — a valuable and generous project.”  That project dovetails nicely with the Betty Carter Women Veterans Historical Project in the...

The UNCG Chapter of the Progressive Library Guild, a student organization, has been promoting membership in the Friends of the UNCG Libraries as part of their outreach activities

Erin Lawrimore, University Archivist in the University Libraries’ Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, was recently selected as a member of the 2013 cohort of the Archives Leadership Institute (ALI). Selection to highly-selective ALI is based upon leadership skills and potential, ability to influence policy and change within an organization and the archival field, commitment to the archival profession, and career progress and history. The Archives Leadership Institute provides advanced training for 25 emerging and innovative leaders each year, giving them the knowledge and tools to transform the archival profession in practice, theory and attitude. Participants will attend a week-long Leadership Intensive at Luther College (Decorah, Iowa) in June 2013, conduct a practicum-style leadership project at their home institution, participate in ongoing discussions, projects, and networking opportunities through a virtual ALI Salon, attend the ALI Practices Wor...