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The following report comes from the Center for Creative Writing in the Arts at UNCG, courtesy of Shawn Delgado. UNCG-Affiliated & Campus Literary Events: Trudy Lewis and Cathy Carr Alumni Fiction Reading —Thursday, March 26 th , 7:00 PM Faculty Center, UNCG Free and open to the public      From the UNCG Creative Writing MFA Program: “ The MFA Writing Program at Greensboro, The Greensboro Review , The UNCG College of Arts & Sciences, and the UNCG Alumni Association will host a fiction reading by UNCG alums Trudy Lewis and Cathy Carr on Thursday, March 26th at 7:00 PM in the UNCG Faculty Center on College Avenue. The event is free and open to the public and will be followed by a book signing.      Trudy Lewis is the author of the recently released novel, The Empire Rolls , a short story collection, The Bones of Garbo , winner of the Sandstone Prize in Short Fiction, and the novel Private Correspondences , which won the William Goyen...

Head of Special Collection and University Archives Keith Gorman (far right) and Director of Development Linda Burr (second from left) hosted a group of docents from the North Carolina Museum of Art in early March.  Docents facilitate rich conversations about the Museum’s collection and exhibitions with tour groups and visitors of all ages and interests. While in the Library, the docents enjoyed seeing materials from the special collections relating to the book arts, illustration and illumination. The group also visited the Weatherspoon Art Museum .

Members of the Friends of the UNCG Libraries Board of Directors and the Jackson Society , made up of those who support the University Libraries at UNCG with gifts of $1000 or more during the past year, enjoyed a wine and cheese reception with UNCG author Michael Parker at the Scuppernong Bookstore on March 3. 

Thursday, March 26: Screening and discussion of Ivory Tower documentary film 3:30 p.m., followed by discussion at 5 p.m. in the Elliott University Center Auditorium, UNCG. Tuesday, April 14: Presentation by Andrew Delbanco of Columbia University, “What is College For?” 4 p.m. Virginia Dare Room, Alumni House, UNCG. UNCG’s “What Is College For?” series continues this spring with two related events in late March and mid-April. On March 26, the University Libraries and the Provost’s Office will host a screening and discussion of Ivory Tower, the 2014 documentary film by Andrew Rossi.  The film premiered at the Sundance Festival last year, went into theatrical release mid-year, and was broadcast by CNN in November.  There is a copy in the University Libraries DVD collection, and it is also available on NetFlix.  You can view a trailer at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdOvSZDoCDc The official website for the movie describes it in this way: As tuition rates spiral ...

Please join us at 3:00 pm on Monday, April 13 in the Hodges Reading Room in Jackson Library for a lecture by Dr. Gregory Grieve of the UNCG Religious Studies Department. The event was originally scheduled for February but was postponed by bad weather and the closing of the campus. His talk,  "Playing with Religion and Digital Games in the Library"  will draw from both his teaching and research. For the past two years, Dr. Grieve has worked closely with the Libraries' Digital Media Commons and Undergraduate Studies' Digital ACT Studio to develop space and resources for his courses on Digital Religion and Religion in Digital Games.  Final group projects in these classes require students to develop a video. His recent books, Buddhism, the Internet and Digital Media: The Pixel in the Lotus and  Playing with Religion in Video Games explore this topic extensively. To quote Dr. Grieve: "Shaman, paragon, God-mode: modern video games are heavily coded with religio...

The Digital Media Commons is a wonderful service that helps faculty as well as students. The DMC made all the difference in my flipped instruction course this semester. Last fall I enrolled in the FTLC’s “Flip-the-Classroom Cohort”. Our goal was to use technology in new ways to engage our students outside of the traditional classroom. Once I was given my assignment the DMC was the first campus resource I reached out to.   I needed to create 6 videos to be sent to students before the spring semester began.   And I knew absolutely nothing about how to do this.   The DMC staff sat with me many days patiently helping me learn how to record and edit videos. (I even learned how to film using a green screen!)   There were plenty of times during the process when one staff member I had worked with was not available, and another staff would step right in and assistance without skipping a beat. They were all a great help.   It took 60 hours of work to complete my work...

Dr. Keith Gorman Ms. Beth Ann Koelsch If you watch C-SPAN programming this weekend, you’ll see some familiar UNCG faces, including two from the University Libraries.  The UNCG related programming will air Feb. 21-22. Recently, C-SPAN came to the UNCG campus and interviewed two faculty members of the Special Collections and University Archives Department in Jackson Library. They also interviewed two faculty members and one emeritus faculty member in the History Department. Ms. Beth Ann Koelsch is curator of the Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project in the library’s Hodges Special Collections & University Archives. “Since it’s for C-SPAN2 “the book channel,” I pulled books from the collection including memoirs, books written about particular companies (for example, “The 149th WAAC Post HQ Company, 1940-1943: Our Story”), comics, books on the history of women in the military and books about the role of women in the military,” she said. Dr. Keith Gor...