Wednesday, February 5, 2020

Introduction to Zotero workshops Feb 24, Feb 26, or Feb 27


The liaison librarians at the University Libraries will be holding Introduction to Zotero workshops that are open to all graduate students.
Zotero is an open-source software that will help you collect, organize, and use sources. The sessions will walk you through downloading, account creation, adding and organizing resources, and incorporating citations into Word or Google Documents.

Sessions will be held in the CITI Lab in Jackson Library

    February 24 at 2p
    February 26 at noon
    February 27 at noon
Please register at this link

Those who can't participate might like the recorded webinar on this page: http://uncg.libguides.com/zotero.Your liaison librarian Lea Leininger can meet one on one to provide basic assistance (appointments listed here). Please contact her with any questions.

Thursday, January 23, 2020

UNCG Libraries OER Week Jan 27-31

UNCG Libraries is hosting a series of events in honor of our first ever Open Education Resources (OER) Week January 27-January 31st:

Monday, January 27th 2pm, Open Pedagogy and Open Education at UNCG, 30 minute Webinar, Sign Up

Tuesday, January 28th and Wednesday January 29th at 12pm, OER Mini Grant Faculty Educational Workshops, for faculty and instructors interested in learning more about applying for an OER Mini Grant ($1000!) UNCG Libraries Room 216, RSVP to slharlow@uncg.edu and/or mlrood@uncg.edu

Thursday, January 30th at 9am, OER Experience Panel of Past UNCG OER Mini Grant Winners, UNCG Alumni House, Virginia Dare Room, open to all, no RSVP required. 
*Free coffee and pastries!!!!

Friday, November 22, 2019

Sneak Peek at the New PubMed - Dec 11 webinar, Dec 12 face to face session

It’s official!  The U.S. NLM has announced the new PubMed

Same great content, exciting new look and features. It’s still in development but definitely ready for a test drive.

Please join Lea Leininger, Health Sciences Librarian, for a tour and discussion of the new PubMed.  Register through a UNCG Workshops calendar link below.

Monday, November 4, 2019

Queer Cafe - Jackson Library Weds 11/13 from 10 am - Noon

In the Jackson Library Jewish Reading Room on Wednesday, November 13th, from 10 am - Noon.  

Jackson Library will be holding an event in support of UNCG LGBTQ+ students, called Queer Cafe! This idea was inspired by a similar event held at the New York Institute of Technology for National Coming Out Day. It is a way for LGBTQ+ identifying students to have a safe space to meet and interact with their LGBTQ+ librarians over coffee and snacks. Queer Cafe will mainly be a way for our students to see who we are (and that we exist) while we drink coffee and share some of our favorite resources (books, zines, etc.). It’s going to be very casual! This will not be a panel; participants won’t have to share anything about themselves that they don’t want to.

The event will take place in Jackson Library Tower room 974 (Jewish Reading Room) on Wednesday, November 13th, from 10 am - Noon.  

We hope to promote visibility by allowing LGTBQ+ library employees to be out and vulnerable to students who share similar experiences. With this in mind, we kindly ask that folks who do not identify under the Queer Umbrella sit this event out. We welcome support from our allies in ways other than attendance (marketing, spreading the word, etc) 

---Jo & the Queer Cafe Organizers 


Wednesday, October 30, 2019

***rescheduled***Give a 5-min. presentation about GIS, maybe you'll win an ArcGIS for Personal Use license

***This event has been rescheduled***
Note from Jo Klein, Geospatial and Data Visualization Librarian:
The GIS Day event originally to be held at Jackson Library this Wednesday 11/13 at 3PM will be rescheduled for 2020! New date and location TBD; the form for submissions will remain open. 

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Are you a geographic information system (GIS) user or are you interested in GIS? Do you have a GIS-related project to showcase or know of any cool GIS tools or maps? Share your work in a presentation at GIS Stew!

GIS Stew is a UNCG University Libraries event where students, faculty, and other members of the UNCG community come together to share their work and inspire others to learn more about geographic information systems (GIS), through 5-minute lightning round-style presentations.

Presentations can be about anything within the theme of GIS use: this is your chance to show off the spatial analysis you did for a research project, the process of how you made that cool map for class, or even just a really nifty interactive map that tells a story about something that interests you (and maybe how it was made)!

Presenters will be entered in a drawing to win 1 of 5 free Esri ArcGIS for Personal Use licenses, provided by Esri as part of GIS Day, an Esri event that seeks to provide a platform for GIS users to share their work and inspire others to learn more. Learn more about GIS Day at https://www.gisday.com/.

Sign up to present at http://go.uncg.edu/gis-stew

For more information contact Jo Klein at ejklein@uncg.edu

Monday, October 21, 2019

focus groups on library technology

Dear UNCG Students,

We need your help to plan future Libraries’ technology!

Please join us for a focus group so we can gain your feedback on:

  • Digital Signage that provide Libraries’ information
  • How you use the Libraries’ computers and other technology
  • What other technology you’d like to see in the Libraries

Pizza will be provided. Please bring your own drink!

All participants will receive a $10 Barnes and Noble gift card. 

Please sign up  for one of two focus groups:



Friday, October 11, 2019

Webinars - Zotero for citation management - Tues 10/22 6 pm, Weds 10/23 9 am, Thurs 10/24 12 pm

Interested in learning to use the free Zotero software to manage your citations?

Participate in one of these webinars:
  • Tues 10/22 @6 pm-6:45 pm
  • Weds 10/23 @9 am-9:45 am
  • Thurs 10/24 @12 pm-12:45 pm

 Sign up here: go.uncg.edu/zoterowebinars2019