Show me the money! Funding search workshop Oct 25 9 am

Show Me the Money! Locating Grant Funding Opportunities-, October 25, 2017, 9-11 am, 304 Curry

Faculty and graduate students often require external funding for research, scholarship, and creative activity. This workshop will explore how to get the most from grant seeking databases, including SPIN, GrantSelect, Grant Advisor Plus, and the Foundation Center. Participants learn to search for possible funding opportunities, practice identifying eligibility, and realize the importance of key words.  Attendees will have opportunities to access databases and engage in searches related to their topic of interest. Presented by Helen Kiss (Office of Sponsored Programs) and Gerald Holmes (University Libraries). Register at https://workshops.uncg.edu

APA Style Central now available!

APA Style Central is a writing, research and publication guide.  It has tutorials and more. UNCG Libraries now have a subscription!

To access this database

1. Start at the libraries home page: http://library.uncg.edu
2. Choose databases
3. Navigate to the databases starting with A, then choose APA Style Central
4. Log in with your iSpartan account, as you would do with any other subscription

Links will be added to library guides soon.

The APA Style Central database has excerpts from the Publication Manual of the APA, but it is not an online version of the manual.  Don't recycle your print edition just yet :)

Instructors, be kind. Please give at least 2 weeks' notice when you'd like a library workshop

Instructors, I love to coming to your class to demonstrate resources and work with your students!

But please ask for these sessions well in advance.

Before the semester begins is best, but at least two weeks in advance.  That will allow me more than 60 minutes during working hours to prepare, including finding out about the assignment, finding out from you what you'd like your students to get out of the session, then actually doing to legwork to determine the best e-resources & approach to meet those needs.

More information on scheduling library workshops and tours is here: http://library.uncg.edu/info/help/classes_and_tours.aspx

Digital Act Studio - Design/visual feedback service includes distance and online students

The Digital Act Studio (DACTS) gives design/visual feedback on powerpoints, posters, brochures, and other digital media products.

And they have online consultations!

Whether you're an on campus student or distance education or online, check out this service: https://digitalactstudio.uncg.edu/our-services/make-an-appointment/

In memoriam: Gaylor Callahan

Some of you might have heard that Gaylor Callahan, a friend and coworker in Jackson Library, recently passed away.

Here is her obituary in the Greensboro News & Record.

In case you knew her and would like to pay your respects, the memorial service will take place Thursday, September 21st beginning at 3 pm in the Virginia Dare Room of the Alumni House, at 4:00 we will walk down College Avenue to Ashby Residential College at Mary Foust Hall for the rest of the event.

All Interlibrary Loan - related services have been restored

Great news, ILL-related services have been fully restored:

• Interlibrary Loan
• Campus  Book Delivery (only for UNCG faculty and staff)
• Document Delivery (only for UNCG graduate students, faculty, and staff)
• Distance Education loans (free book shipping for UNCG distance education and online students who live outside of Guilford County)

You should be able to request these services from the ILL page and from your usual shortcuts (a webpage showing that we don't own an article or book).

Thank you for your patience!

Here is a reminder video about Interlibrary Loan:

Research webinars for faculty, students, and staff

UNCG Libraries presents a new webinar series on "Research and Applications."

This UNCG webinar series (click this link for more information on webinar series) is for UNCG students, staff, faculty, instructors, and librarians.  The series will cover topics on library resources and research tools.  

Please sign up for any of the sessions that you are interested in attending!  We will record these 30 minute webinars in WebEx Meeting Center and make them available on an UNCG Libraries website.  

Thursday, September 14th at 11:30am:

“Open Access Scholarship Support (NC DOCKS and more)” by Anna Craft, Coordinator of Metadata Services and Tiffany Henry, Discovery Cataloger.

Friday, October 13th at 1pm:

“Zotero: Citation Management” by Jenny Dale, Information Literacy Coordinator.

Tuesday, November 14th at 1pm:

“Open Education Resources (OER) Opportunities” by Beth Bernhardt, Assistant Dean for Collection Management and Scholarly Communications and Jenay Soloman, Diversity Resident Librarian.

Friday, December 1st at 11am:

“Google Scholar vs. Library Resources” by Maggie Murphy, First Year Instruction Librarian.