Zotero citation management workshops

Do you want to learn about free software for saving publication information and creating in text citations and bibliographies?

Please join us for an introduction to Zotero

• Monday Apr 13, noon-1:30 pm (planning 60 minutes of content but want plenty of time for questions) - Meet us online & see free software for setting up citations! Registration deadline Apr 10, 5 pm 
• Thursday May 7, 4-5:30 pm (planning 60 mins of content but want plenty of time for questions) - Hands-on workshop in Jackson Library CITI lab. Registration link.

The libraries provide a guide to Zotero here: http://uncg.libguides.com/zotero

This Weds 3/25, hear about the history of women's physical education at UNCG!

Where: Hodges Reading Room, Jackson Library
When: Wednesday, March 25th from 2:00-3:00

Founded in 1892, the State Normal and Industrial School was a pioneering institution in the history of higher education for women. Among the most interesting aspects of our University’s history is the early focus on the physical education of women. In honor of Women’s History Month, join Kathelene McCarty Smith as she presents on the history of women’s physical education at this institution prior to becoming a co-educational campus.

Students - what kind of technology do you want in the libraries?

Dear students,

• Do you check out laptops?
• Do you love the DMC?
• Do you usually print your papers in the Library?
• Is there technology you'd like to see in Jackson and Schiffman Libraries that we don't have?

Then please join us for a focus group.  Let us know what technology you use most in the Libraries and what you'd like to see in the future.

When:  Tuesday March 24, 2015  2:00 pm

Where:  Room 774 in Jackson Library

Snacks provided! Please sign up here:http://doodle.com/iu26b6hxkixvfrz7

 

If you can't come, please send us your technology suggestions: http://library.uncg.edu/mail/contactSuggLib.aspx

If you can't come, please take this opportunity to send us your technology suggestions: http://library.uncg.edu/mail/contactSuggLib.aspx

Instructors - win a mini-grant for adopting a FREE textbook for your students!

Concerned about the high cost of textbooks?  Students who don't have the textbook the first week of classes (sometimes not at all)?

Consider adopting a "free" textbook for your course.  The University Libraries and the Provost are partnering to offer ten mini-grants to support instructors who make the switch!  Application deadline is April 24, 2015.

Information sessions will be held

• April 14, noon-1 pm, Jackson Library administration conference room 216
• April 15, noon-1 pm, Jackson Library administration conference room 216

Campus Weekly story here: http://ure.uncg.edu/prod/cweekly/2015/03/17/save-your-students-money