Forum on Saving Students Money on Textbooks Weds 3/23, 3 pm

Next week the University Libraries and the campus Scholarly Communication Committee is sponsoring a forum:




This event will give faculty a chance to discuss their experiences in assigning free or library-licensed sources instead of requiring students to purchase textbooks.

This event is open to instructors and students.  Heck, if you're support services (instructional technologists?) or another interested party, please come!  There will be refreshments!!

Save the date March 23d - Open Education Resources and Library alternatives to textbooks

Instructors,
 
Come hear how your colleagues changed their course(s) by using Open
Educational Resources and library resources instead of an expensive
textbook.

*March 23rd, 2016 at 3 pm in the Virginia Dare Room, Alumni House*

Panel includes:

• Robert Anemone, Professor and Department Head, Anthropology
• Heather Helms, Associate Professor, HDFS
• Channelle D. James, Lecturer, Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Hospitality and
• Tourism
• Liz McNamara, Lecturer, Political Science
• Carrie A. Wachter Morris, Associate Professor, CED
• Nancy Myers and Brenta Blevins (working together), College Writing Program
• Director and Assistant Director, English
• Terence A Nile, Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
• Elizabeth Perrill, Associate Professor, Art

Panel discussion sponsored by the University Libraries and the Scholarly
Communications Committee.  Refreshments will be provided.

Undergraduate Research Award 2016

Dear faculty:

The University Libraries want to recognize your students' research skills!

We are soliciting submissions for our Undergraduate Research Award.  This $500 prize is given in recognition of an outstanding undergraduate research project that best demonstrates the ability to locate, select, and synthesize information from scholarly resources and uses those resources in the creation of an original research project in any media. 

Any paper or project completed by an undergraduate in the Spring, Summer, or Fall semesters of 2015 is eligible. Applicants must be enrolled at UNCG in the Spring 2016 semester.  It is open to all undergraduate students. 

 If your students have turned in excellent research assignments, we urge you to nominate them for this award.  

Applications are due on March 18, 2016  and full details are available at:

http://library.uncg.edu/info/undergraduate_research_award.aspx. 

Library closed Monday 1/19/2016

The University Libraries will be closed on Monday 1/19/2016.  It will reopen on Tuesday 1/20 at 7:30 am.  More hours details are on this page: http://library.uncg.edu/hours

Copyright workshop recordings now available!

Christine Fruin, a lawyer and librarian from the University of Florida, gave workshops for graduate students and faculty at UNCG on 10/28/2015.

Recordings of those sessions are now available.

Copyright Essentials for the Graduate Researcher (1 hr 26 mins)

Understanding Copyright and Open Access in Modern Scholarly Publishing (1 hr 23 mins)

Shorter library hours and closure Thanksgiving week

This week the library will have shorter hours on Wednesday: http://library.uncg.edu/hours

And it will be closed on Thursday 11/26 and Friday 11/27

Library resources after graduation

Please come to visit in person! 

Jackson Library provides guest computers with access to most library subscriptions.  (notable exceptions include SciFinder Scholar chemistry database and several marketing research databases).  Results can be emailed, saved, or printed with purchase of a guest print card.

Alumnae are invited to join Friends of the Library. The annual $25 fee provides membership in the UNCG Libraries Book Discussion Group and checkout privileges for books and DVDs.

Unfortunately UNCG Libraries are unable to offer off-campus access to library subscriptions after UNCG computer accounts expire.  For information on when your iSpartan account expires, please contact (336) 256-8324.

There are other options!

NC LIVE  offers free electronic resources to North Carolina residents.  Health professionals will be interested in the Natural Medicines database and ProQuest articles databases. North Carolinians not currently affiliated with a college or university may gain access to the NC LIVE site through their local public library.  (usually it is the number from your public library card)

Greensboro AHEC Library is located at the Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital. Members of the community (including health professionals not affiliated with Cone Health) may visit in person to use the medical library resources.  See their website [http://www.gahec.org/library] for hours and contact information.