April 2 - UNCG Scholarly Communication Symposium

This symposium will explore the ways that promotion and tenure criteria are evolving in the 21st century to incorporate accomplishments in digital scholarship, interdisciplinary research, and alternative impact metrics.

Details: Lunch, breakfast will be included in the registration fees.  Registration costs for UNCG faculty and students are being sponsored by the library and other university organizations. Registration is $50 for external attendees.  The symposium will be held from 9 AM to 3 PM on Monday, April 2, 2018 at the UNCG Elliot University Center.  The symposium will include four featured speakers plus several panels of faculty researchers, primarily from North Carolina institutions.

Please note that remaining attendee spots are limited; go to the Registration link soon if interested in attending.

Employees - Tues 3/6, find health information you can trust

Finding Health Information You Can Trust

Where do you get your health information...Facebook? Blogs? Great Aunt Betty? Learn how to search and evaluate trustworthy health information online. For UNCG employees. Snacks provided.

Tuesday March 6th, 11 am - 11:30 am

Jackson Library Lower Level, Ottoman Empire

RSVP through the UNCG Workshops calendar.

Books, Boxes, and Bangles: Building Research Collections in African American History and Culture - Thursday March 15

Please join us for this upcoming free presentation (open to the public as well):

UNCG Libraries Spring 2018 Diversity Lecture

When: 10 – 11 AM, Thursday, March 15, 2018

Where: Hodges Reading Room, Jackson Library, UNC Greensboro

Lecture: “Books, Boxes, and Bangles: Building Research Collections in African American History and Culture”

Presenter: Randall K. Burkett, Curator of African American Collections, Rose Library, Emory University

Bio: While a graduate student Randall Burkett started collecting books to support his research on Marcus Garvey and on African American religious history.  Over the years his collection expanded to include books, pamphlets, prints, newspapers, and ephemera related to African American life and culture.  He has exhibited selections from his personal collection at Harvard University’s Widener Library, the Grolier Club in New York City, and elsewhere.  Since 1997, Burkett has been responsible for building Emory University’s collection of African American rare books, manuscripts, photographs, and print ephemera, and he has raised nearly three quarters of a million dollars to endow acquisition and fellowship funds for the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library.

Undergraduate instructors and students - open call for University Libraries Undergraduate Research Award

University Libraries wants to recognize undergraduate student research skills! We are soliciting submissions for our Undergraduate Research Award, which is given in recognition of an outstanding original paper or project in any media. Successful submissions will demonstrate the ability to locate, select and synthesize information from scholarly resources. And, the winning entry will receive a $500 cash prize funded by the University Libraries!

Students may be nominated by a UNCG teaching faculty member or submit his/her own project along with a letter from the supporting faculty member. 

• Subissions are open to all undergraduate students. 
• Any paper or project completed by an undergraduate in the Spring, Summer or Fall semesters of 2017 is eligible. 
• Applicants must be enrolled at UNCG in the Spring 2018 semester. 

If your students have turned in excellent research assignments, we urge you to nominate them for this award! Applications are due on March 23, 2018. Full details are available at:

http://library.uncg.edu/ura

Instructors - open education mini-grants

The Office of the Provost and the University Libraries are joining together to support faculty interested in providing their students with a less expensive yet educationally rewarding alternative to expensive commercial textbooks.

The high cost of commercial textbooks (print and electronic) is a major concern for both students and their parents.  The Open Education “Mini-Grants” Initiative, encourages instructors to use low-cost or free alternatives to expensive course materials; these can include open-access scholarly resources, library-licensed and owned resources, and learning objects and texts that faculty create themselves.

Fifteen $1000 “mini-grants” will be available this spring. These modest yet significant sums are meant to offer an incentive for the time it will take you to identify new resources, adjust syllabi, and modify assignments and can also be used to cover any actual expenses you incur.

We invite you to engage in this transition through a competitive grant process.

If you are interested in applying for this initiative, please attend one of the Open Education Initiative information sessions to be held Feb 13^st or 14^nd from noon to 1 pm in Jackson Library, Room 216.  Please RSVP prior to the workshop or any questions you have to Beth Bernhardt at brbernha@uncg.edu

The deadline to apply for the “mini-grants” is March 9^th.  You can apply at https://goo.gl/forms/Mgci6vdiAm6e7VUO2.

Thank you for your interest in pursuing non-traditional educational resources as an alternative to the traditional high-cost textbook.

Feature Films for Education (20th Century Fox)

Our libraries have just gained access to Feature Films for Education

Current and classic films from 20th Century Fox that faculty and students can watch streaming from their computer or link to or embed in their Canvas class. 

This is the first time these films have been available to libraries streaming. 

Faculty and students can go to the above website, browse films by subject or search for a specific film and then hit play.  Most films have closed captioning available in English.

There are many collections of online films available through the UNCG Libraries.  To learn more, see our library guide to streaming films.

Difficulty getting to online videos or other library resources

**update**

The health sciences librarian wasn't feeling so hot this morning after teaching last night! I posted an internal message for coworkers in this public spot intended for students, faculty and staff outside of the library.  Ack!!

I'm updating this post so that it makes more sense for folks who don't work in the library ---

Having trouble getting to a class resource that came from the library?  Contact us for help - there's a good chance that we can show you a way to get your resource through the library website.

This advice has to do with a problem that recently came up with some online videos. Your experiences may vary from this :)

Contact the library 

Chat with a librarian is good "frontline help" available many hours - http://library.uncg.edu/info/ask_us.aspx

Or contact your liaison librarian - look on the research guide for your subject/major/home department

 Have information about what you need so that we can help, or at least notify library e-resources staff if a database/website is down -

--- What kind of thing you need. A student recently let us know that she needed  online videos from Sage Research Methods - very helpful!  librarians also sometimes hear about problems getting to articles or ebooks.

---WHICH thing you need.

Please give the title and author so that we can see if there's a way to get to the resource through the library website (the first student who contacted us for help getting to online videos did not give the title and author of the videos and did not respond to follow up questions - without that information we couldn't help)

If you need an article, we'll want to know the article title, journal title, first author, and year of publication. Yes, we can help find some of this info and we understand if some of this info simply doesn't exist, but if we're just told "I need help getting to an article" there's not much info there for us to search.

 For resources from the Sage Research Methods database, here's one way that you can get to the videos through the library website if you're off campus.

1. Start at library home page: http://library.uncg.edu/

2. Choose databases (bottom of the red search box)

3. Navigate to databases beginning with S, choose Sage Research Methods.  This link should get you into that database: https://library.uncg.edu/dbs/auth/go.aspx?vdbID=1077

4. Go to Advanced Search (linked under the search box)

5. There are a lot of materials in this database, here are some advanced search options that will help you get directly to a specific video:

Type the title of the video that you need, with the exact spelling of each word and each word in order (if you misspell something, you probably won't find the video).

You can put the title in quotes so the words are searched together in that order.

You can change full text to title, so you're only searching titles.

Scroll down.  You can uncheck other formats so that you're only searching videos.

Hit search (it's a little picture of a magnifying glass way down to the lower right)

5. Hopefully you see a result like this, and the title or the picture of the video leads to a page where you can play the video (it does for me right now)

 This is very long, but I hope helpful.  It's pulled from an email sent to one of the students who recently asked me for help getting to online videos.

Cheers!