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Friends of the UNCG Libraries

The Friends of the UNCG Libraries are advocates and supporters of the Libraries. Our Friends make a real difference in our ability to serve the campus and the local community.

Bill Snider, former Friends Board chair, Dies

2/6/2012 10:34:00 AM

Bill Snider, former editor of the Greensboro News & Record, died in late January at his home at Well-Spring. Along with his wife Flo, Bill was a long-time member of the Friends of the UNCG Libraries, and his papers reside in our Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives. A native of Salisbury who came to Greensboro in 1951, Bill was an editor of the Greensboro newspaper during the turbulent 1960s, and together with several others formed a group that his friend and coll...

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Irma Minerva's Audio Magazine

Podcasts from Jackson Library at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro

"Library to Go"--New Video

2/10/2012 3:45:00 PM

When we wanted to create a video about some of the services the University Libraries offer, we asked UNCG students for help. Thanks to all the students in MFA candidate's James Gould's Advanced Media Lab for their very professional production of this new video.Transcript (PDF)

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Irma's Suggestion Box

2/6/2012 4:51:00 PM

You asked: May we have more Spartan Card Machines?Irma says: Currently there are Spartan Card Machines (fill stations) in several locations around campus. You may also add funds to your SpartanCash or Flex using a Visa or Mastercard.

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UNCG's Dataland

UNCG's land of data releases, new data sources, fun stats information, and much more!

ICPSR webinar: The National Addiction and HIV Data Archive Program

1/30/2012 9:46:00 AM

ICPSR is hosting a webinar on the National Addiction and HIV Data Program (NAHDAP) on February 21 at 1:00 pm. They will describe the program and provide information on data sharing! If you are working or will be working with confidential or restricted use data, this might of interest. More information below.Space is limited.Reserve your Webinar seat now at:https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/640715546The goal of this 60 minute webinar is to describe the ways the National Addiction and HIV Data...

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UNCG Special Collections & University Archives

SCUA collects, preserves, and makes accessible rare, unique, or otherwise significant materials outside the scope of the general UNCG library collection. We also deliver presentations, classes, tours,...

What They Were Wearing While They Were Reading: 1930s

2/10/2012 12:30:00 PM

This collaborative exhibit highlights the 1930s featuring campus history, materials from Special Collections and University Archives, and period textiles generously loaned from Dr. James V. Carmichael. The exhibited items will rotate so visit often! Information from the rotating exhibits will be posted here periodically. 1930s After the years of economic prosperity, the stock market crashed on October 29, 1929, and the resulting economic depression dominated the entire decade. During this Great...

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UNCG Music Library Blog

The Amazing Library

1/18/2012 7:03:00 PM

Part I:  You've got nothing better to do.by Kat Clift, Music Library InternFace it.  The internet has finally run out of pictures of cats.  Robot Unicorn no longer spikes your adrenaline.  Even that picture of the man squatting on the top of a statue of a pigeon has failed to give you a smirk.Might as well face it, you're addicted to lolcats.When the witty computer box in your room has run out of things your friends haven't sent you on facebook, it's time to try something new. Why not an adventu...

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Recent Faculty Publications

Check out this blog for information on new faculty-authored works available in the University Libraries of UNCG.

Indian Angles and Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India

1/27/2012 1:38:00 PM

In 2011, Professor Mary Ellis Gibson, English and Women's and Gender Studies, published two companion books with Ohio University Press: Indian Angles: English Verse in Colonial India from Jones to Tagore and Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780-1913. Both works contribute greatly to the scholarship of literature in English in India during the long nineteenth century and serve to introduce this poetry to a wider audience.From the publisher's website:"In Indian Angles, Mary Ellis Gibson prov...

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Jackson Library Renovation Project

Fire Door has been Replaced!

12/18/2011 2:25:00 PM

As previously announced the fire door that was installed between the main library building and the tower when it was built back in the mid "70's, needed to be replaced and thus the area was prepped last week with drywall removal and protective passage barriers.  Wednesday night after closing a demo crew came in and removed the steel bracing for the door:This also gave us a view of the "Back of Jackson", not seen for many years:Saturday, while we were closed, the Overhead Door folks (contracted f...

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UNCG Digital Projects

Digital project news from UNCG University Libraries

Christmas in Greensboro, 1901

12/19/2011 4:54:00 PM

A sample of Christmas cheer from 110 years ago: The article describes festivities in the mill town adjacent to Proximity Mill, part of Greensboro's Cone Mills. The advertisement that follows shows post-holiday bargains at Greensboro's Harry-Belk Brothers Store (later Belk).Both are from the Christmas Day, 1901, issue of The Greensboro Patriot and are part of the Patriot digitization project, which should be completely online by the summer of 2012.Christmas at Proximity At no place in North Carol...

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Library Administration Announcements

Open Access Publishing Support Fund

2/9/2012 2:30:00 PM

The University Libraries and the Office of Research & Economic Development recently created an Open Access Publishing Support Fund in order to support faculty, EPA employees, and graduate students who are becoming increasingly involved in open access publishing.  Currently, there are more than 30,000 open access journals published worldwide, and in lieu of a subscription-based business model, many open access journals require that authors pay an article processing fee.  To reduce barriers to ope...

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