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5/1/2013 2:47:00 PM
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Spartan Stories
Tales from the University Archives at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Fraternities and sororities at UNCG
5/6/2013 9:30:00 AM
Prior to the founding of the State Normal and Industrial School (now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro) in 1891, Charles Duncan McIver was very supportive of the notion of societies for the female students. In 1893, the Adelphian and Cornelian became the first two literary societies on campus and almost all of the students joined either one of the two groups. In the years following, a joint committee of students would divide the list of new freshman girls and place them within eit...
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Irma's World at UNCG
Keep up with Irma & the University Libraries at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
New Books
5/7/2013 3:54:00 PM
Due to current catalog changes new non-fiction books will be shelved directly into the stacks for the first part of the summer. Later in the summer look for new non-fiction back in their regular section of the reading room. Fiction:Wedding Night by Sophie KinsellaSlight of hand by Phillip MorgolinZ: a novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese FowlerNon-FictionThe girls of Atomic City : the untold story of the women who helped win World War IIContagious : why things catch on by Jonah BergerHow to crea...
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Irma's Suggestion Box
Checked out items
4/25/2013 1:52:00 PM
You asked: Please bring back sending notifications for checked out items when someone else needs them. Irma says: If you see a book is checked out you may now request an Interlibrary Loan (ILL) instead of a hold or recall. We will obtain the book from another library. We found that this provides faster service to you than recalling the item from whoever has it checked out. If you need any assistance with ILL please Ask Us.
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Books Are Fun!
Preserving our History
4/23/2013 3:24:00 PM
In His Temple doth every Man Speak of his HonourIn the Preservation Services department, it is our task to care for those special pieces of history.We become their Temple of Care. Some items from our Rare Books collections require conservation, mending pages and recreating hinges and, ultimately, for its own good, a micro-environment to protect it from the changing daily elements.Clam shell boxes specially designed for those special books are a great way to gently house these items. We become ...
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UNCG's Dataland
UNCG's land of data releases, new data sources, fun stats information, and much more!
ICPSR presents ...
4/19/2013 12:59:00 PM
Info on an upcoming ICPSR webinar! An Introduction to the Gates Millennium Scholars and Washington State Achievement Scholars Data Join us for a Webinar on May 8 Space is limited.Reserve your Webinar seat now at:https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/389799554 This webinar will introduce and alert users to the newly released Gates Millennium ...
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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,...
A Student's Perspective : Behind the Stacks in Archives and Manuscripts
5/9/2013 9:00:00 AM
When I first started my graduate career at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG), I decided to look for a job with the University Libraries. Directed to the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives department, I learned that they only had a volunteer position available, for which I promptly interviewed.In the fall of 2011, I began working as a volunteer in the University Archives for a relatively modest ten hours each week. My first exposure to history a...
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Harold Schiffman Music Library at UNCG
Continuing to Appreciate our Student Employees with Silliness
4/30/2013 11:28:00 PM
Because "silliness is very important" and a great part of celebrating, we created a display using the photos from our last post of each of our wonderful student employees. With some help from Gianna, Eric and Whitney, MK made a display in the Harold Schiffman Music Library depicting one of the realities of working in a branch library: We Appreciate That HSMLers Wear Many Hats. See below:[Sorry about some of the funny angles - I was trying to avoid glare from the lights - but, hey, they kind of...
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Recent Faculty Publications at UNCG
Check out this blog for information on new faculty-authored works available in the University Libraries of UNCG.
The Politics of Modern Central America
5/3/2013 4:00:00 AM
Dr. Fabrice Lehoucq (Political Science) is the author of The Politics of Modern Central America: Civil War, Democratization, and Underdevelopment (Cambridge University Press, 2012). The book provides an analysis of both the origins and outcomes of civil war in Central America, including social, economic, and political upheavals and even failures. It seeks to use examples from the events in this region to enable a broader understanding of political change and civil war. One reviewer called it “a...
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UNCG Digital Projects
Digital collections news from UNCG University Libraries
2012-2013 Carolinian issues now online
5/9/2013 4:20:00 PM
As the spring semester closes, we have have added the past year's issues of The Carolinian to the online archive. Except for a fair number of issues from 1945, of which there are no known print copies in existence, almost the entire run of UNCG's student newspaper is currently available online. The bulk of these were digitized in 2010 and 2011 as part of the Lyrasis Mass Digitization Collaborative. New issues are added at the end of each academic year. Since 2012, these new issues have been publ...
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