• June 4 Symposium on Willa Cather and her circle
• Celebrate the Roscoe and Meta Cather Collection
• Server Maintenance May 11
• Paul Fell Cartoon Collection donated to Libraries Archives and Special Collections
• Royster wins Sigma Xi's "2008 Outstanding Science Librarian" award
• Make Your Research Easier
• Congratulations & Thank You!
• Give Your Favorite Book a "5 Star" Rating
• Chinese Studies Resources
• Virtual Architectural Tour of Historic UNL
• Get some Research First Aid
• Tell us your Library Story!
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May 9, 2008
Asian Pacific American Heritage MonthMay is Asian Pacific American (APA) Heritage Month. Now on display, The Many Facets of Asian/Pacific American Experience highlights contemporary literature on Asian/Pacific Americans. This display is located on the second floor of Love Library South and online at: http://www.worldcat.org/profiles/joyproberts/lists/70515. This selection of contemporary literature on Asian/Pacific Americans reflects the diverse experience of "Asian/Pacific Americans" or American minorities with heritages in East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Pacific Islands.
In addition, "Japanese American NISEI Students" is an online exhibit promoting the Japanese American/Asian Collections available at the University Archives & Special Collections. This online exhibit highlights documentation of the Japanese American experience in the United States, particularly during World War II.
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May 8, 2008
June 4 Symposium on Willa Cather and her circleWilla Cather's correspondence reveals a lot about her relationships with her family and friends. Learn more about that at "Cather's Circles: Correspondence and Connections," a day-long symposium on June 4 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Memorial Union. The symposium begins at 8:45 a.m.
The event features three paper sessions and two keynotes by Cather biographers and scholars Janis P. Stout and Sharon O’Brien. The event is sponsored by the University Libraries, and the Willa Cather Project, UNL Department of English. There is a $15 registration fee.
For more information and to register visit: http://cather.unl.edu/community/seminars/correspondence.html
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May 8, 2008
Celebrate the Roscoe and Meta Cather CollectionJoin us on June 4 at 5:00 p.m. in the Auditorium of Love Library to celebrate the donation of the Roscoe and Meta Cather Collection.
The program for the event will feature descendents of the Roscoe and Meta Cather family and Dr. Andrew Jewell, editor of the Willa Cather Archive. A reception will follow the presentation.
The event is free and open to the public. RSVP at 402-472-6987.
The Roscoe and Meta Cather Collection, a new donation to Archives & Special Collections, contains hundreds of new letters written by the major American author, Willa Cather, and adds significantly to the department's extensive Cather collections.
Sponsors: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Friends of the Libraries of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, The Cather Project, UNL.
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May 5, 2008
Server Maintenance May 11The University Libraries' server maintenance will be performed May 11, 2008 from 8 a.m. to noon while the Libraries are closed. Services that will be unavailable are: on-line InterLibrary Loan forms, GIS, and the database SciFinder. On-line access to the Libraries' catalog is unaffected and will be available
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April 29, 2008
Paul Fell Cartoon Collection donated to Libraries Archives and Special Collections
May 8 at 5:00 p.m.
Room 29 Love Library
13th & R Streets
University Archives and Special Collections: 402-472-2531
UNL Libraries Development office: 402-472-6987
Join the Friends of the Libraries of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln as they celebrate the donation of the "Paul Fell Cartoon Collection" to the University Archives and Special Collections on May 8 at 5:00 p.m. The reception will be held in Room 29 of Love Library at 13th and R Streets in Lincoln.
Paul Fell's editorial cartoons appeared in Lincoln newspapers from 1984 to 2007. In 2005, Artizans Syndicate began distributing Fell's cartoons to newspapers throughout North America, and worldwide, online through Artizans.com. The donated collection contains many of the editorial cartoons that appeared in Lincoln newspapers as well as the Omaha Sun and Hastings Tribune. The collection also contains a number of illustrations Fell provided to local, state, and national organizations, businesses, Huskers Illustrated, sketch books and papers as well as comic strips Mulch and Cleo.
At the May 8 event, Paul Fell will talk about the collection and Richard Graham, the University Libraries digital media librarian, will talk about the developing visual arts/graphic arts collection at UNL. For more information about the collection contact the University Archives and Special Collections at 402-472-2531. For more information about the reception, contact the UNL Libraries Development office at 402-472-6987.
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April 23, 2008
On April 17, the Scientific Research Society awarded Paul Royster, Coordinator of Scholarly Communication, the "2008 Outstanding Science Librarian of Nebraska Award" for his work in creating and maintaining the University Libraries Digital Commons and his devotion for promoting science research. The Digital Commons contains more than 23,000 articles, papers, ebooks, documents, presentations, creative activities, master's theses, open-access dissertations produced by UNL faculty, staff, and students - making it the 4 th largest academic institutional repository in the USA. The Digital Commons is searchable by Google, making all this research available free to a world-wide audience.
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March 26, 2008
Make Your Research EasierA pilot program will begin on April 1 to provide electronic copies of articles from journals housed in the LDRF (the Libraries storage facility for lesser used materials) to graduate and undergraduate students. Articles will be scanned and delivered electronically to students via their ILLiad accounts. We scan the article for you. Journal volumes can still be loaned at the users request. Pilot program ends during the summer and will be reviewed for possible continuation in Fall of 2008.
For questions, contact the ILL Office at 402-472-2522, open 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. (M-F), located at 221 Love Library.
If you don't have an ILLiad account visit Interlibrary Loan (ILLiad) to create a borrowing account.
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March 12, 2008
The University Libraries would like to thank all students who participated in our online survey and focus groups to gather input on what the 21st Century Engineering Library should offer. Here is the list of undergraduate and graduate students who won the Target gift cards for participating. Congratulations!
- Peter Nelson
- Piotr Paczkowski
- J. Brett Sallach
- Leonardo Tavares De Souza
- Cassie Teeter
- Jason Vogeler
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February 25, 2008
Give Your Favorite Book a "5 Star" RatingYou can now rate your favorite books in the UNL Libraries catalog (http://iris.unl.edu) by logging into the "My Library" service. Log into My Library with your NU ID# and search out your favorite books in the catalog. Mouse over the 5 stars (question marks) that appear beside each title in your list of results and select the star for the rating you want to give the book. Your ratings will appear with other account information when you log into My Library.
The ratings you will see in the catalog will reflect the average rating derived from all reviewers.
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February 19, 2008
Chinese Studies ResourcesThe Libraries are in the process of developing and collecting resources to support UNL's China Initiatives such as the Confucius Institute and the partnership with Xi'an Jiaotong University. The UNL Confucius Institute is a non-profit public institute with a mission of promoting and teaching Chinese language and culture in Lincoln and the surrounding communities. These resources are available through UNL Libraries' Chinese Studies Resources website.
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February 15, 2008
Virtual Architectural Tour of Historic UNLA new website covering close to 100 years of architectural history and development of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln was launched on February 15, 2008 and can be found at: http://historicbuildings.unl.edu/. The site contains images, text, and maps and is broken down into three eras from 1869-1965. More than 60 building descriptions are included as well as biographical sketches of architects, faculty members, donors, regents, and others. Users of the site can also perform a keyword search for terms.
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02/07/2008
Get some Research First AidLibrarians will be in the City Campus Union "bubble" office near Starbucks to answer questions and assist students with their research. Mondays & Tuesdays of Spring semester from Noon to 2 p.m. Sponsored by the UNL Libraries. Librarians can consult on use of RefWorks, ILL, essential services and complex research questions.
10/03/2007
Tell Us Your Library Story!Do you have a success story in which the Libraries played a part? Did you find a resource that really made the difference to your research? Was someone within the libraries particularly helpful? If so, we'd like you to share your story with us and other patrons.
Submit your story at My Story About My Libraries. The Libraries might post the whole story or part of it on our website or use it in other marketing materials. If you are a member of the alumni, we want your memories and stories as well!
Read stories others have submitted.
