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General Interest Research & Learning Services

Banned Books Week Read-Out

Bierce Library will celebrate Banned Books Week, September 21-27.

We are still looking for students, faculty, and staff to join us in a Read-Out of challenged and banned books.

When: Wednesday, September 24 between 12:00 and 1:00 p.m.
What:  A 7-10 minute excerpt from your favorite challenged or banned book
Not sure what has been challenged or banned? Check out the list of Challenged Books in 2013 or Challenged Classics, which include “The Hunger Games,” “Harry Potter,” “The Great Gatsby,” “The Lord of the Rings,” “To Kill a Mockingbird,” “Brave New World,” and “A Wrinkle in Time.”

To add your voice to the Read-Out, please e-mail Beate Gersch at bgersch@uakron.edu.

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Access Services Center for the History of Psychology Electronic Services Professional Development Research & Learning Services

New training opportunities announced by OCLC

OCLC POSTS TRAINING UPDATE (click here for details)

New courses available in:

Cataloging and Metadata

Digital Collection Management

Resource Sharing and Delivery

Reference and Discovery
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Dean's Office General Interest Professional Development Research & Learning Services

Upcoming UL Rethinking Race Events

February 7, 2014

The UL is partnering with the School of Communications for Candid Conversations with Dr. Lin on Friday, February 7th at 11am in Einsteins. Dr. Lin, who teaches intercultural communication at UA, will use submissions from The Race Card Project display in Bierce lobby to start conversations about race, ethnicity and identity.  Please join us!

Dr. Lin Flyer Large

February 10, 2014

The opening of the exhibit “This is Akron with Opie Evans: The Rubber City as Seen through the Lens of One of Its Earliest African-American Photographers” at the McClain Gallery of Akron’s Black History and Culture. Reception on February 10th from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

The exhibit is a partnership between the McClain Gallery, Pan-African Center for Community Studies and Archival Services of University Libraries.

February 14, 2014

Lisa Lazar will be hosting Different faces, different films:  examining the portrayal of race in different types of film and exploring race-related film resources at Bierce Library on Friday, February 14th from 10-11:30am in room 154 in Bierce Library. The session is open to both faculty and students.

The UL sponsored Rethinking Race Film Festival, as well as the Bierce Film series, will continue through Friday February 14.

For more information about Rethinking Race activities on campus, see http://www.uakron.edu/race/

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Dean's Office General Interest Research & Learning Services

Bierce to Host The Race Card Project

Bierce to Host The Race Card Project with NPR’s Michele Norris

In honor of National Public Radio (NPR) Michele Norris’ visit to campus on Monday, February 3, 2014 for Rethinking Race, the University Libraries will host an installation of The Race Card Project in Bierce Library.

The Race Card Project is the brainchild of Norris, developed as a tool to jumpstart conversations about race during her recent book tour. She asked people to think about their experiences, questions, hopes, dreams, laments or observations about race and identity, distill them to just one sentence that had only six words, and submit them on postcards. It has been a wildly successful and insightful project.

From Monday, January 27- Friday, February 14, 2014, UA students, faculty and alumni are encouraged to join in a conversation about race, ethnicity and identity by submitting their six-word race card essays in Bierce Library.  The collection of candid submissions will be on display in the library throughout Rethinking Race 2014.

For more on The Race Card Project, http://theracecardproject.com/ For more information about Rethinking Race, http://www.uakron.edu/race/

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Electronic Services General Interest Research & Learning Services Science & Technology Library

Virtual Lab

Some specialized software that the libraries do not have installed on the public workstations or that students don’t have installed on their personal machines is available via the university’s Virtual Lab.

Information about the university’s Virtual Lab is available from their site: http://www.uakron.edu/dts/virtual-lab/

The list of software available via the Virtual Lab is listed under Machine & Software Configuration.

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Electronic Services Research & Learning Services

Search A Roo Open session Oct 31

There will be a basic intro to Search A Roo for library staff on Oct 31 from 10-11, Bierce 274.

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Access Services Electronic Services General Interest Research & Learning Services Science & Technology Library

OhioLINK scheduled outages on Nov 1 & 2

OhioLINK has Scheduled Maintenance on several of their products and services from 11/1-11/2

Expect 30-minute Service Outages starting on Friday, November 1 (at 11 PM) and ending on Saturday, November 2 (at 3 AM)

OhioLINK expects service outages of approximately 30 minutes at varying times for each OhioLINK service during scheduled maintenance on the Ohio Technology Consortium (OH-TECH) shared infrastructure firewall. On-campus access to content on third-party (non-OhioLINK) vendor websites will not be affected.

The following access/services will be affected by 30-minute outages: Libraries using OhioLINK’s remote authentication (proxy) for off-campus access to third-party vendor websites; and all other OhioLINK-hosted services, including online databases, the OhioLINK central catalog, the OhioLINK Electronic Journals Center (EJC), the OhioLINK Electronic Book Center (EBC), OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD), OhioLINK Music Center, OhioLINK Finding Aid Repository, and the OhioLINK Digital Resource Commons (DRC).

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Electronic Services General Interest Research & Learning Services

Search-A-Roo and the new eJournal list are live!

Search-A-Roo and the new A-to-Z eJournal list are now available from the library homepage! Please note that we are still working our way through the various library sites and correcting miscellaneous links that point to the old services.

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Electronic Services Research & Learning Services

Serials Solutions ejournal catalog records suppressed

In preparation for the Discovery service (Search-A-Roo) launch on Saturday, September 28th, Serials Solutions catalog records have been suppressed from the UAL Catalog. We will replace these records with new records in the near future. In the interim, if you need to know if we have access to an ejournal search the A-to-Z list.

 

 

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General Interest Research & Learning Services

Banned Books Reading Today and Tomorrow

Members of the campus community will read from challenged/banned books today and tomorrow in the Bierce Library lobby between 12 and 1: To Kill A Mockingbird, The Holy Bible, Lolita, Clockwork Orange, The Scarlett Letter, Last Exit to Brooklyn, A Wrinkle in Time, and more…