Archive for March, 2010
UF Digital Collections New Features
The UF Digital Collections have new user features, allowing users to • Send an item to a friend via email • Save an item to your bookshelf and add user comments to the item (comments are not displayed to others on the item, but will show within your bookshelf) • Save a search, or browse [...]
Read More..>>Feed Your Brains
We must all be vigilant as the Zombie outbreak spreads to UF campus. Peak infection is estimated to occur April 6-11. To help prepare students and ensure that they are certified to access resources from safe, secure locations, the UF Libraries are hosting a “Feed Your Brains” workshop on Tuesday, April 6th from 5:00-6:00pm. Feed [...]
Read More..>>ARTBOUND juried artists’ book exhibition entry deadline extended
Students (graduate or undergraduate) making books in book arts and/or fine arts programs across the United States are invited to participate in ARTBOUND by submitting work to a juried artists’ book exhibition and permanent collection at The University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries! Entrants are to submit handmade, artists’ books printed in edition. Books [...]
Read More..>>Call for Readers and Edible Book Entries
The UF George A. Smathers Libraries are looking for readers for its eighth annual Read-A-Thon to be held April 12-14 and entries for the fourth annual Edible Book Contest on April 15. Readers share a ten-minute segment of a short story, poem, play or excerpt from a favorite book under the canopy on the Plaza [...]
Read More..>>New exhibit: The Broadway Melody: Musical Theatre Highlights from the Great White Way 1900-1950
Smathers Library 2nd floor gallery Through April 30, 2010 At the turn of the 20th century, the Broadway musical theatre was an amalgam of European operettas, minstrelsy and ethnic stereotypes. Eventually this innocent patchwork quilt of entertainment would evolve into a more sophisticated product and, by the second decade, Broadway was the entertainment capital of [...]
Read More..>>The Art of Curating an Art Exhibit
A presentation by Barbara Elleman Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. UF Education Library, Norman Hall Using examples from the Virginia Lee Burton and Tomie dePaola exhibitions that she curated at The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Ms. Elleman will discuss the pleasures and challenges of curating an art exhibit. Barbara Elleman [...]
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