Irma's World at UNCG

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

New Books

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 Kinsella

Slight of hand by Phillip Morgolin

Z: a novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Fowler

Non-Fiction

The girls of Atomic City : the untold story of the women who helped win World War II

Contagious : why things catch on by Jonah Berger

How to create the perfect wife : Britain's most ineligible bachelor and his enlightened quest to train the ideal mate by Wendy Moore

July 1914 : countdown to war by Sean McMeekin

Sharp suits by Eric Musgrave

What's wrong with homosexuality? by John Corvino

FDR and the Jews by Richard Breitman and Allan J Lichtman

A Sand County almanac & other writings on ecology and conservation by Aldo Leopold and Curt Meine

Nice companies finish first : why cutthroat management is over-- and collaboration is in by Peter Shankman

Secrets of Silicon Valley : what everyone else can learn from the innovation capital of the world by Deborah Perry Piscione

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Exams and Coffee

Give the people what they want! What do people want? They want free things and they want caffeine so we give you FREE COFFEE.

Because we know you are working hard studying for your exams we here at University Libraries will be providing you (our hard working students) with coffee on May 1, 2 and 5 at 9pm and Midnight.

Happy Studying!

Monday, April 29, 2013

New DVD's

Animation

Naruto Shippuden, Episodes 167-17

Comedy

Spies like us

This is 40

Documentary

Bestiaire

Birders : the Central Park effect

Money & medicine

YERT : your environmental road trip

Drama

Foreign

Music

Thriller

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Meet Nathan Roberts - Winner of 2013 Undergraduate Research Award

This year's winner researched and wrote a paper examining how a predefined culture created by a hegemonic power in the world system has affected development of consumer culture in China for Professor Greg Knehans’s Politics of Globalization course in the Fall 2012. Learn more about this topic, the research involved and background on our winner in this podcast, as Kimberly Lutz interviews Nathan Roberts, the 2013 Winner of University Libraries Undergraduate Research Award for PSC 344 paper "Chinese Consumers: World Systems and World Cultural Analysis of Culture Hybridity."

Photo by J. Stephen Catlett

The University Libraries Undergraduate Research Award is given in recognition of an outstanding undergraduate research project by an individual or a group that best demonstrates the ability to locate, select, and synthesize information form library resources and uses those resources in the creation of an original research project in any media. The winning entry wins a cash prize of $500 funded by the university libraries. This year it was awarded on April 7th 2013 at the undergraduate honors convocation.

Hosts: Irma Minerva, Nathan Roberts, & Kimberly Lutz

Time: 4:07 | Size: 3.86 MB | Download .mp3 | transcript
Music: "ants........................" by Anchor Méjans (intro)

Links:

Click here for detail on how to apply for the University Libraries Undergraduate Research Award.
Nathan's research paper will soon be available in the UNCG Institutional Repository, NCDOCKS
Contact a library subject specialist in your area!

Help the Libraries, Help Yourself: Amnesty for Overdue and Lost Books

This May, the UNCG Libraries is changing circulation systems and wants as many items as possible returned before May 16 so that accounts may be cleared before the switch.

To help the effort we are offering fee and fine amnesty! From April 24-May 16, you may return Jackson or Harold Schiffman Music Library Lost or Overdue books and pay no fines or fees. No questions asked!

Here's the "fine" print: Fines and fees will only be waived for Libraries books returned during this period. No credit will be given towards fines or fees for reserves, technology or AV equipment, DVDs, damaged items, or on any items returned prior to April 24.

As always, no refunds or credits can be given on items more than 6 months overdue.

If you are not ready to return some library materials, please plan to renew those items before May 16.

If you have any questions or would like more information, please contact the Access Services Department at 334-5304 or reserves@uncg.edu.