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Friday, January 11, 2013

Visiting Author Wiley Cash

University Libraries presents New York Times bestseller writer and UNCG Alumnus Wiley Cash  in the Hodges Reading Room in Jackson Library, Wednesday, February 13, 2013 at 7pm. The event is free and open to the public. Learn a little about the author in this clip:



We hope to see you there!

Monday, January 7, 2013

Extra, Extra!

Students, staff and faculty!

Are you a fan of the New York Times? Did you know that there are tons of way to access it through the library and online? If you want historical articles from 1851 to the past three years you can use the New York Times Historical database. If you want current articles you can get to them through our catalog. Thanks to the dean of undergraduate studies you can also pick up hard copies of the paper at locations around the university, including two locations in Jackson Library. You can also access the online content on your computer or mobile device by going to http://www.nytimes.com/passes, here you can register and get free 24 hour passes to use the website, including mobile access!



If you prefer other newspapers we have plenty of access to those as well. You can try our Newspaper Source Plus database, it has access to over 555 newspapers. You can also use our Newspaper Guide to find even more access to different newspapers!

Need help finding a newspaper or accessing it? Ask us!

xoxo,

Irma

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

New Materials in the Harold Schiffman Music Library

Have you seen the renovations at the newly renamed Harold Schiffman Music Library yet? If not, make a new years resolution to head over the music building and check it out. Here are some of the newer materials located over there to help tempt you even more!

Books:

Dissonant divas in Chicana music : the limits of la onda by Deborah R Vargas

Shpil : the art of playing klezmer by Yale Strom

Not without madness : perspectives on opera by Fabrizio Della Seta; Mark Weir

Scores:

Scherzo-Tango by Sébastien Vachez; Sylvain Lemay

De-Cadenza: for accordion and String Quartet by Osmo Tapio Räihälä

Stunden-Blumen, hommage á Olivier Messiaen : for clarinet, violin, violoncello and piano / Stunden-Blumen, hommage á Olivier Messiaen : for clarinet, violin, violoncello and piano by Toshio Hosokawa

Piano sonata no. 2  by Adolphus Hailstork.





Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Best Books of 2012

Still hanging around greensboro? Looking for some books to read now that those finals are over with? Here a selection of books from various "best of" lists that we have in our University libraries. Happy Holidays and happy reading!



NPR's best books of 2012:

Canada by Richard Ford

The Brontes: Wild Genius on the moors: The story of a literary family by Juliet Barker

Behind the beautiful forevers by Katherine Boo

The art forger: a novel by B.A Shapiro

The lifeboat: a novel by Charlotte Rogan

NW by Zadie Smith

Blown covers: New Yorker Covers you were never meant to see by Francoise Mouly

Publishers Weekly best books of 2012

Bring up the bodies by Hilary Mantel

The round house by Louise Erdrich

All we know: three lives by Lisa Cohen

The New Yorker: Best Books of 2012

The constant heart by Craig Nova- A UNCG PROFESSOR!

Fear of music by Jonathan Lethem

Bewilderment: new poems and translations by David Ferry

Gone to the Forest by Katie Kitamura

Amazon best books of 2012: Editors picks

The yellow birds by Kevin Powers

Gone girl by Gillian Flynn

The Fault in our stars by John Green

The age of miracles by Karen Thompson Walker

Quiet: The power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking by Susan Cain