Meet Jimmy Humphrey - Winner of 2012 Undergraduate Research Award

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This year's winner researched and wrote a paper on missionary work politics, culture, and ethical globalization for Professor Roberto Campo’s international global studies senior seminar. Learn more about this topic, the research involved and background on our winner in this podcast, when Kimberly Lutz interviews Jimmy Humphrey, the 2012 Winner of University Libraries Undergraduate Research Award for his IGS 400 paper "Missionary Work, Politics, Culture, and Ethical Globalization."

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 16th 2012 at the undergraduate honors convocation.

Hosts: Irma Minerva, Jimmy Humphrey, & Kimberly Lutz

Time:8:41 | Size: 5.97 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.
• Jimmy's research paper will soon be available in the UNCG Institutional Repository, NCDOCKS
• Check out the International Global Studies Program
• Contact a library subject specialist in your area!

Virtual International Librarianship Webinar

On March 2, Beth Filar Williams hosted a webinar using Skype to highlight a February 2012 international internship when she hosted a virtual intern in Uzbekistan who is an online student in the Digital Libraries Learning (DILL) program. Iskander presented about the internship, the DILL program, and libraries in his country, along with Elena, an instructor with University of Parma and part of DILL, who discussed those same aspects from her perspective. The Webinar is now streaming and can be viewed. Thanks especially to the Libraries Digital Projects staff - Robert for recording it and David for lending his nice HD camera.

• Video of webinar
• Iskander's Slides & photos
• Elena's Slides
• The toolkit - Iskander's project
• Read the interview blog post from Barry Miller for more info about project.


• Here is the bibliographic information for Elena's article mentioned in the webinar:
  Corradini, E. (2012) Aspects of multimedia information retrieval research and practice in Italy: a critical account, LIBRI, Vol. 62,No. 1

Celebrate the Blues with the Friends of the UNCG Libraries

The Friends of the UNCG Libraries will celebrate blues music and support the university libraries with a dinner on Wednesday, March 28, 2012. The program will feature Bill Ferris, historian of the blues, who is heard on this podcast with Jeri Rowe of the News & Record, and local blues artist Logie Meachum. Tickets may be ordered from the UNCG Box Office at 334-4849. Dinner tickets must be reserved by March 21, but program tickets costing $18 may be obtained while they last through the time of the program, which is 8:30 that evening.


“Logie” Meachum, a blues musician and storyteller and PhD student at UNCG, spoke with radio host Frank Stasio this week as part of Stasio’s WUNC program, “The State of Things.” Along with Dr. Bill Ferris, Meachum will headline the Friends of this UNCG Libraries' celebration of blues music. Listen to the story!

Green Leak - Recycling E-waste @UNCG

This Green Leak of the week discusses e-waste recycling at UNCG and landfill bans in NC.

Ben Kunka of OWRR discusses this topic in the 5th podcast in our series about recycling and waste reduction at UNCG.



Transcript (pdf)

Watch the previous podcasts:

• Introduction


• Plastics


• Comingled paper


• Office Paper
  

Green Leak: Recycling at UNCG - Office Paper

Did you know that some types of paper can be recycled in a way that makes money for UNCG?

In this fourth video in our recycling series, Ben Kunka of OWRR tells us about office paper recycling and why it's good to keep office paper separate from commingled paper.





Transcript (pdf)

Watch the previous podcasts:

• Introduction
  
• Plastics
  
• Commingled Paper
  

Green Leak: Recycling at UNCG - Commingled Paper

Find out what commingled paper you should use that can be recycled at UNCG! Ben Kunka of OWRR discusses this topic in the third podcast in our series about recycling and waste reduction at UNCG.




Transcript (pdf)

Watch the previous podcasts:

• Introduction


• Plastics
  

"Library to Go"--New Video

When we wanted to create a video about some of the services the University Libraries offer, we asked UNCG students for help. Thanks to all the students in MFA candidate's James Gould's Advanced Media Lab for their very professional production of this new video.



Transcript (PDF)