The Library, in partnership with the Center for Faculty Excellence, will offer workshops about these powerful design tools during the spring 2013 semester.

Workshops will take place in room 124 of the R.B. House Undergraduate Library. Then practice and use your skills in the Undergraduate Library’s Design Lab, featuring high-end equipment with Adobe and other software.

All classes except for Advanced Adobe Photoshop are appropriate for beginners. Sign-up requires a valid UNC Onyen.

Basics of Adobe Photoshop
Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013
10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Become acquainted with Photoshop’s most important photo editing tools and learn how to create dynamic publications by designing a flier.
NEW: Basics of Photoshop added for Friday, April 5, 2013 at 1 p.m.

Basics of Adobe Illustrator
Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013
10:30 a.m. – noon
Learn how to create images and text-based logos with vector graphics.
NEW: Basics of Illustrator session added for Friday, Feb. 22, 2013 at 9 a.m.

Basics of Adobe InDesign
Thursday, March 21, 2013
10:30 a.m. – noon
Give your articles, books, and brochures pizazz. This workshop will cover color swatches, paragraph and character styles, and templates for quick e-books.
NEW: Basics of InDesign session added for Friday, March 22, 2013 at 11 a.m.

Advanced Adobe Photoshop
Thursday, April 18, 2013
10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Learn advanced techniques, including re-coloring images, channels, advanced masking, blending images, content aware fills, and puppet warps. Prior experience with Photoshop is required.

Related Links

• Workshop sign-up 

Library instructors will teach the ins and outs of these two powerful tools for document design and photo editing. No prior knowledge is needed for the 90-minute workshops, which will each take place in room 124 of the Undergraduate Library. Advance registration is required.

Introduction to the Adobe InDesign Document Creation Program
Monday, Nov. 5
2-3:30 p.m.
Register

Introduction to Adobe Photoshop
Wednesday, Nov. 14
10:30 – noon
Register

For information about the workshops, contact Emily King, Coordinator of E-Learning Services: emking@unc.edu, (919) 962-1355.

Visit the symposium website

The end of the Maya Long Count calendar cycle on Dec. 21, 2012, is the inspiration for a free public symposium at UNC on Oct. 25 and 26. “13 Bak’tun: New Maya Perspectives in 2012” will place the 2012 date within a larger historical and cultural context that includes the voices of Maya people.

The events for the symposium are free and open to the public. The website maya2012.unc.edu contains complete schedule information. Registration is recommended but not required.

The Maya word bak’tun signifies a calendar cycle of 400 years of 360 days. Ancient inscriptions indicate that once the 13th bak’tun is reached, the cycle starts over.

Exhibits

The symposium will include two exhibits. Ancient and Living Maya in the 19^th and 20^th Centuries: Archaeological Discovery, Literary Voice, and Political Struggle will open Oct. 8 in the Wilson Special Collections Library and will be on view in the Melba Remig Saltarelli Exhibit Room through Jan. 27, 2013. The exhibit features Maya materials from the Rare Book Collection’s George E. and Melinda Y. Stuart Collection.

Ancient and Living Maya Through the Photographic Lens will be on view from Sept. 18 through Dec. 14 in the FedEx Global Education Center. The exhibit will feature twenty large images of Maya people and sites, as well as a display of Maya garments and textiles. National Geographic staff members took the photographs while on assignment from the 1950s onward.

Symposium keynote and highlights

• A keynote address by Victor Montejo, a Maya Pop’ti novelist, poet, and scholar from Guatemala. Montejo, Professor Emeritus of Native American Studies at UC Davis, will open the symposium Oct. 25 at 5:30 p.m. in the Wilson Special Collections Library. Beginning at 5 p.m., attendees can view the exhibit Ancient and Living Maya in the 19^th and 20^th Centuries: Archaeological Discovery, Literary Voice, and Political Struggle.
• A curator’s talk by former National Geographic archaeologist George E. Stuart, Ph.D. ’75, at the FedEx Global Education Center at 6 p.m. on Oct. 26.
• Contemporary Maya poetry readings on Oct. 26 at 6:30 p.m. in the FedEx Global Education Center. Poets Briceida Cuevas Cob (Maya Yucatec) of Mexico and Rosa Chávez (Maya K’iche’-Kaqchikel) of Guatemala will read in Spanish and their native Maya languages. Translation will be provided.

Lectures and learning

Lectures and open classes by UNC professors and Maya scholars will take place on Oct. 26.

• 11 a.m, Wilson Library - Emilio del Valle Escalante (Romance Languages and Literatures) will lead an open class on how contemporary Maya conceive the end of the Maya Long Count calendar and represent it in current literature.
• 12 p.m, UNC School of Law (Van Hecke-Wettach Hall) – Maya activist Cristina Coc will discuss indigenous land rights in Belize.
• 2 p.m., Wilson Library - Patricia A. McAnany (Anthropology) will lead an open class on classic Maya use of the Long Count calendar at major capitals that supported strong scribal traditions between AD 275 and 919.
• 3:30 p.m., Morehead Planetarium and Science Center – David Mora Marín (Linguistics) will give a lecture about Mayan hieroglyphic writing.

The symposium is hosted by the Douglass Hunt Lecture of Carolina Seminars, the Friends of the Library, the Institute for the Study of the Americas, the Rare Book Collection at Wilson Library, and UNC Global, with additional support from the American Indian Center, the Carolina Digital Library and Archives, the departments of Anthropology, Linguistics, Romance Languages and Literatures, Latin American and Iberian Resources at the University Library, the Morehead Planetarium and Science Center, the Research Laboratories of Archaeology, and the School of Law.

Related Links

• 13 Bak’tun: New Maya Perspectives in 2012 (symposium website)

Preserving Your Intellectual Legacy at UNC

An Information Session for Faculty and Staff Nearing Retirement
Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012
4-6 p.m.
Wilson Special Collections Library, Pleasants Family Assembly Room
Information: Emily Silverman, Library Development, (919) 962-3437

Retiring faculty and staff members can get answers to the question “What do I do with my books and papers?” during a free program on Sept. 6, from 4 to 6 p.m., in the Wilson Special Collections Library.

Librarians and archivists will discuss ways to preserve your intellectual legacy at UNC by donating books and papers to the Library, and options for placing scholarly materials elsewhere if the UNC Library is unable to accept them. Attendees will also learn about achieving charitable goals through gift planning.

Following the panel discussion and Q & A, a reception will take place in the North Carolina Collection Gallery of Wilson Library.

Topics will be:

• Managing and placing your personal book collections – Libby Chenault, Davis Library
• Preserving your scholarly work (papers, research materials, data) – Jay Gaidmore, University Archives
• Accomplishing personal and charitable goals at Carolina – Elizabeth Ayers, J.D., Gift Planning

Registration is requested. RSVP by Aug. 31 to Emily Silverman, Associate Director of Library Development, (919) 962-3437 or essilver@email.unc.edu.

Spouses and guests are welcome.

This program is sponsored by the Friends of the Library and the Office of Gift Planning.

Download a list of tours (pdf)

Hit the library before you need to hit the books! Free library tours during the week of Aug. 20 will help you get started with research and assignments.

Tours meet in the main lobby of each library.

Undergraduate Library

• Monday, Aug. 20: 10 a.m., 11 a.m., noon, and 3 p.m.
• Tuesday, Aug. 21: 9 a.m. and 1 p.m.
• Wednesday, Aug. 22: 10 a.m.
• Thursday, Aug. 23: 3 p.m.
• Friday, Aug. 24: 11 a.m.

Davis Library

• Monday, Aug. 20: 10 a.m.
• Tuesday, Aug. 21: 10 a.m.
• Wednesday, Aug. 22: 3 p.m.
• Thursday, Aug. 23: 2 p.m.
• Friday, Aug. 24: noon

Wilson Library

• Monday, Aug. 20: 9 a.m.
• Tuesday, Aug. 21: 11 a.m.
• Wednesday, Aug. 22: noon
• Thursday, Aug. 23: 10 a.m.
• Friday, Aug. 24: 1 p.m.

Can’t make it to a tour? Be sure to check out the Library’s online tutorials to learn more about starting research, evaluating information, and avoiding plagiarism.

Have a great year, everyone!

Download event flier (pdf)

Saturday, June 2, 2012
Wilson Special Collections Library
9:30 a.m. Coffee and Pastries | Main Lobby
10 a.m. Program | Pleasants Family Assembly Room
Free and open to the public
Information: Liza Terll, Friends of the Library, (919) 548-1203

Civil War currency will be the topic of a June 2 program at the Wilson Special Collections Library. Participants who bring samples of Civil War currency will also have the opportunity for experts to evaluate their items.

The free public program will begin at 10 a.m. in the Pleasants Family Assembly Room. Registration will open at 9:30 a.m.

Wendell Wolka will deliver the keynote speech, “And the World Turned Upside Down: The Effect of the Civil War on the Paper Money of the United States both North and South.” Wolka writes and teaches about numismatics. He is a governor of the American Numismatic Association and is governor and past president of the Society of Paper Money Collectors.

Other topics and speakers will be:

• Fractional paper money, issued by the federal government to ease the shortage of circulating coins (Dennis Edens, vice president of the Raleigh Coin Club);
• Printers who produced Civil War paper money, with a focus on North Carolina’s state and private issues (Jerry Roughton, co-publisher of the North Carolina Numismatic Scrapbook, and author of several books about North Carolina numismatics); and
• Counterfeiting and its effects on the war and the Southern economy (Bob Schreiner, past president of the North Carolina Numismatic Association, and author of several articles on obsolete paper money).

At 1 p.m., local experts, along with some of the speakers, will examine notes, coins, and other Civil War money items brought by attendees. The experts will evaluate currency, but not provide appraisals.

The event is sponsored by the North Carolina Collection, the Friends of the Library, the Society of Paper Money Collectors, the North Carolina Numismatic Association, and the Raleigh Coin Club.

The program continues the Wilson Special Collection Library’s series of programs related to the 150^th anniversary of the Civil War. In 2012, Wilson Library launched The Civil War Day by Day, a blog that presents one document each day related to the corresponding day of the war. An exhibition about the Civil War in memory is planned for 2015.

Related Links

• North Carolina Collection

Download event flier (pdf)

Thursday, Apr. 26, 2012
1-4 p.m
Davis Library periodicals room (main floor)
Free and open to the public
Information: Ardys Weiss, (919) 962-1324

Hitting the books for finals? Take a break and make one of your own with the Library’s Preservation Department.

On the afternoon of Apr. 26, preservation staff will have all of the materials you need to create a small pamphlet that you get to keep. Look for them in the periodicals room, to your right as you enter Davis Library. The sewing process will only take about ten minutes.

Preservation staff will also offer tours of the binding and repair lab.

The event is in honor of national Preservation Week, sponsored by the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services.

For more information, contact Ardys Weiss, Preservation Department, (919) 962-1324.

Related Links

• UNC Library Preservation Book Care and Handling Guidelines
• Preservation Week
• Photographs from 2011 Make Your Own Book event

Download event flier (pdf)

Researching African American Family History Workshop
Saturday, Apr. 14, 2012
Wilson Special Collections Library
9:30 a.m. Coffee and Pastries | Main Lobby
10 a.m.-1 p.m. Program | Pleasants Family Assembly Room
Free and open to the public
Register by emailing Biff Hollingsworth at biff@unc.edu

Information: Liza Terll, Friends of the Library, (919) 548-1203

Researching and preserving African American family history will be the topic of a workshop at UNC on Saturday, Apr. 14.

The workshop will focus on resources and methods for genealogical research; preservation of African American family collections; and use of primary sources in library collections.

The free public event, set for 10 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. in the Wilson Special Collections Library, is being sponsored by the Southern Historical Collection (SHC) and the Friends of the Library. Due to space limitations, attendees are requested to register by emailing Biff Hollingsworth at biff@unc.edu.

Coffee and pastries will be available for workshop participants at 9:30 a.m.

Speakers:

• Dorothy Spruill Redford, former manager of the Somerset Place State Historic Site and the author of Somerset Homecoming: Recovering a Lost Heritage, will discuss use of primary resources such as the Southern Historical Collection’s Pettigrew Family Papers,  Anne Cameron Collins Papers, and Cupola House Papers to document her enslaved ancestors at Somerset Plantation.

• Holly Smith and Biff Hollingsworth, UNC librarians in the Southern Historical Collection, will discuss how to preserve personal collections of archival material and how to use library resources to conduct genealogical research on African Americans.

• Joey Fink of the Southern Oral History Program will share tips for conducting oral history projects.

The workshop is part the African American Family Documentation Initiative, an effort to acquire and make available for research a wide range of archival materials (letters, journals, photographs, and the like) to document the experiences of black North Carolinians and their families.

Also included in the initiative is the exhibit Southern Roots, Enduring Bonds: African American Families in North Carolina, on view in the Southern Historical Collection (4th floor) through July 1, 2012.

The exhibit tells the stories of black families and communities in the South, and encourages African American families to partner with the Library in preserving their family history.

To learn more about the African American Family Documentation Initiative, contact Holly Smith in the Southern Historical Collection at (919) 962-1345 or email wilsonlibrary@unc.edu.

Related Links:

• Southern Historical Collection (SHC)

• Exhibit Encourages African American Families to Preserve Their History

• African American Family Documentation Initiative

• UNC Press page for Dorothy Spruill Redford’s Somerset Homecoming

Southern Historical Collection Exhibit
Wilson Special Collections Library, 4^th floor
March 20 – July 1, 2012
Information: wilsonlibrary@email.unc.edu

An exhibit in the Wilson Special Collections Library will tell the stories of black families and communities in the South, and will encourage African American families to partner with the Library in preserving their family history.

Southern Roots, Enduring Bonds: African American Families in North Carolina will be on view in the Southern Historical Collection (4^th floor) March 20 through July 1, 2012. It will mark the launch of the African American Family Documentation Initiative in the Southern Historical Collection (SHC).

The focal point of the exhibit will be photographs, letters, and documents from the newly acquired Lewis Family Collection. Pioneering broadcaster J.D. Lewis was North Carolina’s first African American radio announcer, hired at WRAL in 1947. For nearly five decades, he was a leading local figure on radio and television, including as host of “Teenage Frolic,” a popular weekly dance program that debuted in 1958 on WRAL television.

Lewis’s daughter, Yvonne Lewis Holley, and her family chose to donate their father’s papers to the SHC in order to help preserve their family legacy.

“The boxes in our basement were filled with newsclippings, letters, photographs, and recordings, many from the 1950s and 1960s,” said Holley. “We wanted to make sure that these materials would go to an institution and actually be used by students, scholars, and the general public, and not just sit in boxes.”

Also on exhibit will be items relating to Civil Rights activist Floyd McKissick and his family, and archival photographs, letters, and news clippings related to African American families in Durham, Raleigh, and across North Carolina.

SHC archivist Holly Smith is the initiative coordinator and part of the team organizing the exhibit. She said she hopes North Carolina’s African American families will recognize the depth of the Library’s commitment to caring for family treasures and making them available for students and scholars to learn from.

“The University has a duty and obligation to the surrounding community to preserve the history of the people who worked, slaved, and labored in this area,” said Smith.

To learn more about the African American Family Documentation Initiative, contact Smith in the Southern Historical Collection at (919) 962-1345 or email wilsonlibrary@unc.edu.

Related Links

• African American Family Documentation Initiative

The lunchtime .eDU (for “.engage! Digital University”) workshops will take place every other Wednesday from 12:15 to 12:45 p.m. Librarians will introduce some of the latest electronic tools that you can use in class, at a job, or for fun.

.eDU topics are as follows:

• Feb. 1: Prezi (presentation software)
• Feb. 15: UNC WordPress (blogging)
• Feb. 29: Photoshop
• Mar. 14: Dropbox (file storage and sharing)
• Mar. 28: Google search secrets
• Apr. 11: Google Sites (website creation)

No registration is required for the classes, and you may attend only those sessions that interest you. General computer skills are required, but you do not need specialized prior knowledge.

For more information about .eDU classes, contact Kim Vassiliadis, Instructional Design and Technology Librarian, (919) 843-2310.

Related Links

• .eDU information