Jack will work under the supervision of the Keeper of the Gallery to raise the Gallery’s public profile. She will manage web pages and create online exhibits and web-based social media. She will also organize promotional and outreach activities such as tours and educational programs. In addition, Jack will be responsible for record-keeping and management of the Gallery’s 22,000 historic objects.

Prior to this appointment, Jack worked with LEARN NC at the UNC School of Education as Associate Editor and Special Collections Librarian, and then as Managing Editor. She holds a B.A. in Environmental Studies from Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, and an M.S.L.S. from the UNC School of Information and Library Science .

Contact Jack at (919) 962-0104 or jack@email.unc.edu.

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Panel Discussion with Taylor Branch, William C. Friday, and Charles T. Clotfelter
Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012
5:30 p.m. Program | Sonja Haynes Stone Center Theater
Free and open to the public
Information: LizaTerll, Friends of the Library, (919) 548-1203

Three prominent critics of collegiate sports will discuss the topic “Big-Time College Sports: What Needs to Change?” during a panel presentation Feb. 28 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The free public program will begin at 5:30 p.m. in the Sonja Haynes Stone Center Theater.

The panel will feature Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and historian Taylor Branch, UNC President Emeritus William C. Friday, and Charles T. Clotfelter, author and professor at Duke University. Author Will Blythe will moderate.

At the program, the Southern Historical Collection in the Wilson Special Collections Library will display archival materials from the papers of Branch and Friday, and from the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics. The collection is sponsoring the program, along with Friends of the Library and the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History.

Branch’s article “The Shame of College Sports” appeared last year in The Atlantic magazine. An expanded e-book version, The Cartel: Inside the Rise and Imminent Fall of the NCAA, is available at Byliner.com. Branch’s previous books include The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling with History and the President and studies of the American Civil Rights movement. Branch, a 1968 alumnus, is a Morehead-Cain Alumni Visiting Distinguished Professor at UNC during the spring 2012 semester.

Friday served as president of the UNC system from 1957 to 1986, and later as president of the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust. He was a founding co-chair of the Knight Commission, which was established in 1989 with the purpose of drafting a reform agenda for the administration of intercollegiate sports. He earned a UNC law degree in 1948.

Clotfelter is the Z. Smith Reynolds Professor of Public Policy and professor of economics and law at Duke University. His most recent book is Big-Time Sports in American Universities (Cambridge University Press, 2011).

Blythe is a former editor of Esquire magazine. His books include To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever (HarperCollins, 2006), a chronicle of the UNC-Duke basketball rivalry. A 1979 UNC alumnus, he has written for the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, and the New York Times Book Review.

At the event, the Bull’s Head Bookshop will be selling books by Branch and Clotfelter.

Related Links

• Southern Historical Collection
• Taylor Branch Papers, 1865-2009
• William C. Friday Papers, 1942-1999
• Knight Foundation. Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics Records, 1989-2007

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

Most Duke University Libraries are open to the general public during certain posted hours. Beginning January 23, members of the public are welcome to visit and use the Libraries according to the following schedule:

• Monday-Friday: 8:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.
• Saturday: 9:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.
• Sunday: 10 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.

Outside of these hours, all library entrances will be card-access only. This applies to Perkins, Bostock, and Rubenstein Libraries on West Campus, and to Lilly and Music libraries on East Campus.

Please note that library hours for Duke University students, faculty, staff, and other Duke-affiliated visitors remain the same. For more information about library hours of operation, please see the  Duke Libraries website.

New Card-Access Entry Points
In addition to the revised schedule above, the double doors to Perkins and Bostock libraries beneath the Perkins/Bostock connector will be card-access only 24 hours a day beginning January 23.

To use these building entrances, library users will need to swipe their Duke ID card or Duke Alumni Card. Individuals without a Duke ID card or Duke Alumni Card are asked to enter through either of the main library entrances on the Academic Quad.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

The Duke University Libraries reserve the right to deny access to any person whose conduct is disturbing to others or detracts from the research, scholarship, and study environment of the Libraries.

For questions about these policies, please contact Duke University Libraries.

Related Links

• Revised Public Hours and Card-Access Entry Points (from Duke University Libraries)
• Contact Duke University Libraries

For event information, please contact Liza Terll, Friends of the Library, liza_terll@unc.edu, (919) 548-1203.

February 9, 2012
A Carolina Valentine: A Poetry Reading by Jeffery Beam Celebrating 35 Years at UNC (read more)
Poet and recently retired UNC Library employee will read from his work. Attendees are encouraged to bring canned goods for donation to the Food Bank of Eastern and Central North Carolina.
5:30 p.m. – Reading, Historic Playmakers Theatre
6:30 p.m. – Book signing, Anne Queen Faculty Lounge, Campus Y

February 28, 2012
Big-Time College Sports: What Needs to Change? (read more)
Panel discussion with author and historian Taylor Branch, former University of North Carolina President William C. Friday, and Duke University public policy and law professor Charles T. Clotfelter. Will Blythe, author of To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever, will moderate
5:30 p.m. – Panel discussion, Sonja Haynes Stone Center Auditorium

March 10, 2012
The Moseley Manuscript Map of North Carolina of 1737: Its History and the Hunt for Its Provenance
A recently discovered 18th-century map by Surveyor General Edward Moseley.
10 a.m – Program with independent scholar Michael McNamara

March 13, 2012
A Tribute to Son House
Southern Folklife Collection Blues Legacy Series.
5:30 p.m. – Lectures by Daniel Beaumont and Dick Waterman, and a panel discussion with Rory Block, Joe Beard, and John Mooney
7:30 p.m. – Tribute concert featuring Rory Block, Joe Beard, and John Mooney. Carolina Union
Purchase concert tickets through the Carolina Union box office, (919) 962-1449. Available February 14, 2012.

March 20, 2012
Southern Roots, Enduring Bonds: African American Families in North Carolina
Exhibit opening highlighting materials from the African American Family Documentation Initiative, including items from the papers of WRAL-TV broadcaster J.D. Lewis and his family.
5 p.m. – Exhibit opening
5:30 p.m. – Program with family and friends of J.D. Lewis

March 23, 2012
Music from the True Vine: A Tribute to Mike Seeger
Remembering musician and historian Mike Seeger (1933-2009), a member of the Seeger Family. The Mike Seeger Collection is held in the Southern Folklife Collection.
5:30 p.m. – Talk by Bill Malone, author of a biography of Mike Seeger
6:30 p.m. – Tribute concert with Alice Gerrard, Ginny Hawker, and Tracy Schwarz

March 29, 2012
“Maidens Call It Love-in-Idleness:” Potions, Passion, and Fairy Knowledge in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
In conjunction with the Rare Book Collection exhibition Nature and the Unnatural in Shakespeare’s Age.
5 p.m. – Exhibition viewing, Melba Remig Saltarelli Exhibit Room
5:30 p.m. – Program with UNC professor Mary Floyd-Wilson

April 4, 2012
Lux Libertas in Perpetuity: Historic Preservation at UNC
The 2012 Gladys Hall Coates University History Lecture, with Wendy Hillis, historic preservation officer at UNC.
5 p.m. – Exhibit viewing, North Carolina Collection Gallery
5:30 p.m. – Program with Wendy Hillis

April 10, 2012
The Invention of Scientific Reading
Adrian Johns, Allan Grant Maclear Professor of History at the University of Chicago, delivers a lecture in the UNC English and Comparative Literature department’s Critical Speakers series.
5:30 p.m. – Program with Adrian Johns

April 14, 2012
Researching African American Family History Workshop
Resources and techniques for using primary sources to research African American history.
9:30 a.m. – Coffee
10 a.m. – 1 p.m. – Program

April 24, 2012
The Japanese American Incarceration at Poston
A program about the experience of the Poston incarceration camp for Japanese Americans during World War II.
5 p.m. – Undergraduate researchers display Poston materials from Wilson Library
5:30 p.m. – Presentations by Poston survivor Joanne Iritani and UNC law professor Eric L. Muller

June 2, 2012
Currency in Chaos: How the Civil War Changed America’s Money
A discussion about Civil War currency and an opportunity to have experts evaluate your notes, coins, and other money items from the Civil War era.
9:30 a.m. – Coffee
10 a.m. – 1 p.m. Program

Explore "Driving Through Time"

The history of the Blue Ridge Parkway, America’s most visited National Park System site, is now online.

The new collection, Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina, was created through a collaborative project based at the Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Driving Through Time presents photographs, maps, news articles, oral histories, and essays documenting development and construction of the parkway’s North Carolina segment.

The site invites users to explore parkway history chronologically, geographically, or by dozens of topics from access roads and automobiles to wildlife and workmen. An interactive maps feature layers historical maps atop current road maps and satellite images. The comparisons provide insight into the parkway’s development and its impact on pre-parkway towns, farms, roads, and topography.

The 469-mile parkway radically altered the landscape of 29 Virginia and North Carolina counties when it was built between 1934 and 1987, and its construction sparked intense controversy, said Anne Mitchell Whisnant, adjunct associate professor of history at UNC and the project’s scholarly adviser.

Whisnant, author of the parkway history Super-Scenic Motorway (UNC Press, 2006) and the children’s book When the Parkway Came (Primary Source Publishers, 2010), was often frustrated as she combed archives and historic documents and tried to translate conflicts about routing and land rights into words.

“I found myself thinking, ‘If only I could see and show what and where they’re talking about, it would be so much easier to explain the arguments,’” she said. “Driving Through Time makes the park’s history visible and accessible to historians, planners, local communities, landowners, and anyone who wants to know more about this American landmark.”

At the heart of the project are thousands of items from three institutions that collaborated to create the site: The Wilson Special Collections Library at UNC; the Blue Ridge Parkway headquarters (a division of the National Park Service, located in Asheville); and the North Carolina State Archives.

Materials in the online collection include:

• Historic photographs showing construction of the parkway and images of communities it passed through;
• Maps depicting private land parcels purchased for the parkway, proposed alternate routes, landscape planning, and the completed parkway;
• Letters and documents pertaining to the community of Little Switzerland in McDowell and Mitchell counties, which sued the parkway;
• Oral histories from parkway designers and laborers;
• Images by the late N.C. photographer Hugh Morton, depicting the parkway as it passed Grandfather Mountain, which he owned.

Eleven essays share more insight into the building of the parkway and its impact. Whisnant and her students wrote about issues including competition between the tourism and logging industries, the parkway’s impact on the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and selection of the parkway route.

Also included are K-12 lesson plans that faculty from the School of Education developed to help students use the site’s extensive primary source materials and interpretive essays.

Driving Through Time was made possible by a $150,000 grant from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services under provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, as administered by the State Library of North Carolina.

Related Links

• Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina
• Super-Scenic Motorway: A Blue Ridge Parkway History, by Anne Mitchell Whisnant (UNC Press)

Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012
Historic Playmakers Theatre
5:30 p.m.
Information: Liza Terll, Friends of the Library, (919) 548-1203

Jeffery Beam, who recently retired after 35 years of service at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill libraries, will return to campus Feb. 9 to read from his poetry and sign copies of two new special publications of his work.

“A Carolina Valentine: A Poetry Reading by Jeffery Beam Celebrating 35 Years at UNC” will begin at 5:30 p.m. in Historic Playmakers Theatre on Cameron Avenue. A reception and book-signing will follow immediately in the Anne Queen Faculty Commons of the nearby Campus Y.

The event, sponsored by the Office of the Provost, the Friends of the Library, the Employee Forum, and the Bull’s Head Bookshop, is free and open to the public. Attendees are encouraged to bring canned goods for donation to the Food Bank of Eastern and Central North Carolina.

Two new publications by Beam will be released Feb. 9,  a reprint of his 1990 chapbook “Midwinter Fires” in the ReBound Series and a limited hand-printed handmade paper edition of Beam’s poem sequence “MountSeaEden” from his 2010 book Gospel Earth.

Related Link

• Jeffery Beam website

Watch a video about Articles+

Searching for journal articles, news stories, and e-book content has just become easier at UNC.

The new Articles+ search enables discovery of library resources using a single search box.  A simple query will return results from scholarly journal articles, newspapers, magazines, e-book chapters, dissertations, and more.

Researchers can revise results by limiting to peer-reviewed items, date of publication, language, and other criteria.

Articles+ is powered by Summon, a discovery tool developed by the Serials Solutions division of ProQuest.

Students and researchers have requested this sort of simple search across online content for years, said University Librarian Sarah Michalak, but the technology simply hasn’t been up to the task.

“Summon makes the Library’s investment in electronic journals truly pay off for the people who need to find and access articles,” she said. “We know this will improve research for nearly everyone.”

Kim Vassiliadis, Instructional Design and Technology Librarian, said the new discovery tool is an excellent resource not only for students who need a quick way to search, but also for scholars with complex multidisciplinary topics.

“Summon is terrific at finding articles across seemingly unrelated disciplines,” said Vassiliadis. “Since introducing it in December, we’ve received a lot of positive feedback from faculty and students alike.”

Librarians are eager to hear from students and staff. Try an Articles+ search and then share your comments and suggestions.

Related Links

• Search Smarter video demonstration

Read the 1812 Henderson's North Carolina Almanack

North Carolinians rang in the year 1812 with predictions of a hard frost on February 22 and thunder on July 23. They could learn when eclipses would take place; when the state’s federal, district, and county courts would convene; and how to revive a dead drowning victim.

Two hundred years after its publication, Thomas Henderson’s 1812 North Carolina Almanack has a new digital life.

It is the 10,000^th book that the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library has digitized from its collections using a high-speed scanner and software application known as the “Scribe.”

The selection of the almanac is especially meaningful for this milestone, said Robert Anthony, curator of the North Carolina Collection in UNC’s Wilson Special Collections Library.

“Two centuries ago, an almanac was often the only book in many North Carolina homes, along with a Bible,” said Anthony. “Selecting this work for digitization gives a very direct glimpse into daily life in the Tar Heel State.”

The Scribe scanner at the Carolina Digital Library and Archives

Developed for libraries by the San Francisco-based Internet Archive, UNC’s Scribe scanner arrived in 2007 as part of the Carolina Digital Library and Archives (CDLA) in Wilson Library. The CDLA has used the Scribe to scan and publish digital versions of rare and unique books that could otherwise only be consulted in Chapel Hill.

UNC’s “scribed” books are freely available through the Library’s catalog and the Internet Archive website. The volumes include early Spanish dramas, historic North Carolina business and legislative materials, and back issues of the UNC student yearbook Yackety Yack.

According to Jenn Riley, head of the CDLA, the Scribe program has significantly expanded digital library operations at UNC. “Now the Library can put content from our collections online on a scale that far exceeds what we could do in the past,” she said.

The Library operates an additional Scribe machine as part of the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center, housed in the North Carolina Collection. The Center offers free or low-cost digitization and online hosting services to cultural heritage institutions across the state.

Related Links

• Thomas Henderson’s 1812 North Carolina Almanack
• UNC Library materials on the Internet Archive
• Carolina Digital Library and Archives
• North Carolina Collection
• North Carolina Digital Heritage Center

A limited number of clinical health resources will continue to work for on-campus users during the outage. The UNC Health Sciences Library has published a list of these resources.

We apologize for this inconvenience. If you have questions about the outage before it occurs, please Ask A Librarian