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Karen Williams: Campus Presentation, Candidate for Dean of the University Libraries
The campus community is invited to attend the open presentations in which finalists for the position of Dean of the University Libraries are asked to speak about their vision for the future of academic libraries. Karen Williams, Associate University Librarian for Research and Learning, University of Minnesota Libraries
-Campus presentation: Wednesday, May 15, 9:30-11am, ILC 140 More...
Campus Presentations: Candidates for Dean of the University Libraries
Karen Williams, Associate University Librarian for Research and Learning, University of Minnesota Libraries
-Campus presentation: Wednesday, May 15, 9:30-11am, ILC 140 Carolyn Henderson Allen, Dean of Libraries, University of Arkansas
-Campus presentation: Monday, May 20, 9:30-11am, ILC 150 Joyce L. More...
Library Video Contest: Winners Announced!
Thanks to everyone who submitted a library video, and everyone who voted! Voting closed May 1, 2013. Winners 1st Place: Avin Shah for UA Library Video 2nd Place: Dylan Kearney and Symeon Platts for the University of Arizona Library More...
Finals Study Break
Come take a relaxing, tasty study break hosted by the University of Arizona Libraries during the weekend before finals! Enjoy a variety of home-baked goodies, store-bought treats and beverages.Therapy dogs from Therapy Animals of Southern Arizonawill also be on hand to help students de-stress. Location: Main Library, 2nd floor lobby More...
Free Coffee @ Main Library!
Fuel up! Free coffee @ the Main Library! May 1st–8th, 6pm–8am Second Floor Lobby–East side {Brought to you by UA Student Unions & UA Libraries} More...
You Asked...We Listened!
You asked...we listened! We've added extra hours for you. The Main Library will be open 24 hours a day for finals: Friday, April 26 through Friday, May 10, closing at 6pm. After 9pm, a valid CatCard is needed for building access and use. More...
“50 Years: Tucson’s Mexican American Community” (lecture)
In the final program of the Civil Rights in Arizona Lecture Series, Lupe Castillo, Professor, Pima Community College and Margo Cowan, Public Defender, Pima County, will lead a discussion exploring Tucson's Mexican American community.
Held in conjunction with Special Collections current exhibition “50 Years: Civil Rights in Arizona from 1963 to Today,” the Civil Rights in Arizona Lecture Series explores how the fight for civil rights has impacted local Tucson communities. More...
Digital Debut: Historic Mexican & Mexican American Press Collection (event)
On Wednesday, April 24, from 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. in Special Collections, the public is invited to celebrate the debut of a new digital collection that makes accessible more than 150 years of news coverage documenting the voice of the Mexican and Mexican American community: the Historic Mexican and Mexican American Press Collection. Curated, researched, and digitized by librarians and archivists, in consultation with University of Arizona professors, the collection features 20 significant Mexican and Mexican American publications, many in Spanish, published in Tucson, El Paso, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sonora, Mexico from the mid-1800s to the 1970s. In addition to a preview of the collection, the debut event will also feature a panel of distinguished speakers sharing the stories and significance of these historic publications: -Juan Manuel Calderón Jaimes, Consul of Mexico;
-Alberto Elías, owner of Old Pueblo Printers and grandson of the owner, publisher and editor of El Tucsonense;
-Arturo “Arte” Moreno, owner of the Los Angeles Angels and grandson of the owner, publisher and editor of El Tucsonense;
-Roberto Cintli Rodriguez, Assistant Professor, UA Department of Mexican American Studies, former journalist, publisher and editor of Americas 2001 and El Corazon de Aztlan;
-Celeste González de Bustamante, Assistant Professor, UA School of Journalism; and
-Lupe Castillo, co-editor of ¡Coraje! and recipient of the 2011 YWCA Lifetime Achievement Award. The Historic Mexican and Mexican American Press Collection is publicly available to encourage discovery and scholarship by students, researchers, and community members. More...
5,000 Theses & Dissertations Added to the UA Campus Repository
UA Campus Repository as part of the Theses and Dissertations Retrospective Digitization Project. When the project is completed, more than 25,000 titles will be freely available - including the very first UA thesis from 1895, and the first UA dissertation, published in 1924 - J.V. More...
Vote for the best video!
Help us choose the best video submitted in the library video contest! Only students can vote. Winners will be announced on May 2, 2013. http://www.library.arizona.edu/applications/voting More...
Early Books Lecture Series - “The Map of Cuauhtinchan No. 2"
“The Map of Cuauhtinchan No. 2: A Claim for Territorial Rights in 16th Century Mexico’s New World Order” with Jaime Fatás, Director, Spanish Translation and Interpretation Program, UA Department of Spanish and Portuguese Special Collections owns copies of a recent bilingual edition of Cave, City, and Eagle's Nest: An Interpretive Journey Through the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. More...
Early Books Lecture Series - “The Golden Bull: Medieval Politics of the Highest Caliber in a Manuscript”
“The Golden Bull: Medieval Politics of the Highest Caliber in a Manuscript” with Albrecht Classen, Professor, UA Department of German Studies In 1356 the German emperor and the prince electors all agreed on a new treatise that regulated the relationship between the head of the country and the princes in a new way, paving the way for the future territorialization of the Holy Roman Empire. More...
Public Library Bookmobile @ UA
Want a copy of the latest best seller? Need to catch up on some leisure reading and DVD viewing? Running short on time and can’t make it to your local public library branch? We’ve got a solution! Visit the Bookmobile to: -Apply for a library card
-Checkout one of more than 6,000 books, magazines, DVDs, and books-on CD
-Return items checked out from any public library branch
-Request items from other public library branches for pick-up on the Bookmobile SPRING 2013 DATES
-February 5
-April 2
-May 7
(Note: In March, visit the Bookmobile at the Tucson Festival of Books, March 9 & 10) Time: 10:00 a.m. More...
Early Books Lecture Series - “Golden Boughs: De luxe Early Virgil Manuscripts”
“Golden Boughs: De luxe Early Virgil Manuscripts” with Cynthia White, Professor, UA Department of Classics Special Collections houses two exceptional manuscript facsimiles of the works of Virgil, the ancient Roman poet who wrote the Bucolics, Georgics and Aeneid: the Vatican Virgil (Vat. lat. 3225), the oldest and one of the most glorious extant examples of an illustrated book of classical literature, and the Augustan Virgil (Vat. More...
Two Library Personnel Awarded for Creating Innovative & Cutting-Edge Software
Guide on the Side software, developed at the University of Arizona Libraries by Mike Hagedon, senior applications systems analyst/developer, and Leslie Sult, instructional services librarian, is an easily accessible, Web-based, open-source software that interactively guides users through search strategies for online resources.
Although created to help students learn how to use library databases, Guide on the Side software can just as easily be adapted by any organization – education, government, or non-profit – to help users navigate complex websites. More...
Annual Luncheon: Friends of the University Libraries
Friends of the University Libraries Annual Luncheon
Monday, March 11, 11:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Lunch served at noon
Arizona Inn The Friends of the University Libraries will hold their annual luncheon at the Arizona Inn featuring two keynote speakers, authors Penelope Niven and her daugher Jennifer Niven. All in the Family: Mother-daughter authors Penelope and Jennifer Niven will discuss how and why they wrote their new books and share some of their adventures along the way, including glimpses of how the family relationship affects their work. Penelope Niven will discuss her most recent book, Thornton Wilder: A Life, and share stories of Wilder's visits to Tucson and the University of Arizona Libraries. More...
Women Writing Mystery Lecture Series: A Conversation with Margaret Coel, Interviewed by J.A. Jance
Special Collections holds its third annual Women Writing Mystery Lecture Series program at the 2013 Tucson Festival of Books featuring Margaret Coel, New York Times best-selling author of the acclaimed Wind River mystery series set among the Arapahos on Wyoming's Wind River Reservation and the Catherine McLeod novels. This exciting lecture program, held each year at the Tucson Festival of Books, highlights the Women Mystery Writers Collection housed in Special Collections. More...
“50 Years: Tucson’s LGBTQ Community” (lecture)
In the third program of the Civil Rights in Arizona Lecture Series, UA scholars and researchers will lead a discussion exploring Tucson's LGBTQ community. The panelists include Adela Licona, Associate Professor, UA Department of English; Stephen Russell, Director, Frances McClelland Institute, UA Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences; and Jamie Lee, Doctoral Student, UA School of Information Resources and Library Science. Held in conjunction with Special Collections newest exhibition “50 Years: Civil Rights in Arizona from 1963 to Today,” the Civil Rights in Arizona Lecture Series explores how the fight for civil rights has impacted local Tucson communities. More...
Trial database: Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan (1947-71), Part I and Part II
The University Libraries are pleased to offer trial access to Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan (1947-71), Part I and Part II. Part III (1972-80) of this database is already available. This collection covers the years from 1947 to 1980, encompassing files on all the countries of South Asia: principally India and Pakistan, but also Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Ceylon/Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim and the Maldives. The collection is split into three, chronologically based parts: Section I: Independence, Partition and the Nehru Era, 1947-64 Section II: South Asian Conflicts and Independence for Bangladesh, 1965-71 Section III: Afghanistan and the Cold War, Emergency Rule in India, and the Resumption of Civilian Rule in Pakistan, 1972-80 Access More...
Trial Database: Data Citation Index
Data Citation Index.
The Data Citation Index is designed to be the first single source of data discovery for the sciences, social sciences and arts and humanities.
It fully indexes a significant number of the world's leading data repositories of critical interest to the scientific community, including over two million data studies and datasets.More...
"Open Science: Accelerating the Pace of Scientific Discovery" (lecture)
Scholar, researcher and author Michael Nielsen will be at the University of Arizona on Thursday, February 28, 2013 to deliver a talk titled “Open Science: Accelerating the Pace of Scientific Discovery.” The talk, which is free and open to the public, will be held from 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. in the Kiva Room at the Student Union Memorial Center.More...
Special Collections Launches Redesigned Website
In February, Special Collections unveiled a newly designed website offering improved visual and navigation elements as well as enhanced functionality. Users can now browse nearly 1,000 collections by broad subject area (such asHistory of ScienceorPerforming Arts) or use thewebsite searchto begin exploring. The new site uses responsive design, a technology that allows users to experience the full functionality of our website no matter what device you use, including tablets and smart phones. We hope the new website makes it easier to conduct research and explore the unique collections held in Special Collections. More...
Library Tools in D2L
USE YOUR LIBRARY! D2L LIBRARY TOOLS are customized for your courses. Material is specifically geared toward your courses: Find articles Search the catalog Research & Writing Tools Chat with a librarian More...
“50 Years: Tucson’s Native American Community” (lecture)
In the second program of the Civil Rights in Arizona Lecture Series, Robert A. Williams, Jr., E. Thomas Sullivan Professor of Law and American Indian Studies, UA Rogers College of Law, will lead a discussion about Indian law cases, Arizona, and the Supreme Court during the Civil Rights Era. Held in conjunction with Special Collections newest exhibition“50 Years: Civil Rights in Arizona from 1963 to Today,” the Civil Rights in Arizona Lecture Series explores how the fight for civil rights has impacted local Tucson communities. More...
Public Library Bookmobile @ UA
Want a copy of the latest best seller? Need to catch up on some leisure reading and DVD viewing? Running short on time and can’t make it to your local public library branch? We’ve got a solution! Visit the Bookmobile to: -Apply for a library card
-Checkout one of more than 6,000 books, magazines, DVDs, and books-on CD
-Return items checked out from any public library branch
-Request items from other public library branches for pick-up on the Bookmobile SPRING 2013 DATES
-February 5
-April 2
-May 7
(Note: In March, visit the Bookmobile at the Tucson Festival of Books, March 9 & 10) Time: 10:00 a.m. More...
Win $500 in the Library Video Contest!
Grab your video camera, get creative, and help us promote the library!
Create a video that introduces students to the library. The winning video will be used both on the library website and in orientations. Secure your claim to fame! The 1st place winnerreceives $500 to the UA BookStores. More...
Photo Friday: Interiors
Interiors: This investigation of enclosed spaces, objects, people, light and shadow offers a range of images from the intimate to the psychologically charged. It includes work by Jeff Wall, Sonya Noskowiak, Minor White, Max Yavno, Lee Friedlander, Jack Welpott, James Welling, Imogen Cunningham, Danny Lyon, and Jo Ann Callis. Photo Friday offers an exclusive themed selection from the Center’s renowned collection of photographs—unframed for close inspection in the second floor viewing room—every month. More...
“The Thieving, Bloody Thirteenth Legislature” (lecture)
“The Thieving, Bloody Thirteenth Legislature,” a program tracing the tumultuous founding of the University of Arizona, will be presented from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, January 29 at Special Collections, 1510 E. University Blvd. In the presentation, Christopher Carroll, Ph.D., and Distinguished Professor at the University of Arizona, will describe events which led to the creation of the University of Arizona in 1885. More...
Trial Database: L'Année philologique
L'Année philologique, a great bibliographic source of scholarly works relating to all aspects of ancient Greek and Roman civilizations.
This database includes more than 810,000 records, with over 15,000 new records added every year, and indexes more than 1,000 journals -- making it essential for providing comprehensive coverage of classical scholarship throughout the world. More...
University Libraries 'Guide on the Side' Honored as Cutting-Edge Technology
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University of Arizona Libraries Honored for Cutting-edge Services by American Library Association The American Library Association (ALA) has selected five libraries for offering cutting-edge technologies in library services, honoring libraries in Boston, New York City, Tucson, Ariz., Orlando, Fla., and Le Roy, N.Y. The ALA honored the University of Arizona (UA) Libraries for serving its community using novel and innovative methods.More...
Dean of Libraries Announces Return to Faculty
Libraries Dean Carla Stoffle Stepping Down, Returning to Faculty
By University Communications Carla J. Stoffle, dean of University Libraries and the Center for Creative Photography, has announced that she will return to the faculty on July 1. Stoffle came to the University of Arizona to become dean in 1991. More...
“50 Years: Civil Rights in Arizona from 1963 to Today” (exhibit)
New Exhibition Reflects on 50 Years of Civil Rights in Tucson Communities
On August 28, 1963 thousands were drawn to the National Mall to be part of what would become a historic event: the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. On a national level, the march spurred the passing of important civil rights legislation. More...
“50 Years: Tucson’s African American Community” (lecture)
The Civil Rights in Arizona Lecture Series opens on Tuesday, January 15 from 7 to 9 p.m. with “50 Years: Tucson’s African American Community.” A screening of the documentary film “In Their Own Words: The 1960s civil rights movement in Tucson” will be followed by a panel discussion with Charles Ford, Ph.D., More...
Photo Friday: Suburbia
Suburbia: to some a utopia of homogeneity and manicured lawns; to others a nightmare of boring uniformity and residential sprawl.
January's Photo Friday presents works by eight photographers of suburbia and suburban living. The photographs of Lewis Baltz, Joe Deal, William Larson, Bill Owens, Mickey Pallas, Andrew Phelps, Arthur Taussig, and Garry Winogrand document various aspects of suburbia from the marketing and building of suburban developments to the realities of living in these communities. Photo Friday offers an exclusive themed selection from the Center’s renowned collection of photographs—unframed for close inspection in the second floor viewing room—every month. More...