May 02
Beginning May 12 the UWF Libraries will observe the following hours of operation. The John C. Pace Library (Pensacola) will be open Monday through Thursday from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., closed Saturday and open Sunday from 1 to 9 p.m. The Curriculum Materials Library (Pensacola) will be open Monday through Thursday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and closed Saturday and Sunday. The Emerald Coast Campus Library (Fort Walton Beach) will be open Monday through Thursday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday from 1 to 5 p.m. and closed Sunday. Intersession hours for all UWF Libraries are Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and closed on Saturday and Sunday. All listed times are available here
May 01
| The faculty and staff at the UWF Libraries are proud to recognize the staff and student workers who will be receiving their degrees at commencement on May 3rd. Congratulations on a job well done and best wishes for the future. |
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Apr 25
As the UWF Library has expanded its media collection, we’ve acquired certain DVD titles that are not playable on standard NTSC Region 1 (North American) DVD players. An example of such a video collection is Berlin Alexanderplatz (UWF Catalog entry) (Wikipedia entry) (IMDB entry), a recently re-mastered and re-released 15 ½ hour German TV miniseries written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
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Apr 23
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Up late studying for finals? Need to get away from your roommate?
Due to finals, the John C. Pace Library will hold extended hours from Wednesday, April 23rd to Thursday, May 1st. |
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Apr 17
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Too pretty to sit inside? But you have research to do? With ArgoAir, you can sit outside and use your wireless laptop to do your research (remember that Library laptops cannot leave the building). Then print everything you need and pick it all up at the library.
Before you get started with your research in the sun, here are a few tips for printing from your laptop: |
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Apr 14
“I don’t get it.”
Poetry, you mean.
Yes, April is National Poetry Month, so it’s our chance to salute all that stuff we just don’t quite get. We could celebrate by ripping poems apart for any morsels of meaning. Or, we could take some suggestions from the Academy of American Poets’ list of 30 Ways to Celebrate. |
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Mar 31
Maps are powerful tools for telling a story. Maps with imagery have even more power.
Maps are physically located in the UWF Pace library on the 1st floor and temporarily in the basement map room. Atlases are located on the 1st floor back wall of the Pace library; they are divided into 3 sections based on size (regular, oversize, folio).
For research, a good place to begin is the library’s online Research Guides for Maps and for Geography. These guides introduce you to the library’s collections and accesses to online journals and databases, and then to web sites via the left side scroll bars.
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Mar 19
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It’s official! Caldecott Award books are not just for young children anymore. This year’s winner, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, by Brian Selznick is over 500 pages while most Caldecott winners average only 40 pages. And this is not the only unusual aspect of this year’s winner. The work is a unique mix of words and illustrations that feel much like a black and white movie. On Amazon the author writes, “I’ve used the lessons I learned from Remy Charlip [his favorite childhood author and illustrator] and other masters of the picture book to create something that is not a exactly a novel, not quite a picture book, not really a graphic novel, or a flip book or a movie, |
but a combination of all these things.” You almost have to see it to believe it.
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