It’s been reported this morning that the library’s webpage www.lib.uconn.edu was not working but the problem has been fixed and the page is up and running normally.
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DD/ILL Electronic Document Delivery Update
As of Friday afternoon, DD-ILL’s electronic document delivery is again available. During the recovery process, however, we lost about 1,000 documents that had been posted.
If you are concerned about your “missing” documents, please email the DD/LL team at udoc@uconn.edu.
askHomer Off Nov. 25 & Nov. 26
Attention students and faculty:
Due to the holiday and lack of staff askHomer Live will be off Thursday 11/25 and Friday 11/26.
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone
A reminder that the library will be open from 9-5, November 22-24 (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday).
We will be CLOSED Thursday 11/25/04 and Friday 11/26/04 Saturday 11/27/04 and Sunday 11/28/04.
We will see you bright and early Monday morning November 29th!
Happy Thanksgiving!
2005 Faculty Honors Conference Registration
REGISTRATIONS ARE NOW BEING ACCEPTED for “Undergraduate Research and Scholarship: Fostering Engagement and Creativity,” the 2005 Faculty Honors Conference.
The conference will occur on Thursday, January 13, 2005
8:00 A.M. to 1:30 P.M.
Rome Ballroom
This exciting event – sponsored by the Honors Program, in collaboration with the Vice Provost for Research and Dean of the Graduate School and the University Libraries – will be free and open to all UConn faculty and staff members on a first-come, first-served basis. To learn more and to register on-line, please go to:
http://honors.uconn.edu/honorsconf.htm
White Boards in Group Study Rooms
White boards have been added to all of the group study rooms at the Jeremy Richard Library. So all you creative types can sketch clever illustrations or get your ideas across to your study group by showing them what something should look like.
Markers and brushes can be borrowed from the Library’s Circulation Desk with a UConn Student ID card.
Stamford Campus Open House Nov. 18th
REMINDER TO ALL UCONN STAMFORD CAMPUS COMMUNITY
On Thursday, November 18th, from 4:30 to 6:30 pm the UConn Stamford Campus will be hosting our fall Open House for prospective students.
Latin American News in LexisNexis Academic
LexisNexis Academic has added feeds of the UPI Chile and UPI Latin America wires in Spanish. Go to the Guided News Search Tab Step one select:>Non-English Language News> Step two:>Spanish Language News.
There is also a new “Latin America News Digest” source in step one: select>World News>North> step two: select> South America News. The product summarizes local business and economic news in English.
State of the Library 2004-2005
To the UConn Library Staff:
A conference call will be set up on Monday November 15, 2005 at 2:30 PM with our Director of University Libraries Brinley Franklin discussing the Libraries Academic Year 2005.
An email with the conference call phone number and login instructions will be sent soon.
Remember, this is your one (and only) opportunity this year to ask Brinley any
question you want and get an honest answer! Or forever hold your peace 🙂
2005 Graduate Student Paper Competition
The Family Division announces its 2005 Graduate Student Paper Competition. Papers should be of professional quality, and may relate to any aspect of sociology of the family. Authors should be currently enrolled as graduate students, or individuals who received their Ph.D.s in May 2004 or later. To be eligible, a paper may not be published, accepted, or under review for publication. Papers that have been presented at a professional meeting or submitted for presentation at a professional conference are eligible. Papers must be student-authored; they can be authored by one or more students, but may not be co-authored with a faculty member or non-student. Papers should be no more than 35 pages in length, including all notes, references, and tables. Send papers and a cover letter specifying that the paper is to be considered for the Family Division Graduate Student Paper Competition to:
Nancy Mezey
Department of Political Science/Sociology
400 Cedar Avenue
Monmouth University
West Long Branch, NJ 07764-1898.
Alternatively, papers may be sent electronically to Dr. Mezey at: nmezey@verizon.net
Papers are due no later than JANUARY 15, 2005. The winner and any runners-up will be announced in Spring 2005. The winner(s) will receive a modest cash stipend, registration fees, and an opportunity to present her/his paper at the SSSP conference, held in August 2005 in Philadelphia.