Tuesday Times

Join the Libraries for #GISDAY Festivities TOMORROW at CAST
GIS Day is tomorrow 11-2pm, on the second floor of the J.B. Hunt Transport Services Center for Academic Excellence in the EAST Initiative Suite, JBHT 263, 264 and 265. GIS Day promotes geographic information system technology and its applications. U of A’s GIS Day was planned by Jozef Laincz, Geosciences & Maps Librarian, and Rachel Linck, Geosciences Graduate Assistant, along with help from Terry Winn and others, in partnership with CAST. The program features presentations on topics will like data visualization and geologic mapping. History buffs might enjoy the presentation on the Historic Fayetteville Story Map by Mike Morisette of the city of Fayetteville. Check out the full line-up of events – and learn more about the Augmented Reality Sandbox hashtag competition – on the Newswire (and I’ve also pasted the program below). And check out Beth Juhl’s latest Database News post to find out more about PolicyMap – a database that allows users to see how social data can be revealed through the use of GIS techniques.

Recent Blog Posts Help You Celebrate Native American Heritage Month
Joshua Youngblood’s most recent Special Collections blog post highlights some of our rare holdings related to the Cherokee, like a set of legal volumes that contain the Constitution and Laws of the Cherokee Nation, as adopted in 1892. Beth Juhl’s Database News post “Native American Heritage in Government Documents” links to several significant resources to aid readers in understanding the legacies and contributions of native peoples.  And Tim Zou provided a selection of Native American documentaries available to the University of Arkansas community through Kanopy. Visit these posts, and many others, over at 365 McIlroy.

Get Your Tickets for the Final Installment of The Homestead Series
“Snout to Tail” is the final event in “The Homestead Series: Celebrating and Preserving the Culinary History of the Natural State” and it starts at 6pm this Thursday, 11/19, at Tusk and Trotter in Bentonville. Chef Digby Stridiron, culinary ambassador of the Virgin Islands, and Tusk & Trotter’s chef Rob Nelson, will prepare a seven-course tasting menu showcasing their passion for farm-to-table cuisine and utilizing the whole pig. The event benefits Arkansauce: The Journal of Arkansas Foodways. You can purchase tickets online at downtownbentonville.org.

ARGYLE Day at the Libraries is THURSDAY!
Now a tradition at the Libraries, Argyle Day is the closest we come to a uniform around here, and a fun reason to drag out the socks you usually only wear when you golf. The argyle pattern features diamond shapes in contrasting colors, so pick out your fave and meet us for a group photo after lunch on Thursday. More details about time and place will be coming your way soon. Check out a snap of some of last year’s gams here.

GET INVOLVED!

• The Annual Study Abroad photo contest winners are now hanging in the Level 2 west halls!
• Jonathan Torres’s latest installment of the Walton Reader’s Spotlight features Daniel Harris, Director of the Tyson Center for Faith & Spirituality.
• The latest exhibit from Special Collections, on view in the Walton Reading Room, helps document KUAF’s early years as a 10-watt student radio station supervised by a faculty member in the 1970s, through the last 30 years as our area’s NPR affiliate.
• Mango Languages Has a New Skin: Check out the web redesign, and maybe learn some of the Cherokee language to celebrate Native American History Month while you’re there.
• Schedules for Men’s Basketball and Women’s Basketball, along with this season’s parking information for Men’s and Women’s games, are now available online.

Out of Office Notices

Calendar of Libraries’ Events – Mark Your Personal Calendars!

#GISDAY PROGRAM OF PRESENTATIONS

• 11-11:20 a.m.
  Data Visualization: Organizing the Map
  Winifred E. Newman, Department of Architecture, University of Arkansas
• 11:20-11:50 a.m.
  Historic Fayetteville Story Map
  Mike Morisette, the city of Fayetteville
• 11:50 a.m. to 12:10 p.m.
  STATEMAP Program – The Development and Use of a Multi-Page Geodatabase for Field Data Collection, Symbology, Editing and Archival
  Ty Johnson, Arkansas Geological Survey
• 12:10-12:30 p.m.
  Using Public Datasets and Geospatial Analyses to Investigate Tectonic Controls on Spring Discharge Locations along the Southern Ozark Dome, Northern Arkansas, USA
  Joshua M. Blackstock, Department of Geosciences, University of Arkansas
• 12:30-12:50 p.m.
  Stream Ecosystem Function and Physicochemical Characteristics in Two Northern Arkansas Flow Regimes
  Allyn Dodd, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas
• 12:50-1:10 p.m.
  Using GIS to Estimate Regional Carbon Budgets
  Kusum Naithani, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas
• 1:10-1:30 p.m.
  Application of GIS and Other Technology to Fighting Wildland Fires
  Tina Rotenbury, U.S. Forest Service
• 1:30-1:50 p.m.
  Application of GIS in Hazard and Risk  Mapping in Mountainous Communities of Northeast Afghanistan
  Ikramuddin Bahram, Department of Geosciences, University of Arkansas