Tuesday Times
March 10, 2020
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All in for Arkansas
Today is the last day to sign up to be an All in for Arkansas social media ambassador for the Libraries! (Well, it’s the last day to get a t-shirt for signing up, anyway.) This year, we’re raising funds to create a Children’s Literature Nook for our U of A student teachers on April 1-2. Stay tuned for more info!
Recently Processed Collection
The University of Arkansas University Relations Records (MC 1864.UA) contains university press releases, media clippings of university news stories and other materials created or collected by the Office of University Relations in the course of promoting and marketing the university.
Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
The Libraries are co-sponsoring the Northwest Arkansas Art and Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon in the Sculpture Building (SCUL) Room 205 at the University of Arkansas from 1 to 3 p.m. Friday, March 13.
U of A’s First Zine
University of Arkansas students, faculty and staff are invited to create a page for the zine HASHTAG at an event set for 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday, March 18 in Arkansas Union 310. The zine will be archived in Special Collections.
Promo/Tenure Info Session
All University of Arkansas faculty applying for promotion or tenure in the near future are invited to the session set for 9:30-11 a.m. Monday, March 30, in Room 102 of Mullins Library. Registration required.
GrantForward Workshops
The VCRI is offering three upcoming workshops to show researchers how to use GrantForward, a new recommendation service replacing Pivot.
Research Week
Check out this Newswire article for an update on Research Week.
Arkansas Visionaries
Check out the latest exhibit on display in Special Collections through June.
Archiving Your History
Kara Flynn will present Archiving Your History at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 12 at the Fayetteville Public Library.
Grad Write-In
Monday, March 23 and/or Tuesday, March 24, 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Cato Springs Research Center (1475 W. Cato Springs Rd)
Registration will close March 16 or when full.
Each day will begin at 8:30 a.m. with breakfast. Writing will begin at 9 a.m. and go until 4:30 p.m. We will have a lunch break at noon, as well as (optional) 5-minute breaks at the beginning of each hour with things like chair yoga, meditation, etc. Each day is limited to a max of 30 graduate student participants. This event is sponsored by the University Libraries, the Civil Engineering Department, and the Office of Graduate Student Support.
How Libraries Enable New Discoveries with Text and Data Mining
1 p.m. Tuesday, March 31
This is a webinar that features a WCOB Accounting Professor who was part of a pilot project between the Library and ProQuest to explore ProQuest’s text and data mining tools. Register.
Tune up your LibGuides with March Madness: LibGuides Edition
All sessions will be in Mullins 220Q (in the reference office complex) and attendance is limited to 10, so please use the registration links to sign up. Please bring a tablet or laptop if you want to follow along. We’ll offer a series of three sessions (each repeated once) covering these topics:
LibGuides and Sustainability: reducing, reusing, and recycling content
10:30 – 11:30 a.m., Wednesday, March 11
or
3:30 – 4:30 p.m., Thursday, March 12
Maintaining your Guides: keeping content correct and current after publication
10:30 – 11:30 a.m., Wednesday, March 18
or
3:30 – 4:30 p.m., Thursday, March 19