Tuesday Times

Tuesday Times – February 21, 2017

Thrilling Thursday
We have three events coming up this Thursday, Feb. 23. A staff meeting will be held at 9:30 a.m. in Room 104, Elizabeth Toombs will present It Lives in Stories: Cherokee Storytelling in the Arts from 2-3:30 in the Walton Reading Room, and UA Law professor Uche Ewelukwa will give a presentation on copyright and intellectual property for Libraries faculty and staff at 4 p.m. in ARKU 507.

Reminder: Supercomputing Webinar Next Tuesday
A 90-minute webinar entitled “What’s so super about supercomputing? A very basic introduction to high performance computing” offered by the ALA’s Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) will be shown next Tuesday, Feb. 28 at 2 p.m. in Mullins 486 (Weare Conference Room). Get a jump start on your professional development and learn: why librarians should care about High Performance Computing, HPC terminology and working environment, examples of problems appropriate for HPC, HPC resources at institutions and nation-wide, and low-cost entry-level programs for learning distributed computing.

Nomination for National Library Worker’s Day Awards Now Open
The submission form for NLWD nominations is now fully functional on StaffWeb.

Good Luck, Phil!
Phil Jones applied for a travel grant, endowed by the Kress Foundation and administered by the Art Libraries Society of North America, to support his attendance at the 2017 conference of ARLIS UK & Ireland, “(R)evolution: Re-Imagining the Art Library,” to be held at the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin. He is grateful to Molly Boyd and Lynaire Hartsell for their critiques of his proposal.

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