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Focus on Technology, Wednesday, October 21, 2009 in the E. H. Hereford University Center. UT Arlington's premiere showcase for instructional, research, and workplace technology, formerly known as Tech Fair. The lunch program features speaker Douglas Rushkoff,Social & Media Theorist, Author & Professor of Communications, speaking on the topic "From Sputnik to MySpace: The New Education Race, and How to Win It". More on the event and Sign up to attend the lunch programor sponsor a lunch table for UT Arlington students (email Tommie Wingfield)

Focus On Faculty
A speaker's series to share faculty research with students, faculty and staff. Learn about fascinating research that's taking place on our campus.

Friends of the UT Arlington Library Meetings
The Friends meet several times during the year and host programs of interest to the community at large. These programs are generally free and open to the public.

Time Frames Online
Since 2003, the treasures of Special Collections have been highlighted in a weekly feature in the Sunday edition of the Arlington Star-Telegram. Time Frames regularly spotlights a photograph, map, or document drawn from a broad spectrum of subjects in our extensive collections of the history of Arlington, the Dallas-Fort Worth area, Texas, Mexico and the greater Southwest. And now with “Time Frames Online” (TFO) you have an opportunity to view selected Time Frames features as a vodcast!

Everything is Interrelated: Alexander von Humboldt and Our Nineteenth-Century German Connections Everything is Interrelated: Alexander von Humboldt and Our Nineteenth-Century German Connections is the title of the fall 2009 exhibit in UT Arlington Library's Special Collections. United States President Thomas Jefferson once called Berlin-born Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) “the most important scientist whom I have met.” Humboldt was the most internationally recognized scientist and explorer of his time. The University of Texas at Arlington Library Special Collections commemorates the 150th anniversary of the death of Alexander von Humboldt, with an exhibit celebrating this remarkable man whose influence dominated United States’ exploration and cartography for more than half a century between the time of the Lewis & Clark Expedition and the American Civil War. Exhibit highlights include a rare manuscript copy of Humboldt’s map of New Spain, nineteenth-century German hand atlases with thematic maps of the United States, Texas, and Mexico, and printed panoramic views depicting the valley of the Humboldt River in Nevada and the German settlement of New Braunfels in Texas.

Revisualizing Westward Expansion: A Century of Conflict, 1800-1900 Revisualizing Westward Expansion: A Century of Conflict, 1800-1900 is the title of the fall 2008 exhibit in UT Arlington Library's Special Collections and the theme of the Sixth Biennial Virginia Garrett Lectures on the History of Cartography that was held on October 3, 2008. The lectures' theme grew from a desire to highlight the fact that the American West is a strength of several of the D/FW Metroplex's greatest collections, including UT Arlington's Virginia Garrett Cartographic History Library, the Amon Carter Museum, and Southern Methodist University's DeGolyer Library.

This exhibit runs through the fall semester. Maps on display follow the theme Maps of Conflict in the Nineteenth-Century American West and will include numerous impressive smaller maps from UT Arlington's collections as well as some significant maps generously loaned by the DeGolyer Library at Southern Methodist University and a private collector. On display will be a manuscript map of Mexico relating to the 1803-1804 North American trip of Alexander von Humboldt, the German geographer, scientist, explorer, and intellectual genius of his time. Also on exhibit will be original printed maps of the period associated with other famous men of that century of conflict such as Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, Zebulon Pike, Albert Gallatin, John C. Fremont, Zachary Taylor, William H. Emory, and John Wesley Powell.

One Book Display: The Best Books Never Written
October 3rd - 31st
Central Library first floor New Book Wall (in Sam’s Click Café, south wall)
Librarians have created this exhibit to highlight books that only "exist" as part of other books. For example, this semester's OneBook selection, The History of Love, is about a book called "The History of Love." Other examples include the "Necronomicon," a book of pure evil spells, but it doesn’t really exist - except in the pages of HP Lovecraft's novels, and "The Princess Bride," also a fake book in a real book by the same name.

Making audacious claims and creating fake dust jackets, authors, and including suitably germane fake "paraphernalia," the exhibit aims to entertain as well as highlight this literary type. An accompanying brochure is avialable to explain the exhibit and provide call numbers to the REAL books that the fake display books appear in.

This exhibit is free and open to all. For more information contact Joshua Vossler at Vossler@uta.edu.

Vote for me!: Campaign Paraphernalia Elections Exhibit
October 1st - 31st
Central Library first floor, next to elevators under the LCD Screen

President Spaniolo's campaign buttons will be on display in a case, with a statement about the collection from the president. In addition to this static exhibit, television campaign ads for presidential candidates ranging from Eisenhower up to the Obama/McCain will play on the display screen by the first floor elevators. A poster nearby with screenshots of the videos will discuss the campaign ads in full. A handout is available, highlighting library databases and resources that provide candidate information. The exhibit will be in place October 1 - 31. For more information, contact Eric Frierson at frierson@uta.edu or 817-272-7517.

One Book Display: Finding Don Quixote in Brooklyn
The OneBook choice for 2008-09 is The History of Love, an award-winning book that has been translated into more than 25 languages, voted Amazon.com's Number One Novel of the Year and shortlisted for the prestigious Orange Prize.

The exhibit is now in the Multicultural Collection (MCC) on the second floor of Central Library. The OneBook is a program for all UT Arlington freshmen, who will study, discuss, and write about the same book in their first semester English composition classes, freshman seminars, and selected other classes.

"Finding Don Quixote in Brooklyn" is hosted by Central Library for the OneBook Program and is about The History of Love by Nicole Krauss. This exhibit seeks to provoke new insights and ideas for understanding the themes of the book by highlighting some of its literary allusions. The exhibit singles out Miguel de Cervantes, Nicanor Parra, Bruno Schulz and Antoine de Saint-Exúpery as key references and includes biographical information about these authors, excerpts from their novels, quotes from The History of Love, and passages from literary criticism describing their themes and contributions to World Literature.

For more information contact Chris Conway at Conway@uta.edu or visit the OneBook Academic Affairs page at http://www.uta.edu/uac/onebook-home. Free and open to all.

The Reeder Children's Theatre Presents... Memories of Fort Worth's Reeder School
Drawing on the extensive Dickson and Flora Reeder Papers and Reeder School Records, the journey begins with the origins of Reeder School and explores the selection, production, and performance of the school's plays as well as the students' immersion into the art, history, music, dance and culture of a play's era. Original hand-painted Reeder School costumes, headpieces, and props colorfully accent original play scripts, musical scores, programs, production notes, photographs, and costume and set design sketches. The exhibit is a collaborative effort between UT Arlington Information Literacy librarian Evelyn Barker, Special Collections manuscript archivist Brenda McClurkin, and Hip Pocket Theater producer and costume designer, Diane Simons.

Exhibits in the Science & Engineering Library
The UT Arlington Science & Engineering Library (SEL) presents several exhibits a year. Recent exhibits have been "Alma Singer's Wilderness Survival", "SEL Safari", and "Database Jewels". View photos of SEL exhibits

Annual Report
The purpose of the Annual Report is to document and communicate the significant accomplishments, initiatives, and contributions of The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries and their staff. The Annual Report also recognizes the important contributions of the Libraries' donors.

Compass Rose
The purpose of The Compass Rose is to raise awareness of Special Collections’ resources and to foster the use of these resources. The newsletter also reports significant new programs, initiatives, and acquisitions of Special Collections.

exSEL News
exSEL is a newsletter focused on the Science & Engineering Library.

Library-News
Library-News is an electronic announcement service of important information regarding resources and staff offerings in the UT Arlington Library. This is a free subscription list, but resources described frequently require a UT Arlington computer account.

Library Notes
Library Notes is intended to foster community support and appreciation for Library programs and services and to spotlight grants and contributions.

News You Can Use
News You Can Use is issued periodically with news of new databases, services, and events. This newsletter is distributed to students, faculty, and staff.