The University of Texas at Arlington Library

Contents

Horton Foote

UT Arlington Conversations

Banned Book Week

Virginia Garrett Lectures

Focus on Faculty

Sister City Exhibits

Friends of the Library

Other Events

Featured Databases

Library Locations &  . . . . . . . . .Hours

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Library Events--2006-2007

Did you know?

The University of Texas at Arlington has an online calendar of events where all of our library events are listed. The following is a partial list of the upcoming year's speakers and events. Be sure to check back to the university calendar, and note that it has an interactive feature: if you are a user of Microsoft's Outlook program you will note in the bottom of each calendar item the line "copy this event into your personal desktop calendar." Clicking on the will automatically enter the event details into your Outlook Calendar.

UT Arlington Conversations '06: Power

OneBook: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini.

UT Arlington Conversations is a program designed to engage students, faculty, and staff in a campus-wide, year-long discussion of a theme related to a significant issue. The cornerstone of this program will be a common reading experience, called OneBook, shared by all freshmen in their ENGL 1301: Freshman Composition and EDUC 1131: Freshman Seminar courses. Find a display with more information and handouts on the first floor of Central Library.
 

The book chosen by the OneBook committee for this year’s common reading experience is The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. This debut novel tells the story of Amir, a privileged young boy living in Afghanistan in the 1960s during the last days of the monarchy, just before the Russian invasion. . . .While we will focus on the issues of power, the novel addresses such themes as intolerance, violence, cultural conflicts, betrayal and redemption, honor and dishonor, guilt and forgiveness, identity, loss, and father-son relationships. Events are being planned as this newsletter goes to press.

Banned Book Week Event

From September 15-30, 2007, an exhibit will be in place in the first floor of Central Library illustrating some aspect of book banning in the United States. On Sept. 20 (time and title not available as this goes to press) a panel discussion on Freedom of Speech will be held in the Central Library sixth floor parlor, to be moderated by UT Arlington President James Spaniolo. The panel members will include Kit Lively from the Dallas Morning News and the UT Arlington office of Public Affairs is assisting with the event arrangements.

Virginia Garrett Lectures in the History of Cartography

This lecture series is a biannual event, held at The University of Texas at Arlington Library in early October. The next lectures are scheduled on October 6, 2006, in conjunction with the Texas Map Society Meeting, on October 7, 2006. For information about the Garrett Lectures and the associated exhibitions, please contact Carolyn Kadri at kadri@uta.edu or 817-272-7153 , Cartographic Archivist for Special Collections.

Focus on Faculty - 2006-2007 Speakers

Focus on Faculty is a speakers' series, sponsored by the UT Arlington Library to highlight the work of UT Arlington faculty. It began in 2002-2003 as a way to provide a forum for outstanding faculty to share their research and achievements with students, faculty and staff on this campus and with the citizens of Arlington. The speakers who are invited have received major awards for research, teaching or service.  These events are free and open to the public.
	September 27, 2006 UT Arlington President James Spaniolo ~ Sept 27 12:00-1:30, Bluebonnet Ballroom, “The Power of Ideas”
	October 11, 2006 Laurie Porter ~ 12:00-1:30, Central Library Parlor “Quiet Power: The Plays and Films of Horton Foote”  Dr. Porter’s many awards include UT Arlington’s Outstanding Research Achievement Award 2006, Arlington Star-Telegram Service Learning Award 2006 and the Fulbright Award, Charles University, Prague C.R., 2003.
	November 15, 2006 Cynthia Trowbridge ~ 12:00-1:30, Central Library Parlor “The Power of Performance: Women’s Olympic Bobsled Team and Athletic Trainers Combine for Success” Dr. Trowbridge is Assistant Professor and Clinical Education Coordinator for the Athletic Training Education Program, Department of Kinesiology at  UT  Arlington.
	January 31, 2007 Dr. Robert Gatchel ~ 12:00-1:30, Central Library Parlor Professor & Department Chair, Psychology, and winner of the 2006 UT Arlington Distinguished Record of Research Achievement. His topic will be “The Management of Chronic Pain.”
	February 28, 2007 Dr. Bob Woods ~ 12:00-1:30, Nedderman Hall, Rm. 100 Professor and Faculty Advisor Formula SAE; Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering His topic is “The Power of Teamwork (Formula SAE Race Car).”

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Sister City Exhibits:

Celebrate Arlington, Texas, and Bad Königshofen in Bavaria, Germany

Sept. 14 - 20 Two exhibits will be set up on campus in recognition of this 55-year-long relationship, one on the first floor in Central Library and one in the Language Acquisition Center on 3rd Floor of Trimble Hall. From the City of Arlington Sister Cities page:

"It was in the summer of 1951 that Mr. Kurt Zühlke, city manager of the German town then called Königshofen (later Bad Königshofen), visited Arlington, Texas, at the end of a 3-month, 26-state study tour of the United States. Mr. Zühlke was in the U.S. as a participant in an adult education exchange program, but because he was a city official he was also given opportunities to learn about American municipal government." This statement begins the story of how the small town of Arlington, Texas, adopted an equally small Bavarian town in 1951, forging links that have remained strong over the decades. The complete story is told in the City of Arlington Sister City pages. In addition to necessities of life, gifts of art have passed between the cities.

According to Martha Liehsel, who with her husband Gerhard Liehsel are Arlington Sister City representatives working to install the exhibits, "Two artists from UT Arlington, Benito Huerta and Nicholas Wood, took part in the creation of the two collaborative art works, one of which is in Arlington and one in Bad Köenigshofen. They, along with Arlington artist Celia Munoz, worked with Bad Köenigshofen artists on the two projects. Pictures and background information on those art works will be included in the exhibits."

Friends of the UT Arlington Library

Programs 2006-2007 This is a partial schedule of the upcoming season of speakers who will address the Friends of the UT Arlington Library. Unless otherwise announced,  meetings are held on Friday evenings at 7:30 in the Central Library sixth floor parlor. Book signings and receptions follow each talk.  Call Betty Wood at 817-272-7421 to RSVP and for more information.
	September 15, 2006 Speaker: Dave Lieber, newspaper columnist, humorist, and author Title of Presentation: “The Dog of My Nightmares.”
	October 20, 2006 Speaker: Ty Cashion, author and historian;  author of Pigskin Pulpit and The New Frontier: A Contemporary History of Fort Worth and Tarrant County. Title of Presentation: “Coffee Talk: A Casual, But Serious History of Fort Worth & Tarrant County”
	March 23, 2007 Speaker: Dr. Gene P. Wright, novelist and university professor Title of Presentation: “Why I Write—How I Write”

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Other Events

Library Graduate Research Seminars

These seminars are offered at the beginning of Fall and Spring semester. More information about these will be in the next News You Can Use; the seminars are scheduled from Sept. 5 - 10, 2006 and January 17 - 24, 2007. More information here.

Annual Technology Fair--"Net Neutrality"

November 8, 2006 – Wednesday – all day in the University Center.

Specialized Lectures

September 13-14, 2006 – Charles Bonwell will give Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) workshops for faculty on active learning and how it is used for classroom assessment. A reception will be held on Sept. 13 from 3-5, location to be determined. (More information about Bonwell and his work can be found here.)

November 9-10, 2006  – Thursday and Friday, lecture and workshops by Sree Sreenivasan from the Columbia School of Journalism. He will speak and give workshops on creative blogging.

National Library Week

April 15-21, 2007  –  This year's theme is “Come together @ your Library®.” Several events are planned.

Featured Databases--August

Each month the librarians at Central library are setting up a small display to highlight interesting and sometimes unusual databases. These can be found on the second floor of the Central Library. The August displays are:

North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories  http://continuum.uta.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.alexanderstreet2.com/imldlive includes 2,162 authors and approximately 100,000 pages of information, providing a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950. Composed of contemporaneous letters and diaries, oral histories, interviews, and other personal narratives, the series provides a rich source for scholars in a wide range of disciplines. In selected cases, users will be able to hear the actual audio voices of the immigrants.

The New York Public Library (NYPL) Picture Collection Online http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/ is an image resource site for those who seek knowledge and inspiration from visual materials. It is a collection of 30,000 digitized images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created before 1923.

Library locations and hours:

Visit http://library.uta.edu/about/locations.jsp for directions and all hours for the 2006-2007 academic year. 

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News You Can Use is issued periodically with news of new databases, services, and presentations. This newsletter is distributed to students, faculty, and staff. Reach editor Maggie Dwyer at 817-272-5366 or dwyer@uta.edu. To subscribe to the Library-News email list, visit http://listserv.uta.edu/archives/library-news.html .