In need of quick cash? Come by Salmon Library and use our new ATM machine located by the copy machine on the first floor. Please note, there is a small fee to use it and your bank may charge you a small fee to use it unless you are a member of the Alabama Credit Union.
For more information on where our resources are located, please visit our library layout page.
It is important to always protect your belongings when you are in a public space on campus, even if you only plan to leave your area for a minute. UAHuntsville Police offer the following property security tips on their website:
Please visit the UAHuntsville Police site for more tips on personal and residential security. For emergency situations, call the UAHuntsville Police directly at 256-824-6911 or dial 911.
Welcome to the 2nd Summer Session! Don’t forget – The library will be closed for the July 4th holiday, coming up this Wednesday. We will resume our regular summer hours on July 5th. You can always find our daily hours here: http://libguides.uah.edu/hours
Stay cool, enjoy the fireworks, and we’ll see you on July 5th!
Come by Salmon Library to see what new books we’ve gotten in this year! On the new books library page, you can see our newest additions available in both print and electronic format, as well as what has been made available thanks to generous donations from the Humanities Endowment Fund and the Mrs. Edna Trout Franz Fund. You can also browse through the latest popular fiction books we have available for reading in our coffee shop area. We’re excited to add these items to our collection, and hope you enjoy browsing through our newest additions!
For more information, please visit this page: http://libguides.uah.edu/newbooks_2012
Come by Salmon Library to review books for the 2012 Alabama Textbook Adoption Program! We are one of eight sites for the State of Alabama’s Textbook adoption period of public review. Anyone may come by the library to review the sample textbooks, but the textbooks must remain here in the library, which are being kept in the north wing of the first floor. Please check with the Reference Desk for further assistance.
Educators and the general public are encouraged to view textbooks for consideration. It is from this evaluation that the committees and the State Board of Education select titles to be included on the State Textbook Adoption list. The main criterion for selection is how well the textbook matches the needs of the Alabama Course of Study. For information about the Alabama State Textbook program, visit the Alabama Department of Education site or contact Karen Benefield at karenb@alsde.edu.
On Tuesday, May 22nd the UA System Scholars Institute will be broadcast virtually at the Faculty Resource Center (Room 233) in Salmon Library. Join us for Michael Wesch’s keynote address at 9:30am (CST) followed by three selected sessions throughout the day.
Please visit the website (http://www.uab.edu/si2012/virtual-conference) for the complete schedule. We hope to see you there!
Don’t forget – The library will be closed for the Memorial Day holiday, coming up this Monday on May 28th. Starting on May 29th, we will begin our summer hours which are Monday – Thursday 7:30am-10pm and Fridays from 7:30am – 6:00pm.
You can always find our latest hours here: http://libguides.uah.edu/hours
For more information on the history of Memorial Day, please visit the United States Department of Veterans Affairs website: http://www.va.gov/opa/speceven/memday/
Have a safe holiday and we’ll see you May 29th!
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Photographs in this post are by jeannerene and is used under Creative Commons licensing.
**May 17th 1:50pm Update: Due to rain in Tampa, Florida, the schedule for the NCAA Tournament has been significantly delayed. Unfortunately, this means that we will be unable to host the Watch Party tonight. You can still watch the game online tonight at this link: http://www.tampaspartans.com/page.asp?articleID=3660 Let’s go Chargers!**
For the first time in 11 years, the University of Alabama in Huntsville baseball team was selected to participate as the No. 6 seed in the eight-team NCAA South Regional on Sunday night during the NCAA Division II Baseball Tournament selection show at the Shelby Center on the UAH campus.
The regional, scheduled for May 17-21, will be hosted by top-seeded and No. 1-ranked Tampa at the University of Tampa Baseball Field in Tampa, Fla. The Chargers (31-22) will open regional play on Thursday, May 17, at 4:30 p.m. EST / 3:30 CST at the UT Baseball Field against third-seeded Lynn (34-13).
Wondering how you can watch this game? Salmon Library will be streaming the game live in the coffee shop area on the ground floor from 3:30-5:30 CST this Thursday, May 17th. Please join us and enjoy the game with your fellow Chargers fans!
The winner of the NCAA South Regional will go on to play the winner of the NCAA South Central Regional in the NCAA Division II College World Series in Cary, N.C. on May 26-June 2.
For more information on the game, please visit: http://uahchargers.com/news/2012/5/13/BB_0513124518.aspx
Go Chargers!
The library is very excited to announce a trial to the EBSCO Historical Manuscripts Collections available now until June 4, 2012. This trial includes access to the following archives: African American Archives, World War II Archives, and the U.S. Bureau of Investigation Case File Archives. You can navigate between each of the EBSCO Historical Manuscript Collections through the dropdown menu at the top center portion of the screen.
For more information about each of the archive collections, including title lists and content descriptions, please click on the below links.
African American Archives provides over one million pages of original historical documents pertaining to the African American experience over several centuries, and is richly-detailed with narratives and quantitative data alike. The earliest materials in this collection come from Essential Records Concerning Slavery and Emancipation from the Danish West Indies (1672-1917).
U.S. Bureau of Investigation Case File Archives
U.S. Bureau of Investigation Case File Archives covers case files from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which until 1935 was called the Bureau of Investigation (BOI). With over 2.2 million pages of original historical documents, the archives provide a fresh insider’s perspective to the history of this time period.
World War II Archives contains over half a million pages of original historical documents compiled from collections at the National Archives, offering a wide range of materials chronicling events during the Second World War, providing an in-depth perspective of military activities while also documenting the lives of individual military personnel on land, in the air, and at sea.
If you have any questions or feedback regarding this trial, please let us know at http://libanswers.uah.edu.
Von Braun at his desk at Marshall Space Flight Center in May 1964, with models of the Saturn rocket family
Below are the scheduled events open to the public in Huntsville, AL, honoring Dr. Wernher von Braun on the occasion of his 100th Birthday.
Wernher von Braun event at UAH Salmon Library
Date/Time: 22 March (Thursday) 1:30 – 4:00 pm
Event: Panel Discussion “Wernher von Braun, A Visionary’s Influence on UAHuntsville”
Location: Louis Salmon Library, University of Alabama in Huntsville campus, Huntsville, AL
Date/Time: 22 March (Thursday) – 5:00 pm
Event: Alabama Public Television film documentary on Dr. Wernher von Braun and a Passing the Torch ceremony
Location: Davidson Center, US Space & Rocket Center, Huntsville, AL
Date/Time: 23 March (Friday) – 6:00 pm Reception, Dinner at 7:00 pm
Event: Wernher von Braun’s 100th Birthday PARTY; dinner speaker is Dr. Margrit von Braun, Wernher von Braun’s daughter.
Location: Davidson Center, US Space & Rocket Center, Huntsville, AL
Click below for tickets which are available for $100 for individuals and $1000 for a table of eight.
http://www.spacecamp.com/vbday
You can see the article in The Huntsville Times here:
http://blog.al.com/breaking/2012/03/uah_to_celebrate_100th_anniver.html
Questions? Please let us know at http://libanswers.uah.edu or give us a call at 256-824-6529.