Three computer-equipped group study rooms, or smart study rooms, are now available for check-out for groups of two or more UAH students. They are all located on the first floor and the room numbers are 122 and 123 (next to the InfoArcade) and 131 (around the corner from Charger Brew coffee shop). Room 112 (around the corner from the User Services desk) will be available at a later date. For more details on these rooms, please check out our new page here.
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Salmon Library Art Gallery Calendar
Below is the calendar for the Salmon Library Art Gallery until the end of the semester. Unless otherwise stated, you can view the artwork anytime the library is open.
Oct. 9-21: Art & Art History Student Exit Show, works by Amber Murray.
Nov. 4-22: Art & Art History Student Group Show, “Big Photos from Big Cameras: Recent Work by Elizabeth Addison, Addison Brown, Andrew Hall, Charles Patty, Chris Prince, and Jillian Rael.”
Nov. 28-29 (9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.): Art & Art History Annual Holiday Art Show and Sale. Fine art and unique crafts by UAH art students.
If you are interested in seeing the other art galleries on campus, you can view the complete fall 2011 calendar from the UAH Art & Art History department here.
Coffeehouse Writers Series returns Oct. 18 at 6 p.m.
The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAHuntsville) fall Coffeehouse Writers series continues Tuesday, Oct. 18, at 6 p.m. with “Your Story: No Exit!.” This program will feature writing by Kay Campbell, Harry Moore, Jimmy Robinson, Patricia Sammon, and Monita Soni.
All Coffeehouse programs are held at the Louis Salmon Library art gallery, on the ground floor just past the reference desk, near the Charger Brew Café. Admission is free, and the Charger Brew Café will be open before the readings.
The UAHuntsville Women’s Studies Program and the Louis Salmon Library sponsor the Coffeehouse Writers Series. This series is open to the public, and most programs last about an hour. For more information, please call Marylyn Coffey, at 256-824-6114.
The final date in this series will be on Nov. 4, at 4 p.m. featuring ArtNSoul: Marc Lacy, Rea Harris, and Joneia Brown.
Ashlyn Maine Concert & Library Open House Oct. 12 @4 p.m.
As part of ChargerFest 2011, the UAHuntsville Salmon Library will be featuring the local Folk/Americana band Ashlyn Maine! Come out and see the new furniture in the library as Ashlyn Maine plays in our new lounge area.
Our Open House and the concert will be from 4pm until 6pm on Wednesday, October 12th! See you there!
Trial access to Marquis Biographies Online until Oct. 31
The UAHuntsville Salmon Library has trial access to the Marquis Biographies Online database now until October 31. Simply go to http://search.marquiswhoswho.com/ and contact the Reference Desk at 256-824-6529 for login information.
Marquis Biographies Online is a comprehensive, searchable database of over 1.4 million biographies, updated daily. It provides up-to-the-minute biographies of leaders and achievers from around the world in the areas of business, law, science, medicine, the arts, government, entertainment and more – in one convenient source! You can find biographies that have appeared in 24 Marquis Who’s Who print titles since 1985, plus historical biographies from the Who Was Who in America volumes from 1607–1985.
Please direct all questions and comments about this trial to http://libanswers.uah.edu/.
ARTstor Digital Library trial access until Nov. 2
The UAHuntsville Salmon Library has trial access to the ARTstor Digital Library now until November 2. Simply go to http://www.artstor.org/ and click on “ARTstor Digital Library-Enter Here” or go to the search page at http://library.artstor.org/. Some content will require a login. Please contact the Reference Desk at 256-824-6529 for login information.
The ARTstor Digital Library is a nonprofit resource that provides more than one million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research. Their community-built collections comprise contributions from outstanding international museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists’ estates. Subject guides to the collection are available here.
Please direct all questions and comments about this trial to http://libanswers.uah.edu/.
UAHuntsville’s Propulsion Research Center gains national acclaim, again – Popular Science
The Propulsion Research Center at The University of Alabama in Huntsville has again gained national acclaim by being named the third “Most Awesome Lab in 2011” by Popular Science magazine as part of its “Best Places to Pursue Science” feature. The latest issue of Popular Science is available full-text from the EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier database, courtesy of the UAHuntsville Salmon Library. Please click here to read the full article . Be sure to download the PDF version to see the article as it appears (with pictures and graphics) in the magazine.
It was the second straight year UAHuntsville had received this honor from the national science magazine. The thrust of the university receiving this commendation revolves around UAHuntsville’s University Student Launch Initiative. You can learn more about the Student Launch Initiative here.
Early Journal Content on JSTOR, Free to Anyone in World
On September 6, 2011, JSTOR announced that they are making journal content published prior to 1923 in the United States and prior to 1870 elsewhere freely available to anyone, anywhere in the world. This “Early Journal Content” includes discourse and scholarship in the arts and humanities, economics and politics, and in mathematics and other sciences. It includes nearly 500,000 articles from more than 200 journals. This represents 6% of the content on JSTOR. For more info, read the full announcement from JSTOR here.
Coffeehouse Writers Series returns Friday, Sept. 9, 4 p.m.
The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAHuntsville) fall Coffeehouse Writers series begins Friday, September 9, at 4 p.m. with “Express-Men.”
The program will feature writing by Huntsville Times columnist and humorist Ricky Thomason, work by prose-poet David Allen Lambert, original songs by singer-songwriter Tom McClellan, and creative works by poet, musician and visual artist, Jake Berry of Florence.
All Coffeehouse programs are held at the Louis Salmon Library art gallery, on the ground floor just past the reference desk, near the Charger Brew Café. Admission is free, and the Charger Brew Café will be open before the readings.
The UAHuntsville Women’s Studies Program and the Louis Salmon Library sponsor the Coffeehouse Writers Series. This series is open to the public, and most programs last about an hour. For more information, please call Marylyn Coffey, at 256-824-6114.
Upcoming dates in the series include:
Tuesday, Oct. 18, at 6 p.m. with “Your Story: No Exit!” featuring Kay Campbell, Harry Moore, Jimmy Robinson, Patricia Sammon, and Monita Soni.
Friday, Nov. 4, at 4 p.m. featuring ArtNSoul: Marc Lacy, Rea Harris, and Joneia Brown.
SpringerImages Trial until Oct. 31
Please take advantage of a new trial of SpringerImages, a comprehensive collection of scientific and medical photos, graphs, histograms, tables and more, available now until Oct. 31, 2011. You can access the SpringerImages trial from this Website: http://www.springer.com/mytrial
SpringerImages is:
–An expansive and rapidly growing collection of scientific and medical images (over 3 million right now and over 500,000 added every year)
–Based on high quality trusted sources, such as SpringerLink or images.MD
–Always up-to-date as images are loaded as they are published
–Provides captions and extracts from the source plus the ability to link to the full-text
–Offers creation of image sets and a one-click export to PowerPoint or PDF
Learn more from the brochure here. Please send any feedback or comments about this trial to us at http://libanswers.uah.edu.