We’re pleased to announce that UAHuntsville’s Fall Commencement Ceremonies will be broadcast live through our site tonight (December 12) and tomorrow (December 13). You can view the page containing the stream here.
Windows users should be ready to go. If you are on a Mac, you will need to downloadWindows Media Player 9 for OSX or Flip4Mac to view the stream.
Congratulations to our graduates!
A few weeks ago, the UAHuntsville Concert Choir stopped by the library and sang a few holiday carols for us. We thought you all would like to see..
Happy Holidays!
You’ve waited over a year since our hugely successful first LAN Party, and we’re pleased to announce that it will indeed return on November 10. This time, the LAN Party will be held in the University Center Exhibit Hall on Monday, November 10 from 4:00 pm until 11:00 pm.
Due to the large attendance that was much larger than we anticipated last year, we’ve moved the event to this larger venue in order to accommodate the even larger crowd that we are expecting this time. We’ve booked all three sections of the Exhibit Hall, and we plan on designating two thirds of it to PC games and the other third to console games.
As of now, we are looking at games such as Call of Duty 4, Smash Bros. Brawl, and Guitar Hero for potential tournament games. But we want to make this your event, so we need your input. If you visit the official page for the LAN Party at lib.uah.edu/lanparty, you’ll find that we’ve placed a poll that we hope you will fill out. Whatever we get the most feedback on is what we will play, it’s that simple.
Visit the site again in the coming weeks for registration, we can’t wait to see you there!
If you’ve been inside the library within the past month or so, you may have noticed a lot of construction happening on the first floor. There are actually three separate projects underway, two of which that will probably be of special interest to UAH students.
The large space to the left of the building after entering is being used as a location for the forthcoming Superteaching demo room, which should be completed later on in the upcoming Fall semester. The other two projects should be finished a little sooner, hopefully within the earlier part of the Fall semester. First is the new location for the art gallery. Construction has been coming along very quickly for this project.
Also nearby is a new coffee shop that will be located on the same floor near the elevator.
These projects are coming along really well, and we hope to have an event or two at the library to celebrate their opening within the next few months.
Many of our students may be taking courses over the summer semester right now, some may be working summer jobs, and some may be taking a deserved break. If you do find yourself away from our library over the summer or are otherwise doing some research on the web, we’ve come across a few great resources we thought we’d share with you.
Open Library – This project is in the early stages right now, but already has a great wealth of resources available. The authors of the site are attempting to chronicle every book ever written in web form. In theory, all books would have an entry page giving basic statistics of the book. And hopefully, many should be viewable online. There are other similar projects to this, however Open Library is so far the only one that is offering its procedure and findings via open source.
Text Archive – From the site’s description: “This collection is open to the community for the contribution of any type of text, many licensed using Creative Commons licenses.” Text Archive has collected and chronicled many resources in different categorized collections pertaining to a number of different types of texts.
Project Gutenberg – Similar to the open library, this site provides a great number of free e-books available for online reading. Different formats are also available to import to your mobile device such as a PDA or Amazon Kindle.
We hope that you’ll find these interesting and helpful over the summer!
We realize that as finals are in session and visits by all to the library become more frequent, parking can quickly become a problem at peak hours throughout the day. While arriving to campus early to compensate for the crowds on campus during these times of the year is always recommended, we’d also like to suggest alternative parking places that offer quick access to the library.
The first recommended location is just in front of Wilson Hall and the Business Administration Building. These parking spaces are usually mostly unoccupied in the morning and late afternoon hours and are a relatively short walk away via sidewalks leading to the library. Also usually available is the parking lot directly in front of Spragins Hall. This is a bit of a longer walk, but is almost always available. These spaces are also highly recommended to Nursing students, as the Nursing Building is a much shorter walk from here than from the parking lot in front of the library.
Other spots include the area across Holmes Ave., although traffic can sometimes be a problem during rush hours. Please use caution when crossing the street from this area. You might also try the parking lot near Morton Hall and the University Center if you will also be visiting these areas.
Parking should allievieate significantly in the weeks ahead, but be prepared for similar crowds in August as the Fall semester reconvenes. In the meantime, be sure to take a look at this section of the campus map for a visual listing of each of these locations.
If you’ve visited us lately, you may have noticed a new sculpture in the front of the UAH Library which was installed this past Thursday. The sculpture is called “Geode”, and was once found in Big Spring Park here in Huntsville.
If you keep up to date with the latest trends in web use, one platform that you may have noticed generating a lot of talk and use lately is Twitter. If you’ve not heard of it, it is sort of a cross between an instant messaging client and a blog. We’ve started an account for the library, which we hope to use to give you a quick glance of what is going on.
You can reach it at twitter.com/uahlibrary. If you are a current Twitter user, be sure to add us as a friend. Also, feel free to give us a reply concerning any comment or question that you may have and we will do our best to get back with you.
In the past week or so, we’ve heard of a few UAH students and staff who have made way to the Von Braun Research Hall (VBRH) looking for technical assistance relating to CNS. Please remember that, in order to better serve the campus community, the Help Desk has now been relocated within the library. We hope that one of the positive outcomes of this change suits the campus better as the Help Desk is now more centrally located on campus. Especially to our students living in the CCRH, Franz Hall, and NCRH Residence Halls!
If you need more information from the Help Desk, you can reach them at 824-2639, or visit the Help Desk located at the Reference Desk of the library. Their office hours are from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm, Monday through Friday. On a related note, we also hope to announce the availability of redesigned and easier to navigate Help Desk and Res Net pages in the near future. Be sure to subscribe to the blog RSS feed or visit this page again soon for more information on that.
Admittedly, we at the library have many different blogs for different subjects, as well as many different RSS feeds. To find all of these sources in one central location, we’re pleased to announce the initial availability of the Library RSS Aggregator. Think of this page as sort of an online newspaper which delivers all of the news to the library to you. Also included are the top news stories from the New York Times as well as local weather for the Huntsville area.
The RSS Aggregator is in somewhat of a “beta” form for now. We may make additions or some tweaks in the near future. If you have any suggestions as to any type of RSS feed that you would like to see on the page, please feel free to let us know by commenting on this post.