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James Forman, Yale law professor, and Nancy MacLean, history professor at Duke University, are the 2018 recipients of the Lillian Smith Book Awards.

The Southern Regional Council established the Lillian Smith award after Smith's 1966 death. Internationally acclaimed as author of the controversial novel, Strange Fruit (1944), Lillian Smith was the most outspoken of white, mid-20th century Southern writers on issues of social and racial injustice. Today the University of Georgia, the Georgia Center for the Book and Piedmont College join the SRC in presenting the awards. http://www.libs.uga.edu/hargrett/lilliansmith/index.html

The University of Washington Press, the MIT Press, Duke University Press, the University of Georgia Press, and the Association of University Presses (AUPresses) today announce the recipients of the 2018–2019 Mellon University Press Diversity Fellowships.

“Poppies: Women, War, Peace” will open at the Hargrett Gallery of the University of Georgia Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries June 18.

Part of the observance to mark the centennial end of the First World War, the exhibit also pays homage to Moïna Belle Michael, originally from Monroe, who was instrumental in ensuring the red poppy flower became a symbol to remember the victims and veterans of war. Michael was inspired in her quest by the war poem ‘In Flanders Field’ written by Lieutenant Colonel John Alexander McCrae in 1915.

Sunday, May 27 - 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Monday, May 28 - CLOSED for Memorial Day

On May 21, we'll be updating the interface for the GIL-Find library catalog.

Changes include:

• Simpler, cleaner interface for both desktop and mobile devices
• Email, save, print, format citations, and export to EndNote or RefWorks directly from a search results list
• More sophisticated filtering options
• User-added tagging

As always, ask a librarian if you have questions.

Juliette Gordon Low’s 1908 India travel correspondence is now available online via the Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) at http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/CollectionsA-Z/jglowc_search.html. The collection, Juliette Gordon Low Correspondence, Series India Letters, belongs to Girl Scouts of the USA and is housed at the Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace.

The Main and Science Libraries will be open during the intersession as follows:

Friday, May 4 – 8am to 6pm

Saturday, May 5 – 10am to 6pm

Sunday, May 6 – CLOSED

Monday, May 7 – 8am to 6pm

Tuesday, May 8 – 8am to 6pm

Maymester begins on Wednesday, May 9.

Miller Learning Center Hours May 4 - May 8

May 4: 7 a.m. - 5 p.m.

May 5: CLOSED

May 6: CLOSED

May 7:  7 a.m. - 5 p.m.

May 8: 7 a.m. - 5 p.m.

For up to date information on our hours, see mlc.uga.edu/about/hours.

Congratulations on your upcoming graduation!

Before leaving campus, please check your library account and clear all outstanding obligations:

• Return all books and/or other library materials (including GIL Express and Interlibrary Loan) before leaving campus even if they are not due.
• Pay all fines and fees by cash, check, or credit card.

If you have any questions about your library account, please contact:

Access Services – Main Library
Phone: 706.542.3256
Email: maincirc@uga.edu

Wayne Flynt, professor emeritus in the department of history at Auburn University, is the author of eleven books, and one of the most recognized and honored scholars of Southern history, politics, and religion. His latest, published in 2017, is Mockingbird Songs: My Friendship with Harper Lee. He has also published his memoir Keeping the Faith: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives, in which he writes about his experiences in the Civil Rights movement.