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In Remembrance of Judith Ortiz Cofer

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Judith Ortiz Cofer, a retired University of Georgia professor, member of the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame, and University of Georgia Press author, passed away on December 30th. 

Lisa Bayer, director of the Press, offers a remembrance of Cofer on their site.

I was heartbroken to learn of Judith Ortiz Cofer‘s death on December 30th. The Press was wildly fortunate to publish her first novel, The Line of the Sun, in 1989. Judith told me that when her agent was initially shopping the project in New York, trade publishers told her that “Puerto Ricans don’t read.” So Judith eventually brought it to Malcolm Call, director of the University of Georgia Press, who told her that the Press didn’t publish fiction. Then he read the manuscript and changed his mind. And the rest is history.

New UGA Libraries Website

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The UGA Libraries now has a new website!

Our goals for this redesign were to reduce clutter, put the things that people use most front and center, and make the site easier to navigate and more visually appealing. If you can't find something that used to be on the homepage, check out the menu at the top of the page, or ask us.

Please check out the site and share your feedback with us.

Deborah Stanley

UGA Libraries Web Editor

dstanley@uga.edu

Media archivists to discuss Foxfire exhibit on GPB

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Mary Miller, with the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, and Kimberly Ellis, a UGA graduate student in Historic Preservation and student employee in Media, will be guests on GPB’s On Second Thought, a one-hour, daily news talk show that airs at 9 a.m.

Miller and Ellis will be discussing the current “Foxfire: 50 years of Cultural Journalism Documenting Folk Life in the North Georgia Mountains”  exhibit at the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries. Foxfire, a project begun to inspire North Georgia students that gained national attention, illustrates the concept of “experiential learning,” a popular theory in higher education. Ellis curated the exhibit, along with her fellow grad student, Dixie Gallups, as part of their work in the Media Archives and an example of “experiential learning” in action.

Thanksgiving break hours for Main and Science Libraries

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The Libraries will be operating with shorter hours for the Thanksgiving Break as follows:

Monday, November 21 and Tuesday, November 22 – 8am to 6pm

Wednesday, November 23 – 8am to 5pm

Thursday, November 24 (Thanksgiving Day) – CLOSED

Friday, November 25 – 12pm to 6pm

The Libraries will be closed on Saturday, November 26th for the home football game – Georgia vs. Georgia Tech

Regular Fall semester hours resume on Sunday, November 27th.

UGA celebrates inaugural GIS Day, Nov. 16

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The University of Georgia will host its first GIS Day at UGA to showcase how students and faculty use geographic information system (GIS) technology to visualize, analyze and interpret data in teaching, research and outreach  Nov. 16 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. at the Main Library

The event will feature a drone demonstration, lightening talks on real-world GIS applications, UGA Map and Government Information Library tours, information on internship opportunities, and booths highlighting projects from diverse departments and organizations around campus. Light snacks and interactive activities will also be provided.

GIS refers to software that captures, analyzes, displays and shares spatial or geographical data. Through maps, spatial modeling, and other applications, GIS provides critical information for public health, government planning, neighborhood real estate, national defense, business, transportation and many more fields.

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