The ASKus desk in Love Library’s South lobby presents a great place to observe people and learn how they tick according to Julia Rucker, a junior English major with a creative writing specialization and minor in film. She started working at the ASKus Desk for the University Libraries August 2021. Continue reading…
Two new academic integrity modules have been developed that focus on teaching students how to responsibly engage in scholarly communication rather than focusing on the punitive aspects of plagiarism. Continue reading…
UNL Libraries has hosted monthly Pawp-Ups in partnership with Big Red Resilience & Well-Being and the department of Entomology since Fall 2022. The program has grown over the past year with a total of more than 340 individuals participating at both Dinsdale Family Learning Commons and Love Library. Continue reading…
Harriet Wintermute, associate professor, began her appointment on April 10, 2023, as the chair of the University Libraries’ Acquisitions, Cataloging, Metadata, E-resources department. Continue reading…
More workshops from Libraries are scheduled for October 2023 and will cover topics on practices and strategies in for writing NIH Data Management and Sharing Plans (DMSPs), creating data management plans for all funding agencies, managing citations, using ArcGIS StoryMaps, and sharing open data. Continue reading…
Elle Covington (they/them) joined the University Libraries on July 10 as a Research Specialist Librarian and assistant professor in the Research Partnerships department. Covington specializes in social sciences research and will participate in the Social Sciences librarians group. Continue reading…
The University Libraries will be offering a series of workshops and drop-in sessions open to faculty, graduate and undergraduate students that focus on the benefits of Open Access (OA). Publishing agreements, open data, open science, are a few topics covered. Continue reading…
Compendex is a longstanding resource that has previously been widely used by the College of Engineering. In the spring of 2023 UNL Libraries conducted our regular semi-annual review of library resources during which we compare the usage of resources with the annual subscription costs.
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As instructors consider textbooks and other course materials for Spring semester 2024, they may submit reading lists and citations via the University Libraries’ Course Reserve Request Form.
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Gabe Bruguier, Assistant Professor in the Libraries, will discuss two of his ancestors, Theophile Bruguier, and Chief Struck By the Ree, and the roles they played in the passing of the Treaty of 1858, which ceded traditional Yankton land, and created the Yankton Indian Reservation. Continue reading…
Calling all students who love or use maps! Design a map using publicly available data or your original datasets and any software of your choice. Enter the map in celebration of Geographic Information System (GIS) Day (November 15), sponsored by University Libraries. Continue reading…