UGA Libraries News & Events

Peabody Screening: The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg – March 13

To warm up baseball fans for the March 31 start of Major League Baseball’s regular season, the University of Georgia’s George Foster Peabody Awards and Peabody Award Collection will present three baseball-themed documentaries that have won the coveted award. The films will all be screened in the auditorium of the Richard B. Russell Special Collections Library at 300 Hull Street. Admission is free, and the screenings open to the general public as well as UGA students, faculty and staff.

The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg (March 13, 7:00PM) – A grand slam, it captures a game, a time, a place and an extraordinary life. Greenberg became baseball’s first Jewish star in the 1930s even as anti- Semitism flared at home and raged in Europe. Playing for the Detroit Tigers, he won the American League’s MVP award twice and came within two home runs of tying Babe Ruth’s single-season record in 1938. A 2001 Peabody winner, the film by Aviva Kempner includes rare footage and excerpts from a 1984 interview by Dick Schaap with the original “Hammerin’ Hank” himself.

Peabody Awards
The Peabody Awards, the oldest in broadcasting, are considered among the most prestigious and selective prizes in electronic media. The awards recognize excellence and meritorious work by radio and television stations, networks, webcasters, producing organizations and individuals. The 16-member Peabody Board is a distinguished panel of television critics, industry practitioners and experts in culture and the arts. Selection is made by the Board following review by special screening committees of UGA faculty, students, and staff. For more information regarding the Peabody Awards program, visit www.peabodyawards.com.

The Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection is one of the largest broadcasting archives in the country, with over 250,000 titles preserved in film, audio and videotape, and other recording formats. The only public archive in Georgia devoted solely to the preservation of audiovisual materials, the Brown Media Archives holds programs dating from the 1920s to the present day. For more information, see http://www.libs.uga.edu/media/index.html or visit our exhibit space in UGA’s Richard B. Russell Special Collections Library.

Contact: Noel W. Holston, (706) 542-8983, nholston@uga.edu

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Spring Forward on Sunday

Daylight Savings Time begins on Sunday, March 10 at 2:00 a.m.  Don’t forget to move your clocks and watches forward one hour.

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Spring Break Hours – Main and Science Libraries

Spring Break Hours of Operation for the Main and Science Libraries:

Sunday, 3/10  -  CLOSED

Monday, 3/11 thru Friday, 3/15 – 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM

Saturday, 3/16 – 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM (normal service hours resume)

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MLC Spring Break Hours 3/9-3/17

This is the Miller Learning Center’s schedule for spring break 2013:

Sat. 3/9 CLOSED
Sun. 3/10 CLOSED
Mon. 3/11 7 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Tues. 3/12 7 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Wed. 3/13 7 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Thurs. 3/14 7 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Fri. 3/15 7 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Sat. 3/16 CLOSED
Sun. 3/17 11 a.m. – 2 a.m. (regular hours resume)

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Peabody Screening: When It Was a Game – March 6

To warm up baseball fans for the March 31 start of Major League Baseball’s regular season, the University of Georgia’s George Foster Peabody Awards and Peabody Award Collection will present three baseball-themed documentaries that have won the coveted award. The films will all be screened in the auditorium of the Richard B. Russell Special Collections Library at 300 Hull Street. Admission is free, and the screenings open to the general public as well as UGA students, faculty and staff.

When It Was a Game (March 6, 7:00PM) – A 1991 Peabody winner from HBO Sports and Black Canyon Productions, it’s a lyrical and loving remembrance of the big leagues in the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s assembled largely from footage shot by players as home movies. For anyone who’s nostalgic for the days before multi-millionaire salaries, corporate skyboxes and Astroturf, it’s a must-see.

Peabody Awards
The Peabody Awards, the oldest in broadcasting, are considered among the most prestigious and selective prizes in electronic media. The awards recognize excellence and meritorious work by radio and television stations, networks, webcasters, producing organizations and individuals. The 16-member Peabody Board is a distinguished panel of television critics, industry practitioners and experts in culture and the arts. Selection is made by the Board following review by special screening committees of UGA faculty, students, and staff. For more information regarding the Peabody Awards program, visit www.peabodyawards.com.

The Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection is one of the largest broadcasting archives in the country, with over 250,000 titles preserved in film, audio and videotape, and other recording formats. The only public archive in Georgia devoted solely to the preservation of audiovisual materials, the Brown Media Archives holds programs dating from the 1920s to the present day. For more information, see http://www.libs.uga.edu/media/index.html or visit our exhibit space in UGA’s Richard B. Russell Special Collections Library.

Contact: Noel W. Holston, (706) 542-8983, nholston@uga.edu

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Easy Citations with Refworks 3/5, 7 pm, MLC 369

Come to MLC 369 on March 5 at 7 p.m. to learn how to organize references and format your citations with Refworks. Put a citation manager to work for you and spend less time formatting citations and more time writing. This is also a Blue Card Event.

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eBooks @ your library – Blue Card Event 2/28 7pm

Learn how to download ebooks and ebook chapters and read them on your devices! eBooks @ your library will be held Feb. 28 at 7 p.m. in Miller Learning Center 370. This event is open to all members of the UGA community, and it is also a Blue Card Event.

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New Titles in World Fiction at the Main Library

The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God and Other Stories by Etgar Keret
PJ5054.K375 A23 2004

Israel’s hippest bestselling young writer today, Etgar Keret is part court jester, part literary crown prince, part national conscience. The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God gathers his daring and provocative short stories for the first time in English. Brief, intense, painfully funny, and shockingly honest, Keret’s stories are snapshots that illuminate with intelligence and wit the hidden truths of life. As with the best comic authors, hilarity and anguish are the twin pillars of his work. Keret covers a remarkable emotional and narrative terrain-from a father’s first lesson to his boy to a standoff between soldiers caught in the Middle East conflict to a slice of life where nothing much happens. Bus Driver includes stories from Keret’s bestselling collections in Israel, Pipelines and Missing Kissinger, as well as Keret’s major new novella, “Kneller’s Happy Campers,” a bitingly satirical yet wistful road trip set in the afterlife for suicides.

Life on Hold by Fahd Al-Atiq
PJ7814.T5116 K3513 2012

Riyadh is a city of masks, a city “like a pressure cooker that’s about to explode,” a city that sleeps on a pile of words that no one dares utter. Saudi society has split into two camps, one adopting the slogan that God is strict in punishment, the other that God is merciful and forgiving. In the background the media trumpets that everything is perfect. Saudi writer Fahd al-Atiq explores this world through the character of Khaled, whose dysfunctional life, humdrum but rich in memories and introspection, bridges the gap between the old impoverished world of Najd and the consumerism of the years after the various oil booms, symbolized in this novel by the family’s move from the lively back streets of the old city to an isolated dream villa in the new suburbs, where their dreams are never quite fulfilled and their lives remain permanently ‘on hold.

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Silent Study Room open in Main through Midterms

Lab A in the Main Library is open for silent study this week during midterms. It’s a cell-phone silent area with no group discussion allowed. The room has 30 computers for student use and will be open 9:00 a.m. to 11:45 p.m. through Friday, March 1. (It will, however, be closed for any library instruction sessions.)

Lab A is near the back of the first floor, to the right of the elevators. There will be an easel with a sign noting its location and availability.

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Red Carpet Reading – Books that were the basis for this year’s Oscar nominees

“Anna Karenina”
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
PG3366 .A6 2000

“Argo”
The Master of Disguise: My secret life in the CIA by Antonio J. Mendez
JK468 .I6 M46 1999

“Hitchcock”
Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho by Stephen Rebello
PN1997 .P793 R43 1990

“The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey”
The Annotated Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
PR6039 .O32 H6 2002

“Life of Pi”
Life of Pi: A novel by Yann Martel
PR9199.3 .M3855 L54 2001

“Lincoln”
Team of Rivals: The political genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
E457.45 .G66 2005

“Mirror, Mirror” and “Snow White and the Huntsman”
The Annotated Brothers Grimm
PT921 .K5613 2004

“Les Misérables”
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
PQ2286 .A35 1987

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