Atkins Library Receives Grant to expand New South Voices

The Atkins Library Special Collections Department at UNC Charlotte has received a grant to enhance its New South Voices oral history database. The grant will allow Special Collections to add digitized transcripts and audio of more than 200 oral history interviews related to Civil Rights, Education, the African-American experience, and the Native American experience in North Carolina to the publicly available database, which already contains some 600 interviews. Additionally, to provide further historical context for the interviews, supplemental material from manuscript collections will be digitized and integrated into lesson plans designed by Middle and High School social studies teachers as part of a two week hands-on institute to utilize oral history materials in the classroom. This project is supported by $48,680 in grant funds from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the NC Department of Cultural Resources and 10% in matching funds from UNC Charlotte.

New Atkins Express Service for UNCC Faculty, Staff and Students

The Atkins Library is pleased to present Atkins Express - a new set of services to bring your library materials to you!  Services include:

• Book Retrieval Service - UNCC Faculty, Staff and Students can request items in the library's collection to be retrieved and made available for pickup

• Article Delivery Service - UNCC Faculty and Staff can request that articles in the library's print and microfilm collections scanned and sent to their email address

• Book Delivery Service - UNCC Faculty and Staff can request books in the Library's General Collections pulled and sent to their office via campus mail

• Distance Education Services - UNCC Distance Education Students can have books and articles sent to their home, regardless of where they are located

Try out Atkins Express - Your Library : Delivered

Please note that these services are being offered as a pilot project and are subject to change in the future.

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JULY 12, 2007 @ 1:53 PM

Atkins Library to extend laptop loan period to 24 hours

The Atkins Library is pleased to announce that it has extended the loan period on its lending laptops to 24 hours. Laptops may be checked out at the Circulation Desk on the 1st floor of the library. For more information and policies, please click here.

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JUNE 20, 2007 @ 4:55 PM

Remembering Brooklyn to Biddleville:
Heartbeats of the Community

Come to a free event at the Afro-American Cultural Center at East 7th and North McDowell on Saturday, June 23rd from 1-3pm to celebrate the culture and social clubs of the historic Brooklyn and Biddleville neighborhoods. 

The Atkins Library's Special Collections department provided photos and materials as part of the presentation and is also the repository for Oral Histories gathered as part of this partnership with the Afro-American Cultural Center and the North Carolina Humanities Council.

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JUNE 5, 2007 @ 3:20 PM

Materials from Special Collections on Display on the 1st Floor in June

Visit the Atkins Library during June to see three different collections that highlight materials from the Atkins Library's Special Collections.  They are:

• A Million Reasons to Celebrate, highlighting the Library's growth from 1968 to 2007 - includes an exhibit on the 100,000th, 500,000th and millionth volumes.

• Bibles, Blocks, and 'Blue Back' Spellers:  The Slaves' Tools to Literacy, highlighting holdings related to Phillis Wheatley and George Moses Horton.

• Charlotte in the War, focusing on military bases established in Charlotte during the first and second World Wars.

For more information, please click here.

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