Greetings,

Randall Library’s 80,000-SF expansion is nearing completion!  The new building, just west of the existing Randall, will be finished in late spring and renovations to the existing building will be completed in summer.  Both buildings will be ready for students arriving in Fall 2024!

While we pride ourselves on a wide variety of technology-rich spaces and a growing collection tailored to the needs of students, faculty and staff, Randall Library is more than the building and the collections it houses. Randall faculty and staff continue to develop new services and expertise that will move teaching, research, and scholarship forward so that Randall will truly be the intellectual heart of the campus.

As part of Like No Other: The Campaign for UNCW, your annual gift will contribute to these new services, spaces, and resources, allowing the library to respond quickly to the changing needs of our students and faculty. We hope that you will consider a gift for #Giving Tuesday or any other day - it will truly make a Randall a library like no other!

To give a gift, visit:https://uncw.edu/givingtuesday

Thank you for your support.

Lucy Holman
Associate Provost and Dean of the Library

The Randall Library Digital Makerspace is offering a new program in the Spring to provide faculty with the opportunity to learn a variety of new skills and how to include what you have learned in a project based learning assignment. Get hands on knowledge and consultation support from a team of experts. You will have the opportunity to choose from a variety of offerings and training will be scheduled when you are available.

Sign up today to participate in the program in the Spring 2024 semester. https://lib.uncw.edu/DMSfaculty

Topics include:

• Laser Cutting/Engraving
• Podcasting
• Virtual Reality
• 3D modeling
• 3D printing
• Vinyl Cutting
• Crafting
• 3D scanning
• Adobe AI
• 360 Video
• Video Editing

Finding information when a single Google search pulls up billions of results is easier than it has ever been, but determining whether that information is the right information has only gotten harder. With malicious disinformation and accidental inaccuracies everywhere, what skills do we need in order to find answers we can trust? This course is a deep dive into all the skills that make up “information literacy,” including: analyzing issues of censorship, access to information, and freedom of speech; creating effective search strategies; evaluating and observing your own knowledge base and incorporating the perspectives of other researchers and information seekers; and critically evaluating information sources themselves, including a project to create  a “fake news” website and then to debunk other groups’ disinformation using fact-checking techniques.

KICK OFF The Bear: Reading and Author Talk with Andrew Krivak

November 6, 2023, 7 PM, UNCW Lumina Theater

As part of the NEA Big Read: Cape Fear, UNCW’s Office of the Arts and Randall Library are hosting a collaborative, year-long effort to promote literacy in Wilmington and the broader Cape Fear region. Programming for the NEA Big Read: Cape Fear spans three counties and includes community book reads, discussions, family-friendly events, book clubs, teacher training, performances, story times, and art festivals that focus their efforts on Andrew Krivaks's The Bear and other companion titles.  

NEA Big Read is a National Endowment for the Arts program in partnership with Arts Midwest. The NEA Big Read: Cape Fear is sponsored by the Arts Council of Wilmington & New Hanover County, the Brunswick Arts Council, and Cape Fear's Going Green.

For more information, contact Cara Marsicano (marsicanoc@uncw.edu)

Como parte del programa NEA Big Read: Cape Fear y la Oficina de Arte & la Biblioteca Randall de UNCW están organizando una colaboración de un año con el objetivo de promover la alfabetización en nuestra comunidad y la región de Cape Fear. La programación de NEA Big Read: Cape Fear, será parte de tres condados e incluye lectura de libros, debates, eventos familiares, clubs de lecturas, capacitaciones para maestros, presentaciones, cuentos y festivales artísticos centrados en el libro The Bear de Andrew Krivak y otros títulos complementarios.

NEA Big Read es un programa del Fondo Nacional de las Artes en asociación con Artes del Medio Oeste. El NEA Big Read: Cape Fear está patrocinado por el Consejo de las Artes de Wilmington & New Hanover y el Consejo de las Artes de Brunswick.

2023-24 NEA Big Read Featured Title The Bear

National Book Award finalist Andrew Krivak’s third novel, is a “beautiful and elegant … gem” (Publishers Weekly) that explores a world at the end of humanity.

The last two humans on Earth—a father and daughter—live off the land at the foot of a mountain, learning to live alongside the rhythms of a world reclaimed by nature. Then one day, the girl is alone: left only with the lessons her father taught her and the companionship of the vast wilderness.

"Krivak folds the deep past and the far future into a remarkable fable about our inheritance as humanity makes a harmonic return to the spirit and animal worlds," writes Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Adam Johnson.

Krivak’s descriptions are “so loving and vivid that you can feel the lake water and smell the sea” (Slate). “This tender story is endowed with such fullness of meaning that you have to assign this short, touching book its category: the post-apocalypse utopia” (Wall Street Journal).