| | | | Mindfulness DIY Palooza
April 30 | 10:30 AM - 4 PM | Willis Library 250H
Take a break to de-stress and relax from studying. At the Mindfulness DIY Palooza, you can visit our mindfulness and stress relief stations. Create gratitude journals, sensory glitter jars, bead crafts, rainbow scratch drawings, positive affirmations or origami. Chair yoga will be offered from 2—3 PM, and a staff member from the CARE Team will be available to connect students with student support options across campus. | | | "Play Again?: An Online Mini-Symposium 2024
May 3 | 11 AM - 1:30 PM | Online Join us for "Play Again?: An Online Mini-Symposium 2024" about video game music and sound design. This year, the University of Minnesota Libraries is hosting the event with partners from the UNT Music Library. The theme for this year's conference is Horror in Video Game Music and Sound. Presentations include: - Phantom Frames: Crafting an Immersive Pseudo-Procedural (Kyle Worrall)
- The Gothic Horror Soundscape as a Progression Device and Player Reward in Bloodborn (Cerys Eckersley)
- The Curious Case of 'Lavender Town' - Towards an Intercultural Semiotics of Video Game Music (Thomas Yee)
- Under the Yellow Raincoat: Timbral Change and Musical Metaphors in Video Game Music (Sylvia Hsu)
Register and learn more at https://libnews.umn.edu/event/play-again-an-online-mini-symposium-2024/ | | | Next Week is National Preservation Week!
April 28 — May 4 is National Preservation Week! The UNT Libraries are a member of the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC), a worldwide organization that preserves and makes accessible information from the internet. Members of the Digital Libraries Division are currently attending the IIPC General Assembly & Web Archiving Conference at the National Library of France. You can view IIPC publications from past conferences in the UNT Digital Library. | | Congrats to the 13th Biennial Artists' Book Competition Winners & Honorable Mentions
Congratulations to the winners and honorable mentions of the 13th Biennial Artists' Book Competition! UNT Special Collections received 40 entries for this competition cycle, and are pleased to announce the our panel of judges have selected the following:
Winner of the Purchase Prize ($400):
In My World Are Many Windows by Sarah Abigail Rainey
Second Place:
Bless Your Heart by Kelly Waller
Honorable Mentions:
Insect Hotel by Denise Castaneda
The Stoop by Jenkins McAlister
Case #xxxx by Chris Barcak
Self-Portraits in the Elevator by Karla Ramirez-Santin
The Movies that Made Me: Vol 1 by Alyssa Berry
Burned by Natalie Self
Diary of an Only Girl (mini journal) by Izzy Sneed
We were excited to celebrate and honor winners and honorable mentions at a pop-up exhibit and reception on Saturday, March 23, at the From Artists' Books to Zines Symposium. Congratulations again to our winners, and thank you for another exciting and successful competition cycle!
| | April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. In partnership with the Survivor Advocate Office in the Dean of Students Office and the Health and Wellness Center, employees from the UNT Library Learning Services, Library Research Support Services and Access Services departments put together a pop-up book display with memoirs from survivors and handbooks on safety. The display is across from the service desk and will be available until the end of April.
The display also has coloring sheets from the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, resource brochures on sexual assault and domestic violence from our campus partners and Help Yourself Campaign resources on sexual assault.
Ebooks related to this display can be found at https://guides.library.unt.edu/book-displays/sexual-assault-awareness-month.
| | Interested in working with us? Take a look at the exciting new job opportunities within the Libraries to see if that might be a career move for you.
For more information or if you are interested in applying, please visit the HR job site for faculty and staff positions and Handshake for student jobs. For a convenient way to look at all the current staff and faculty jobs posted in the Libraries, visit the Libraries' job page.
We recently posted the following: | | | Student Jobs: - Special Collections Public Services Service Assistant: Job ID 8904833
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