News & Blog

Category: All Libraries

UCF Libraries Reopening!

Charge On Over UCF Knights!

UCF Libraries resumes onsite services in a limited and flexible manner.

Hours

John C. Hitt Library Hours: Reopening Monday, August 24th

  • Monday – Thursday: 8a – 6p
  • Friday: 8a – 5p
  • Saturday: 10a – 6p  
  • Sunday: Noon – 6p

CMC, Downtown, and Rosen (Branch Libraries): Reopening Monday, August 24th View All Hours

New Guidelines and Procedures

  • Follow UCF’s COVID guidelines: wear face coverings, practice physical distancing, and wash hands frequently.  
  • Library hours are reduced to accommodate staggered or remote work schedules.
  • Seating is identified as “do not sit” to achieve physical distancing. Please do not remove signs or rearrange furniture.
  • Group study rooms are unavailable and in-person group work is discouraged due to health recommendations.
  • Procedures for lending technology and course reserves are modified to reduce contamination.
  • Some services are available virtually or by appointment only.

Academic resources are always available online.

Featured Bookshelf: Back to School

This unusual summer semester has ended and we’re prepping for fall. It’s only a few short weeks until the 2020-2021 academic year begins. It’s certainly going to be an interesting semester. Please remember to follow the Armour Up, Knights campaign to help keep the UCF community safe. Wear your mask, wash your hands, and try to keep 6 feet between yourself and others. By supporting each other, we can come through this stronger on the other side.

Libraries staff has pulled together a few suggestions that cover a whole range of areas including college success, cultural appropriation, investing, and football. Click on the link below to see the full list, descriptions, and catalog links for the featured Back-so-School titles suggested by UCF Library employees.

Welcome to the 2020-21 academic year!

Featured Bookshelf: Back to School

International Graduate Student Welcome

International Graduate Student Welcome

The University of Central Florida Libraries wish to welcome our international graduate students to a virtual library orientation on August 18, 2020, 3:00 – 5:00pm. Attendees will learn how the UCF Library System supports our international graduate students and their research. This two-hour event is designed for new and returning international students.

Participants will have the opportunity to connect with their subject specialist librarian, to learn about the Libraries’ collections and resources, and to leave the event knowing how to contact a subject librarian in their area of research.

The program will cover a variety of important topics including library cultural adaption, scholarship/publishing academic integrity and resources, etc.

Register through our Qualtrics form

Graduate & Postdoctoral Researcher Orientations

Welcome UCF graduate students and postdoctoral researchers!

Get a great start for fall research projects by attending one of the UCF Libraries Online Orientations for graduate and postdoctoral researchers. Session details and registration at guides.ucf.edu/gradorientation

Knights Stronger Together Digital Time Capsule

UCF Libraries is building a digital time capsule, based on this year’s Diversity Week theme, Stronger Together: Unified! Connected! Family!

In this unprecedented year marked by COVID-19 and the continued fight for racial equity, we ask you to tell your story, share your voice, and be heard. Chronicle your connection to this year’s theme by contributing photographs you have taken, illustrations you have created, or text you have penned. You can influence how the present will be remembered. Share your message.

Submission information:

  • Open to UCF students, faculty, staff, and UCF Alumni. 
  • One submission per person. 
  • Submissions will be digitized and housed in STARS. STARS is UCF’s digital repository to publicize, disseminate, and preserve works by, for, and about UCF.
  • Submissions must be sized 8 ½” X 11” in a landscape orientation.
  • Submissions formats are pdf, jpg, png, or docx.
  • All submissions must be original work(s).
  • Participants must submit a consent form granting permission for their content to be digitized and placed into STARS as part of the Qualtrics form.
  • Submissions will be accepted August 1, 2020 – October 25, 2020.
  • Sexually explicit content will not be accepted, and UCF Libraries reserves the right to omit any submission.
  • All works will be placed into the digital time capsule as received; no editing services will be provided.

Submit at the Knights Stronger Together Digital Time Capsule Qualtrics form.

Back to Top