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Hispanic Heritage Month, established in 1988, runs from September 15 through October 15. It recognizes and celebrates the contributions of Hispanic and Latino Americans have made to the United States. Florida in particular has a strong Hispanic legacy including the oldest inhabited city in the U.S., St. Augustine, which was founded in 1565 by the Spanish. UCF will also celebrate our new status as a Hispanic-serving institution which means more than 25% of our enrolled students identify as Hispanic.

Join the UCF Libraries as we celebrate our favorite Hispanic authors and books. Click on the link below to see the full list, descriptions, and catalog links for the featured Hispanic Heritage titles suggested by UCF Library employees.

Featured Bookshelf: Hispanic Heritage

These 16 books plus many more are also on display on the 2nd (main) floor of the John C. Hitt Library next to the bank of two elevators.

Want to get the most out of the library resources in your field? Looking to brush up on your search skills? Join us online from 10:30-11:30, Tuesday, September 10, 2019 for the first Research Tips Tuesday of the semester! This month we will be exploring how to identify and locate the best resources for your major.

In this workshop, we will explore:

• How to identify and contact your subject librarian
• Using the library research guides to get your started
• Tips for identifying important resources in your field of study
• Using the advanced search features of subject databases to find what you need

RSVP for this, and other sessions this semester at: http://guides.ucf.edu/rtt

**UPDATE 09/02/19**

Hurricane Dorian has passed and all UCF campuses are now re-opened.

**UPDATE 09/02/19**

In anticipation of Hurricane Dorian’s expected impact on Central Florida, UCF is now closed. Due to the current path and timeline and the likelihood of severe weather into Wednesday, UCF will remain closed on Thursday, Sept. 5.

**UPDATE 09/01/19**

In anticipation of Hurricane Dorian’s expected impact on Central Florida, UCF is now closed. Due to the current path and timeline and the likelihood of severe weather into Wednesday, UCF will remain closed on Wednesday, Sept. 4.

UCF will assess conditions on campus and throughout the region following the storm’s expected impact. UCF will only reopen when it is safe to do so, and decisions also will consider other factors, such as damage and power loss throughout the region.

The university will share updated information regularly through its website and social media feeds.

This closure affects all UCF campuses and locations, including UCF Downtown, the Health Sciences Campus at Lake Nona, the Rosen College and all UCF Connect regional campuses.

IT’S GAME DAY!! Charge On, Knights! 

The John C. Hitt Library is closing at 5:00 pm today so we can make it to the stadium to cheer on our Knights. All other UCF Libraries are closing at 2:00 pm.

This summer the UCF Libraries purchased a large bundle of primary source databases as a result of deeply discounted pricing and negotiations with the vendor. The databases cover an extensive variety of fields, from advertising to American Indian newspapers to World War I. This was a one-time purchase to which the Libraries have perpetual access.

The vendor, Adam Matthew Digital, is an academic publisher based in the United Kingdom The company publishes collections of digitized primary source materials from different historical eras and has collaborated with various source archives and institutions including the Amistad Research Center, British National Archives, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, Hoover Institution, Newberry Library, and the University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill, among others.

Here are the 28 databases that have been purchased:

• African American Communities- www.aac.amdigital.co.uk
• Age of Exploration – www.exploration.amdigital.co.uk
• American History – www.americanhistory.amdigital.co.uk
• American Indian Newspapers – www.americanindiannewspapers.amdigital.co.uk
• Apartheid South Africa – www.archivesdirect.amdigital.co.uk/Apartheid
• Confidential Print: Africa – www.archivesdirect.amdigital.co.uk/CP_Africa
• Foreign Office Files for Japan – www.archivesdirect.amdigital.co.uk/FO_Japan
• China, America and the Pacific – www.cap.amdigital.co.uk       
• China: Culture and Society – www.chinacultureandsociety.amdigital.co.uk  
• Church Missionary Society Periodicals -www.churchmissionarysociety.amdigital.co.uk
• Colonial America: www.colonialamerica.amdigital.co.uk  
• East India Company – www.eastindiacompany.amdigital.co.uk
• Eighteenth Century Drama – www.eighteenthcenturydrama.amdigital.co.uk
• The First World War: A Global Conflict – www.firstworldwar.amdigital.co.uk
• Gender: Identity and Social Change – www.genderidentityandsocialchange.amdigital.co.uk
• Global Commodities – www.globalcommodities.amdigital.co.uk
• J. Walter Thompson: Advertising America – www.jwtadvertisingamerica.amdigital.co.uk
• Leisure, Travel and Mass Culture: The History of Tourism – www.masstourism.amdigital.co.uk
• Literary Print Culture – www.literaryprintculture.amdigital.co.uk
• Market Research – www.marketresearch.amdigital.co.uk
• Medical Services and Warfare – www.medicalservicesandwarfare.amdigital.co.uk
• Migration to New Worlds – www.migration.amdigital.co.uk
• Popular Medicine – www.popularmedicine.amdigital.co.uk
• Race Relations in America – www.racerelations.amdigital.co.uk
• Shakespeare in Performance – www.shakespeareinperformance.amdigital.co.uk
• Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice – www.slavery.amdigital.co.uk
• Socialism on Film – www.socialismonfilm.amdigital.co.uk
• Trade Catalogues and the American Home – www.tradecatalogues.amdigital.co.uk

Each database is available on the Libraries’ A-Z listing at https://guides.ucf.edu/databases.