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ORLANDO, May 2018 – The University of Central Florida Libraries proudly announces the 2018 recipient of the June S Stillman Memorial Endowed Scholarship Sara Nazarian.

Sara Nazarian is a junior with a double major (History & Music), a GPA of 3.6, and plans to attend graduate school for a master’s in Museum Studies.  She began working as a library student assistant in Circulation Services in the John C. Hitt Library in May 2017.

The focus of her studies leads her to pursue internships, both domestic and international.  Her plans include spending a summer in Cuba to work on her undergraduate thesis on sex trafficking in Cuba.

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New books to the left of you. New books to the right of you. New books on the shelves. New books all around.

New books enter the UCF Libraries system on a regular basis. At the John C. Hitt Library, we select those with interesting titles, eye-catching dust jackets, or timely topics to feature on a display. The books range in subject from photography, science, and history to poetry, novels, and biographies. The display, which is next to the seating area at the Research & Information Desk, changes on an almost weekly basis.

Stop by. Maybe there will be one you want to take home with you.

Here is a small selection of the 50 books that are currently on the display:

To keep up with all the new additions to the New Book Display, follow our guide.

Research protocols and methods are critical to plan an experiment and ensure reproducibility, but can be very time-consuming to discover in typical databases.  Springer Nature Experiments  is a new, free-to-use, research tool to help you easily find and evaluate relevant protocols for life sciences experiments. The platform uses advanced knowledge models to categorize content based on techniques and organisms – the two most commonly used search categories identified in user research. With the help of cutting-edge artificial intelligence and text mining technologies, these terms are recognized and extracted from the content, enabling users to perform searches and narrow down their results quickly and easily.

Check out Springer Nature Experiments  and also take a look at the other Springer Nature journals, books, and databases brought to you by the UCF Libraries:

• Springer eBooks

Over 25,000 scholarly ebooks in science, technology, and medicine.

• Springer Protocols

Reproducible laboratory protocols in the Life and Biomedical Sciences.

• Springer Materials

Research platform dedicated to information on materials, their properties and uses.

Need to check out library items over the summer, but you’re not taking classes? Students enrolled for the Fall 2018 semester can still check out all summer long! If you have any questions about your library account give us a call at 407-823-2580.

Have you ever wanted to find out the if the library classrooms are open for quiet study? Or learn about an upcoming library event? Or hear when we’re handing out free popcorn? Now you can through opt-in alerts about UCF Libraries with the UCF Mobile app.

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Tap Manage or Explore my opt-in channels

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Select UCF Libraries

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Now you’re all set! You’ll now receive updates about upcoming events, new features, and special alerts from UCF Libraries.