The John C. Hitt Library invites you to check out some of the new furniture options going into our new spaces.
Feel how comfortable and relaxing your new work and study spaces will be.
We want to know your opinion about the new furniture. Tell us at library.ucf.edu/sit
Everyone is talking about HBO’s gripping new miniseries, Chernobyl which is a personal look at one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history. Have you been pulled into the story as well and want to know more?
UCF Libraries has a great collection of books and documentaries about the meltdown at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Check these out and learn more about what happened and how it has shaped the use of nuclear power in the West.
Chernobyl Record: the definitive history of the Chernobyl catastrophe by R.F. Mould
Chernobyl: a documentary story by Iurii Shcherbak
Chernobyl’s Wild Kingdom: life in the dead zone by Rebecca L. Johnson
Chernobyl: the hidden legacy by Pierpaolo Mittica
Chernobyl: the history of a nuclear catastrophe by Serhii Plokhy
The Truth About Chernobyl by Grigori Medvedev
The Lessons of Chernobyl: 25 years later edited by Elena B. Burlakova and Valeria I. Naydich (ebook)
Manual for Survival: a Chernobyl guide to the future by Kate Brown
Midnight in Chernobyl: the untold story of the world’s greatest nuclear disaster by Adam Higginbotham
NOVA. Building Chernobyl’s megatomb produced and directed by Martin Gorst.
Chernobyl : Nuclear Meltdown from A&E Television Networks, LLC.
Children of Chernobyl produced by SIC TV.
Living under the cloud : Chernobyl today produced and directed by Teresa Metcalf (DVD)
If you are curious about the United States’ own brush with nuclear disaster at Three Mile Island in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, in 1979, we have reading on that as well.
Three Mile Island: a nuclear crisis in historical perspective by J. Samuel Walker
Three Mile Island: prologue or epilogue? by Daniel Martin
Three Mile Island: the most studied nuclear accident in history: summary: report to the Congress by the Comptroller General of the United States
The Warning: accident at Three Mile Island by Mike Gray and Ira Rosen
Radiation nation: Three Mile Island and the political transformation of the 1970s by Natasha Zaretsky
TMI 25 years later: the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant accident and its impact by Bonnie A. Osif, Anthony J. Baratta, Thomas W. Conkling
The Summer Knights Reading Challenge starts June 1 and ends August 1, 2019
We are happy to share this video as an introduction to the new John C. Hitt Library Automated Retrieval Center. This video showcases what the ARC is, how it operates, and how patrons will be able to request books from it.
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The exhibit “Thomas E. Azzari, The Art of Theme Parks: Stage Design and Production” features items from the “Thomas E. Azzari Theme Parks and Attractions Collection, 1973-2018” highlighting Azzari’s work as a designer of theme park productions. Included in the exhibit are drawings, illustrations, project paperwork, and photographs related to SeaWorld, Weeki Wachee Springs, and Silver Springs.
Thomas E. Azzari studied industrial design at the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut and attended the ArtCenter College of Design in California. Azzari worked over forty years in the media and entertainment industry as a production designer, set designer, and art director.
The exhibit, curated by Sarah Ryschkewitsch, Intern, and Burak Ogreten, Senior Archivist for Special Collections, runs May to August 2019. The exhibit is in the Special Collections & University Archives’ exhibit space located on the 5th floor of the John C. Hitt Library.