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Calling all UCF Undergraduate Students!

UCF Libraries needs your help to design practical and useful workshops for student life. The survey, which will take about 8-10 minutes, will ask you about your study and research habits, as well as your experience using library resources and services. Your input will help us, help you. Take a few minutes of your time and follow this link:  http://ucf.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_b15YH23K8qLVNkx

Look for new Undergraduate Workshops coming in Fall 2018.

If you have questions, concerns, or complaints contact Andrew Hackler, UCF Libraries, IT&R, (407) 823-0804 or by email at andrew.hackler@ucf.edu.

The Summer Knights Reading Challenge starts June 1 and ends August 1, 2018

• Open to all UCF students, faculty, and staff.
• It’s easy! Just track the number of pages for each unique book read using our form linked below (available beginning Friday, June 1).
• For e-books and audiobooks, simply verify the number of pages in the actual book using Amazon or another source.
• Reach the goal of reading 500 pages and win a prize pack!
• All participants will be entered into weekly drawings for gift cards to BurgerFi, Jeremiah’s Italian Ice, Metro Diner, and Smoothie King.
• The top three people who read the most pages overall will win grand prizes.

Enter your books on this form.

While every day is a time to celebrate your identity and orientation, June is a notable month set aside to loudly and proudly celebrate with and for the LGBTQIA community. Here at UCF Libraries we are loudly proud of everyone at UCF who identifies as part of the queer community. In recognition of and support for our LGBTQIA Knights, we are hosting a series of displays and events including a UCF Remembers display from the Pulse Collection, a featured bookshelf, three film screenings and discussions, and our new Speak Your Truth: A Queer History of UCF project.

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Beginning Tuesday, May 29, the 1st floor of the John C. Hitt Library will be closed to prepare for and start construction.

Please pardon the noise, dust, and inconvenience.

Need a book on shelves A – F? Find it in the library catalog, and click on the “Request” link. You will be notified when you can pick up your book at the Circulation Desk on the main (2nd) floor.

Assistance with Government Documents and the documents collection can be requested at the Research and Information Desk on 2nd (main) floor.
Earplugs remain available at the Circulation Desk.

The Rosen Library’s new exhibit showcases celebrity chefs and their signature recipes. Peruse a collection of memoirs and recipe books from Nobu to Ina Garten. Included in the exhibit is a binder detailing each featured chef’s signature dish or favorite cocktail.

Check out some of the items on display:

• • The Chopped Cookbook: Use What You’ve Got to Cook Something Great (Food Network)
  • Cooking for Jeffrey (Ina Garten)
  • Everydaycook (Alton Brown)
  • Julia’s Kitchen Wisdom : Essential Techniques and Recipes From a Lifetime of Cooking (Julia Child with David Nussbaum)
  • Nobu Now (Nobuyuki Matsuhisa)