Congratulations to the class of 2021!! The University Libraries is a proud partner for our students’ success and although we did not have our own ceremony or confer degrees, we do recognize and celebrate the successes that our graduating class have achieved. Most students graduating from UNC Greensboro have an affinity for the libraries that is not measured or calculated. We see alumni each week from different years that have had a variety of positive experiences with the libraries, and we look for ways to continue that relationship and rapport.

The life cycle of alumni can take many paths and the libraries can continue to help navigate career trajectories for our former students in many ways. On our website we offer Alumni Services and connections that many alumni take advantage of as they build their careers or determine next steps for use of their new credentials.

Most common is our Community Borrower Program, that establishes access to print materials and is an open invitation back into the buildings. Many alumni, who were frequently library users as students, take advantage of this program to continue to do research or help sort out information literacy needs as they move forward in their lives.

Maintaining a connection with the libraries can be a nice complement to other alumni benefits offered elsewhere on campus and can provide a venue for further engagement at a different level. Alumni become stewards of our campus and our academic mission. Support for the libraries enables us to pay “it" forward to the next generation of students who might have more complex and dynamic needs in a changing society. Alumni who rise from mentee to mentor are truly cherished in fulfilling the academic life cycle of connecting multiple generations of Spartans.

The libraries are committed to helping students, faculty and alumni, recent or historic, all meet their academic pursuits and satisfy their information needs. This might look somewhat different for alumni due to legal aspects of the material, but we can find a way. Giving to the library helps us help you when you are in need of information literacy support.

Join the UNCG Alumni and Friends Book Club today! There are three main reasons we hope you'll be excited to participate in our book club:

This selection is sure to engage our book club community in wonderful conversation, so don’t miss out! Be sure to get a copy of it in your preferred format. Visit Goodreads to learn more about the book and author, to check out reader reviews or to see buying options.

Gateway is a new, collaborative digital collections platform that is hosted by the UNC Greensboro University Libraries, but the content is generated by institutions and individuals all over the region. 

The Digitization Unit at UNCG maintains the platform and does much of the digitization and metadata creation. We partner with other local libraries and museums and also occasionally arrange community scanning and history events with TriadHistory.org. We also work directly with local groups, churches, schools and individuals to make their history available online. And we work closely with the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center and the State Library of North Carolina. We view this as a community resource rather than strictly as a UNCG project, so we chose the name "Gateway" to reference Greensboro's history as "The Gate City" and to show that the site is a gateway to digital history collections on many topics from many sources. READ MORE.

PRIDE! Month is commemorated each year in the month of June to honor the 1969 Stonewall uprising in New York City. In June 1969, patrons and supporters of the Stonewall Inn staged an uprising to resist the police harassment and persecution to which LGBTQIA+ Americans were commonly subjected. This uprising marked the beginning of a movement to outlaw discriminatory laws and practices against LGBTQIA+ Americans. Today, LGBTQIA+ Pride Month celebrations include pride parades, picnics, parties, workshops, symposia and concerts, attracting millions of participants around the world. READ MORE.

Did you know that PRIDE! Of the Community: Documenting LGBTQ History in the Triad is the first large-scale initiative to document the LGBTQ+ history of the Triad (Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point) area of North Carolina, through community scanning days and other outreach activities? The project includes items from multiple collections, some of them held by UNC Greensboro and partner institutions, and some contributed by community organizations and individuals. PRIDE! Of the Community was originally funded by a Common Heritage grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Amari Brown, one of the many artists who contributed their talent to the plywood murals on South Elm Street in Downtown Greensboro, recently added his artwork to the collection. He stopped by Jackson Library with his family to see the exhibit on display at the College Avenue entrance. READ MORE.

UNC Greensboro University Libraries, along with faculty partners across the state, has received an $150,000 digital extension grant from The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) to expand its Digital Library on American Slavery (DLAS) to three more campuses in North Carolina: North Carolina Central University, UNC Pembroke, and East Carolina University.

As part of the 2021 ACLS Digital Extension Grant program, the grant will allow the University Libraries team, led by Richard Cox and Dr. Claire E. Heckel, to expand the digital infrastructure of the DLAS through local, community-engaged digital humanities research and engage new audiences. Principal investigators Dr. Charles Denton Johnson, NCCU; Dr. Jarvis L. Hargrove, ECU; and Dr. Jaime Amanda Martinez, UNCP will lead a distinct research project that builds on their own scholarship and existing programs of study at their respective institutions and on existing relationships with local communities. READ MORE.

Westervelt is a junior Peace and Conflict Studies major and Gerontology Program minor at UNC Greensboro. Her winning paper, “Impact of Racial Disparities in Transportation Access on Older Adults in Chatham County,” was nominated by Undergraduate Gerontology Program Coordinator and Professor Rebecca Adams in the Department of Social Work in the School of Health and Human Sciences. READ MORE.

To boost the voices from the Asian American and Pacific Islander community, we collected resources from our collections and from the public last month. Visit the website and discover books, movies, music and other resources. LEARN MORE.

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