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Now that you have tested and voted on the task chairs, what do you think of the lounge chair options for student seating in the new library addition? Please remember that the fabric choices will be different, we are voting on the chair’s design and comfort.
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The Libraries are testing out new chairs for the Coe Library Addition this week. You can test out chairs under consideration on the main floor of Coe Library. These chairs are designed for use by students and other researchers within the new library facility. You can leave comments at Coe or you can vote for your favorites here on the blog!
Vote for your favorite task chair:
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Lately I hear a lot of talk about planting gardens to save food costs during the recession. That idea is so appealing and I love to think about digging in the warm ground when I look outside at the February clouds.
The libraries offer lots of great planning resources for your summer garden. Get out your seed catalogs and your graph paper and start dreaming!
Gardening When It Counts is written for the beginning gardener interested in planting a high-yield food garden and reducing the distance food travels from farm to table.
Gardening in Laramie presents a special set of challenges, but the folks at the Cooperative Extension Service have some helpful tips for extending the vegetable growing season.
Looking for inspiration? The Garden Lover’s Guide to the West offers a guide to the 114 most spectacular gardens in the Western states. Yard Art and Handmade Places encouraged me to embrace all the possibilities outside of my expanse of bluegrass. If you are looking for something more practical, then the Encyclopedia of Garden Design & Structure is an inspiring and huge selection of garden design ideas.
What are you planning for your garden this summer?
The construction on the new Coe Library addition is progressing so quickly these days! The building is scheduled to open in September 2009 April 2009 (update and wow!), and staff and collections will start moving over before them (maybe as early as Spring Break).
Take a look at the new building…
and the new North entrance…
and the view between the Union and Coe Library…
Feeling a little unlucky in love this week? The library is a little bit like match.com… as a famous librarian once said “every book its reader, every reader his (or her) book”. Take a turn through the popular reading section on the main level of Coe Library and you might just find “the one”.
Bookworms, what books do you recommend for keeping warm at night? What book is your soul mate?
Would you like to help make the UW Libraries’ website better? The web folks at the Libraries are looking for volunteers to test our website and give us feedback on how it’s working. The study will take about 30 minutes of your time and will be painless. Participants will recieve a small gift from the usability team, too.
If you’re interested in volunteering, please contact Kaijsa Calkins at 307-766-6553 or kcalkins@uwyo.edu.
Undergraduate students are invited to participate in the Tenth Annual Wyoming Undergraduate Research Day which will take place on the University of Wyoming campus, Saturday, May 2, 2009. Last year around 230 students presented their research, and this year we anticipate an even richer display of undergraduate curiosity and creativity. Abstracts of all presentations will be published, and the day will conclude with a dinner honoring the presenters and their families.
Concurrent oral presentations will be held in the Classroom Building beginning at 1:00 pm and concluding at 5:30 p.m. Poster presentations will take place in the Family Room of the Wyoming Union from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.
The University of Wyoming and Wyoming’s community colleges provide many opportunities for undergraduates to participate in independent research projects across many disciplines. The purpose of Undergraduate Research Day is to recognize and to celebrate the accomplishments of undergraduate student researchers. The topics will include research in the areas of agriculture, business, education, engineering, health sciences, biological and physical sciences, mathematical sciences, social sciences, and the arts and humanities.
Each oral presentation is to be 15 minutes long with a five-minute question/answer session following.
Students can access instructions and forms for participation on the Wyoming EPSCoR web site: http://epscor-wise.uwyo.edu/.
Students must submit their Information Forms and their abstracts by March 27, 2009, in order to participate in Research Day. Late materials will not be accepted.
Students are also required to provide an electronic copy of their presentation or poster to the EPSCoR Office within two weeks after Research Day. The UW Libraries will provide a repository for electronic copies of the student presentations, and will make them available electronically through the UW Libraries Digital Initiative at http://digital.uwyo.edu/. You can see last year’s presentations and posters at http://uwlib5.uwyo.edu/omeka/collections/show/4.
Families and friends, UW / Community College / High School students and faculty, and the public are invited to attend the presentations.
Presenters are expected to attend other presentations throughout the afternoon. Please be prepared to stay from 1:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Research Day is sponsored by the UW Offices of Research and Economic Development, Student Affairs, and Academic Affairs; and also, by the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Agriculture, the College of Engineering and Applied Science, the College of Health Sciences, Wyoming INBRE, UW Honors Program, the McNair Scholars Program, Wyoming EPSCoR, and the Wyoming NASA Space Grant Consortium.
For further information, please contact Rick Matlock (307) 766-3545 (rixdogs@uwyo.edu) or Barbara Kissack, (307)766-2033 (bkissack@uwyo.edu).