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  Join us on Wednesday evenings for our weekly Conversation Hour! Created as a place for students to practice their language skills, Evans Library’s Conversation Hour is open to all students. Talk with other students about your home, culture, customs, food, language, courses, current events, life in America, or anything at all. Conversation Hour is held at 6pm in the…

The university's Evans Library will offer the four-week online course, "Understanding Media: Facts, Authority, and What We Believe" starting Sept. 12. Registration opens Monday, Aug. 8.

Former NASA engineer Scott Frisch ’78, of Fort Lauderdale, recently donated a collection of space history materials to the Evans Library, establishing the Scott Frisch Special Collection. The collection includes technical manuals authored by Frisch, NASA memorabilia and interior photos of shuttles, among other items. “After watching the first moon landing on television, I developed an insatiable thirst for knowledge about space exploration and its technology,” said Frisch. “Before ultimately attending Florida Tech, I had amassed a sizable collection of public domain literature about…

2016 is an important transitional year for graduate studies at Florida Tech.  The academic year 2015-2016 was our last to be paper-focused for submitting theses and dissertations.  Next school year—beginning in the Fall of 2016—we are moving to electronic submission as our primary medium for these documents of high academic achievement.  We in Evans Library will make them available by…

In a word, YES!  In the spirit of the Whitehouse’s 2013 OSTP memorandum on Open Access (OA) you can expect U.S. federal grant funders to allow including a line in your direct costs for fees associated with publishing your project write-ups and associated data.  The precedents extend from OMB A-21, the foundational budgetary document for federal research grants to higher…

Events  FloridaTechHacks We had a lot of fun with FloridaTechHacks very first hackathon! Four-Ever Shakespeare Four-Ever Shakespeare was a huge success! You can view photos from the event on our Facebook page. You can also check out the #4EverShakespeare tag on Twitter and Instagram to view photos from our Shakespeare photo booth. Updates Looking for information about grants, scholarships, fellowships,…

Evans Library is proud to announce that our summer camp, What We Know: Understanding Media and Its Influence is returning for a second year! Targeted toward middle and high school students between the ages of 12 and 15, Understanding Media will explore the meanings and origins of the information we are exposed to on a daily basis. Campers will: Learn…

This is a critical question for us to answer—especially since librarians have been advocating heavily for Open Access (OA), and since it is in the OA realm where this predation is rampant, so I believe we share significant responsibility to help navigate these perilous waters.  (For more background on OA, you may want to refer to my post from Open…

As promised last week, our first Scholar as Author blog post will address the question: Why do I need an ORCID? Perishing is not an option “Publish or perish” is the realist’s familiar mantra for a career in academe.  Whether you consider the tasks of publishing and presenting at conferences to be among the finest of sports on the one…

In today’s featured database post, we’ll be reviewing two of the key databases for Aviation and Aeronautics students: ACM Digital Library and Aerospace Database. ACM Database The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) database covers topics such as avionics, simulation, air traffic control, airport management, human factors, and aviation weather. To find full-text results, use the search box in the top…