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Eleven authors will be available to chat about and sign their books at the event, held from 6:30-8 p.m. Friday, April 15, at Evans Library on the Florida Tech campus.

Library Tip Tuesday! On Tuesdays, the Evans Library brings you helpful tips for using your library resources more effectively. This week, we’ll cover how to find fiction in and beyond Evans Library. I read enough for class, thanks. Reading fiction isn’t just a hobby: reading fiction can make you more empathetic, improve your theory of mind, make you happier, and lower…

Learn more about scholarly publishing and authorship each Friday with librarian David Lowe.

Events After Hours: Discovering Opera Florida Tech Artist-in-Residence Alice Lestang gave a wonderful performance (and talk!) at Discovering Opera: A Lecture with Music. Thank you, Alice! Updates The DSL is testing out a newly developed line of biodegradable filament for our 3D printers. Four new computers have been added to the DSL. You can find SolidWorks, Creo, MATLAB, and Microsoft…

This year’s Open Data Day and International Open Data Hackathon will take place on March 5, 2016. What is ‘open data,’ you ask? Open data is just that – open. It is copyright- and restriction-free data made available to all. Open data may come from government agencies, scientists and researchers, businesses, libraries, archives, or museums. Regardless of origin, all open…

Here’s what you’ve missed: Events Celebrating the Journey: Florida Tech’s African American Read-In 2016 marked Florida Tech’s first African American Read-In, and the event was a huge success! A recording of the event is available below and on our YouTube channel. Updates Spring break is upon us, and that means break hours! Evans Library will be open for the following…

February 22nd through 26th is Fair Use Week! Learn more about fair use and how you can apply it in your own work by visiting Copyright.gov. What is fair use? Fair use is an exception to U.S. copyright law that allows certain uses of copyrighted materials without permission of the copyright holder. These uses include commentary, criticism, news reporting, teaching, and research.…

Last year, we featured four language learning applications that we felt were worth your time. One of the featured options, Mango Languages, is available to FIT students, staff, and faculty free of charge through our A to Z Databases list. Mango offers courses in over 70 languages, including Spanish, English, French, Russian, Italian, ASL, Thai, Tagalog, Farsi, and Latin. There…

Tip Tuesday is back, and we’re here show you how to use your library resources effectively. Peer Review Some questions come up more than others, and “How do I find peer-reviewed articles?” comes up most frequently of all. Let’s take a look at peer-review, and how we can use library resources to find peer-reviewed articles. What is peer-review? In short,…

The words and music of African-American authors and musicians will come to life on Friday, Feb. 12, at Evans Library in celebration of Black History Month.