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UAB LIBRARIES will be closed Thursday, November 28th, through Saturday, November 30th, for Thanksgiving Holidays. We will reopen on Sunday, December 1st.
Lister Hill Library
Sunday 12 pm - 10 pm
Monday - Thursday 7 am - 11 pm
Monday, Nov. 25 - Thursday, Nov. 28 7am - 5 pm
Friday 7 am - 7 pm
Saturday 9:30 am - 6 pm
Sterne Library
Sunday open at 1 pm
Sunday, November 24 closed
Monday - Thursday open 24 hours
Monday, Nov. 25 - Thursday, Nov. 28 7:30 am - 5 pm
Friday close at 7 pm
Saturday 9 am - 5 pm
Saturday, November 23 closed
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2019 UAB Libraries Toys for Fines Initiative
UAB Libraries is holding its Toys for Fines holiday charity drive to bring smiles to children who may not otherwise receive gifts this holiday season. Library users with overdue fines (current or prior) can have up to $20 waived when they donate a new, unwrapped toy for a child (infant through 12 years of age) to the Toys for Tots drive. These contributions will support UAB’s 26th Annual Holiday Toy Drive in conjunction with Toys for Tots to benefit local children.
UAB Libraries drop off locations are at Lister Hill Library near the HUB on the 1st floor, as well Mervyn Sterne Library near the HUB on the 1st floor. Donations are welcome currently until the morning of Thursday, December 5th. At 8:30 a.m., toys will be picked up from buildings and moved to the Administration Building. A drive-thru Santa will be in front of the Administration building from 9:00 a.m. to noon, and the US Marine Corps will pick up toys there at 3:00 p.m.
Last year the UAB Reporter wrote a nice article highlighting our 14 + years of participating.
Thank you for participating and helping make the UAB Toy Drive a success for 2019! |
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UAB Libraries Participates in ASERL’s Shared Exhibit on Slavery 
“Enslaved People in the Southeast,” the first collaborative online exhibit by the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL), “commemorates the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first Africans sold into bondage in the English Colonies.” The ASERL site explains the goal of the exhibit: "Designed to illustrate the social complexity as well as the economic and human impact of the American ‘peculiar institution,’ in all its ugliness, these materials can guide the researchers in accurately depicting the institution of slavery in the Southeastern United States. The goal is to learn from our past and make our resources available to students, researchers, other institutions, and the public."
The exhibit includes more than one hundred historical items documenting American slavery and its aftermath which have been digitized from thirty-three ASERL member libraries (including UAB Libraries) and three members of the HBCU (Historically Black Colleges & Universities) Library Alliance. Click here to view the exhibit.
Two to three exhibition items were requested from all member institutions. One of the three items from UAB Libraries is shown here: The exiles of Florida (1858), by Joshua R. Giddings, from the Sterne Rare Book Collection, which is included in the Fugitives section of the online exhibit.
New UAB Digital Collection Features the Southern Surgical Association
 We are pleased to announce the Transactions of the Southern Surgical Association Digital Collection, which provides full-text searchable digital scans of 108 volumes of the association’s transactions from the years 1888 to 1996. These original archival volumes of the transactions are held in the UAB Reynolds-Finley Historical Library and have been made digitally available under the auspices of the Southern Surgical Association, with funding from the Joseph M. Donald Memorial Endowment of the UAB Department of Surgery to support the SSA historical collection.
Learn more about the history of the association, trace the development of surgical topics over more than 100 years within the transactions, and discover searching and browsing tips for the digital collection by exploring our Transactions of the Southern Surgical Association Research Guide. For questions or additional information, contact the Reynolds-Finley Historical Library.
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U.S. Declassified Documents Online provides immediate access to a broad range of previously classified federal records spanning the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The collection brings together the most sensitive documents from all the presidential libraries and numerous executive agencies in a single, easily searchable database. The search and discovery interface for the collection allows researchers to locate the full text of documents and quickly filter their search results by document type, issue date, source institution, classification level, and date declassified as well as other document characteristics.
- from GALE website
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Now On Exhibit in the New Alabama Museum of the Health Sciences:
How Did 19th Century Medical Students Learn?
 Enjoy a preview of the Alabama Museum of the Health Sciences with a well-timed exhibition, How did 19th century medical students learn? The inaugural display features the Nott Pathological Specimens purchased for the Medical College of Alabama, the predecessor to the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine. See first class teaching tools from 160 years ago in a brand new 21st century setting.
Visit the Museum:
Monday through Friday
1:30 - 4:30pm or by appointment through 2019
Lister Hill Library, Room 160
1700 University Boulevard
Birmingham, Alabama
uab.edu/amhs
205.934.2355
medmuseum@uab.edu
Unfolding UAB: 50 Years of Photography from the UAB Archives at AEIVA
On June 16, 1969, Governor Albert Brewer and members of the Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama held a press conference in Montgomery to announce the creation of a new three-campus University of Alabama System. That September saw the start of the first academic year for the newly autonomous University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Originating as an extension program for the University of Alabama during the Great Depression and adding the medical campus in 1945, the history of UAB is multi-layered and complicated, but firmly grounded in the landscape of 20th century Birmingham.
Exhibiting over 80 photographs from the UAB Archives, Unfolding UAB pictographically traces not just the history of UAB as an institution but as a community that unfolded within the fabric of Birmingham, forging and building its own unique identity. The exhibit is on display at the Abroms-Engels Institute for the Visual Arts (AEIVA) at 1221 10th Avenue South from October 21 through December 14, 2019. For more information, please call AEIVA at 205-975-6436.
Exhibit Features Leonardo da Vinci’s Anatomical Drawings
The Anatomical Studies of Leonardo da Vinci, an exhibit on display on the 3rd floor of Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences, traces the various stages of Leonardo’s anatomical studies and puts his work within the context of contemporary and subsequent anatomical and physiological understanding. The anatomical drawings of Leonardo have been held by the Royal Library of Windsor Castle since the reign of Charles II (1660-1685) and are here displayed within reproductions and facsimiles from the Reynolds-Finley Historical Library, alongside a life-size replica of a human skeleton from the Alabama Museum of the Health Sciences.
This fascinating exhibit can be viewed from 9:00 am – 5:00 pm, Monday through Friday. For more information, call (205) 934-4475.
Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of UAB
A two-part display in the UAB Libraries celebrates the 50th anniversary of UAB with material from the UAB Archives. On the first floor of Sterne Library several cases highlight three periods in UAB’s history: 1969-1970, the first academic year of the new UAB; 1994-1995, the academic year of the 25th anniversary of UAB; and the current UAB during this milestone 50th anniversary year. Documents, photographs, and three-dimensional objects are used to portray these three periods in university history with textual information to differentiate enrollment, employment, student life, etc. On the third floor of Lister Hill Library, additional material also documents the growth and development of UAB. Be sure to stop by and see these displays in the UAB Libraries. Go Blazers!
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Students in Front of Tidwell Hall, 1969
Image ID: Annual Report yearbook
During the first term of the new university, there were 5,381 students enrolled at UAB in the fall of 1969. Tidwell was the campus home to all non-health science classes offered by UAB as part of the College of General Studies. The old apartments in the background, which housed various university administrative and academic offices, were located at the corner of 20th Street and 8th Avenue South -- the site of today's Hilton Birmingham at UAB.
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CAFE COLLECTION SPOTLIGHT
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 We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
by Jonathan Safran Foer
Café Collection SF140.C57 F64 2019
Human are really bad at predicting the future. Even those who accept the reality of human-caused climate change rarely act as if they truly believe it and make consistent decisions shaped by what is known. In We Are the Weather, by Jonathan Safran Foer, this conflict between immediate personal interest and saving the planet is on display for anyone willing to engage it. The question, of course, is what creature comfort would you be willing to give up to secure a less catastrophic future? Safran Foer’s suggestion begins with breakfast, but it doesn’t have to end there.
The Café Collection contains popular fiction and non-fiction, and is located at the main entrance of Sterne Library. Books from the Café Collection may be checked out for 28 days with 1 renewal.
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FACULTY PUBLICATION SPOTLIGHT
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Equipping James Bond
by André Millard, Professor
UAB Department of History
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