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The Green Wave
The Green Wave is a touching documentary-collage illustrating the dramatic events and telling about the feelings of the people behind this revolution.
The film describes the experiences and thoughts of two young students and their initial hope and curiosity, their desperate fear, and the courage to yet continue to fight. These fictional 'storylines' have been animated as a motion comic – sort of a moving comic – framing the deeply affecting pictures of the revolution and the interviews with prominent human rights campaigners and exiled Iranians. Ali Samadi Ahadi's documentary is a very contemporary chronicle of the Green Revolution and a memorial for all of those who believed in more freedom and lost their lives for that.
| February 14, 2012 | 7:00pm | Media Library |
| February 15, 2012 | 12:00pm | Media Library |
RefWorks: Sciences & Engineering
Tired of keeping track of your citations for all your classes and research? You want to attend this workshop!
Engineering Village: Making it Work for You!
Want to learn advanced usages for one of the leading Engineering databases? Swing by and learn all about it!
Using PowerPoint for Presentations and Posters
Do you want to transform your slideshow into a captivating presentation? Do you want to showcase your research in an organized, one-of-a-kind research poster? Come discover tips to help you do all of this and more using Microsoft PowerPoint.
Shirin
Ostensibly an adaptation of a 12th century Persian poem about a young princess courted by two men, a nobleman and an artist, Kiarostami never shows us the film in question. Instead, we are invited to reconstruct the narrative from dialogue and sound, as well as the emotions that flash across the faces of a rapt, mostly female audience. (95 min)
| February 16, 2012 | 4:00pm | Media Library |
The Muslim Cultures Film Series is a joint effort of the UNT Contemporary Arab and Muslim Cultural Studies Institute and the Media Library. Film screenings are held once a month in the Media Library.
CV Maximizer for Faculty and Graduate Students
Come discover how to maximize the impact of your CV or resume using core lists, journal impact factors, citation analysis, and more!
Maximizing Research: Sciences
Save time! Learn about search alerts to keep current on new articles. Use RefWorks to organize articles and citations. Did we mention save time?!
Lunch Line
Chronicles the political and social history of the National School Lunch Program, one of our nation's most successful social programs, from the factors that led to its creation to the current debate over its nutritional standards. The National School Lunch Program began in 1946, and now more than 60 years later, feeds more than 31 million children every day. In this documentary, leaders from all sides of the school food debate including government officials, school food service experts, activists and students, weigh in on the program and discuss ways to continue nourishing America's children for another 60 years. The documentary also follows six kids from one of the toughest neighborhoods in Chicago as they set out to fix school lunch, and end up at the White House. Their unlikely journey parallels the dramatic transformation of school lunch from a patchwork of local anti-hunger efforts to a robust national feeding program. The film tracks the behind-the-scenes details of school lunch and childhood hunger from key moments in the 1940s, 1960s and 1980s to the present, revealing political twists, surprising alliances and more common ground than people might realize.
| February 21, 2012 | 7:00pm | Media Library |
| February 22, 2012 | 12:00pm | Media Library |
Friends of the UNT Libraries Annual Meeting
The focus the evening will be a presentation by author Jane Roberts Wood, who has won numerous awards and honors for her writing of fiction set in Texas
Engineering Village: Making it Work for You!
Want to learn advanced usages for one of the leading Engineering databases? Swing by and learn all about it!
Research Tips: Sciences and Engineering
Wanting to save time and gain tips and tricks for researching scientific information? Don't miss this workshop!
Creating Captivating Slideshows Using Prezi
Interested in taking your presentation to the next level? Come learn about Prezi, a free cloud-based software that lets you create visually appealing, professional slideshows for your next college or work presentation.
Using Visio to Turn Projects into Attractive Documents
Want to learn how to share your diagrams and flowcharts with your peers online? Need a platform to record all of your ideas for a particular project? Attend this workshop to learn how to use Visio for all of your brainstorming and diagramming needs.
Sciences and Engineering Research Tips
Rediscover tips and tricks for using the most valuable library resources for science and engineering students.
Creating Captivating Slideshows using Prezi
Interested in taking your presentation to the next level? Come learn about Prezi, a free cloud-based software that lets you create visually appealing, professional slideshows for your next college or work presentation.
Art & Copy
A powerful film about advertising and inspiration. It reveals the work and wisdom of some of the most influential advertising creatives of our time, people who've profoundly impacted our culture. Their work grabbed the attention of millions and truly moved them. The social and cultural impact of their ads are brought to light in this dynamic exploration of art, commerce, and human emotion. (90 min)
| February 23, 2012 | 4:00pm | Media Library |
The Linguistics in Motion Film Series is a joint effort of the UNT Linguistics & Technical Communication department and the Media Library. Film screenings are held once a month in the Media Library.
Citation Analysis: Tracking the Literature
Have an author whose work you want to follow? Need to find out who is citing an article? Want to find out your h-index? Must know who is citing you? Attend this workshop!
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Learn about Web of Science and how it will help answer the questions above.
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Discover other tools that help with citation analysis
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Create a citation map!
Literature Review Workshop February 28th
Learn all about completing a literature review with this workshop.
Disfarmer
In the small mountain town of Heber Springs, Arkansas, a portrait photographer known as Mike Disfarmer captured the lives and emotions of the people of rural America during the two World Wars and the Great Depression. Critics have hailed Disfarmer's remarkable black and white portraits as "a work of artistic genius" and "a classical episode in the history of American photography." This feature documentary discovers an American master, his influence on the modern Manhattan art world, and the legacy he left behind in his hometown of Heber Springs.
| February 28, 2012 | 7:00pm | Media Library |
| February 29, 2012 | 12:00pm | Media Library |