Mark Walters, ILL coordinator extraordinaire, was honored at the UNO Library Friends luncheon May 15, 2012 for his outstanding service to the UNO Library community. Brian Zdan presented Mark with the 2012 Staff Distinguished Service award. Mark and his team are responsible for every inter-library loan transaction at Criss Library. So, next time you request a book or an article through inter-library loan, think of Mark and send him a “good vibe”!

Paul Theroux’s book celebrates 50 years of wandering the globe and contains some of the best writing from the books that shaped him as a reader and traveler. Part philosophical guide, part miscellany, part reminiscence, The Tao of Travel contains excerpts from the best of Theroux’s own work interspersed with selections from travelers both familiar and unexpected: Nabokov, Welty, Waugh, Baldwin, Dickens, Thoreau, Chekhov, Twain, Hemingway, Greene and many others.

Discussion leader Robert Runyon is Dean Emeritus of the UNO Library.
He was first director and then dean of the library from 1978 – 2000. Prior to his appointment at UNO, Mr. Runyon served as Supervisor of Technical Services at the Eisenhower Library of Johns Hopkins University, after which he was Associate Director of the Marriott Library at the University of Utah, in Salt Lake City. Mr. Runyon and his wife, Sheila, are tireless travelers, having recently visited India.

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Receive 20% off your purchase of The Tao of Travel at The Bookworm, located in Countryside Village, 87th & Pacific Street.

AA/EEO institution. For special needs/assistance please call 554-3206, TTY 554-3799

Criss Library recently purchased IBISWorld, a database containing 700+ Industry Market Research Reports. As the demand for global industry and company information increases in the areas of business research, marketing information, communication and advertising access to these reports is critical. As well as US industry research, IBISWorld also contains reports for Australia, China and Great Britain. The industry reports for each country have their own databases and can be accessed separately or through the Global Industry Reports tab on the main IBISWorld home page.

There are links to access IBISWorld on the Business and Economics LibGuide http://libguides.unomaha.edu/business_economics under the Industries and Companies tab or from the Criss Library Home page / Research Tools / Find Articles, Databases and Journals / All Databases A – Z / Click on “I”.

Join Apollon for dinner, performing arts, live music and gallery arts May 11-13 & May 17-20 at UNO Criss Library.

Full-Time: Struggle and Satisfaction in Working America explores what it means and what it takes to earn a living and to make a life in our country. Inspired, in part, by the music of Bruce Springsteen, the work in Full-Time chronicles part of the dark side of the American Dream through the eyes of people for whom it may never be more than an unattainable standard. Each show includes a gourmet meal, gallery exhibition, and original performance. All performances occur at the Criss Library on the UNO campus.

Performance Schedule:
Friday, May 11 at 6:30 PM
Saturday, May 12 at 6:30 PM
Sunday, May 13 at 12:30 PM
Thursday, May 17 at 6:30 PM
Friday, May 18 at 6:30 PM
Saturday, May 19 at 6:30 PM
Sunday, May 20 at 12:30 PM

Tickets:
Opening Night: $10
All other advance tickets: $22
Members/Students: $25
General admission: $30

Prices include applicable state and local sales tax.
More info and tickets sales @ http://l.unomaha.edu/ICSshg

Join UNO Professor Dr. Juliette Parnell Thursday, May 10, 2012, 7:00pm-9:00pm at the Thompson Alumni Center to discuss David McCullough’s book “Greater Journey: Americans in Paris”. As McCullough wrote, “Not all pioneers went west”. Greater Journey is the sweeping story of adventurous Americans who descended on Paris between 1830 and 1900–soaring into the blue.

Dr. Juliette Parnell of the UNO French Department will be sharing her knowledge of the French system of education and how these pioneering Americans achieved so much for themselves and our country. Born and raised in France, Dr. Parnell is an expert in nineteenth-century French Literature. She has been on the UNO faculty for 20 years, teaching classes on French films, French civilization, contemporary French culture and French business and serves as Director of the UNO Summer Abroad Program in Besançon, France. She was awarded the Alumni Outstanding Teaching Award in 2008, the Star Award and the Foreign Language Teaching Award from Nebraska in 2006 and 2007.

Books may be purchased at the Bookworm in Countryside Village. Mention UNO Library Friends and receive a 20% discount.

AA/EEO institution.
For special needs/assistance please call 402-554-2640, TTY 402-554-3799.

Todd Robinson, an instructor in creative writing at UNO. He has published poems and prose in Margie, Potomac Review, The Midwest Quarterly, Natural Bridge and Prairie Schooner. His first book, Note at Heart Rock, a collection of poems, was published this year by Main Street Rag.

Open Mic Night is a chance for you to show off your performance skills in 10 minute sets near the UNO Criss Library Cafe to a great audience on Tuesday, April 24, 2012 from 6:30 – 8:00 pm. Come out to perform or just to support and enjoy your friends, it will be an exciting night! This event is free and open to the public. Free refreshments will be served!

Sign up at the door or via email to Linda Riviera at lriviera@unomaha.edu.