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Curbed.com, the design and real estate online site, declares that the Hunt Library “may even be enough to reseat MVRDV’s Book Mountain as world’s most awesome library.”

Raleigh-based Scientific American blogger Scott Huler explores the evolution of the role of libraries embodied in the Hunt Library.

Arguing that while it “will not carry passengers into Outer Space,” this N&O editorial explains that “the new library is beyond state of the art . . . . May it live long and prosper.”

The new Hunt Library enables NC State students, faculty, and partners “stay on the forefront of the future with direct access to the tools of tomorrow” and, according to News 14 Carolina’s Linnie Supal, is “giving North Carolina worldwide appeal.”

Sunset from the Skyline Terrace

In a preview of the January 2 opening, Jay Price from the News & Observer writes that the Hunt Library “may well be the most advanced library in the world.”

The doors at the James B. Hunt Jr. Library are open!

You now have a second main library.

Centennial Campus now has an iconic intellectual and social center. NC State University has a learning and collaborative space that boldly proclaims our strengths in engineering, textiles, design, and technology.  And Raleigh has a new signature building that will attract global attention for its beauty and adventurous architecture.

This is a library that is perfect for students and faculty in every discipline.

Almost 100 group study rooms, two amazing new Learning Commons, dedicated areas for faculty and graduate students, state-of-the art technology around every corner, and the inspiring feeling you are going to get when you walk into this building:  they all make it well worth a trip to Centennial Campus, even if that trip is not yet part of your daily routine.

Come explore it.

Discover

• the face of NC State University in this century
• a space that expands the frontiers of learning and research

Visualize

• your work displayed on a giant video wall
• your books delivered by a robot
• your next idea taking shape in a simulated environment

Connect

• with peers and colleagues across disciplines
• with tools that erase distances
• with world-class research collections

Create

• the next video game that changes the industry
• a 3D model or prototype
• a professionally mixed film or score
• new solutions from big data

Learn more at http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/huntlibrary

You’ve been waiting patiently for the James B. Hunt Jr. Library to open, and today is the big day! Now we want everyone to see the library of the future . . . through your Instagram photos!

NCSU Libraries is happy to announce the My #HuntLibrary photo contest. Through My #HuntLibrary you can participate in the story of the Hunt Library’s opening . . . and one lucky photographer will win an iPad Mini!

Participating in My #HuntLibrary is easy:

1. Take an awesome Hunt Library photo
2. Upload it to Instagram
3. Tag it #HuntLibrary

At go.ncsu.edu/myhunt you can also vote on your favorite #HuntLibrary photos, see popular images, browse staff picks, and more. One of the most popular #HuntLibrary shutterbugs will win an iPad Mini, and NCSU Libraries will preserve the best #HuntLibrary photos forever in the University’s official digital archives so they become a permanent part of NC State history.

A Different Point of View

Have fun, be creative! Show us a feature that you love or a view that takes your breath away. Here are some ideas to get you going:

• Use Virtual Browse & the bookBot for the first time
• Lounge on the Skyline Terrace
• Get Roman on the Monumental Stairs
• Draw a giant picture in the Idea Alcove
• Strike a pose in a cool chair
• Get collaborative in a group study room
• Immerse yourself in the Immersion Theater
• Hang out in the Learning Commons

To browse #HuntLibrary photos, vote on your favorites, and see complete contest rules and terms of use, head to My #HuntLibrary at http://go.ncsu.edu/myhunt!

Photo courtesy of The Wilson Times

Governor Hunt’s hometown paper, The Wilson Times, conducts an extensive interview with the former governor and places the Hunt Library into perspective as a centerpiece for Centennial Campus and a step forward in North Carolina’s history and economic development.

Did you know North Carolina is the second largest grower of Christmas trees in the country?  The state is second only to Oregon.  This year, for the 12th time, a North Carolina fraser fir was selected to be the official White House Christmas Tree.  It was grown by an NC State Agricultural Institute alum.  You [...]

“If you can draw it, you can make it!”  That’s the promise of the Makerspace on the 4th floor of the Hunt Library. Here you can create working prototypes, architectural models, and other objects with 3D printers, a 3D scanner, and a laser cutter.  Makerspace is just one of the many tools that make the new Hunt Jr. Library the library of the future.

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In the building in late December for a “sneak peak,” WRAL’s Kelly Hinchcliffe presents a multimedia gallery of the new library two weeks prior to opening day.

Visit the Zoological Health Website to see the Zoological Health Collections featured at the 7th Crissey Zoological Nutrition Symposium.

Principles of neural science. Introduction to epidemiology.
Merrill, Ray M. Withrow & MacEwen’s small animal clinical oncology. Animals and society : an introduction to human-animal studies
DeMello, Margo. Oncologic imaging : a multidisciplinary approach Career opportunities working with animals
Field, Shelly. Veterinary neuroanatomy : a clinical approach
Thomson, Christine. Anatomy of the horse The simple guide to bird care & training
Mancini, Julie R. (Julie Rach) Creating interdisciplinarity : interdisciplinary research and teaching among college and university faculty
Lattuca, Lisa R. Studying a study & testing a test : reading evidence-based health research
Riegelman, Richard K. Reading medical records
McQuade, J. Stanley (James Stanley), 1929- Primate people : saving nonhuman primates through education, advocacy, & sanctuary Captive care of the green iguana
Kaplan, Melissa.

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Contributed by Kristi Krueger The bug above is a boll weevil, an insect that feeds on and lays eggs in the bolls of cotton plants, ruining the fiber.  A document newly available online from the North Carolina State University Entomology Department records reports that by the early 1980s, the bugs had done over $12 billion in [...]

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Immunology

Initial Studies for the Characterization of a Major Histocompatibility Complex Class I Restricted, Peptide-Specific Cytotoxic T Lymphocyte Response in Dogs
by Peter Ross

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Contributed by Anne Barrett While scanning records from the Department of Entomology at NC State for the Cultivating a Revolution digitization project, the lyrics of a song kept coming to mind. Burl Ives, well-known narrator of the 1960s animated film “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer” wrote and performed the song “Ugly Bug Ball” in the 1963 [...]

The librarians at the Veterinary Medicine Library, other NCSU subject librarians, and the Copyright and Digital Scholarship Center can help you achieve compliance with the mandate to make research related to your NIH funding available through PubMed Central. We can:

• Figure out whether you are already in compliance with the mandate for public access to your NIH-funded research
• Guide you in reviewing the publication agreements for your future and past articles to see whether or not your publishers will be making your work available, or whether you will need to directly submit your manuscripts
• Work with you to create or maintain a My Bibliography account in MyNCBI that contains both your articles indexed by PubMed, and any funded research articles published in journals not indexed by PubMed
• Help you or your delegate submit published manuscripts to PubMed Central when needed
• Help you or your delegate use your ERA Commons account for linking your PubMed Central article IDs to your grant progress reports
• Help train your students or collaborators or delegates to assist with maintaining your funded research projects’ compliance

Visit the NCSU Copyright and Digital Scholarship Center website for more information on whether the NIH Public Access Policy applies to your research or information on author agreements with publishers about depositing manuscripts in PubMed Central.