UCF Libraries Events

Upcoming Events

• Summer Knights Reading Challenge 2018

  June 1, 2018 until 12 a.m. until Aug. 1, 2018 John C. Hitt Library

  The Summer Knights Reading Challenge starts June 1 and ends August 1, 2018 Open to all UCF students, faculty, and staff. It's easy! Just track the number of pages for each unique book read using this form (available beginning Friday, June 1). For e-books and audiobooks, simply verify the number of pages in the actual book using Amazon or another ...

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• LGBTQIA Pride Month film: What Are You

  June 7, 2018 at 12 p.m. until 1 p.m. John C. Hitt Library: 223

  An intimate portrait of growing up gay, lesbian, bisexual, gender non-conforming, and transgender in the Pacific Northwest. Issues discussed include microaggressions, implicit bias, coming out, the gender binary, discrimination at the workplace, and family dynamics.

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• Plagiarism & Citations Workshop (Recurring Event)

  June 8, 2018 at 12 p.m. until 1 p.m. John C. Hitt Library: 235C

  This librarian led workshop will teach you how to: avoid plagiarism correctly use citations

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• LGBTQIA Pride Month film: A Simple Matter of Justice

  June 21, 2018 at 12 p.m. until 1:30 p.m. John C. Hitt Library: 223

  A powerful and moving piece documenting the lesbian, gay and bisexual movement in the early 1990s, A Simple Matter of Justice expresses all the emotions of the joyful protest that was the 1993 March on Washington. Sections on civil rights, AIDS and health care, the military and families are woven together from coverage of the music, comedy, speeches and marchers. ...

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• LGBTQIA Pride Month film: Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria

  June 27, 2018 at 12 p.m. until 1:30 p.m. John C. Hitt Library: 223

  EMMY Award-winning Screaming Queens tells the little-known story of the first known act of collective, violent resistance to the social oppression of queer people in the United States - a 1966 riot in San Francisco's impoverished Tenderloin neighborhood, three years before the famous gay riot at New York's Stonewall Inn. Screaming Queens introduces viewers to street queens, cops and activist ...

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• Plagiarism & Citations Workshop (Recurring Event)

  July 11, 2018 at 1 p.m. until 2 p.m. John C. Hitt Library: 235C

  This librarian led workshop will teach you how to: avoid plagiarism correctly use citations

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• Film Screening: Coming Out: A 50 Year History

  Oct. 11, 2018 at 12 p.m. until 1:30 p.m. John C. Hitt Library: 223

  Transgender teen, Jazz Jennings, narrates this documentary where young people interview a host of LGBTQ elders who came out in different historical eras from the 1950s through today. These inspiring talks give insight into the political and personal changes that shaped the modern LGBTQ movement. The young interviewers get an opportunity to compare and contrast their "coming out" experience with ...

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• Diversity Week: Open Mic

  Oct. 18, 2018 at 12 p.m. until 1:15 p.m. John C. Hitt Library: 223

  Picture it. Full stage. Spotlight. Mic in hand. Are you ready to step up.... UCF Libraries and the Office of Diversity and Inclusion want to give you the chance to let your work shine at our Open Mic event in library room 223.

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• Diversity Week: Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria

  Oct. 19, 2018 at 12 p.m. until 1:30 p.m. John C. Hitt Library: 223

  EMMY Award-winning Screaming Queens tells the little-known story of the first known act of collective, violent resistance to the social oppression of queer people in the United States - a 1966 riot in San Francisco's impoverished Tenderloin neighborhood, three years before the famous gay riot at New York's Stonewall Inn. Screaming Queens introduces viewers to street queens, cops and activist ...

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