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Reopening University Library City Centre 2017

From:Mo 29-05-2017 at 15:30
Until:Tu 28-11-2017
Where:University Library City Centre

An entire week packed with activities for everyone because of the reopening of the University of Groningen Library City Centre:

  • ARJEN LUBACH kicks off the Open Day!
  • Walk-in support for researchers
  • Guided tours ‘Behind the Library scenes’
  • pUBquiz
  • Photography contest ‘My favourite spot in the UB’
  • Science slam 'Research meets poetry'
  • Tour through the new lecture rooms named after famous femal e UG professors
  • Background information on the renovation and the Library's architecture

Make some noise!
After that, it's back to:

University of Groningen Library: Where the Shhh happens...

Monday, 29 May 2017
15.30-18.00

Housewarming; Internal festivities

4th floor, reading room

Tuesday, 30 May 2017
14.30-15.00

Interview with AG Architecten Haarlem

4th floor, Jantine Tammes Room

15.00-16.00

Official opening

stairwell

Marjolein Nieboer, Director of the University of Groningen Library

Elmer Sterken, Rector Magnificus, University of Groningen

Relaunch artwork SHA_RE Your Face
Peter Musschenga
16.00-17.00 Guided tours 'Behind the Library scenes'
Drinks
Wednesday, 31 May 2017
11.00-14.00

Walk-in support for researchers

Wilhelmina Bladergroen Lecture room, 1st floor

Want to enhance your Pure profile? Need a researchers’ ID? Stuck in SmartCat? Need help with writing a research data management plan? Wish to learn more about open access publishing or making your research data publicly available through DataverseNL? Come along and our experts from the library’s research support team will help you with everything you always wanted to know but never dared to ask.
12.30-13.00

Lunch concert : Duo Cibeles & Luca Altdorfer, string trio
Students of the Prins Claus Conservatorium Groningen

stairwell

Thursday, 01 June 2017
12.30-13.00  

Lunch concert: Quatre Vents, flute quartet
Students of the Prins Claus Conservatorium Groningen

stairwell

15.00-18.00

pUBquiz

A genuine Pubquiz, made and presented (in Dutch) by Marleen Vermooten, of Kroeg van Klaas fame.
The winners get a box of Groninger beer!
Of course followed by drinks!

4th floor, reading room, coffee corner

  • More information
  • Participation form
Friday, 02 June 2017: Open day University of Groningen Library City Centre

10.30-11.00

and

11.30 - 12.00

Healthy ageing

Lecture by Rina Knoeff, in relation to the exhibition in the University Museum

Annie Nicolette Josephus Jitta lecture room, special collections department, 3rd floor

12.00

ARJEN LUBACH officially kicks off the Open Day!

12.00-17.00

Book fair: Grab a book for free

stairwell

12.00-17.00

Guided tours 'Behind the Library scenes'

stairwell, tour starts every 30 minutes

12.00-17.00

Presentations by the Documentation Centre for Dutch Political Parties (DNPP)

4th floor , DNPP

12.30-13.00

Lunch concert: Percussion quartet PCC
Students of the Prins Claus Conservatorium Groningen

stairwell

13.00-15.00

Research meets poetry, part I

Speed date a poet and transform your research topic into a 3-minute poem.

  • More information

14.00-14.30

and

15.00 - 15.30

UB2020 - In gesprek met de architecten van de verbouwing (Dutch only)

Coffee corner, 1st floor

14.30-15.30

and

16.30-17.30

Lecture tour: Vier nieuwe collegezalen in de UB - vier bijzondere vrouwen (Dutch only)

Mineke Bosch

Start: Jantina Tammes Room, 4th floor

16.00-17.00

Research meets poetry, part II

Present your research as a 3-minute poem to the public. The audience decides which poem's the best.

                 

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