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Two Library Employees Receive 10-year Service Awards

Eugene McDermott Library employees Mary Ann Harrison and Matthew Makowka received 10-year pins at the 26th Annual UT Dallas Service Awards Presentation held Nov. 13, 2012 at the Alexander Clark Conference Center Auditorium. Harrison works in reshelving and is based in Circulation Services. Makowka is a Reference Librarian and is the library's Liaison for the Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science.
Retired Pilot to Share Story Behind Air Force Spy Plane
An overflow audience crowed into the McDermott Library Auditorium to see the 2012 George Jalonick III and Dorothy Cockrell Jalonick Memorial Distinguished Lecture Series featuring SR-71 Blackbird expert Richard Graham.

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Today's McDermott Minute: Are you looking for a place to study with friends where you won’t disturb others? Look no further than the library! You can Reserve a Study Room Online! Rooms may be reserved up to 24 hours in advance.
NEW titles available to download to your ereader
Cybercrime: *The Invisible Threat.* In this 53 minute video from Films on Demand experts from the FBI, the Pentagon, and private companies comment on the danger of online fraud and "denial of service" attacks as well as on anti-hacking and biometric identification as ways of protecting the World Wide Web − and perhaps the world itself
Book of the Month: Beyond El Barrio: Everyday life in Latina/o America. Drawing from history, media studies, cultural studies, and anthropology, the contributors illustrate how despite the hypervisibility of Latinos and Latin American immigrants in recent political debates and popular culture, the daily lives of America's new "majority minority" remain largely invisible and mischaracterized.
Database of the Month: Clase Periodica indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences, humanities, and the sciences and technology from 1975 to the present. It provides access to more than 300,000 bibliographic citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French, and English languages.

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