Volume 31, No. 4, Summer 2016
A VISIT TO THE WHITE HOUSE
NCSU LIBRARIES WINS IMLS NATIONAL MEDAL
Making Space
Designing Libraries Conference
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Volume 31, No. 4, Summer 2016 VICE PROVOST AND DIRECTOR OF LIBRARIES: Susan K. Nutter EDITOR: Charles J. Samuels, Director of Publications GRAPHIC DESIGN: Charles J. Samuels, Brent Brafford COMMUNICATION STRATEGIST: Chris Vitiello DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATION STRATEGY: Chris Tonelli Friends of the Library Campus Box 7111 Raleigh, NC 27695 friends_of_the_library@ncsu.edu 919-515-2841 Focus seeks to promote the services, activities, needs, and interests of the NCSU Libraries to the university, the Friends of the Library, and beyond. Unless otherwise noted, photographs are by Charles Samuels, Brent Brafford, or Mara Masters, NCSU Libraries or Marc Hall, NC State University Communications Services. NCSU Libraries: www.lib.ncsu.edu Focus Online: www.lib.ncsu.edu/publications/ focusonline On the Cover: Susan K. Nutter and Marsha Gordon accept the IMLS National Medal from First Lady Michelle Obama. Image courtesy of the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
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Events Recap: bones, cats, and a long walk Latino American History
Top: Dr. Lindsay Zanno talks about her work lugging gigantic dinosaur fossils out of the desert. Middle: Zanno talks to students following her presentation. Below: Saul Flores tells students about his photos from Ecuador.
Fabulous Faculty: Lindsay Zanno Last November, as part of the NCSU Libraries’ “Fabulous Faculty” series, Dr. Lindsay Zanno described how she spent five years excavating and studying bone fragments that she and her team located in the Cedar Mountain Formation in eastern Utah. These excavations led to her discovery of Siats meekerorum, an enormous carnivore that lived 98 million years ago, a discovery that helped fill in more than 60 million years in the fossil record. Showing videos of her dig that were shot using drones, Zanno explained that the work of paleontologists is often difficult, physically demanding, and painstaking. Zanno also described how she and other researchers are using 3D scanning and printing, gaming technology, and design software to help turn the ancient bones and bone fragments she finds in the field into full models of newly discovered species of dinosaurs. Zanno is director of the Paleontology and Geology Research Lab at the North Carolina Museum of Sciences and an assistant research professor at NC State.
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Last fall, the NCSU Libraries partnered with the North Carolina Museum of History on a series entitled Latino Americans: 500 Years of History, a nationwide public programming initiative by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association that “supports the exploration of the rich and varied history and experiences of Latinos, who have helped shape the United States over the last five centuries and who have become, with more than 50 million people, the country’s largest minority group.” As part of the partnership, the NCSU Libraries hosted two documentary film screenings and invited NC State alumnus Saul Flores to talk about his extraordinary Walk of the Immigrants project that began when he was a Caldwell Fellow here at NC State. Students were riveted by Flores’ experiences during his 5,000mile journey from Ecuador to Charlotte. One student
LIBRARIES NEWS Left: Saul Flores takes student questions during his talk at the Hunt Library.
Clockwise from below left: Mike Bridavsky waves to the crowd with Lil’ BUB; Lil’ BUB poses for her fans; Attendees, such as Melvin Peña, contributing writer for Catster and Dogster magazines, can hardly contain their enthusiasm as they wait in line to see Lil’ BUB. extolled, “This presentation was phenomenal. Saul was absolutely brilliant, and his story was very gripping and engrossing. I absolutely loved it.”
C.A.T.S. What do libraries and cats have in common? Surprisingly, quite a bit. As campuses become more engaged with technology, libraries and academic institutions are delving into data-enabled location tracking and the implications for privacy rights, the use of social media in research, how new technologies are expanding the possibilities for data gathering, and digital archiving as it relates to common computer usage and pop culture. All of these topics can be illustrated and discussed using cats — yes, actual felines — as a
through-line. Last fall, the NCSU Libraries tapped into the appeal of cats by offering sessions about technology, scientific discovery, and online digital media that all focused on felines in its Creativity and Technology Symposium (C.A.T.S.). Among the unique offerings were an appearance by celebrity cat Lil’ BUB and her owner Mike Bridavsky, and a session on using technology to measure pain in animals, led by Dr. Duncan Lascelles, professor of small animal surgery and pain management at the College of Veterinary Medicine at NC State. As part of the symposium, which was attended by more than 600 people, the NCSU Libraries hosted a pet food drive for SAFE Haven Cat Shelter & Clinic, a local organization that had previously received a grant from Lil’ BUB’s BIG Fund for the ASPCA.
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Mountaintops, Microscopes, and Glitch Art in “Coffee & Viz” SIX SPECTACULAR VISUALIZATION EVENTS MADE SPRING SOMETHING TO SEE
During “Coffee & Viz” events, researchers from NC State and elsewhere share and discuss their visualization work through demos, lectures, lightning talks, and hands-on games in the high-tech spaces at the James B. Hunt Jr. Library and the D. H. Hill Library.
Top: Workshop attendees play with Tangible Landscape by molding clay into earthforms. Below: Dr. Robin Dodsworth discusses using visualization tools in the study of human dialects.
Have you ever made sand castles at the beach? Mountains out of your mashed potatoes? Then you’re a natural at dynamic geospatial modeling with tangible user interfaces. Wait... what?
That may sound like a mouthful, but it’s basically beach play that produces an immediate, interactive computer model. The seminar “Serious Gaming with Tangible Landscape” — which led off a busy spring season of the Libraries’ “Coffee & Viz” event series — gave guests the chance to play with the modeling platform while learning about the real-world problems it’s helping to solve. Tangible Landscape is basically a 3D scanner and projector mounted above a tabletop covered with sand. The scanner reads the sand’s surface and projects an image, such as a color-coded topographical map, down onto it. How would that river flow differently if this hill were gone? Scoop out the sand, and the projection instantly changes to show you. It’s an intuitive, creative platform for environmental and life scientists, as well as gamers and developers, to simulate real-world problems and develop innovative solutions. Taking place in the Hunt Library’s Teaching and Visualization Lab and Creativity Studio, the seminar also included lightning talks from researchers, many of whom work at the NC State GeoForAll Lab at the University’s Center for Geospatial Analytics. Researchers presented
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on how they’re using the Tangible Landscape platform to model the spread of infectious disease and invasive species, landscape dynamics and residential development, and coastal evolution and erosion. In February, Dr. Robin Dodsworth had the audience muttering under their breath, as the Associate
Professor of Linguistics at NC State showed how she used network analysis and visualization to track vowel change in Raleigh. Correlating year of birth with one’s pronunciation of words like “beet,” “bit,” “bait,” and “bet,” Dodsworth took a sonic snapshot of today’s capital city as one in transition from a southern into a more regional tongue. Dodsworth was one of three researchers presenting “Network Visualization Lightning Talks.” Dr. Steve McDonald, an Associate Professor of Sociology at NC State, projected social and professional networks on the walls of the Teaching and Visualization Lab to see how
LIBRARIES NEWS Clockwise from top left: Dr. Steve McDonald discusses mobility and social networks; Dr. Robin Grossinger presents “Mapping Resilient Landscapes;” Felice Frankel discusses scientific visualization; Jeff Donaldson of Glitchaus shows his computer-generated textile patterns; and Daniel Kariko displays his electron microscopy of insects.
one’s contacts determine one’s job opportunities, job access and mobility, and social groups. McDonald manipulated relationship elements, such as acquaintances and how one knows them, relationship strength, participation within communities, and geographic proximity, to see how labor markets change for different kinds of people according to race, class, and gender.
tease out unseen patterns. Visiting the Hunt Library in March, Dr. Robin Grossinger of the San Francisco Estuary Institute presented “Mapping Resilient Landscapes,” a lecture that looked back on how California landscapes have changed since European contact, in order to apply that knowledge to smarter future development that might restore some of its native characteristics.
Dr. Shaun Kellogg of the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation visualized similar relationship networks, but concentrated on particularly effective communities of educators in order to see what makes them tick. Patterns emerge through applied social network analysis, shedding light upon the specific dynamics that make the communities so effective. Kellogg hopes these patterns can be generalized to improve online communities of practice and large, multi-institutional project teams.
Grossinger and his team scour every local historical source — from the pristine storage facilities of state archives to the dusty file cabinets of local museums and historical society basements — gathering data from thousands of historical sources: the diaries of early settlers and maps of Spanish explorers, the oral histories of native peoples, and records of pollen deposits and tree rings. These gatherings result in jaw-dropping maps, in which adjacent “locations” might be a river bend from a 150-year-old handdrawn map of a family farm, and a satellite photograph from last week.
Like network analysis, geographical and historical mapping aspires to
“Coffee & Viz” events came fast and furious in March and April. Just two days apart from each other, Daniel Kariko of East Carolina University’s art department creeped the audience out with his electron microscope images of insects, and MIT’s Felice Frankel gave a talk and led a workshop on the rhetorical value of graphics and visualization in the science and engineering research processes. Jeff Donaldson of Glitchaus closed the season with a fascinating and aesthetically pleasing demonstration of how he induces intentional digital or analog errors — computer glitches — to create commercially successful textile designs. Donaldson’s “Data Knit” scarves resemble analog television test patterns and Native American textile designs. “Coffee & Viz” resumed on August 26 when Tania Allen and Sara Queen, assistant professors in the NC State College of Design, discussed their cross-disciplinary mapping seminar in “DIY (Do It Yourself) Cartography.”
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Augustus Vieweg demonstrates his second-place Code+Art piece.
Data never looked so good STUDENTS SHINE IN THE CODE+ART CONTEST’S SECOND YEAR Now more than ever, researchers are looking for creative, accessible ways to present their findings. Sometimes, this search takes them into aesthetic territory, and their data becomes uniquely meaningful visual art. The NCSU Libraries annual Code+Art Student Visualization Contest, sponsored by Christie Digital Systems, celebrates such creative communication, while focusing an aesthetic lens on the increasing amount of data we encounter in daily life. Now in its second year, the contest receives submissions in data art, animations, procedural environments, interactive visualizations, and algorithmic generative art. Student artists responded by more than doubling the number of submissions over Code+Art’s first year, creating visualizations for a variety of large video walls at the Hunt Library, including the 20-foot-wide Art Wall and the large curved screen in the iPearl Immersion Theater. 6 | FOCUS - NCSU Libraries
Santhosh Radhakrishnan, a graduate student in Aerospace Engineering, took first place for his data visualization artwork “Code_Climate,” earning a prize of $1,000. Ryan West and Augustus Vieweg, both juniors studying Electrical Engineering, claimed second prize ($500) for their “NCSUTwitteRed.” Computer Engineering junior Lucas Rumney’s “Spiral’s Edge” claimed third ($250). An honorable mention went to a team of undergraduates studying Industrial, Environmental, and Graphic Design.
month of April. Their work was subsequently added to the library’s permanent collection of media for the walls. Radhakrishnan used shape and color to display global temperature change data from 1880 to 2016. The anomaly in temperature for a particular year in comparison to the 1951-1980 average determines the direction of strokes onscreen.
Winning artists were honored during a ceremony at the James B. Hunt Jr. Library, where their work was displayed on four video walls throughout the Santhosh Radhakrishnan, first-place winner
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Clockwise from top left: “Skybox” creators discuss their piece with attendees in front of the Commons Wall; 3rd prize winner Lucas Rumney, with “Spiral’s Edge” on the Art Wall; Attendees view the project “Lent” in the iPearl Immersion Theater; Code+Art Contest Winners, Back row, left to right: Lucas Rumney, Santhosh Radhakrishnan, Ben Webber, Parker Yingling, Nick Hyde, Front row, left to right: Augustus Vieweg, Ryan West, W. Conor Lenhardt Rumney’s “Spiral’s Edge” animates different 3D models and structures based on composite sine waves —a simple pattern that appears in almost every mathematics or engineering discipline. Visually beautiful, complex images emerge when constructive and destructive interference is introduced into a simple sine wave function.
Additionally, blue indicates a cooler global climate and red a hotter global climate. Judges were impressed with Radhakrishnan’s elegant usage of color and design, as well as his integration of climate data. “It’s a reminder about changes in global climate,” Radhakrishnan says. “It’s something we need to keep in our minds, but it’s taken for granted sometimes. I am conveying a means for people to take the message more seriously. So I made something bright with beautiful colors, so it would stand out. But it conveys a grim message.”
A self-admitted coding novice, Radhakrishnan had to teach himself the openFrameworks coding language to make “Code_Climate.” The process has piqued his interest in interactive media, particularly its applications in the classroom.
“Skybox,” by the team of Lenhardt, Webber, Yingling, Rozakis, and Hyde, is a procedural environment generator. This simulation uses a perlin noise algorithm to generate a series of biomes, or graphical environments. The algorithm alters the terrain and placement of the environmental objects, conveying unique possibilities with implications for game design. Contest creators are looking forward to a third year of further forays into data’s visual potential.
West and Vieweg created the “NCSUTwitteRed” application to measure school spirit, through images on five different NC StateTwitter accounts. It analyzes the amount of Wolfpack red in images posted to those Twitter accounts, rendering all other colors in grayscale to highlight the red.
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FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY NEWS
Tequila & Mezcal What goes well with books? Tequila! If you’re going to talk about politics and economics, tequila is a good way to frame the conversation. The Friends of the Library (FOL) visited the Gallo Pélon restaurant in downtown Raleigh in February for a tequila and mezcal tasting with NC State professor Sarah Bowen. Bowen talked about the history of the beverages, drawing
upon her book Divided Spirits: Tequila, Mezcal and the Politics of Production. After her overview of mezcal production in Mexico, Bowen explained the difference between mezcal and tequila, highlighting the political struggle between large and small producers of mezcal. Mexico is attempting to harness Denomination of Origin (DO) in a similar way that France controls
the usage of the term “champagne.” Around 55 guests got cozy in the intimate space and enjoyed the mezcal tasting led by Gallo Pélon manager Marshall Davis. Guests could try five different mezcals, served in tiny cups called copitas. Two of the mezcals are available at area stores, and the other three were imported from Oaxaca and are only available at Gallo Pélon. Will Quick (then President of the FOL Board of Directors), was on hand to give tasting instructions to the crowd and promote more exciting upcoming events available to Friends members. If you are interested in joining us at another event like this in the future, please contact Tory Gibler in the Friends of the Library office at (919) 515-2841.
Sometimes you’re hungry for knowledge, and sometimes you’re just plain hungry. Snap Pea Underground’s ingenious chef Jacob Boehm served a nine-course, pop-up dinner to about 75 overjoyed diners in the Hunt Library Skyline Reading Room in late December, honoring the library’s bookBot with each course. “We’re not just preparing tasty foods sourced from sustainable local sources,” Boehm said. “We also worked hard to do something that’s core to the idea of a library—which is storytelling.”
The Chapel Hill native started Snap Pea Underground after working for James Beard Award-winning chef Andy Ricker at Pok Pok restaurant in Portland, OR. The Hunt Library is one of many Triangle locations in which Boehm has held popup dinners, including the Raleigh Denim Workshop, the rooftop of Citrix, and a spot on the Haw River kept secret from diners until the day of the event. Sous chefs shivered in a moonlit field kitchen on the Skyline Terrace, preparing courses like a mini pizza of peppercress pesto and shaved
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purple carrots served in a tiny pizza box (a nod to the bookBot’s speedy delivery) and a book-like puff pastry layered with sour fennel and onion relish and a horseradish jam. “I wanted to do some course that represented the idea of a book with hundreds of pages,” Boehm said of his puff pastry, “and layered within these pages are different surprises, different stories. You experience one flavor and then the other and see how they weave together — just like reading a really good book.”
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Donor Spotlight: John Heitmann
Honoring the Heitmann Endowment John Heitmann and Family
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n February 23, library staff and friends gathered at the James B. Hunt Jr. Library for a bookplating ceremony and lunch to honor Dr. John A. Heitmann, Jr. and his wife Joy for their generous endowment to support the Natural Sciences collection.
“The Heitmann Endowment will ensure that students and faculty in Natural Resources will continue to benefit from the competitive advantage that our librarians, services, and resources provide,” said Carolyn Argentati, deputy director of Libraries. Dr. Heitmann, an alumnus of the pulp and paper technology program, began teaching at NC State in 1987, after a career at a paper mill company. A specialist in papermaking science, his research interests centered on biotechnological applications to papermaking processes, such as enzymatic modifications to cellulosic fibers for drainage control, refining power reduction, and tissue softness. He was selected as Outstanding Teacher in 1994 and Distinguished Alumni Undergraduate Professor in 2003 and served on the University Library Committee. Argentati continued, “John embodies NC State’s ‘Think and Do’ attitude and has the traits of a Renaissance man. He is an inventor, scientist, teacher, patent holder, traveler, and a huge supporter of libraries and lifelong learning. So it’s only appropriate that his bookplate contains an image of Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man, demonstrating John’s well-rounded interest in the field of papermaking, which combines science and art.” Preservation Librarian Jamie Bradway put the first Heitmann bookplate into “Pretreatment of
Above: Dr. John Heitmann and his wife, Joy (seated), with Carolyn Argentati, Dean Mary Watzin, Karen Ciccone, Jennifer Piercy, and Dr. Martin Hubbe (standing).
Biomass,” a title chosen by Karen Ciccone, director of the Natural Resources Library and Research Librarian for Science Informatics, with whom Heitmann worked closely. Heitmann frequently asked Ciccone to visit his Graduate Research Methods class to teach students how to search databases effectively. “The library is one of the great things that I discovered when I came to be a professor here,” Heitmann said. “It’s just not like any other library I’ve ever worked with anywhere else. It’s so much bigger, more professional, and more able to find things that are usually hard to find. It was just amazing to me when I first came to NC State. And it never changed. Thank you so much for all your help through the years and especially for this today.” Friends in attendance included Dr. Mary Watzin, dean of the College of Natural Resources, and Jennifer Piercy, one of Dr. Heitmann’s former students and the current executive director of the Pulp and Paper Foundation at NC State. Dr. Martin Hubbe, a former paper chemistry colleague and current Forest Biomaterials professor, also attended. Heitmann reflected on how far the Libraries has come at NC State. When the Forestry Library—which evolved into the Natural Resources Library—first opened, its collection mostly consisted of government documents, technical reports, and pamphlets. Today, the library emphasizes research materials related to forestry; natural resources; environmental science; forest biomaterials; sport management; parks and recreation; tourism; and the marine, earth, and atmospheric sciences.
Left top, Deputy Director of Libraries, Carolyn Argentati speaks during the presentation. Left bottom, Preservation Librarian Jamie Bradway applies the inaugural bookplate.
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A man in bloom Top to bottom: Guests mingle in the Gallery at the D. H. Hill Library; Former Friends of the Library President Will Quick welcomes guests; Chancellor Woodson poses with new Friends of the Library Life Members William Marshburn, Dillon Rose Jr., and Dillon Rose Sr.; Dr. Richard Olsen, director of the U.S. National Arboretum
THE LIBRARIES HONORS LEGENDARY HORTICULTURIST J. C. RAULSTON WITH EXHIBIT, EVENTS The namesake of the JC Raulston Arboretum didn’t keep fresh flowers on his desk. Instead, he worked next to a bottle of crude oil and a vase of dried winter wheat. The son of an oilman, J. C. Raulston felt connected to his hardscrabble Oklahoma upbringing through those unusual keepsakes.
These are some of the things to be seen — and the often surprising facts to be learned — in “Plan— and Plant For a Better World” J. C. Raulston and the North Carolina State University Arboretum, a D. H. Hill Library Gallery exhibit about the innovative horticulturist and his enormous impact on the nursery industry, including his founding of the now 40-year-old Arboretum, now one of the Southeast’s top teaching gardens. The Friends of the Library took the opportunity of the exhibit’s March 18 opening to hold their Spring Meeting, which featured a lecture by Dr. Richard Olsen, director of the U.S. National Arboretum and a former student of Raulston’s. After Olsen delivered a moving remembrance of Raulston in Nelson Hall, guests retired to the gallery for a reception. The exhibit draws upon historical documents and artifacts in the NCSU Libraries Special Collections Research Center and celebrates J. C. Raulston’s life and career at NC State. Documenting his early life and his arrival at NC State in 1975, through his development of the Arboretum and its dedication in 1980, to his untimely death in a car accident in 1996, the exhibit gathers travel notebooks, lecture notes, ephemera, and correspondence, as well as some of his collection of over 88,000 color slides.
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Exhibit cases include interesting items like the detailed childhood drawings of Raulston’s schoolyard and Boy Scout campground, as well as the leaf-covered “Green Man” jacket he wore to Arboretum events, patterned after one made for David Byrne by designer Adele Lutz. Space is given to descriptions of many of Raulston’s accomplishments, including his 1985 founding of the Lavandula Society, a gay and lesbian support and social network of horticulturists throughout the country. Facts about the growth of the nursery industry reveal the breadth of his legacy. The Arboretum had distributed 65,000 plants and two million cuttings to nursery owners by 1995, and the approximately 2400 nurseries in North Carolina in 1996 were double the number in the year the Arboretum was opened. Garden writer and Raulston biographer Bobby Ward recently led two guided tours of the exhibit. “Plan—and Plant For a Better World” J. C. Raulston and the North Carolina State University Arboretum runs through January 8, 2017.
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In memoriam: Alice Barber Bennett Mrs. Alice Barber Bennett, 99, of Salisbury, formerly of Raleigh, passed away on Tuesday, March 29, 2016, at Trinity Oaks. Alice and her late husband, Roy, were Friends of the Library Life Members, and Alice honored her husband over the years by creating and contributing to the Bennett Library Endowment to support our crop sciences collections.
Born in Rowan County, Mrs. Bennett was the daughter of the late James Claudius Barber and Laura Ehrgott Barber. Mrs. Bennett was a graduate of Cleveland High School and Mitchell College. A lifelong member of Christ Episcopal Church, she also worked as office manager for the State PTA office. Mrs. Bennett loved playing bridge, travelling, and gardening, along with canning and freezing. She was also an excellent seamstress. Mrs. Bennett was preceded in death by her husband, Roy Ray Bennett, Sr. and son, Ray Bennett, Jr. She is survived by her daughter, Barbara Furmanski; sister, Dorothy Ellis; sister-in-law, Bette Barber; grandson, Tim Bennett; and numerous nieces and nephews.
In memoriam: Dr. Don C. Locke
and Marjorie chose to give back to NC State in such a meaningful way that will benefit all students and faculty for generations to come.
Dr. Don C. Locke, NC State Distinguished Professor Emeritus and beloved colleague and friend of both the Libraries and the College of Education, passed away after a brief illness on Wednesday, June 8, 2016 in Asheville, NC. In April of this year, Don and his wife, Marjorie, visited campus to tour the James B. Hunt Jr. Library and establish the Don C. and Marjorie P. Locke Endowment to support the Libraries’ collections. Don and Vice Provost and Director of Libraries Susan K. Nutter worked closely for many years on the University Library Committee, and we are so honored that Don
Don recently served as Director of Diversity and Multiculturalism at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. Prior to moving to the Asheville Graduate Center in July 1993, he was Professor and Department Head for the Department of Counselor Education at NC State. Throughout his career, Don held leadership positions in state, regional, and national organizations and authored more than 125 publications, with a focus on multicultural issues. Don and Marjorie have two adult daughters.
In memoriam: Alfred Luther Purrington III
attorney and counselor at law and member of the North Carolina State Bar, practicing law with various firms including Purrington & Purrington, Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, and Purrington Moody Weil LLP.
The Friends of the Library extends our sympathies to Dr. Suzanne Purrington, former President of the Friends of the Library Board of Directors, on the loss of her husband of 52 years, Alfred Luther Purrington III, 82, who passed away on Friday, April 29, 2016. Al and his wife Suzy are Friends of the Library Life Members and have generously supported the Libraries’ chemistry collections through the Purrington Library Endowment.
Al was a faithful member of the Christ Episcopal Church and also served on the Board of Directors of the United Way of Wake County (1977-1989) and the United Way of North Carolina (1984-1990), as a director of Triangle Land Conservancy, Raleigh City Museum, as a trustee of the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association Endowment Trust, as president of Wake County Phi Beta Kappa, as president and a director of Penick Village in Southern Pines, and as a member of the Raleigh History Club and the North Caroliniana Society.
Al attended Ravenscroft School and graduated from Woodberry Forest School in 1951, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1955, and Harvard Law School in 1961. Al served in the US Navy from 1955 to 1958 and remained in the Naval Reserves until his honorable discharge as Lieutenant Commander in 1972. For over 40 years, Al distinguished himself as
Al is survived by his wife Suzy, three children, seven grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews.
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Award-Winning Libraries:
The NCSU Libraries Goes to Washington First Lady Michelle Obama presents the Libraries with the National Medal for Library Service…and an unforgettable experience Will Quick says he will never get tired of telling this story. “All of a sudden the magnolias out back of the White House start whipping around,” the Past President of the Friends of the Library Board of Directors says. “And this helicopter sets down on the back lawn maybe 35 yards from where we were standing.” Quick (‘07, ‘09 MBA), Vice Provost & Director of Libraries Susan K. Nutter, and Associate Professor of Film Studies Dr. Marsha Gordon were at a reception in the White House after accepting their medal from First Lady Michelle Obama. Everyone—from other medal recipients to attending members of Congress—rushed to the windows to see the commotion. “Everybody was snapping pictures of the helicopter and of the Marine standing at attention by the chopper door. And then President Obama walked out from the West Wing. You could see him just walking across the back of the White House lawn and then boarding the helicopter with his staff. Seeing it up close was really cool.” 12 | FOCUS - NCSU Libraries
Quick, Nutter, and Gordon had an entire day of unforgettable experiences accepting the NCSU Libraries’ award from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) along with nine other honorees at the June 1 ceremony in the East Room. The nation’s highest honor for extraordinary public service, the National Medal acknowledges museums and libraries that have become invaluable community anchors. Established 22 years ago, the IMLS award has celebrated institutions that demonstrate extraordinary and innovative approaches to public service and are making a difference for individuals, families, and communities. But even among a field of exceptional organizations, the NCSU Libraries stood out. It was the lone academic library among this year’s ten awardees—and the first academic library to be recognized by the IMLS in a decade. The NCSU Libraries was nominated for the award because of community programs like the Red, White & Black Walking Tour, which highlights campus spaces significant to African American students and
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Marsha Gordon and Susan K. Nutter have a laugh with First Lady Michelle Obama during the presentation of the IMLS National Medal.
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Clockwise from top left: President Obama strides across the White House lawn to the waiting Marine One helicopter; Will Quick, Susan K. Nutter, and Marsha Gordon relax in the Gold Room at the White House prior to the medal ceremony; IMLS Director Kathryn K. Matthew welcomes the medal winners to the festivities.
In addition to the medal and the national recognition that comes with it, the Libraries received a $5,000 prize as well as a visit this coming January from StoryCorps, a national nonprofit that gathers oral histories. Eighteen pairs of people from the NC State community will spend 40 minutes each telling their story in the StoryCorps booth. Those recordings will be archived at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. faculty, as well as creative events highlighting the Libraries’ commitment to technology such as the Coffee & Viz talks and workshops and the Code+Art Student Visualization Contest. Mix in the Libraries’ hosting of major events such as the North Carolina Literary Festival and the Designing Libraries for the 21st Century Conference, and you find yourself booking tickets to Washington.
“We didn’t really know about this medal, largely because it’s always gone to public libraries. So we hadn’t realized that it was something that we should even think about,” Nutter says. “The fact that we won this without aiming for it—that really celebrates what we are doing.” “We’ve been doing this work for as long as I’ve been in this library — innovating, making a difference in people’s lives, building communities. Those are the things that we’ve done that have made us so successful. It’s really special, therefore, that the award came to us.” 14 | FOCUS - NCSU Libraries
As a representative community member, Gordon traveled with Nutter and Quick to help accept the award. A valuable Libraries partner, she has leveraged the spaces, technologies, and staff to innovate in her teaching. She is also integral to the Libraries’ film programming and has contributed to a variety of screenings and panel discussions. Gordon’s collaboration with Libraries staff on “Shooting Wars,” an interactive visualization of the history of war coverage, was singled out by the IMLS in its acknowledgement of the Libraries. And, true to form, Gordon, and Quick, for that matter, began documenting their White House experience, filling their phones with photos of the Red Room, the Blue Room, and the Green Room. Before the presentation, recipients had about an hour to enjoy these iconic rooms and mingle. Each room has a memorable couch in that room’s color, and Nutter saw her companions transform into a couple of excited kids, practically running back and forth between the couches to take pictures.
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The medal presentation was even more exciting. After opening remarks by IMLS Director Dr. Kathryn K. Matthew, Mrs. Obama delivered an inspiring speech about the importance of the work of the medal recipients.
Fortunately, a Marine officer, tall and gallant in his dress blues, had been assigned to escort Nutter up to the First Lady, who looked at Nutter and grinned widely.
First Lady Michelle Obama addresses the audience of IMLS Medal winners and guests.
“Look at you...aren’t you clever?” Mrs. Obama said to Nutter. “You grabbed the best-looking man here.”
“As someone who lives in a museum and whose husband will soon be opening a library, I’ve been Nutter and Gordon stood on either side of Mrs. thinking a lot about what you all do,” Obama said. Obama to pose for photographs. While cameras “In our last year in the White House, as we’re starting clicked, a spokesperson read a narrative of the NCSU to reflect upon our time here, I’m struck by how Libraries’ community accomplishimportant your work has been for so ments while Gordon fell into a “All of us at the many of our efforts these past sevenbrief conversation with the First and-a-half years.” NCSU Libraries Lady. are honored to win The recipients then took turns “She actually asked me about stepping up to the stage with the First this year’s IMLS my students at NC State, and I Lady to accept their medal. From National Medal. told her a little bit about them,” her front-row seat, Nutter excitedly This recognition Gordon says, “including the fact awaited her turn, but not without means that we are that one of my favorite parts of some anxiety. Still recovering from teaching here is that I’ve seen a lot not only serving surgery only days before the event, of first-generation college students Nutter had toured the White House as a competitive coming into my classroom and in a wheelchair, with Quick as her advantage for that they are bright and hungry for guide. But she had to make the two our campus knowledge about the world.” steps to the stage on foot. “All I could do was look at those steps,” she laughs. “I mean, we were all feeling that way. What if we trip and go flat out in front of the First Lady?”
users, but for the surrounding communities as well.” Susan K. Nutter
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The White House visit and IMLS award are not only a point of pride for the Libraries, but for the entire NC State community and the state of North Carolina as a whole. Representative David Price, who wrote a letter of support for the Libraries’ IMLS nomination, recognized the accomplishment on the Congressional floor. Price recently presented Nutter with a signed copy of the June 10, 2016 Congressional Record that includes the transcript of that recognition. NC State Chancellor Randy Woodson also attended that presentation. “The North Carolina State University Library system has transformed how libraries involve the community to understand, learn, and participate in a myriad of educational activities,” Price said on the House floor. “The system strengthens North Carolina’s K-12 education pipeline, increases the public’s literacy, and prepares tomorrow’s researchers with college- and workforce-ready skills.” Later in June, the Chancellor and his wife Susan hosted an IMLS celebration for the NC State community at their residence, The Point, at which he spoke about the importance of the Libraries and the significance of the award to the university as a whole. Then in July, since she couldn’t take the entire Libraries staff to Washington, Nutter threw a party for the staff at the JC Raulston Arboretum so that they could see the medal and hear the story of the White House visit.
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was in the presence of one of the great First Ladies of American history. It’s hard not to be moved by that very special opportunity to spend even an hour or so in the midst of such a generous spirit.”
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Clockwise from top left: First Lady Michelle Obama addresses guests; Dr. Marsha Gordon poses for a photo in the Red Room; The First Lady greets attendees before the ceremony; Susan K. Nutter gives a press interview on the White House grounds.
The experience put the special accomplishments of the Libraries into a new perspective for Quick. He described the First Lady’s speech as a “hit-home moment.”
Top: Susan K. Nutter tells the story of her trip to the White House to guests at the Chancellor’s reception including Provost Warwick Arden (second from left) and Chancellor Randy Woodson (far right). Left: Will Quick with Ellen Klingler at the Chancellor’s reception.
“I think about the great authors who basically took up residence in their libraries growing up, and the great artists inspired by an amazing exhibit they saw when they were a kid,” Mrs. Obama said. “We’ve heard this from so many people whose lives have been affected by a great book or a great work of art, and how the way they see the world has been transformed—or the way they see themselves.” Quick won’t soon forget the excitement of the day, from Nutter having the rare pleasure of telling a cabbie “Take us to the White House, please!” to the pre-orientation event and reception the night before the medal presentation, when he got to meet and mingle with representatives of the other recipient institutions. “There was a tiny Native American heritage museum called the Tomaquag Museum in Rhode Island. Their people first greeted Columbus when he came over,” Quick remembers. “And then there was the Brooklyn Public Library system, which has 65 or more branches. The recipients just ranged so broadly.” A complete list of the 2016 winners can be found on the IMLS website.
“That’s how we know that in so many of our communities, our libraries and museums don’t just preserve and promote our cultural treasures, but they enrich and empower our lives.” Nutter marveled at the power of Mrs. Obama’s personal connection to the work librarians do. “I think this is rare,” Nutter says. “Usually you hear these speeches that someone else has written, which is all right—I mean you can still feel something. But she really felt what she said. Her parents had encouraged her to use the library, so she realizes how important they are to communities, to learning.” “She sees the library as a place that can help, and I think that everyone in the room was inspired.” NCSU Libraries - FOCUS | 17
NCSU LIBRARIES HOSTS FOURTH ANNUAL DESIGNING LIBRARIES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY CONFERENCE
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THIS PAST FALL, THE NCSU LIBRARIES WELCOMED ATTENDEES TO THE JAMES B. HUNT JR. LIBRARY FOR THE FOURTH ANNUAL DESIGNING LIBRARIES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY CONFERENCE. The Libraries annually co-sponsors this event with the University of Calgary and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), and this year was our second time hosting it. Librarians, architects, planners, designers, information technologists, and others gathered to discuss the challenges and achievements in the design of libraries and learning centers for the 21st century. Sessions featured an array of topics, including: creating and communicating a vision; developing innovative, technology-rich learning and research spaces; creating Makerspaces; planning staff workspaces; and addressing organizational and service models, including transforming the collaborative roles of librarians in these new research and discovery environments. Presentations included examples from renovated libraries as well as new buildings, and participants were given in-depth tours of the
Hunt Library and the D. H. Hill Library, as shining examples of both kinds of projects. An optional pre-conference — “21st Century Libraries: Why Do They Matter?” — included sessions on infrastructure, spaces, partnerships, and reeducation of librarians to support the life-cycle of research and teaching. After an introduction by our own Susan K. Nutter, vice provost and director of the NCSU Libraries, preconference keynote speaker Donald J. Waters, senior program officer for Scholarly Communications at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Deanna Marcum, managing director of Ithaka S+R, spoke about “Fulfilling the Promise,” arguing that “the enormous changes occurring in research libraries have not been matched by the pace of change in library program curricula.” Waters went on to implore libraries to become more extroverted as organizations, a notion that resonated with preconference goers. Other preconference speakers included several NCSU Libraries staff members. Chris Erdmann, then NCSU Libraries – FOCUS | 19
The Makerspace offers a variety of electronic modules, parts, and kits for users to explore, experiment, and play.
Clockwise from top left: Donald J. Waters of the Mellon Foundation delivers his keynote as Susan K. Nutter looks on. NCSU Libraries IT Director Jill Sexton discusses facultystudent partnerships. Dr. David Silver shows his work with faculty-student partnerships in one of the Hunt Library’s visualization spaces. Dr. R. Michael Young addresses a session. Steve Morris, NCSU Libraries Associate Director for the Digital Library, talks about organizing research support.
Head Librarian at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, but now at the NCSU Libraries, joined Greg Raschke, our Associate Director for Collections and Scholarly Communication, in presenting “Training Research Librarians for Transformed Libraries.” They highlighted transformational development opportunities for subject specialist librarians in visualization, data curation, collaborative network analysis, text mining, and other forms of computational analysis. Steve Morris, NCSU Libraries’ Associate Director for the Digital Library, co-presented “Supporting the Research Enterprise: Centralization, Compartmentalization, Diffusion, and Clustering,” a session that explored the different approaches to the physical organization of research support services offered by libraries at large academic institutions. Jill Sexton, our Head of Information Technology, co-presented “Serendipity and the Liquid Galaxy,”
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which explored how three institutions are developing partnerships with faculty and students to enrich and enable new developments in research, teaching, and learning. Pre-conference participants then moved from Duke Energy Hall into the Hunt Library’s high-tech spaces for the “Interactive Multimedia and Pedagogical Innovation” session. NC State librarians Emily Lynema and Jason Evans Groth teamed up with three researchers — Marsha Gordon, David Silver, and R. Michael Young — to showcase the results of faculty-librarian collaborations in technology-rich environments. By redefining the library as a research platform for these emergent forms of digital scholarship and teaching, the Hunt Library can serve as a
model for reengaging faculty in the use of library space, integrating the full life-cycle of the research enterprise, and engaging broad communities in the changing nature of digitally driven scholarship and teaching. The conference officially got underway the following morning as former Dean of NC State’s College of Design, Marvin Malecha, put into perspective the importance of an iconic building and what it says about its function, its place in an institution, and its place in society at-large. Susan Nutter then led a panel called “Creating a Vision,” discussing how this process can be a vehicle for highlighting the potential of 21st-century libraries to become a platform for research, teaching, and learning innovation. In addition, panelists portrayed visioning as a mechanism for building community and ensuring that the library is a vibrant center of engagement for the campus. Carolyn Argentati, our Deputy Director of Libraries, co-led a session that built upon that discussion of the visioning process. “Communicating the Vision” explored the question: How can a library engage its communities in a bold, new vision for the future? Presenters told the story of how the NCSU Libraries enlisted the imaginations of our stakeholders, the reach of our Libraries and University Communications teams, and the talents of two world-class media creators to present the Hunt Library to the world. Ultimately, the campaign was recognized in 2014 with the John Cotton Dana Library Public Relations Award. The conference concluded with two more NCSU Libraries-led sessions — one on makerspaces and one on staff spaces.
discussed the rise of the Maker movement, the increased interest in promoting learning by doing on college campuses, and the role libraries play in supporting these activities. “Designing Great Environments for Library Staff,” led by Patrick Deaton, our Associate Director for Learning Spaces and Capital Management, and Gwen Emery, our Director of Library Environments, pointed out that the thoughtful design of spaces for library users should also apply to spaces for library staff.
Above left: Former College of Design Dean Marvin Malecha talks about how the form and function of a building work together. Top right: Susan K. Nutter answers a question during one of the conference’s panel discussions. Above: Conference attendees take notes during a session.
The fourth annual Designing Libraries Conference certainly emphasized the fact that the NCSU Libraries is a leader in the field, and we will again be well represented at the fifth iteration of the conference at the University of Calgary in September, 2016.
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ven with women now outnumbering men among undergraduates, fewer than one in five engineering grads are female, according to the National Science Foundation, and a whopping 84% of the science and engineering professionals in the U.S. are white or Asian males. Meanwhile, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) remains the country’s fastest-growing employment sector. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects a workforce of 8,650,000 by 2018. So, when the NCSU Libraries opens a STEM-related resource like a makerspace, staff can’t simply cross their fingers in hopes that a diverse user group will walk through the doors. In order to turn around such entrenched numbers, gender diversity must be a very intentional priority. The Libraries Makerspaces are doing their part through a variety of programs and initiatives. Inspired by recommendations in the 2014 Make magazine editorial “Where Are the Women in 22 | FOCUS - NCSU Libraries
Makerspaces?” by Georgia Guthrie, executive director of the Hacktory in Philadelphia, the Libraries ran a pilot e-textiles workshop in spring 2015 before opening the Makerspace in the D. H. Hill Library the following fall. The workshop served as a proofof-concept for this year’s “Making Space” series of workshops and talks by guest lecturers leading a gender diversity trend in Maker culture and helped inform an expanded collaboration with the College of Engineering to orient incoming freshmen women to the Makerspaces.
“MAKING SPACE”: INFORMATION AND INSPIRATION Librarians always do a lot with a little. A $2,500 University Diversity Mini-Grant was all it took for Josephine McRobbie (Assistant Director and Chief of Staff), Marian Fragola (Director, Program Planning and Outreach), and Lauren Di Monte (NCSU Libraries Cyma Rubin Fellow) to plan and deliver a full semester of programming featuring women makers. Partnerships with Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Director Dr. Katherine
C. Titus-Becker and the College of Engineering’s Women in Engineering (WIE) Program Director Dr. Laura Bottomley helped too. Held in several spaces at the D. H. Hill Library, the “Making Space” hands-on workshops and public talks aimed to raise awareness among women about access to tools and technology, lower barriers to entry for first-time users of makerspaces, and serve as a networking event for women in the NC State community. The series was a collaborative initiative between the NCSU Libraries Makerspaces, NC State’s WISE Village, College of Textiles faculty, and the College of Engineering’s Women in Engineering Program.
“Making Space” opened in early February with two events about gaming design featuring Dr. Celia Hodent of Epic Games. Hodent has parlayed a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology into work for UbiSoft Paris, UbiSoft Montreal, and LucasArts. Since joining Epic Games in 2013, she’s helped design some of the hottest video games around, including Assassin’s Creed and Star Wars: First Assault. Hodent talked about how she translates neuroscience knowledge into game features that amp the user’s experience. Then she led a hands-on game design workshop to show how to put that theory into action.
Students experiment in a “Making Space” workshop.
The funding was the first-ever University Diversity NC State Computer Science Ph.D. candidate BritMini-Grant received by the NCSU Libraries. The tany Johnson visited in March to lead a workshop University Diversity Mini-Grant program is in the basics of programming administered by the Office for Institutional Equity in Python. Johnson focused on and Diversity (OIED). Funding projects up basic coding constructs, such as to $3,000, the annual project seed conditionals and loops, that are grant program was started in used in the automation of simple 2010 by the Office of the Provost, tasks, particularly oriented toward through the Vice Provost for developing projects with the Institutional Equity & Diversity, Raspberry Pi — a credit card-sized to support the implementation of computer that plugs into other diversity and inclusion initiatives hardware. A National Science and research projects that further Foundation Graduate Research CURRENTLY, FEWER the academic mission of the THAN ONE IN FIVE Fellow, Johnson isn’t just a maker. university. ENGINEERING GRADS ARE FEMALE. NCSU Libraries - FOCUS | 23
careers. They created their original true-crime podcast in 2014, recording and editing the show before and after going to their day jobs producing and writing for WUNC’s The Story with Dick Gordon. In January 2015, they joined Radiotopia from PRX and now make the show full-time. They discussed the transition from working for public radio to being their own bosses, as well as the freedom and the restraints inherent in the podcasting medium.
Her current research is focused on modeling a developer’s conceptual knowledge. Above: Deren Guler talks about her work providing hands-on math and science experiences for young girls. Below: Phoebe Judge (left) and Lauren Spohrer discuss their process of making the Criminal podcast.
Powerhouse diversity advocate Sibel Deren Guler closed the series with a busy visit at the end of March that featured a talk and two e-textiles workshops. Guler is the creator of Teknikio, a series of toolkits for embedding technology into anything, with a particular emphasis on providing hands-on science and mathematics experiences for young girls. She discussed her research and testing strategies for designing girl-centric or gender-neutral toolsets. Then, in her “Future Wearables” workshops, Guler led participants on an exploration of wearable devices with an emphasis on the consideration of how new technologies might change or improve one’s life. The group prototyped wearable devices, contemplating new ways of interaction with technologies. Thanks to help from an NCSU Libraries “Good Ideas” Grant, “Making Space” continues to close the STEM gender gap with its second season this fall. Criminal podcast creators Phoebe Judge and Lauren Spohrer visited in August to talk about their broadcast journalism
THE NEXT GENERATION OF MAKERS While “Making Space” showcases successful women in the sciences, the Libraries is helping grow them too. Incoming freshmen women in the ESCape Summer Bridge Program—a week-long orientation organized by the Women in Engineering Program (WIE) in the College of Engineering—got to know the Libraries makerspaces and staff even before their first class at NC State. It was the middle of July. Most high school grads were dozing on a beach towel somewhere, resting up to start college in the fall. But 50 incoming freshman women were crowded into the James B. Hunt Jr. Library Creativity Studio around tables strewn with wires, LEDs, and Arduinos. They were foregoing a perfectly fine day off to attend a hands-on wearables workshop as part of the ESCape Program. Over five days, the cohort of young women acclimated to campus, made connections with members of the NC State engineering community, and networked with industry representatives. “Who here has any experience with coding?” NCSU Libraries Fellow Lauren Di Monte asked the students. About five hands went up, some tilting back and forth. None of those hands belonged to Kaitlyn Sullivan, who lives just outside of Boone, or Courtney King, who grew up just north of Charlotte. They both admitted to being a bit intimidated by coding. “I feel like other people know more than I do—I’m like down here,” Sullivan said, holding her hand next to her knee and laughing. Di Monte’s workshop, sponsored by Glen Raven, Inc., acquainted Sullivan, King, and the other incoming
women engineers with the basics of writing code while making cool wearable stuff with materials from the NCSU Libraries Makerspaces. Like the ESCape camp overall, the workshop helped participants start freshman year at full speed and feel completely equipped to pursue an engineering degree. “ESCape is designed to support incoming female engineering students as they transition from high school to college,” said Kesha Entzminger, associate director of Women and Minority Engineering Programs. “We hope that the relationships and community built will carry on as students participate in living-learning villages like WISE and Engineering Village, Engineering 101, and other student organizations.” Sullivan and King pecked at their laptop for a few minutes and figured out how to program an Arduino to dim an LED light on and off. Their code was slightly wrong the first time, but they were able to troubleshoot it and make the fix. While these women looked like your average high school seniors enjoying their summer, they’re already driven to succeed in their chosen field of study. “If you graduate in engineering, you’ll find a job,” Sullivan said. “I know a lot of students who get business degrees and can’t find jobs right out of school.” King nodded. “I just like all the math,” she said. “I really liked Calculus and Physics, so this is great.” This summer, ESCape campers learned about the basics of campus life at NC State, as well as the possible
outcomes of an engineering degree here. They lived in a dorm, rode campus busses, ate in dining halls, visited the Thompson Hall Crafts Center, and did zumba in Carmichael Studio. They also met industry representatives from John Deere and toured facilities at NetApp in Research Triangle Park, Caterpillar in Clayton, and the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) at the Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point in Havelock, NC. “I’m really excited about this program, and I’m hoping it will help usher in a lot more,” Di Monte said. “This event is the ESCape participants’ first experience with the Makerspace, and likely first experience with the Libraries. Thanks to Glen Raven’s generous sponsorship, they’ll be able to take home their Arduino boards and parts so that they can keep learning and experimenting.”
Above and below: participants in the “Making Space” workshops get hands-on experience not only with maker technologies, but also with working together to solve problems.
A group gathered for the 4-H Council Meeting for National African American 4-H Radio Broadcast and Club in Halifax County, NC, 1939.
David Silver returns to the Hunt Library:
THE BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE STORY “Form is never more than an extension of content.” —Charles Olson, “Projective Verse” Can you tell the story of an educational experiment in an experimental way? Visiting Scholar David Silver, an authority on North Carolina’s legendary, interdisciplinary Black Mountain College, brought that question to the visualization spaces at the James B. Hunt Jr. Library. His answer has taken the form of two engaging presentations that described—and embodied—the innovative practices at Black Mountain. From its founding in 1933 to its closing in 1957, Black Mountain College created a legacy that still informs liberal arts education and inspires artists, architects, designers, and educators. Its faculty 26 | FOCUS - NCSU Libraries
and students stand among the giants of Modernist thought and practice. Artists Josef and Anni Albers, poets Robert Creeley and Charles Olson, visionary architect Buckminster Fuller (who lectured at NC State in 1949), choreographer and dancer Merce Cunningham, and composer John Cage all set the stage for major transformations in educational practices. All instruction and activity at Black Mountain drew upon the arts. The faculty owned the school and, with the students, operated its every aspect, including farming, cooking, and construction projects. The cooperative integration of working, living, and learning attracted world-class talent and produced innovations such as the “happening” multi-arts event and the geodesic dome design.
DOING THE HISTORY JUSTICE Inspired by Black Mountain’s legacy, Silver, an associate professor at the University of San Francisco, aspired to the transmission of the school’s unique creative spirit through the telling of its history. He wanted to leave his students wishing they could go back in time and enroll. But his lectures just weren’t lighting the light bulbs over the heads of his students like he wanted them to. Silver zeroed in on the lecture form. Traditional lectures put the audience in a fundamentally passive relationship with the information, but this information was about as active as it comes. “Instead of just giving a talk, is there a way to create an engaging, immersive environment within which the talk would exist?” Silver remembers wondering. He found the solution in summer 2014 during his first residency at the NCSU Libraries as a Visiting Scholar. Invited by Vice Provost and Director of the NCSU Libraries Susan K. Nutter after they had met at the Information Professional 2050 Conference two years earlier, Silver spent three weeks in intensive collaboration and planning with Libraries staff. The visit culminated with his first multimedia experience, “Black Mountain College: A Hunt Library Happening,” on August 4, 2014.
“Instead of the traditional model of one lecture to a mass, the immersive spaces make everyone participants as they engage in the space and screens individually and collectively,” Silver said.
“When I first saw the Hunt Library and talked to [Director of Visualization Services] Mike Nutt, we started figuring this out,” Silver says. “Usually, at the top of a normal talk or lecture, I’d give an outline or bullet points. Instead of this, we created multiple immersive spaces throughout the building. It was fundamentally different and completely unique.” Silver talked in front of multimedia content on screens and then walked the audience to the next display space, allowing for conversations to happen en route. “Instead of the traditional model of one lecture to a mass, the immersive spaces make everyone participants as they engage in the space and screens individually and collectively,” he said. “It’s hard to ignore that, when you’re in these spaces, you’re surrounded by history and evidence. In the Teaching and Visualization Lab, with images and information spread around 270 degrees, when I said ‘As we remember from earlier…’ to the audience, I saw everyone swivel their chairs to see the area of the screen that I was talking about. That’s engagement.”
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tion again focused on the farm at Black Mountain. The farm was a remarkable achievement. Studentinitiated and largely student-led, the farm was conceived in fall 1933, debated throughout winter, and launched in spring 1934. In his first residency in 2014, Silver introduced the origins of the farm at Black Mountain College, leading attendees on a progressive presentation in four locations throughout the Hunt Library. After introducing his lecture in the iPearl Immersion Theater, he walked the audience to the Visualization Wall—a 25-foot-wide canvas comprised of seven separate columns of pixel space integrated into the architecture of the library. The Teaching and Visualization Lab was next, before ending at the Monumental Stairs and the Commons Wall display. In his second residency in 2015, Silver used recent research to dispel some often-held misconceptions about both the farm and the College itself. Frequently thought of as isolated and ostracized, Silver carefully laid out the argument that the College was in fact highly networked with others in the surrounding community and throughout the state. In the form of an interactive map, Silver even presented evidence from the NCSU Libraries Special Collections Research Center that the College had been in contact with some of NC State’s premier agricultural faculty, including David Weaver, Roy Dearstyne, Bertram Wells, and Garnet Foster. He is particularly proud of the interactive map produced by this collaboration. “I learned that any time [Technology Support Analyst] Brent Brafford is deep in thought, he’s coming up with something good,” Silver laughs. “Brent made a simple, brilliant suggestion: ‘Why are we looking at a Google map from today? We should have a 1933 map of North Carolina.’ A half-hour later, Brent had three different maps he was working on, with pins for all the locations I was discussing.” A notable addition to Silver’s second visit was the involvement of NC State digital humanities scholars in the planning process. The week before Silver’s talk, professors and students were invited to witness his “first draft” of the lecture and participate in a discussion and critique. This resulted in several substantial improvements to the talk and provided an opportunity for interinstitutional dialogue about new methods for historical scholarly communication.
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tended, representing several different disciplines, from UNC-Chapel Hill, Elon University, and NC State.
Silver has grown a bit of a following in the Triangle for his brand of engaging scholarship. As with his 2014 visit, the Libraries hosted two free, public “performances” of Silver’s talk in the morning and evening of June 30 followed by lively receptions for the discussions to continue. Over 250 people attended one of Silver’s performances, including a large faculty contingent. At least 20 professors at-
Silver is excited by the interest of his peers, but he’s more inclined to talk about the potential of the Hunt Library platform for current and future students here. “I was brought up on Microsoft Word and Powerpoint and had the advantage of getting into the World Wide Web early on,” he says. “But what kind of scholarship will these digital natives produce when not hampered with ‘This is the way we’ve always done it?’ What happens when they start working on those video walls?”
David Silver engages viewers in the Hunt Library’s immersive visualization spaces with a combination of imagery, text, and storytelling to bring the Black Mountain College story to life.
“Unlike a paper assignment, for which you always get a similar paper, I have a feeling that if you have students working in immersive spaces, they’ll tell widely different and more engaging stories. Knowledge is not passive. When it’s triggered, it’s really active.”
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such as GIS and computer programming. Previously, he was Laboratory Manager for the NCSU Stable Isotope Lab. Gurley’s professional activities include the development of a web application for visualizing sound for a massive open, online collaboration as part of a grant with the Tar River Writing Project and North Carolina poetry groups. He has also served as session leader on computer programming and visualization techniques at the 2015 NC Career and Technical Education Summer Conference. He holds the Master of Science in Earth Sciences from North Carolina State University and the Bachelor of Science (with Honors) in Geological Sciences from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Chris Vitiello joined the Libraries in the position of Communication Strategist.
Walt Gurley John Walter Gurley joined the NCSU Libraries as Visualization and Digital Media Librarian. Walt Gurley joins the NCSU Libraries from the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences where he served as Co-coordinator of the Visual World Investigate Lab—a public laboratory with over 2,000 visitors per month, whose primary focus is scientific visualizations. In that role, Gurley managed the lab’s interactive computer stations, developed data visualization technologies, and worked with varied audiences on the uses of data visualization. He brings a unique background as a museum educator in the area of data visualization and has conducted classes and workshops for children and adults on topics
Vitiello joined the Libraries’ external relations team and will contribute to internal and external communications initiatives that enhance awareness of the library’s services, collections, and accomplishments. He will produce and edit content for the Libraries’ print and online publications, including capital campaign materials; participate in strategic planning and development of the Libraries’ public website and social media presence; and contribute to multimedia content creation and selection for display. Vitiello brings a strong background in content production and editing to the NCSU Libraries. He is a Chief Contributor to Indy Week, writing feature articles, profiles, and interviews for that publication, both in print and online. His wide range of work includes brochure copy, marketing blurbs, websites, tag lines, and tweets for clients in the field of education and in the performing arts. His idea for the American Dance Festival’s “Shall We Dance” campaign helped raise $3 million for that organization. Vitiello has also served as a Writing and Teaching instructor at Duke University, SUNY Buffalo, and the University of Chicago. In 2013 Vitiello was awarded second place for Feature Writing from the North Carolina Press Association, and in 2011 he was awarded third place for Arts Criticism from the Association of Alternative Newsmedia. Vitiello holds the Master of Fine Arts in Writing and Poetics from Naropa University and the Bachelor of Arts in English from the College of William and Mary. Alexander Carroll has been named Research Librarian for Engineering and Biotechnology in Centennial Campus Research Services.
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As Research Librarian for Engineering and Biotechnology, Alex Carroll will collaborate actively with students and faculty to support their research and scholarship across its life-cycle and offer expertise in data science, analytics, and management; emerging technologies; and visualization. His position will support research and teaching in interdisciplinary areas such as biomedical engineering, biotextiles, bioinformatics, and translational regenerative medicine.
STAFF NEWS Carroll joins the NCSU Libraries from the University of Maryland’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Library, where he serves as Agriculture and Natural Resources Librarian. In that role, he has been responsible for specialized research and research data assistance, collection management, instruction, and outreach to nearly 1,600 graduate and undergraduate students and 358 faculty in his assigned departments. He leads the Graduate Student Outreach Team, is the STEM Librarian Representative to the Instruction Council, and serves as a member of the Libraries’ Research Data Services Team and the Science Commons Task Force. Before joining the University of Maryland, Carroll completed several internships and practicums, including a year-long internship with the Environmental Protection Agency Library, Research Triangle Park, and a Technical Services internship with the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. An active member of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Medical Library Association, Carroll was the Principle Investigator for “A Booster Shot for Health Science Librarianship: Using Canvas and PechaKucha to Flip the Library Classroom,” which was selected as the first place paper for Excellence in Research by the Chapter in 2014. He serves as the University of Maryland’s institutional representative to the United States Agricultural Information Network and to the Agriculture Network Information Collaborative. Among his recent publications and presentations, Carroll coauthored (with Robin Dasler) “Scholarship is a Conversation: Discourse, Attribution, and Twitter’s Role in Information Literacy Instruction,” which appeared in The Journal of Creative Library Practice. Carroll holds the Master of Science in Library Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude from James Madison University.
Alex Carroll Business Models for Scholarly Publishing, at Tokyo University of Science. She was a panelist for “The Stakeholder Tightrope: How three nonprofit aggregators balance library & publisher needs,” at the Charleston Library Conference in 2014, and was co-presenter of University Publishing Initiatives, project briefings presented at the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), Fall 2010. Waller holds the Master of Library Science from North Carolina Central University and the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Trinity University.
Mira Waller has become Associate Head of Collection Management for Research Engagement. In this role, Waller will share management responsibility for the Collection Management department, advance the Libraries’ efforts to engage faculty across the research enterprise, and participate in current initiatives aimed at re envisioning the role of subject specialist librarians. Waller was most recently Director of Publishing Services for Project Euclid, an online community and platform for mathematics and statistics scholarship, managed jointly by Cornell University Library and Duke University Press. She brings a record of engagement with scholars throughout the research life cycle, as well experience with acquiring and building collections of scholarly content. She previously held several positions, including Assistant Director of Archives, at Duke University Medical Center Library & Archives. While earning her graduate degree, she was employed at the Burlington Textiles Library, NCSU Libraries.
Mira Waller
Among her professional activities, Waller co-organized and presented a workshop on mathematics publishing,
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STAFF NEWS planning and developing software systems for access and discovery of special collections, implementing the use of HTML5 video and audio, or creating interactive exhibits for video walls, Ronallo has helped the Libraries remain at the forefront of digital library development. Before joining the NCSU Libraries, he served as Electronic Resources Technician at the University Library, Indiana University-Purdue University. Ronallo’s recent presentations include “Recipes for Engagement: A Cookbook for Interactive Spaces” with Mike Nutt, Digital Library Federation Forum, 2014 and “Video Accessibility on the Web and Open Standards,” Association of Moving Image Archivists Conference, 2014. He authored “Websockets for Real-time and Interactive Interfaces,” ACRL TechConnect, June 17, 2014 and received the C.F.W. Coker Award from the Society of American Archivists in 2010 for the NCSU Libraries’ collection guide application. Ronallo holds the Master of Library Science from Indiana University and the Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Pittsburgh.
Jason Ronallo Jason Ronallo has become Head of Digital Library Initiatives (DLI). As Head, Ronallo will lead the department in developing and delivering an information environment that significantly advances end-user resource discovery and use of library services, including initiatives focused on areas such as open science, visualization and interactive technologies, and research data services. Ronallo joined the NCSU Libraries as Digital Collections Technology Librarian and was later appointed to the position of Associate Head, Digital Library Initiatives. He has been serving as interim department head, bringing his strengths in management, software development, repository and digital services to this leadership role. Whether
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Heidi Tebbe has been named Collection Manager for Engineering and Data Science. In this role, Tebbe will lead collaborative collection development and management in engineering, computer science, and affinity disciplines, and support and consult with faculty and students on emerging technologies, disciplinary content, data, bibliometric analysis, computational analysis, and visualization in an evolving scholarly communication environment. Tebbe was most recently an NCSU Libraries Fellow assigned to Digital Library Initiatives with a special initiative, Aligning Collections with Emerging Needs in Research Informatics, in Collection Management. Her work as a Fellow has involved non-traditional collection development, new ontologies for research informatics, and an exploration of the state of text mining at NC State. A significant focus of her work has been related to visualization as part of digital scholarship and research. She has served as a contact for faculty and graduate students with large-scale visualization projects and has worked to standardize workflow and to lower barriers for creation of content for the Libraries’ video walls. Before joining the NCSU Libraries, Tebbe served as Media Librarian and as Senior Media Developer for Option Six, a division of GP Strategies. Previously she has been an instructor in both astronomy and telecommunications at Indiana University. Among her professional achievements was the award of funding from the Alfred E. Sloan Foundation to attend .Astronomy 6 where she received the .Astronomy 6 Hack Day award for pragmatic use of existing technology. Tebbe holds the Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Missouri, the Master of Arts in Astronomy, the Master of Science in Telecommunications, Immersive Media (MIME) specialization, and Master of Library Science, Digital Libraries specialization, from Indiana University.
STAFF NEWS As Lead Librarian for Metadata Technologies, Sonoe Nakasone manages the Data Projects and Partnerships Unit in the Acquisitions and Discovery Department, leading the work of describing and providing access to electronic, print, and manuscript resources, with specialization in the Libraries’ digital repository and user discovery systems. Nakasone recently served as Special Formats and Metadata Cataloger at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she cataloged cartographic resources, geospatial data, and statistical datasets, as well as metadata librarian for the Carolina Digital Repository. She coordinated a team of catalogers and participated in the design and development of tools and workflows to support preservation and access to digitized and born-digital materials. Before joining UNC, she served as Cataloger for the District of Columbia Public Library and as Cataloging Coordinator for the Smithsonian Field Book Project, a role that called for her to coordinate the cataloging of field books across seven separately administered units within the Smithsonian Institution. While pursuing graduate studies, Nakasone completed an Institute for Museum and Library Science internship at the Frick Art Reference Library and an internship with the New York City Transit Museum Archives. Among her presentations and publications are: “THATCamp Community Archives session: Using free tools to create finding aids” (March 2015) and, with co-author Carolyn Sheffield, “Descriptive Metadata for Field Books: Methods and Practices of the Field Book Project,” DLib Magazine (November/December 2013). At UNC, she has served as chair of LAUNC-CH Professional Development Committee and co-chair of the Diversity Education and Programming Committee. Nakasone earned the Master of Science in Library and Information Science with Advanced Certificate for Archives and Certificate for Museum Librarianship from Pratt Institute and the Bachelor of Arts in English and Political Science from Howard University.
Sonoe Nakasone He has been a member of Indiana University’s Strategic Media Access Resource Team, working as part of the Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative (MDPI), to facilitate preservation and access to time-based media. Shelby completed a Metadata Internship at Indiana University and served as a Film Archivist for IU Libraries’ Moving Image Archive. He presented “Finding Aid-LD: Implementing Linked Data in a Finding Aid Environment,” Mashcat (2016). He holds the Master of Library Science from Indiana University and the Bachelor of Music Education, University of Louisiana at Monroe.
As Metadata Technologies Librarian, Jacob Shelby will participate in the work of the Data Projects and Partnerships Unit in Acquisitions and Discovery and identify trends and technologies in metadata management, including linked data, which have the potential for new and improved library services. Shelby joins the NCSU Libraries from Parks Library, Iowa State University, where he served as Metadata and Cataloging Librarian, responsible for leading and participating in metadata creation projects as well as cataloging services for a wide variety of subject areas. He led a project aimed at describing digitized images that document campus life at Iowa State and, as a member of the Digital Archives Repository Collections Team, provided metadata expertise for digital projects. Jacob Shelby
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Libraries Fellows 2016-2018 We are very pleased to announce the appointment of the 2016-2018 class of NCSU Libraries Fellows: Hannah Rainey, Nushrat Khan, Danica Lewis, Jesse Lopez, Lillian Rigling, and Peter Schreiner. The NCSU Libraries Fellows Program develops future leaders for academic libraries, with a focus on science, engineering, digital librarianship, diversity, and library management. For more than fifteen years, the program has attracted an impressive group of talented new graduates from universities throughout North America. NCSU Libraries Fellows are appointed for a two-year term as members of the library faculty, combining an assignment on an initiative of strategic importance with an appointment in a home department.
Danica Lewis from the University of Tsukuba, Japan, the Diploma in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Nippon Engineering College, Tokyo, and the Diploma in Japanese Language, Bunka Institute of Language, Tokyo. Khan has been named the Henry McDonald Tate Computer Science Library Fellow, 2016. Established by Hope Tate, past President of the Friends of the Library, this memorial endowment serves as a tribute to her late husband, an alumnus of NC State’s Computer Science program, and helps support the NCSU Libraries Fellows Program.
Nushrat Khan Nushrat Khan completed the Master of Science in Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), pursuing coursework in data curation and socio-technical data analytics. As a graduate assistant with UIUC Library’s Scholarly Communication and Repository Services, she worked to automate data and metadata ingestion into the repository as part of the National Science Foundation funded project, SEAD (Sustainable Environment Actionable Data). She completed a placement at the Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford, working on an Early English Books Online dataset, which included natural language processing and linked data in a digital library. Khan holds the Bachelor of Science in Library and Information Science 34 | FOCUS - NCSU Libraries
Khan’s home department is Digital Library Initiatives. Her initiative will be “Exploring Linked Data and the Semantic Web.” Danica Lewis completed the Master of Science in Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), with a specialization in data curation, emphasis on academic and medical librarianship. Her work conducting field research as part of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest, Costa Rica program influenced her decision to pursue graduate studies in librarianship. She has since completed a practicum with the Intermountain Medical Center’s Community Health Information Center, as well as an internship with Merrill-Cazier Library at Utah State University. She has served as a Teaching Assistant for Molecular Biology and Genetics Laboratory and has volunteered with several library outreach programs. Lewis holds the Bachelor of
STAFF NEWS Hannah Rainey earned the Master of Science in Information Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. She has served as a Reference Services Graduate Intern in the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas Libraries, and as a Schema Normalization Intern for Texas Archival Resources Online (TARO), a project to make descriptions of archival, manuscript, and museum collections in repositories across Texas available to the public. Before pursuing graduate studies, Rainey was a Junior Fellow at the Library of Congress, a highly selective program in which students inventory, describe, and explore collection holdings and assist with digital preservation outreach activities, while gaining exposure to a broad spectrum of library work. Rainey is an ALA Spectrum Scholar and an Asian Pacific American Librarians Association Scholar. She holds the Bachelor of Arts in Cinema and Media Studies from Wellesley College.
Jesse Lopez Arts in Biology magna cum laude from Knox College, where she was a Knox Founders Merit Scholar, a Knox Muelder Merit Scholar, and Alvah Peterson Biology Scholar of the Year in 2013-14. Lewis’s home department is Collection Management. Her initiative will be “Libraries and Public Science.” Jesse Lopez received the Master of Library and Information Science from Wayne State University, with a certificate in Information Management. He has served as a Graduate Assistant at the Reference Desk, with Discovery Services, and in the School of Library and Information Science. As an Archives Intern, he conducted primary source research for the “Ethnic Layers of Detroit Project,” Department of Anthropology, as part of an interdisciplinary project to document and share the complex layers of Detroit’s ethnic histories, cultures, and linguistics through an interactive digital storytelling web portal. Lopez was an Association of Research Libraries CEP (Career Enhancement Program) Fellow and a Project IDOL (Increasing Diversity of Libraries) Fellow. Before beginning graduate studies, Lopez served as a Linguist and Analyst with the United States Marine Corps. He holds the Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Lopez’s home department is Administration. His initiative will be “Enhancing Research Support for Research Data Management.”
Hannah Rainey Rainey has been named the Cyma Rubin Library Fellow, 2016. Cyma Rubin, past president of the Friends of the Library and holder of an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from North Carolina State University, is an award-winning producer of musicals, documentaries, and exhibitions. Her generous support helps sustain the Fellows Program. Rainey’s home department is Research and Information Services. Her initiative will be “Effective Stewardship of Library Data.”
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Peter Schreiner completed the Master of Library Science at Emporia State University. He previously served as Assistant Archivist in the Lewis and Clark College Special Collections and Archives and as the Moving Image and Photo Intern for the Oregon Historical Society Library. Schreiner is a professional musician who toured with groups including songs:ohia and Magnolia Electric Co. and previously worked as a Production Associate for Puma Video Productions. Combining his interest in media production and preservation, he brings his expertise with audiovisual production to the work of facilitating access to content contained on legacy and digital media formats. Before pursuing graduate studies, he was the Owner/ Operator of Schreiner Arts, producing custom carpentry, interior design, restoration, and remodeling. He holds the Bachelor of Fine Arts with concentration in Photography from Indiana University, Bloomington. Schreiner’s home department is Access Services. His initiative will be “Creating Virtual Reality/Emerging Technology Spaces.”
Lillian Rigling
Lewis, Lopez, Rigling, and Schreiner have been named Donald E. Moreland Library Faculty Fellows, 2016. Dr. Donald Moreland was a faculty member in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at NC State for more than fifty years. His generous support of the NCSU Libraries includes this endowment to help recruit and retain key library faculty.
Lillian Rigling received the Master of Information in Library and Information Science at the University of Toronto. She most recently served as a Graduate Assistant in the Scholarly Communication and Copyright Office, working on several projects including the “Zero to Low Cost Course Pilot Project,” providing free course materials by digitizing and licensing content available through the library system and assisting in organizing the national Copyright in Canada Conference 2015, a conference to examine the effects of Canada’s Copyright Pentalogy and the Copyright Modernization Act. Rigling also served as an Institutional Repositories Graduate Assistant, working with the Institutional Repositories Librarian as the primary point of mediated deposit for faculty and research groups adding materials to TSpace, the University of Toronto’s digital repository. Rigling holds the Honours Bachelor of Arts in English, Drama, and Writing and Rhetoric from the University of Toronto. Rigling’s home department is in the Copyright and Digital Scholarship Center. Her initiative will be “Developing Online Teaching and Learning.”
Pete Schreiner
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