Towers Newsletter of the Library Associates of the University of Idaho Library Spring 2014
Inside this issue: Faculty Research.......................... 1 Briefs........................................ 2 Student and Archives..................... 3
Library faculty pursue specialized research When Garth Reese announced his selection as a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Scholar, it came as no surprise to his colleagues and others familiar with his excellent work as the library’s Head of Special Collections and Archives. Reese was one of 16 selected from a national applicant pool to attend a five-week summer program held in Antwerp, Belgium, London, and Oxford, England. As an NEH Summer Scholar, Reese will participate in a seminar Librarian Garth Reese will study as an NEH Summer Scholar entitled “Tudor Books and at the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp, Belgium; Readers: 1485-1603.”
Retirements............................... .3 Dean’s Corner.............................. 4 Ways to Give.............................. 4
Student Workers .......................... 3
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As Reese conducts research on Bodleian Library (pictured above), University of Oxford. rare books and print history, other UI Library faculty are pursuing professional development and researching topics in their fields of specialization.
Transforming the practice of librarianship Ongoing research by University of Idaho library faculty positions the library to respond to the social, cultural, and technological changes that are transforming teaching and learning in higher education — and in turn, the practice of librarianship.
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Digital Initiatives librarian Devin Becker is researching the changing role of technology in the writing processes of established professional creative writers, a study he began last summer with a seed grant from University of Idaho. Becker is interviewing ten prominent writers who have been writing and publishing since 1980. “I believe this is a unique period in the history of writing,” said Becker. “I also believe that computing technologies have permanently altered the ways we relate to each other and to the products of our own thought. I hope to discover what changed when these writers’ working medium began to incorporate digital modes,” he said.
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Research librarian Jeremy Kenyon and science librarian Nancy Sprague have been studying trends in the use of supplementary materials in environmental science journals. On the heels of their recent publication on the topic (Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, Winter 2014), they decided to look at supplementary materials in the fields of geology and plant sciences to determine differences between supplementary material used by life scientists and physical scientists. The pair is joined in the study by Ed Flathers, a UI Forest, Rangeland, and Fire Sciences doctoral student. continued on page two
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