Feb 07, 2019 Attention First Generation Students – Here’s An Event Just for You!
Are you the first person in your family to attend college? If so, here’s an event tailored just for you. And it includes free lunch!...
Feb 05, 2019 Collections as Data
One of the things we've been working on in Digital Library Services recently is thinking about ways to develop our digital collections to better support researchers who are interested in using them for data visualizations or other forms of computational research. This is a broader...
Feb 05, 2019 Getting Emojitional
By Erika Church How many of you have really read Moby Dick? I mean who reads anymore anyway? Who even talks on their phone? Who even has time for any of it?! Ok, ok, maybe I am getting a little The truth is we communicate in...
Feb 04, 2019 Audiovisual accessibility poster
Molly Steed (Moving Image & Sound Archivist), Jeremy Myntti (Head of Digital Library Services, and Stefano Kinkade (Digital Audiovisual Transcriptionist) have been working on a grant project since July 2018 to investigate different workflows for creating closed captions and transcript for digital audiovisual content. In...
Jan 31, 2019 Medieval Latin Hymn Fragment, Part D: “…of the holy found rest through him.”
(san)ctoru(m) requieverunt per eu(m). Ps. D(omi)ne...
Jan 30, 2019 The Virtual Lab
By Tony Sams Every Thursday from 10 am - 12 pm, Creativity and Innovation offers an open lab to explore Virtual Reality. Come and try VR for the first time, play a game or two, try out a simulation, or bring your ideas and projects and...
Jan 30, 2019 Medieval Latin Hymn Fragment, Part C: “…at his right hand bees miraculously erected a honeycomb of honey.”
dextera eius apes favu(m) mellis mirabiliter ex- truxerunt. Ps(almus) Beat(us) vir qui non abiit...
Jan 29, 2019 Medieval Latin Hymn Fragment, Part B: “Let us praise the glorious man…”
Laudemus virum gloiosu(m) et parentem nostrum ardentissimam eius charitatem imitar-ri Let us praise the glorious man and our parent/founder; let us try to imitate his most ardent charity, conemus qui exaudi- vit paupieres vinctos in mendicitate et fe- rro. Salvavit eos de manu odientium et who heard the poor bound in poverty and by the sword; he saved them from the hand of those...
Jan 28, 2019 Enhancing Learning While Saving Money: What’s Not to Like?
TJ Ferrill, Assistant Head of Creative Spaces, and his team in the library’s Creativity and Innovation Services Department, have been working with the School of Dentistry to incorporate augmented and virtual reality (VR) technology into their teaching and research....
Jan 28, 2019 Medieval Latin Hymn Fragment, Part A: “I shall give thanks…”
(ab infantia mea crevit miseratio et ab utero) ...