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3 ‘Serious’ Questions with Carl Domingo

Prior to joining Studio X for Voices of XR, Domingo talks zombies, hackathons, and increased access to video games

Confetti rains in front of marble Meliora panel in Hawkins Carlson room

‘Dream Team’ receives 2020 Messinger Award

For the first time in its history, the award will recognize two library staff members for going above and beyond the usual expectations.

Neilly Series

Neilly Author Series: Paul Lauter

He was fired, busted, published, and tenured in the 1960s. He gives the details in his new book.

A page from the Complete Harley 2253 Manuscript, courtesy of the British Library

Medieval

Meet the METS

A pioneering Rochester project has spent the last three decades making Middle English texts more accessible.

Neilly Series

3 'Serious' Questions with Emily Bernard

The Nashville-born author talks about being alone in the pandemic, Zoom intrigue, and Fisk University.

Some boxes from a comic strip Professor Ryan Prendergast created for a class

Open Resource

Digital ideas found here

Rochester instructors have a new resource for discovering digital tools and strategies

Exhibit

'We want more, and we will have it'

A new digital exhibit explores the ways women have influenced the City of Rochester

Students

COVID-19 Challenge accepted

Students were challenged to solve pandemic-related problems in just 10 days

Open Resource

'Open' in case of pandemic

A collection of case studies offer a glimpse into the world--and benefits--of 'going Open'

A hand holding an open book with illustrated images rising form the pages

Sustainable Scholarship

An ACT of kindness

A Libraries-led coalition seeks to make textbooks less of a financial burden

Coffee mugs on a glass table in Wegmans Hall are transformed into an AR classroom exercise that simulates a sprawling, real-life chemical plant.

XR@UR

Augmented Reality Lets Students Operate a Chemical Plant

Exploring how AR can enhance the way students learn about engineering

Workshop

Digital Summer School

A new workshop series helps instructors teach in a virtual classroom

Technology

'I am your density'

Newly implemented technology will measure and report patron density in some library spaces

A view of iZone's booth seating and a COVID safety sign from the piazza

Spaces

iZoned for study

When New York State approved research libraries to open, iZone got the call

Dear COVID diary

Journal entries are among the ways people are helping to archive COVID-19

Illustration showing the cost of publishing

Sustainable Scholarship

A brave new world of scholarship

Rochester librarians are pushing for a shift in scholarly publishing

Staff

'An invaluable colleague'

The staff has spoken. Melinda Wallington is the 2020 RCL Staff Service Award recipient

Programs

Meliora through symbiosis

A new library fellowship has students giving as much as they are getting

A screenshot of a Zoom call with librarians from Carlson Library

Outreach

The Outreach Bunch

In the move from in-person to online education, outreach librarians shined

Illustration of how interlibrary loan works

Services

COVID and ILL

No access to physical collections? Interlibrary Loan (ILL) says, ‘No problem.’

Community

A Mover & Shaker

Library Journal recognizes Sherwood as a ‘Data Literacy Leader’

Miranda Mims inventories boxes of Louise Slaughters official Congressional papers

Community

From Archivist to Director

Miranda Mims will be providing the vision for the department’s future.

Construction site for Rush Rhees Library addition

Exhibit

Happy Additionday, Rush Rhees

A new digital exhibit celebrates the 50th anniversary of the addition to Rush Rhees Library

Ephemera

Can I see your pandemic pass, please?

During plague-times, you needed proof that you're healthy. The Edward G. Miner Library has it.

George Eastman statue wearing a COVID-19 mask

Quaran-time capsule

A University Archives project seeks to collect stories on life during the COVID-19 outbreak

Joanne Shenandoah next to a representation of the carillon chimes

Pop-Up

Celebrating Women, Music, and Culture

Two March events will feature Joanne Shenandoah and the carillon

Winners of the Research Initiative Award

FURL

I'll Be There for U-R-L

Friends have provided the libraries with support for almost 50 years

TinkerSpace

Tinker, Solder, Program, Code

Rochester’s TinkerSpace is what Meliora is all about

Students

A Seat at the Table

Students have a voice in the libraries’ policies, initiatives, and future.

Spaces

'No-Sleepover' at Gleason: Part II

Tower Talk Editor Matt Cook stayed up with Gleason to see what never closing looks like

Middle Ages

Here We Are Now, Can You Train Us?

A new Rossell Hope Robbins Library exhibit explores adolescent life in the 14th and 15th centuries

iZone

Lead the Future

The Rochester alumnus, fresh out of the publishing process, talks about what makes book-writing difficult, why anyone can do it, and why he did.

News

Editor's Picks: Tower Talk 2019

We asked Tower Talk Editor Matt Cook to choose some stories worth seeking out

History

Potree in Motion

The Digital Scholarship Lab’s Josh Romphf and Blair Tinker share how they help visualize the data and the tools they use to do it

Gleason library in full swing in the middle of the night

Spaces

'No-Sleepover' at Gleason: Part I

Tower Talk Editor Matt Cook stayed up with Gleason to see what never closing looks like

Cover of Elaine Marieb and Katja Hoehn’s textbook Human Anatomy & Physiology

Open Resource

Open for Learning

A biology professor has turned his class resources into "freesources" by making the shift to open education

History

To Reach Our Farthest Star

As Rochester prepares to inaugurate Sarah Mangelsdorf as its eleventh president, a new exhibit helps put University leadership in context

System

Have you met Alma?

The University of Rochester Libraries welcomes a new library system.

William’s 600-page manuscript, De universo (On the Universe)

Middle Ages

One scholar’s universe is another scholar’s treasure

Students and the faculty are marveling at a 15th-century manuscript on the cosmos. And it's not just because it's close to 600 years old.

Research

Lauren Di Monte is protecting Rochester's scholarly rep

A conversation on disambiguation, bibliometrics, and University of Rochester research-related initiatives

Photo of renowned Zimbabwean mbira player, oral historian, and ritual specialist Sekuru Tute Chigamba

Humanities

Sekuru’s Stories

A digital humanities project featuring the renowned Zimbabwean mbira player, oral historian, and ritual specialist Sekuru Tute Chigamba.