Clara Auclair is a PhD student in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester and Université Paris Diderot (Paris, France). She holds a MA from Université Paris Diderot in Film History and Aesthetics and is a graduate of the L.
Before applying for this job, I didn’t even know that Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservations (RBSCP) existed in our library. This is curious since I frequent museums and consider myself interested in anything old and historical, particularly if they are in the form of papers and bounded—better, leather-bound. So, it was a pleasant surprise to find that our university thought it important to have one (having such a department requires quite a lot of money, so I learned).
According to ESRI’s website, GIS Day is an:
…international celebration of GIS technology. GIS is a scientific framework for gathering, analyzing, and visualizing geographic data to help us make better decisions. On GIS Day, help others learn about geography and the real-world applications of GIS that are making a difference in our society. It’s a chance for you to share your accomplishments and inspire others to discover and use GIS.
Every month of the year has been claimed as the month to celebrate, recognize, prevent, or raise awareness for a surprisingly long list of things.
In The Adventure of the Mason’s Helper, consulting detective Danforth Harkness is drawn to a singular series of thefts. Each victim claims to have been robbed by Pete Nicosia. The accusations are baffling because one year prior, Nicosia was working on a library tower as a mason’s helper when he slipped and fell to his death—an end confirmed by his foreman, James Conroy.
RBSCP’s new exhibit, Ephemera: “Minor Transient Documents of Everyday Life” examines ephemera from across our holdings, offering insights into what has been kept, and how it can be used today. These items, originally created for temporary use, were often not created to be meant to be saved, yet ephemera is everywhere in archives and special collections libraries.
In my creative writing course, poet Christian Wessels reminds us that poetry has no utilitarian function. There is no information to absorb in the way one might do so when scanning a restaurant menu or a grocery store receipt. As a centuries-old artistic medium that began as an oral tradition, poetry harnesses the power of language to offer its readers an experience unlike any other.
It’s difficult to see through the polychromatic glass wall on the first floor of Carlson Science and Engineering Library at the University of Rochester, but not so difficult that passersby would miss someone wildly waving their arms around, seemingly directing invisible traffic.
Lifelong Rochester resident Peter Conners is in his 18th year with BOA Editions, Ltd., an independent publishing house, where he is the publisher and executive director. He is responsible for identifying and cultivating unique literary talents and bringing their high-quality work to the reading public. But Conners has spent even more time on the other side of publishing.
