Rarely, if ever, has the job market been this daunting for our nation’s undergraduate students. At the University of Rochester, students can lean on resources like The Meliora Collective and the Gwen M. Greene Center for Career Education and Connections for help pursuing their career interests, including securing summer internships.
Thank you for your time, attention, and input during these challenging times. I hope that you are still doing as well as can be expected as we greet the summer months.
Several thousand days ago, in 2019, actor Paul Rudd was a guest on YouTube’s hot wing-based interview series “Hot Ones.” Toward the end of the episode, Rudd and host Sean Evans, decide to add a dab of the previous nine hot sauces on their final wing. Their impromptu decision resulted in an exchange that has been immortalized in meme-form. It went like this:
Rudd: Look at us. Hey. Look at us.
Evans: Look at us. Who woulda thought?
Rudd: Not me!
Through the River Campus Libraries, University students and faculty have access to more than 3.5 million volumes. In a world that is not being held hostage by a novel coronavirus, Interlibrary Loan (ILL) connects them to an almost unlimited number of additional volumes and resources.
But we are being held captive. Nevertheless, ILL persists.
In case you’re unfamiliar with ILL, here’s a quick overview.
ILL is…
Librarians working in digital scholarship regularly face two challenges: Staying current with the ever-changing tools and methods and increasing the capacity to provide support. In other words, how do they learn and teach all things digital?
On top of the unprecedented challenges everyone in academia is currently facing, the Department of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation (RBSCP) has been looking for a new leader. They found one in Miranda Mims.
Due to budgetary constraints across the University, the River Campus Libraries has carefully identified $500k in permanent cost reductions to our collections, notably our subscriptions. This permanent reduction is intended to help support the University’s response to the $7 million structural deficit in AS&E. We are working diligently to ensure your access to resources is minimally affected, and we seek your input to ensure we make appropriate adjustments that consider your teaching and research needs. We are grateful for your feedback on this effort.
The Libraries’ Collection Strategies and Scholarly Communication department advocates for University of Rochester researchers as knowledge creators and consumers, protecting their rights and ensuring access to the University’s scholarly and cultural estate. Sustainable Scholarship represents the formalization of that effort, and a means for information sharing by the Collection Strategies and Scholarly Communications Department.
Our goals are:
To communicate the work of managing access to scholarly resources
As the Open Access movement gains traction in the world of scholarly publishing, scholars in many disciplines have concerns about implications for the future of journals that are owned by scholarly societies but published by commercial publishers. Because subscription money from journal sales helps keeps the societies viable, how can they respond to requests to open the journal for all to read? Will their current publisher agree to an open access transition?
