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1. Digital Collections

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   to this project. The Martha Ballard Case Study: A Midwife's Tale Based on a case of a tragic assassination of character in an 18th century New England town, this interactive site... Read more

   to this project. The Martha Ballard Case Study: A Midwife's Tale Based on a case of a tragic assassination of character in an 18th century New England town, this interactive site seeks Read less

2. Martha Scotford Research and Study Collection on Graphic Design, 1896-2010 (bulk 1945-2010)

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   Martha Scotford Research and Study Collection on Graphic Design 1896-2010 (bulk 1945-2010) Summary Contents Names/subjects Using these materials Please note that some

   Martha Scotford Research and Study Collection on Graphic Design 1896-2010 (bulk 1945-2010) Summary Contents Names/subjects Using these materials Please note that some Read less

3. Untitled-2

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   ...e Hunt Library is unlike any most people have ever entered. What do you do /f_irst when you walk into a library and aren’t surrounded by rows of shelving—a library where robots deliver the books... Read more

   ...e Hunt Library is unlike any most people have ever entered. What do you do /f_irst when you walk into a library and aren’t surrounded by rows of shelving—a library where robots deliver the books? Or where ADVENTUR OUS COLLABORATI ON HONORED WITH 2012 FACULTY AW ARDnew, advanced, and sometimes unfamiliar technology is around every corner? In the 2012 spring semester, Professors Buie and Y oung combined their advanced design and computer engineering capstone courses to present their best and brightest with the real-world challenge of shaping how the library would be experienced once it opened. One group of students concentrated on working with a digital palette the size of which they could only have dreamed about in the past. Using a prototype of the 21-foot-wide video wall that is the centerpiece of the Game Lab, they developed a video game built for a screen so large and infused with color that it is at the frontier of today’s digital displays.Other groups from the collaborative class—the “experience designers”— developed detailed plans for how to arrange the technology, the signage, and the furniture to turn some of the library’s most unique areas into intuitively usable spaces. /T_he Hunt Library was conceived to encourage students to dream big. A full year before the new library opened, the 2012 Faculty Award winners gave their students access to experiences they wouldn’t have had on any other campus on the globe. And the students noticed: one ended the course saying the cross-disciplinary opportunity was “the greatest experience that I’ve had so far in college. ” /T_hat’s the promise of the Hunt Library. Professor Tim Buie and Dr. Michael YoungI. T. Littleton and Steven J. BellSusan K. Nutter and Dr. Mike Eisenberg 4|FOCUS - NCSU LibrariesLIBRARIE S NEW S ADVENTUR OUS COLLABORATI ON HONORED WITH 2012 FACULTY LTY LAWARDAWARDAWFACULTY AW ARD HONORROLL /T_he NCSU Libraries is proud to recognize the distinguished recent winners of our Annual Faculty Award. DOUGLAS S. REEVES, 2011 Professor of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering When the Hunt Library opened, much of the praise it received centered on how well it met the actual needs of twenty-/f_irst century students and researchers. /T_his success was in no small part due to the advice and support that Professor Douglas Reeves gave when the Libraries needed community input. A long-time member of the University Library Committee (ULC)—and its chair for three years during Hunt Library planning—his “leadership style, ” as one observer wrote, “insured that all members, in particular, the student representatives, felt free to contribute to the discussions. ” /T_his wise inclusivity paid off in other key ways. It was Reeves’ idea to add a Centennial Campus representative to the ULC, engaging that important community early; and he leveraged a mutual love of books and libraries to bring in a Cisco executive to head the Hunt Library Technology Advisory Board. Most of all, Professor Reeves consistently provided a strong faculty voice for what a great library could be in the Internet age, a strength captured in a letter of nomination from another faculty member: “Doug understands the changing nature of libraries in the digital environment and the challenges they face in order to be vital drivers of research, learning, and collaboration . . . . He has lent his ideas and support to everything from digital technologies to increase use and discovery of library content, to enhancing spaces provided to students, to aggressively expanding online-only journal content. ” DAVID ZONDERMAN, 2010 Professor of History /T_he Libraries’ Special Collections Research Center is documenting the birth of the North Carolina Research Center in Kannapolis, where the UNC system and patron David Murdock from Dole Foods are collaborating to build a thriving bio- technical center in a small town blighted by the loss of textile manufacturing. /T_he Libraries and the Center organized a series of public lectures, some in Raleigh, some in Kannapolis, to build excitement around the project. As an expert on labor and its history and one who takes seriously the land-grant promise that universities should change the world, Professor David Zonderman anchored several of these programs. /T_hat passion to engage real-world problems has also marked the considerable work Professor Zonderman has done in the past with the Libraries. He has served on the University Library Committee for a dozen years and on the committee that set the direction for the Learning Commons in the D. H. Hill Library. When we set out in the 1990s to become one of the /f_irst academic libraries in the nation to tackle the o/f_ten-vexing changes in scholarly communications, Professor Zonderman chaired the committee to establish our Scholarly Communication Center and hire our /f_irst Scholarly Communication librarian, becoming, as one of his recommenders put it, “a pioneer in the access to new electronic resources for the humanities disciplines” at NC State. JAMES WILSON, 2009 Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering If a library database goes down or an online journal temporarily blinks out during a network outage, the chances are that the /f_irst person to report it is going to be Professor Jim Wilson. /T_hat’s because he’s a world-class library user, someone the Libraries always listens to because he is deeply involved in using our services and evangelizing them to his students and peers. Several times when staff has reached dead ends over issues with one of our vendors, Professor Wilson has, for instance, just picked up the phone, called an editor or publisher, and the problem has gone away. He is, as one nominator put it, “the kind of active library user that helps keep a modern digital collection responsive to its community. ” When the history of technology in the past several decades is told, the cra/f_t of computer simulation will dominate it. Simulation technologies have transformed everything from computer engineering to biotechnology, transportation, and the role-playing and video game industry. /T_he scholars who tell that story will stop /f_irst at the NCSU Libraries Special Collections Research Center, where they will /f_ind— thanks largely to Professor Wilson’s vision and hard work—the /f_inest simulation collection in the world. 5 NCSU Libraries - FOCUS |LIBRARIE S NEW S Susan K. Nutter and Professor Doug Reeves Professor David ZondermanProfessor James WilsonFRIENDS OF THELIBRARY FALL LUNCHEON During the 2012 Friends of the Library Fall Luncheon, Friends President Hope Tate welcomed guests and thanked the Friends for their stalwart support of the NCSU Libraries. Meg Lowman, Research Professor, College of Sciences, NC State and Senior Scientist and Director of Academic Partner - ships & Global Initiatives at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, delighted and inspired guests with stories about her research in the canopies of the rain forest and her work with young people, especially girls, around the world. Closing the luncheon, Vice Provost and Director of Libraries Susan K. Nutter presented the 24th annual NCSU Libraries Faculty Award to Professor Timothy Buie from the Industrial Design program in the College of Design and Dr. Michael Y oung from the Department of Computer Science for their pioneering work in leading a collaborative course that explored the technologies and spaces in the new James B. Hunt Jr. Library. Provost Warwick Arden and Meg Lowman chat during the Fall Luncheon. Pho - tograph by Marc Hall, University Communications. Saul Flores | Photographs The Walk of the Immigrants January 2012–August 2012 Last winter, the D. H. Hill Library Exhibit Gallery came to life with vibrant color and compelling stories told through the portraits, landscapes, and cityscapes photographed by Saul Flores, ’12, during an epic 5,000-mile journey, mostly by foot, through Central and South America in 2010. On this journey—inspired by an earlier service trip with the Caldwell Fellows leadership development program—Flores took over 20,000 photos to “raise awareness of the beauty of these Latin American countries as well as the struggles that their people face.” Proceeds from the sale of his photographs and sponsorships of his journey are aiding an elementary school in his mother’s hometown, the small rural community of Atencingo, Mexico. A virtual version of the exhibit is now playing in the iPearl Immersion Theater, where its striking colors capitalize on the ability of the Hunt Library’s display walls to showcase exemplary student work in a large, radiant format. NC State University, 125 Years of Shaping the Future September 2012–August 2013 Celebrating the university’s one hundred twenty- fifth anniversary, 125 Years of Shaping the Future explores our history from the tenacity of the Watauga Club members who fought for the establishment of the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts in 1887 to current research and creative thinking in fields as diverse as Universal Design and Molecular Paleontology. Through August 2013, visitors can see the artifacts, papers, photographs, and ephemera that are usually stored safely away from light in our vaults and reflect on a legacy of improving our citizens’ lives with a reach that has grown from spanning the one hundred counties of North Carolina to engaging the world. A digital version of the exhibit is available in the Hunt Library’s iPearl Immersion Theater. For more information about this exhibit and others, please contact Molly Renda at molly_renda@ncsu.edu. 6|FOCUS - NCSU LibrariesFRIENDS OFTHE LIBRARY NEWS EXHIBITS N EWS Arts in 1887 as Universal Paleontology. Through August 2013, visitors can see the artifacts, papers, photographs, and ephemera that are usually stored safely away from light in our vaults and reflect lives with a reach that has grown from North Carolina to engaging the world. For more information about this exhibit It started with a medieval manuscript in a shoebox and ended with an endowment that will support some of the latest in modern library technologies. From an early book to the bookBot—that is the arc of the story of the Hunt Library’s new “Turlibot.” Linda Turlington’s family had long treasured a fifteenth- century book of meditations that has been passed down from generation to generation. And that family is, as Turling- ton explains, “completely red and white.” Her husband of almost 40 years, Jimmy, is a 1968 NC State graduate in civil engineering. Her son Ryan obtained his B.S. from the College of Textiles in 2001. Daughter Courtney earned her B.A. from the College of Humanities and Social Sciences in 2007. So when the family decided that the Latin manuscript—once laboriously copied out by Carthusian monks—needed a safer long-term home where its treasures could be available to scholars throughout the w... Read less

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