Scott Weingart, program director Digital Humanities, Research & Academic Services and Rikk Mulligan, digital scholarship strategist in the University Libraries assisted Felipe Gómez, teaching professor of Hispanic studies in Department of Modern Languages with the creation of the Latin American Comics Archive (LACA).
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Twas' the Night Before Christmas
Twas' the Night Before Christmas: An Exhibition
How Information Fuels Innovation
University Libraries and the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) will host Innovation Roundtable 2019: How Information Fuels Innovation on Wednesday, November 20, from 10-11:30 a.m. All members of the CMU community are invited to register to attend the event in the Connan Room of the Cohon University Center.
dSHARP Gerrymandering Series
Our lives are greatly affected by how the government decides to group us. The resources we can access, the K-12 schools we’re allowed to attend, and the individuals who represent our interests in Congress are all dependent on how we are organized through districting. However, these districts are not always practical, or, in some cases, are designed to favor certain groups over others. In many cases, "who goes where" is determined by politicians whose decisions are sometimes hard for us to understand.
Hall-O-Zine: A Spooky Zine Making Pop-Up
Join us in the Hunt Library lobby on Halloween between 12-2 to make a spooky zine with the University Libraries' new zine cart, a mobile makerspace equipped with everything you need to publish your own miniature tale of terror.
Book Review: Sex Talks to Girls
In her latest Back in the Stacks blog, Cataloging Specialist Jan Hardy reviews Sex Talks to Girls: A Memoir by Maureen Seaton, available now in our library catalog.
Digital WSJ Access
The University Libraries and the Tepper School have recently partnered to provide digital access to "The Wall Street Journal" for the entire CMU campus community. This is access to WSJ through the WSJ/Dow Jones platform.
Additional details about access and coverage are as follows:
Inside the Enigma Machine
During a four-hour period on October 7, campus historians and researchers associated with History of Science and Technology at CMU (HOST @ CMU)—a cross-campus, interdisciplinary initiative to collect and preserve CMU’s historical contributions to scientific and technical development—assembled in the Hunt Library Fine and Rare Book Room to open up the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries’ two Enigma machines.
Survey: Help Us Improve Our Website
The Libraries are currently in the process of assessing our current website in anticipation of a future redesign. As users who interact with our website regularly, you have unique insights that we would like to capture. Make your opinions heard and help us with these efforts by filling out a short seven-question survey about how our current website serves your needs. Your feedback will directly impact the decisions we make about the redesign of this website.
