This monthly installment features information on the MIT Press Open Architecture and Urban Studies Collection, access details to recent ALA CopyTalk and NISO webinars, information on the Open Access Agreement between the University of California and Elsevier, upcoming CMU Scholarly Communication workshops, and the lists of the latest publications supported by the CMU Open Access Agreements and the CMU APC Fund.
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Cabinets of Curiosity —A Virtual Exhibit
Since the closure of libraries at the start of the pandemic, librarians have found themselves physically separated from their institutional collections for many months, a year, or even longer. However, in transitioning to remote work from home, librarians became closer to their personal collections. These collections may mirror an institutions’ collections, books or similar printed content, or they may run the gamut of material types from dolls to shells to buttons … and beyond!
Expansion in a Time of Restriction: Pivoting the Digitization Lab During the Pandemic
In August of 2019, the Libraries' Digitization Lab celebrated twenty-five years of operations. To mark this occasion, we wrote a blog post about the lab's history, highlighting a selection of our current and future projects. Since that post, our work has taken some unexpected turns due to the pandemic and its unprecedented impact on our daily activities. In response, we've pivoted to new projects that have expanded on and explored the possibilities of our core suite of services.
Mesco Finds It All in the Archives
Ann Marie Mesco taught herself hypertext markup language in the 1990s while managing a culinary school's library. Ever since coding that first website, she has built a career around guiding libraries into a digital future.
As the digitization project manager, Mesco, a 2001 graduate of the Dietrich College, oversees the conversion of vast educational resources and intellectual assets into electronic items, all cataloged to be easily retrieved.
Celebrating Animal Crossing: New Horizon's 1 Year Anniversary!
Hey, folks! For fans of the Animal Crossing games, tomorrow is an exciting, momentus day. On March 20th, 2020, Animal Crossing: New Horizons was released and gained millions of players across the world during its first year. During that time, I have not only played it in my personal life but I’ve also used it in my work at CMU Libraries to help bring a fun, lighthearted element to teaching data concepts.
MFA Class of 2021 Group Portrait in Mellon Library
How do you shoot a group portrait during a global pandemic?
With a little social distancing, a lot of technology, and a cameo appearance from the Mellon Institute Library.
Reader Finds Tales and a Tail in Library Book
Readers expect to find tales, not tails, in books. This story is about the latter.
A Carnegie Mellon University Libraries patron discovered a bagged, flattened snake in a copy of Brenda Shaughnessy's "The Octopus Museum."
Samuel L. Jackson would not be pleased.
March 2021
This monthly installment features information on accessing Dimensions through the new Shibboleth integration, access credentials to a recent NISO webinar for CMU faculty, staff, and students, a series of posts on the cOAlition S Rights Retention Strategy, upcoming CMU Scholarly Communication workshops, and the lists of the latest publications supported by the CMU Open Access Agreements and the CMU APC Fund.
Libraries Speaker Series: Five Questions with Bekezela Mguni
The University Libraries Speaker Series welcomes artist & librarian Bekezela Mguni of The Black Unicorn Library and Archives Project as featured speaker for the spring 2021 semester.
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