Current Issue: Fall 2018
Research Article
Fall 2018
Course Design, Images, and the Class-Curated Exhibit
Prendergast and Totleben
This article discusses the restructuring of a literature course to include a student-curated exhibit featuring rare, illustrated volumes from the University of Rochester’s River Campus Libraries. Faculty and library staff offered an experiential learning project for students to develop skills in the areas of primary source literacy, basic exhibit design ...
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Editor's Note • Fall 2018
Editor's Note
Richard Saunders
Life, both professional and personal, is built upon change. Though it sounds trite, it is still largely a truism that the only difference between tragedy and opportunity is perspective. ...
Research Article • Fall 2018
Agility in the Archives: Translating Agile Methods to Archival Project Management
Cyndi Shein, Hannah E. Robinson, Hana Gutierrez
“Agility in the Archives” affirms the importance of project management in special collections and archives, demonstrating how agile project management methods can augment success in archival processing projects. ...
Research Article • Fall 2018
Special Collections Exhibitions: How They Pay Dividends for Your Library
Michael L. Taylor
A successful library exhibition is usually seen as one that attracts large numbers of visitors and improves their knowledge of a topic. The ways that exhibitions benefit library staff, library collections, and library operations are much less frequently considered. ...
Research Article • Spring 2018
Making Book History: Engaging Maker Culture and 3D Technologies to Extend Bibliographical Pedagogy
Courtney Jacobs, Marcia McIntosh, Kevin M. O’Sullivan
Once highlighted as a hobbyist’s novelty, allied technologies such as 3D scanning, 3D modeling, and 3D printing are fueling vital new advances in a diversity of fields: in biomedical research, human tissue is being 3D printed to form human organs; the development of 3D printed titanium parts in aerospace engineering will ...