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Where Do Students Study in Fondren? N E W S F R O M FONDREN Volume 23, No. 2 • Spring 2014 Where Do Students Study in Fondren? With the help of student assistants Creating a GIS of the library has Lydia Chang ’16, Tierra Moore ’15 and opened up a wide range of possibilities Wei Song ’15, the GIS/Data Center for understanding how better to undertook a project in 2013 to better serve the Fondren community. We understand how various spaces are now can visualize and quantify the used within Fondren Library. The relative popularity of various types project was undertaken in response of study spaces during different days to feedback from the most recent and times. The map of the relative LibQUAL survey indicating that popularity of the study spaces on the students were having difficulties first floor shows that the tables near the locating a place to study. As a result, windows and the computer carrels are the staff set out to understand how to very popular, but the armchairs in the provide more desirable study spaces central atrium, along with the carrels in and how to increase awareness of throughout the day between 10 and between the circulation and reference existing study spaces. Student assistant 3 a.m., both midsemester and during desks, are rarely used. In addition, most Jacob Schneckloth ‘17 has since joined finals. The data was then entered of the four- and six-person tables are the project. into a geographic information system generally occupied by only one or two After floor plans were created (GIS), which allows qualitative study students. highlighting the public study furniture space characteristics and quantitative As opportunities arise, the insights within the library, occupancy data for occupancy data to be associated with from this study will be used to redesign every table and chair was collected by each piece of furniture displayed on the underutilized spaces to better suit Fondren students and staff six times floor plans. student preferences. We also plan to CONTINUED ON PAGE 7 CHECK IT OUT! Pg. 3 Genealogy Resources at Rice Pg. 5 From the Moon to Fondren Pg. 9 Lisa Spiro Returns in New Role Fondren Library A map of Fondren’s first floor highlighting the relative popularity of the study spaces OUTREACH Staff Member Leads Chicago Tour With Help From GIS/Data Center Chicago is a vibrant city with an of the modern glass-and-steel skyscrapers. interesting history, so I was excited to skyscraper. To Marshall Field’s department volunteer to lead two leisurely walking start, I made a store, with its iconic clocks tours for American Library Association crude, hand- on each corner and Tiffany (ALA) visitors during late June 2013. drawn map with a dome inside, foreshadows The Staff Organization Round Table description of each details on later buildings. (SORT) of ALA offers walking tours point of interest. Over on the west side of of selected cities as a fundraiser I realized that I the Loop stand the 1893 during annual summer conventions. needed a more State of Illinois Building There were 40 walkers registered for professional map, and the 1964 Civic Center each walk, early Friday and Monday so I contacted Jean Plaza. Outdoor art in this mornings during the convention. All Aroom, the support area includes Dubuffet’s of the buildings on the tour were built specialist in “Monument With Standing after the famous 1871 fire. Fondren Library’s Beast,” Miró’s 39-foot The tour focused on the Chicago Geographic Information Systems (GIS)/ sculpture “Chicago,” and a colorful 70-foot Loop, with its unique public art and Data Center, who gave me a quick mosaic by Chagall titled “Four Seasons.” pioneering architecture, the genesis tutorial on using GIS. I set up an Heading south leads to the Marquette account to access the ArcGIS Building and The Rookery, both built platform, found Chicago and before the turn of the century. The mapped the walk beginning at 1891 Monadnock Building has six-foot the Palmer House Hotel. You thick walls at its base and was the last can follow the tour at http:// skyscraper built using masonry foundation bit.ly/OIjyY3. construction. These early office buildings The corner of State boast a central natural light court, and Madison Streets is the necessary before the days of electric direct center of Chicago lighting and air-conditioning. On South from all directions. Ornate Dearborn Street, the Fisher, Old Colony cast iron trims the building and Manhattan Buildings, also built before designed as a department 1900, have been renovated for use as store by Louis Sullivan in luxury apartments. 1899. This historically popular The newest building on the tour was destination is now a Target the Harold Washington Library Center. and still quite popular. Right Built in 1991 at the cost of $144 million, across State Street is the 1890 the world’s largest municipal library Reliance Building, a light and has many features, paying homage to airy, gravity-defying 14 stories Chicago’s early 20th-century architecture. Chicago GIS tour map — direct ancestor of today’s For example, there are prominent owl 2 www.library.rice.edu OUTREACH Genealogy Resources at Rice Both beginning and experienced genealogists in Houston are blessed with abundant resources for their research. And Fondren Library can be a rewarding starting point for the study of family history. Newspapers, especially their obituary sections, are fruitful sources of genealogical information. Fondren has thousands of newspaper titles. Among its significant online collections are America’s Historical Newspapers (1690–1980, covering all 50 states), Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (1836–1922), Historical Newspapers (the archives of major papers such as the New York Times and the Washington Post) and African-American Newspapers (19th century). The Texas Digital Newspaper Program presents Texas news sources published from 1829 to the present. Fondren also has the complete gargoyles on the roof. archives of both the Houston Post (1881–1995) and the Houston Chronicle Standing at the corner of South (1901–present) on microfilm. Congress and Michigan Avenues, the Taken every 10 years since 1790, the U.S. Federal Census can be the source Auditorium Building was constructed of deep insights into family history. One way to search them is the Heritage in 1899 to reflect the cultural maturity Quest database, which encompasses genealogical materials from all 50 states, of Chicago. This complex has hotel including more than seven million pages. The American Family Immigration and office space and a splendid 4,300- History Center database (also known as Ellis Island Records) allows the user to seat theater. search the records of 25 million immigrants who landed Michigan Avenue is also known on Ellis Island between 1892 as the Miracle Mile. Features as you and 1924. go north on this street are the Railway A significant recent addition Exchange Building of 1904, which to Fondren’s genealogical contains the Chicago Architecture resources is a large collection of Foundation Shop, and the Art Institute National Archives and Records of Chicago, built in 1893 as part of Administration (NARA) microfilm, the World’s Columbian Exposition. generously donated by the The terminal stop on the tour is the Houston Genealogical Forum. It Chicago Cultural Center, built as the contains a number of passenger city’s first public library. manifests and crew lists from ships arriving in two dozen ports in Sarah Bentley all regions of the U.S (including Access Services Team Lead Honolulu, Hawaii). There also are several lists of alien arrivals by air. In addition, it has indexes to naturalization petitions for U.S. district courts and more than a thousand reels of compiled service records of U.S. soldiers during the Revolutionary War. For research into the Civil War era, there are 116 rolls enumerating Union veterans and their widows. The opportunity to use this collection is already attracting genealogists from Houston and outside the city. Because many of Fondren’s microfilm holdings are housed offsite, those wishing to use microfilm titles should check the library catalog and request delivery to the library, if necessary, before visiting. Guides: Genealogical Resources in Fondren: http://libguides.rice.edu/genealogy and African-American Genealogy: http://libguides.rice.edu/aagenealogy Anna Shparberg Librarian for History, German/Slavic and Linguistics NEWS from FONDREN • Spring 2014 3 COLLABORATION Communication: Let Me Count the Ways During the fall semester 2012, the Center for Written, Oral and Visual Communication (CWOVC) opened on the second floor mezzanine of Fondren Library. Part of the Program for Writing and Communication, CWOVC supports teaching and learning by providing workshops and offering consultations to students. The center employs about 30 trained undergraduate and graduate students to advise students on their papers and presentations. The location of the center in Fondren provides convenient opportunities for cooperation between librarians and CWOVC staff. For example, in fall 2013 three librarians oriented new consultants to the research sources available through the library. Additionally, the center participated in the library’s orientation for new international students. Freshman Writing Intensive Seminars (FWIS), also operated by the Program of Writing and Communication, feature research sessions taught by librarians. In these sessions, librarians demonstrate resources and methods that students can use to find information for their research projects. Librarians have taught FWIS sessions on such topics as The Real Cost of a Coke, Children’s Literature, Word Magic and Bizarre Biblical Stories. According to Jennifer Shade Wilson, the center’s director, Fondren Library is the perfect location. “When students need a citation or have to find more resources on a subject, they can use the computers and other resources in Fondren.” She looks forward to more cooperation with the library, particularly with the Digital Media Commons, as the center directs more attention to oral and visual communication.
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