Annual Report 2018 RIT Libraries Dear friends and colleagues,

At RIT Libraries, we are dedicated to advancing knowledge, sparking creativity, and connecting communities. contents It is my pleasure to share with you just a few of the recent activities of the Advancing Knowledge RIT Libraries staff. Of special note are the many collaborations with students Sparking Creativity and faculty that broaden the educational experience, enable new avenues of creativity and scholarship, and provide opportunities to learn from each other Connecting Communities beyond the classroom. Collections As you look through this publication, you will see that RIT Libraries is a unique and vibrant center that is integral to the RIT community, and a place where Staff Highlights extraordinary things happen! Support Us

Marcia Trauernicht Director of RIT Libraries “ The library has become the locus of community and knowledge making in my courses.” advancing knowledge Edit-a-thon participant “It was an extremely valuable session that can help us contribute to knowledge in a meaningful way.”

inexperienced participants learned participants to improve content Community Empowerment through Wikipedia the fundamental principles and best both during and after the event. practices of Wikipedia and how RIT Libraries hosted the second to make edits on the site. Leading up to the Edit-a-thon, annual Women on Wikipedia liberal arts librarian Lara Nicosia Edit-a-thon on March 24, 2018. Wikipedia is the fifth most visited and history professor Tamar Members of the public and the website globally according to Carroll co-authored an article RIT community improved the Alexa.com but has received criticism titled “Why Wikipedia Often representation of 204 women for its lack of representation of Overlooks Stories of Women on Wikipedia who are noted women. Organized edit-a-thons in History.” It was published for their accomplishments in like Women on Wikipedia in dozens of national and fields as varied as astronomy, help build a community around international outlets, educating medicine, animation, and sports. developing underrepresented the global community about Librarians also welcomed 25 content by increasing the diversity gender bias in online content new editors to Wikipedia as of editors and empowering and ways to help improve it. Advancing Knowledge

between educators, the Deaf between educators, the materials in this collection materials in this collection preserve this significant period preserve this of deaf education. in the history other photographs, films, and Williams the innovative school chronicle the development of chronicle the development cooperation and community of community, and parents loss. children with hearing archivist to reorganize the archivist to founded on a philosophy of founded on a philosophy donor Megan Williams, RIT donor Megan Tripod School Collection and Tripod School Thousands of documents, With special funding from from special funding With Archives hired a temporary Archives hired

Graphic Design Archive Design Graphic Illustrations by Cipe Pineles Cipe by Illustrations this collection have been used in have been used in this collection City. in New York processed this year are the are the this year processed career as an art director, designer, art director, designer, career as an reproductions from completion, Center exhibition at the Lincoln and design professor. Since and design and an a Cipe Pineles cookbook document Pineles’ professional document Cipe Pineles Papers, which Cipe Pineles to Artifacts Historical continued to document, digitize, to document, digitize, continued and preserve the Graphic Design the Graphic Design and preserve Improving Access Improving $280,000 grant from the Henry $280,000 grant Design Archive preserves the work Design Archive preserves Luce Foundation. The Graphic Luce Foundation. of 45 pioneering American graphic of 45 pioneering American designers. Among the collections designers. Among the The Cary Graphic Arts Collection Arts Collection The Cary Graphic Archive, funded by a three-year, by a three-year, Archive, funded spent half the semester in spent half the the Cary Collection working the Cary Collection the span of several centuries. professor Robert Glick. inspiration for students’ own inspiration for students’ writing texts in a digital creative closely with the manuscripts, closely with with the creation of culminating the course, students explored handwriting characteristics of the course taught by assistant course taught by assistant an online exhibition. In professor In professor an online exhibition. over and the techniques used Students in professor Sarah Sarah in professor Students Lorrie Frear’s calligraphy Lorrie Frear’s calligraphy Students examine manuscripts on loan examine Students Enlumineurs’ “Manuscripts in Les from the Curriculum” program. The manuscripts also served as The manuscripts also Thompson’s art history course history course art Thompson’s bookseller Les Enluminures. bookseller Les Enluminures. from Les borrow manuscripts supplementing the manuscript supplementing the manuscript manuscripts, thanks to a manuscripts, thanks to leaves held in the Cary Collection. to work directly with medieval to work directly with antique program sponsored by hands-on study of real historical of real historical hands-on study with Medieval Manuscripts Medieval with enjoyed the rare opportunity enjoyed the rare opportunity classroom for courses across classroom Enriching Coursework Enriching Enluminures’ extensive collection, Enluminures’ extensive objects. This year, students objects. This year, students often serves as an active learning as an active learning often serves RIT’s curriculum, enabling RIT’s curriculum, The program allowed RIT to The program allowed The Cary Graphic Arts Collection Collection Arts Cary Graphic The Advancing Knowledge

Open Access Publishing RIT Libraries also publishes Expands Reach of six open access journals in a RIT Scholarship variety of disciplines including This year, RIT faculty, students, packaging science, creative Beginning this year, the and staff contributed 474 works writing, sustainability, and Journal of Science Education to Scholar Works, the digital electronic engineering. Articles for Students with Disabilities repository that maintains a 17217 published here undergo the is indexed in the Education permanent record of RIT’s same rigorous peer review as Resources Information Center research, scholarly, and creative traditional journals. (ERIC), an authoritative works. Everything in Scholar Authors can track the spread database of full-text education Works is open access — available of their work in the repository. literature sponsored by the U.S. in full at no cost — eliminating In addition to the location and Department of Education. This barriers like paywalls to expand number of downloads, authors Journal of Applied Packaging not only increases the journal’s the availability of the works can now use altmetrics to track Journal of Creative Writing Studies discoverability, but ERIC also worldwide. Indexing by Google how their work is shared on blogs, Journal of Environmental keeps a citation count and Sustainability social media, and other non- assigns an impact factor, a and open access networks also Journal of Science Education increases their discoverability. traditional publishing platforms. for Students with Disabilities 6 open access journals measure of a journal’s relative These measures provide authors Journal of Microelectronic 86 new articles published importance within its field. (map) RIT scholarly works were a richer view of the reach and Engineering Conference downloads downloaded 785,459 times in Journal of Applied Science 88,780 223 countries and territories influence of their scholarship. & Engineering Technology around the world. Advancing Knowledge

45 Digitizing Rare Collections STEM Students ‘Level Up’ RIT Archive Collections After completion in December Their Library Skills 139 More than 130 students received a $60,000 grant from 2018, it will be the largest Humanities the Council of Library and collection of publicly accessible 46 attended Level Up, a new Information Resources to digitize ASL literature. Business monthly series hosted by RIT 61 videotapes that document the librarians. In these 30-minute American Sign Language (ASL) 462 sessions, students improved poetry and literature movement in instruction a variety of their library skills, Rochester, NY from 1970 to 2011. including how to cite sources, 50 sessions access print and electronic Held in the RIT/NTID Special 142 books, search databases, Programs Art & Design Deaf Studies Archive, the Professor Robert research companies for the historical videos capture signed Panara signs his 33 Career Fair, and maximize performances of works by poets poem, NTID, at the NTID inauguration of 07 the usefulness of resources like Clayton Valli, who was Albert Simone as RIT International like Google Scholar. referred to by critics as “the Deaf President in 1992. Programs Robert Frost,” and Robert Panara, Rights: National Technical Institute NTID’s first deaf faculty member. for the Deaf at RIT 6,732 reference questions answered “ Our library provides a creative environment for learning. It is a space of constant discovery. One never leaves empty.” sparking creativity Enhancing Learning virtual reality in ways that would where they can experience the Experiences with not be possible with the physical hornbook in its original context. Virtual Reality artifact. Simulations enable users A team of 3D digital design to take the hornbook apart to The goal is to add more virtual students led by Steven see how it was constructed and artifacts that enrich users’ Galbraith, Curator of the to travel through time to see understanding of each artifact’s Cary Graphic Arts Collection, how it has aged over centuries. physical makeup, history, and and associate professor The team also designed virtual cultural significance. Ultimately, Shaun Foster created a proof environments. When users the team hopes to integrate the of concept for the Virtual pick up the hornbook in virtual Virtual Cary Collection into Cary Collection, supported reality, they are transported from classes at RIT and open access to by a $4,000 Breakthru Grant the Collection’s Reading Room researchers worldwide. from the Rochester Regional to a 17th-century schoolroom Library Council.

The team developed 3D Steven Galbraith models of artifacts like Curator of the Cary Graphic Arts Collection a 17th-Century English “ Through virtual reality, users from all hornbook, allowing a user to interact with the object in over the world could potentially have access to artifacts in the Cary Collection.” Sparking Creativity visitors library exhibits library at Imagine RIT at 9 2,646 Alumnus James Paulius ‘13 Paulius James Alumnus showcases Blockitecture, blocks building architectural he designed as an industrial Visitors design student. design his iterative explored the from with artifacts process interacting before archives final product. with Paulius’ Art and design librarian and design librarian Art helps a visitor Horowicz Kari an book at construct an artist’s was fun for all ages. that exhibit from Archives from the spirit through the decades. program gained hands-on program gained Library during the in Wallace objects and then selected archival community tell stories of the RIT researched aspects of university researched aspects of history through the memorabilia, experience curating two exhibits curating two exhibits experience and trace the expression of school Students in the museum studies the museum studies Students in closely fall semester. Working designed an exhibition case to designed an exhibition documents, photographs, and documents, photographs, Students Unearth Stories Unearth Students yearbooks held in the RIT yearbooks held in the with archivists, the students with archivists, the students Archive Collections. Each student Archive Collections. first floor of Wallace first floor of were exhibits The Library. ofthe result an ongoing between collaboration Archives. RIT and Decker Juilee Decker, Associate Associate Juilee Decker, of Museum Professor Taylor and (left), Studies a second- Carpenter, set up an student, year case on the exhibition Sparking Creativity

Partnerships Facilitate proposed redesign of the Writing Practical Experiences Commons was implemented on Beyond a place to study and the first floor. research, Wallace Library also Interior design students functions as a living laboratory Visiting assistant professor Jordanae Smith, Siobhain Kaitlin Stack Whitney Page, and Octavia where students can practically Spelman (left to right) apply what they’re learning collaborated with library staff reopen the Writing in the classroom and solve to design a project for students Commons on the first floor of Wallace Library. by Chalk mural Olivia Noll real-world problems. in her conservation biology Senior Olivia Noll and professor With guidance from assistant class. The library’s aquarium Lorrie Frear partnered with professor Mary Golden and is a popular location for the library staff to craft inspirational input from library staff, interior campus community to meet, public art for women’s history design students re-envisioned read, or relax, and it often elicits month. The library’s chalk wall two library spaces. The students questions from visitors. became a life-size canvas for Noll not only gained invaluable Students in Whitney’s class to showcase the hand lettering experience designing for real created posters now on display techniques learned in Frear’s people with real needs, but they around the aquarium to educate calligraphy course. also added an impressive project visitors about its fish and coral to their portfolio when their and related topics like the effects of climate change on marine life. Sparking Creativity Shani Avni creates Shani Avni creates using a keepsakes (far left) press platen metal type and Hebrew Collection. in the Cary from lettering Hebrew archive the Ismar David (left) Shani Avni, 2017 Cary Research Fellow Research 2017 Cary Avni, Shani “ staggering experience This I use has changed the way both past and appreciate ingenuity technologies for their technologies for and present to allowing these processes happen in a blink of an eye.” , Visible Language in nearly a dozen talks in in nearly a a peer-reviewed design journal. a peer-reviewed Since completing her fellowship, her fellowship, completing Since also has an article States. She in forthcoming Israel, Canada, and the United Israel, Canada, Avni has shared her research her research has shared Avni keepsake for the 21st century. keepsake for printing artifacts on one of the printing artifacts new letterpress-printed to create a cards in the late 1950s. Aided by 1950s. Aided in the late cards associate curator Amelia Hugill- curator associate Fontanel, Avni used these same used these same Fontanel, Avni Cary Collection’s historical presses historical presses Cary Collection’s summer at the Cary Graphic summer at the Cary Collection, Avni was the Cary Collection, Avni inspired when she uncovered the original metal type David in the graphic arts. through the Cary Collection’s through the Cary Collection’s research fellowship program, research fellowship program, archive of Ismar David, a prolific Ismar David, a prolific archive of Research Fellow Shares Shares Fellow Research Internationally Findings Shani Avni, a design historian Shani Avni, spent the from Tel Aviv, first Hebrew typeface family. first Hebrew typeface used to print Jewish New Year graphic artist who designed the graphic artist who designed which supports scholarship which supports scholarship While studying David’s work in While studying David’s Avni’s work was made possible Avni’s work was made Arts Collection researching the Arts Collection “ Wallace Library is a hub for the RIT community, tapping into our curiosity and joy in learning.” connecting communities “I never expected Fostering Understanding participants the opportunity to anyone to care in a Diverse Community have meaningful conversations Living and working at RIT with four community members about what I had is a daily cross-cultural who had immigrated to the to share, and the experience, with nearly 2,700 United States. In engaging, small international students from group discussions, more than 50 emotional response 100 countries and thousands people learned about a professor’s I received, during more from diverse racial and pursuit of political asylum, an and after the event, ethnic backgrounds. In an alumna’s fight to complete her effort to challenge stereotypes education as a DREAMer, a has been very and build understanding student’s struggle to learn English encouraging.” through dialogue, RIT as a second language, and a staff Abi Ramos McFiggins ‘02 Libraries invited members of member’s work in international RIT alumna and former DREAMer the RIT community to share deaf education. their personal experiences in a new event series called At the second event held in his childhood in Saudi Arabia, My Untold Story. April, participants discussed a graduate student who was religion and spirituality with a raised as a Hindu in India, and The first public event professor who is also an ordained a staff member who practices held in November focused priest in the Episcopal Church, Buddhism. on immigration, giving a Muslim alumnus who spent Connecting Communities

Oral Histories Connect in the late 1970s. The personal Promoting Early Generations of RIT Tigers narratives supplement collections Childhood Literacy RIT Archives is home to a of historical objects in the For the past ten years, RIT growing collection of oral Archives and preserve multiple student-athletes and library staff histories. For the past perspectives of the university’s have been helping young students four years, archivists have history for future generations in the City of Rochester learn Associate archivist Jody Sidlauskas interviewed alumni celebrating of RIT Tigers. talks with an alumnus about his to read through weekly visits their fiftieth reunion during experiences at RIT fifty years after to John Williams School No. 5 his graduation. Brick City Homecoming as part of the READ: Hope in Weekend. The conversations Action program. RIT volunteers delve into alumni’s memories visit every Friday during the of student life on campus and academic year to work with reflections on their lives after students from pre-K programs graduation. The interviews are to the third grade, providing More than 40 volunteers traveled Senior systems administrator Joe Zoda reads aloud to first graders at School recorded for later transcription mentorship opportunities and to School No. 5 to read with the No. 5 during the 2017 Giant Read. by museum studies students. assistance in the classroom. entire first grade class. At the end of the event, each child — many These alumni oral histories join November 2017 marked the tenth of whom have few books at home faculty and administrators’ oral anniversary of the Giant Read, — received a book to encourage 3,000+ visitors/day histories that were recorded the program’s signature event. further reading. at RIT Libraries Connecting Communities study room reservations study room interlibrary loan requests interlibrary through RIT Libraries website Libraries RIT through 8,665 47,524 library.rit.edu Redesigned Website Website Redesigned Improves User Experience User Improves RIT Libraries launched a new RIT Libraries website in design of their based on the results January 2018 studies conducted of usability faculty, and staff. with students, The website was rearchitected to to provide easier access and library resources, events, services, frequently requested a librarian, such as meeting with and reserving a study room, mobile borrowing a laptop. The responsive design, streamlined content navigation, and rewritten improved patrons’ experience from any device.

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RIT Libraries Named Named Libraries RIT RIT Libraries was recognized RIT Libraries Academic Library with the region’s award in June 2018. of the Year Regional Library The Rochester determined the Council (RRLC) quantity winners based on the and enthusiasm of nominations submitted by library patrons in the five-county Rochester faculty area. RIT students and commending submitted comments staff, RIT Libraries’ supportive spaces, collaborative learning After and special collections. 1,300 reviewing more than nominations for 73 libraries, the RRLC selected RIT as the winner in the academic category. Academic Library of the Year of Library Academic the “ Wallace Library has an amazing collection of books and periodicals. But more than that, the library staff are so helpful, knowledgeable, and kind.” Les Laboureurs, Lyon: J.A. Henry, 1833 RIT Student Government Historical Materials Pronunciator Cary Graphic Arts Collection RIT Archives Language-learning application with courses in Extremely rare copy of the first “computer Includes a sweater knitted by students to fit the more than 80 languages, including American generated” book woven entirely in silk using a bronze tiger statue located on the Quarter Mile. English as a Second Language for 50 non-English system of punch cards to program the weave Dressing the statue during the winter has been languages. Subscription supports international collections patterns. Supports interdisciplinary study in a campus tradition since 2010. education and global programs. printing, computer science, history, math, and English. Purchased with a $25,000 grant from Robert Panara Photos and Papers Investext RIT Archives B.H. Breslauer Foundation. Database of the latest financial analyst reports Documents the teaching and life of the first on companies and industries. Subscription J. Scott Patnode Shopping Bag Collection deaf faculty member at RIT/NTID. Cary Graphic Arts Collection supports entrepreneurship, marketing, and business research. Nearly 1,200 shopping bags from the 1960s to present, including designs by Andy Warhol, RIT Student Government IEEE Explore Yoko Ono, and Keith Haring. Supports the study Historical materials Full text of all active Institute of Electrical of design and function in packaging design, Knitted tiger sweater and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) standards, hospitality, and visual arts. Materials Library ensuring products, systems, and processes Foams, wood, tile samples developed by engineering and computer Materials Library science students meet minimum performance, Samples of physical materials used in design safety, and compatibility requirements. and construction, including wood, plastics, flooring, and fabrics. Enables hands-on research and exploration in programs such as architecture, interior design, and industrial design. J. Scott Patnode Shopping Bag Collection Designs by Keith Haring and Andy Warhol Frances Andreu The Smithsonian Associates. Washington, DC. Roman Koshykar Jennifer Roeszies Digital Initiatives Librarian March 17, 2018. Computing and Information Sciences Librarian Information Delivery Services Technician Awarded Early Career Fellowship from Society Panelist, “Serving Different Populations.” Presenter, “Using Twitter and Facebook to staff highlights staff Presenter, “Virtual, Mechanical, Invisible, and for Scholarly Publishing. May 2018. Transforming Libraries for Graduate Students Radical: Rochester Convergences Across Town Promote the RIT Archive Collections.” Museum Conference, Kennesaw, GA. March 22, 2018. Association of New York Conference, Rochester, Presenter, “Up to Code: Systematically Evaluating and Across Disciplines.” Annual Preconference NY. April 9, 2018. and Standardizing Legacy Repository Content.” of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, Sara May Open Repositories Conference, Bozeman, MT. American Library Association. New Orleans, LA. Marketing and Communications Manager Richard Palackas June 4-7, 2018. June 21, 2018. Web Developer Received PR Xchange Award: Materials Jennifer Freer Lara Nicosia Amelia Hugill-Fontanel Promoting Collections, Services, Resources. Received M.S. in Computer Science, Rochester Business Librarian Liberal Arts Librarian Associate Curator, Cary Graphic Arts Collection American Library Association. June 2018. Institute of Technology. May 2018.

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