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Are Libraries the Most Valuable Spaces on Campus? Rn Mo Ea Re ! L on N P O a Narrating a Transition W G E E SEPTEMBER 2017 THE MAGAZINE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA LIBRARIES Are libraries the most valuable spaces on campus? rn mo ea re ! L on n p o a Narrating a Transition w g e e W 1 Bringing African American History to Life 6 Year in Photos continuum.umn.edu 1 ISSUE 15, 2017 ARE LIBRARIES THE MOST VALUABLE SPACES ON CAMPUS? University Librarian 2 McKnight Presidential Professor A new study shows that University of Minnesota undergraduates who visit the Wendy Pradt Lougee library at least once during their first year are more likely to graduate on time. Editor Magic? Hardly. Librarians share what they do to help students succeed. Mark Engebretson Managing Editor NARRATING A TRANSITION Karen Carmody-McIntosh 8 The Transgender Oral History Project at the Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection Design & Production in GLBT Studies is documenting a pivotal time in our society’s understanding Mariana Pelaez of gender. Photography Paula Keller, Karen Carmody- McIntosh, Steve Woit, and Media BRINGING AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY TO LIFE 12 Active, a program of Intermedia Arts The Libraries’ new Umbra Search tool and database gives access to a treasure Contributing Writers trove of historical and cultural materials from across the country. Mark Engebretson, Suzy Frisch, Wendy Pradt Lougee, Karen Carmody- IN THE FACE OF OUR FRIENDS McIntosh, Erin Peterson SERT Friends of the Libraries President Margaret Telfer leads a section recognizing continuum is the magazine of the University of Minnesota Libraries, published annually the impact of our supporters. for a broad readership of friends and DONOR PROFILE: Geri and Darby Nelson share their love of libraries. supporters both on and off campus. continuum supports the mission of SHORT STACKS the University of Minnesota Libraries and our community of students, 16 News from the University of Minnesota Libraries. faculty, staff, alumni, and friends. continuum is available online at NOTABLE ACQUISITIONS continuum.umn.edu and in 20 alternative formats upon request. A highlight of significant additions to the archives and special collections. Contact 612-625-9148 or [email protected]. YEAR IN PHOTOS 24 Send correspondence to: The Friends Forum: A Series for Curious Minds brought writers and experts to › University of Minnesota Libraries campus including Elizabeth Kolbert, Bao Phi, Marlene Zuk, Gary Eichten, and 499 O. Meredith Wilson Library Alan Page. We celebrated the launch of Umbra Search African American History 309 19th Ave. S. with archival and community events. Noted children’s author and illustrator Minneapolis, MN 55455 Raina Telgemeier joined us to launch her new book. These events and many For more information about the more made 2016-2017 an academic year to remember! University of Minnesota Libraries visit lib.umn.edu. Printed on recycled paper containing 10% post-consumer waste. More continuum online! The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and employer. Many of the stories in this issue reference websites, blogs, and other multimedia content. © 2017 by the Regents of the University Access those web extras directly at continuum.umn.edu. of Minnesota. All rights reserved. In July, the University Libraries was awarded unique tool to explore digital resources HOW the National Medal for Museum and dealing with the African American Library Service, the highest honor given experience, culled from nearly 1,000 to museums and libraries. We were one institutional partners across the country. COOL of only five libraries and five museums Grants and private philanthropy play a to receive the Medal, and only the third significant role, enhancing and leveraging IS research library in the award’s 23-year University support to enable new history to garner this recognition! The initiatives. The Transgender Oral History quote, from Dr. Hornbacher’s letter of THIS? Project is supported by a generous gift nomination, captures the essence of from TAWANI Foundation. And the Umbra the award: the University of Minnesota Search project has had funding from the Libraries serves a large and cascading Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and number of communities from campus to a grants from the Institute of Museum and global audience. Our reach and our impact Library Services (the federal agency that are remarkable… and award-worthy! sponsors the National Medal), supporting The Medal is a wonderful honor and educational programming for other recognizes the innovative contributions of archives and to further use of Umbra our talented staff. Whether it’s partnering Search in schools. with faculty to enrich the curriculum, It has been gratifying to receive preserving critical data in support of dozens of messages from near and groundbreaking research, or sharing our far congratulating us on receiving the distinctive collections with individuals National Medal. Many have commented around the state or around the world — on the model programs we’ve launched. the Libraries makes a notable difference in I am a proud supporter Others have noted the impact we’ve had the lives of tens of thousands of students, of the University of within the library community, raising faculty and scholars, and the general public. Minnesota Libraries the profile and underscoring the value of This issue of continuum explores several research libraries. Alumni and friends have because of their passion exemplary Libraries’ programs, each shared their pride in all that the Libraries to improve student illustrating the distinct impact recognized does, particularly in serving Minnesotans achievement, the diversity in the Medal. You’ll read about our work and offering engaging public programs. of communities they to enhance student success through One of my favorite communiques, touch, and the significant our peer research consultants and however, offered a simple statement: SMART Learning Commons, as well as “Wow, how cool is this?” That says it all. impact they make in the the compelling data about improved education of generations outcomes for undergraduate library users. new and old across many The Transgender Oral History Project is disciplines and across ensuring that our Tretter Collection in GLBT studies captures the important archival many sectors.” record about transgender experiences in Wendy Pradt Lougee the United States. And the Umbra: Search University Librarian Judy Hornbacher, African American History project offers a McKnight Presidential Professor Past President of Friends of the Libraries continuum.umn.edu 1 Librarian Kate Peterson provides information about the Libraries to a first-year student at Summer Orientation. Photo by Paula Keller 2 Advancing Student Success are libraries the most librariesvaluable spaces on campus? the by ErIN pETErSoN A new study Rising sophomore Krista Wigen, Wigen gathered her courage and went shows that a marketing major, expected that she’d to Walter Library to speak with senior sail through the University of Minnesota Akshina Banerjee, one of the University’s university of academically. But then she got her final PRCs. Banerjee helped Wigen brainstorm mostMinnesota research assignment for her first-year thesis ideas and track down relevant writing course — a project worth 35 1920s newspaper articles. Wigen aced the undergraduates percent of her total grade — and she paper, and says Banerjee was crucial to who visit the worried that she was in over her head. her success. library at The assignment required her to dig deep “I was hesitant to see a Peer Research least once into the details of the 1922 Hall-Mills Consultant at first, but I’m so glad I did,” murder case, which was believed to she says. “It was so helpful.” valuableduring their inspire part of The Great Gatsby. “I was Wigen’s experience isn’t unusual. used to not having to ask for help for a first year are According to a study conducted by the class in high school,” Wigen says. “But I University of Minnesota Library Data and more likely to knew I had to do well on this assignment.” Student Success Group, students who graduate on Fortunately, she also knew she had use the Libraries at least once during time. Magic? options. She’d taken a Libraries tour not their first year are 40 percent more spaceslong after she’d arrived at the U, and she’d likely to graduate in four years than Hardly. learned about Peer Research Consultants their peers who don’t visit the Libraries. Librarians (PRCs) at several University libraries. That stunning statistic held even after share what These students — trained specifically to controlling for other factors linked to provide research help to fellow U of M student success, such as whether the they do to undergrads — were available for one-on- students were eligible for Pell Grants or help students one consultations for projects exactly lived in the residence halls. (All data on campus?like Wigen’s. were de-identified.) succeed. continuum.umn.edu 3 Great support helps faculty members The study, which has tracked library use Support to get to the create better for more than 5,000 students since 2011, finish line assignments examined an array of different categories, such as checking out physical or electronic Getting an undergraduate degree is a When professors want to transform books, logging into library computer marathon, not a sprint. And it turns out that traditional research paper workstations, and meeting with a librarian. that preparing for a 26.2-mile race might assignment into a more 21st- just be the right analogy for the role There may be even more good news on century project, they can talk to that the Libraries plays in that process. the horizon. Researchers soon will have Media Outreach and Learning For example, while it’s technically true the data for 2017 graduates, which they’ll Spaces Librarian Scott Spicer, who’s that anyone with a pair of running shoes use to track six-year graduation rates for partnered with faculty to develop can make it to a marathon finish line, the 2011 cohort of first-year students.
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