NC State University Libraries

The Libraries welcomes Katya Mueller as the 2024-27 NC State University Libraries Fellow! Mueller will join the Open Knowledge Center as her home department, and her initiative will be “Maturing the Libraries’ Data Management Planning Service” in the Research Facilitation Service.

This spring, Mueller received the Master of Library and Information Science from Syracuse University and holds the Bachelor of Arts in Classical Civilizations of Greece and Rome from the University of Rochester.

BIBLIOGRAPHY HELP on Tues 7/23 at 10:30am! We're offering a special online workshop—"Citation Management with Zotero: Bibliographies Made Easy!" Learn how to manage your research library, create citations, and insert bibliographies automatically using the free software Zotero. Register now!

https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/workshops/citation-management-zotero-bibliographies-made-easy/2024-07-23

BIBLIOGRAPHY TUESDAY! Next week on Tues 7/23 at 10:30am we're offering a special online workshop—"Citation Management with Zotero: Bibliographies Made Easy!" Learn how to manage your research library, create citations, and insert bibliographies automatically using the free software Zotero.

https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/workshops/citation-management-zotero-bibliographies-made-easy/2024-07-23

ONE ENDOWMENT, TWO LEGACIES. Mitchell Moravec (BS ‘18, MS ‘20) has created the Rupert Nacoste Libraries Wolf Tales Endowment which will provide support for Wolf Tales—the Libraries’ story-collecting program to document and archive NC State’s history in the voices of those creating it.

The project, run by the Libraries’ Special Collections Research Center (SCRC), collects the stories of the NC State community, past and present, in the form of video narratives and interviews.

https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/news/main-news/new-libraries-endowment-preserves-two-important-legacies

PLEASE DONATE to the Libraries by June 30! We need your partnership here at the end of the fiscal year!

WHY GIVE? Because the Libraries awarded 18 of our student workers with a total of $67,760 in scholarship support—a $20,000 increase from the previous year. Because we launched the new Gaming and Esports Lab in the Hunt Library, offering students career opportunities and marketable skills in the expanding field of esports. Because the Libraries Makerspace and other high-tech areas that encourage creativity and collaboration are always slammed with usage.

Your partnership makes all this possible! DONATE BY June 30 and you’ll receive an exclusive Libraries “Impact Spaces” sticker set made in the Makerspace.

https://give.ncsu.edu/libraries

July 31 marks the 58th anniversary of MLK's speech at Reynolds Coliseum and a K*K march through downtown Raleigh—a mostly forgotten moment in history until NC State's Dr. Jason Miller and Ph.D. candidate Margaret Baker used photographs and rare home movie footage to create the exhibit "When MLK and the K*K met in Raleigh" as well as an immersive experience about it.

Now, Miller and Baker have donated their research and production materials to the Libraries' Special Collections Research Center.

https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/news/main-news/when-mlk-met-kkk-raleigh-materials-come-libraries

The Libraries has awarded two 2024 Tom Regan Visiting Research Fellowships to Kaitlyn Kitchen, a rising senior at Appalachian State University, and Sarah Scott, a professor of philosophy at Manhattan College in Riverdale, NY. The scholars will visit the Libraries for their month-long fellowships this summer.

Read all about these scholars, and the Regan Fellowship which was established through the generosity of the Culture & Animals Foundation, on the Libraries site.

https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/news/main-news/libraries-announces-two-tom-regan-visiting-research-fellows-2024

DONATE TO THE LIBRARIES before June 30 to support all NC State students—and get a set of "impact spaces" stickers from our Makerspace!

The Libraries grows with the needs of our students. Just this past year, we launched the Gaming and Esports Lab at Hunt, awarded 18 of our Libraries student employees with a total of $67,760 in scholarship support, and met a HUGE increase in demand in the Makerspace and other collaborative spaces.

So we continue to need your help! DONATE BY June 30—no amount is too small!

https://give.ncsu.edu/libraries

The Libraries is pleased to welcome its 2024-2027 Libraries Fellow, Katya Mueller. Mueller will join the Open Knowledge Center, and her fellowship initiative will be “Maturing the Libraries' Data Management Planning Service” in the Research Facilitation Service.

https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/news/main-news/katya-mueller-2024-2027-libraries-fellow

WE NEED YOU to donate to the Libraries before June 30 to support all NC State students!

Your support makes our remarkable accomplishments and growth possible. Just this past year, the Libraries launched the NC State Gaming and Esports Lab in the Hunt Library, offering students career opportunities and marketable skills in the expanding field of esports.

We awarded 18 of our talented Libraries student employees with a total of $67,760 in scholarship support—a $20,000 increase from the previous year!

And we’ve met a dramatic increase in attendance and usage in the Libraries Makerspace and other high-tech areas that encourage creativity and collaboration.

Your partnership made this possible! And as we approach the end of the fiscal year, we continue to need your help. DONATE BY June 30 and you’ll receive an exclusive Libraries “Impact Spaces” sticker set made in the Makerspace. It’s our small way of saying thank you for your unwavering support!

https://give.ncsu.edu/libraries

IT'S JUNETEENTH and a perfect day to visit the Libraries' historical timeline of African American History at NC State. All of our timelines are at https://historicalstate.lib.ncsu.edu/timelines.
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Photos in order are of:⁠
1. Toni Thorpe, program coordinator for the African American Cultural Center until her retirement in 2016 after a 25-year career;⁠
2. Kevin Howell, first African American student body president, 1987-88;⁠
3. First issue of the Nubian Message in 1992, in response to student protests alleging racial bias by the Technician;⁠
4. Mary Evelyn Porterfield (with es**rt Michael Brown), elected the first African American "Miss NCSU" in 1970;⁠
5. Dorothy Williams, the first African American instructor with faculty ranking, in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, 1965

THERE'S STILL TIME to submit your outstanding research imagery to the Envisioning Research Contest! Deadline is TODAY 6/17 but entering is quick and easy—and you know you have some terrific images around from your fieldwork or labwork!

https://envisioning.research.ncsu.edu/

REGISTER NOW for Designing Libraries XI, an annual conference that gathers librarians, architects, planners, designers, and information technologists to discuss the challenges and achievements of designing libraries and learning centers for the twenty-first century. The Libraries hosts the conference this year from October 27-29.

https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/news/main-news/register-now-designing-libraries-xi-conference-oct-27-29

The efforts of the Libraries' Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) toward diversifying archiving have been featured in an article in Inside Higher Education.

Virginia Ferris, lead librarian for outreach and engagement in the SCRC, spoke to the journal about how the center is working with an archive that simply didn’t bother to record the stories of commonly marginalized populations who played important roles in the university’s history.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/libraries/2024/06/03/librarians-grapple-diverse-archiving-digital-world

The 2024 NC State University Libraries Faculty Award has been given to Terry “Bucky” Gates, an assistant teaching professor in Biological Sciences, whose collaborations with the Libraries in the areas of open pedagogy and citizen science are extraordinary.

https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/news/main-news/terry-bucky-gates-receives-2024-libraries-faculty-award

GAMING AT THE LIBRARIES has been a longstanding thing. The launch in January of the new Gaming and Esports Lab at the Hunt Library is just the latest event in our commitment to gaming!

Read all about the Libraries' history with gaming, and hear from Cody Elsen (pictured here playing with Mr. Wuf!), our new Director of NC State Esports.

https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/news/main-news/libraries-levels-new-gaming-and-esports-lab

DEADLINE 6/17 to submit your images to Envisioning Research—NC State's annual research image contest. Grad students, undergrads, postdocs, faculty, and staff—help us highlight the beauty and importance of your research work and win cash prizes! Details at https://envisioning.research.ncsu.edu/

Seen here, Robert O'Connell's photograph of a frog a part of an ecotourism project won First Place in Undergraduate Student Photography in 2023.

LIBRARIES ON THE PITCH! The Libraries' intramural soccer team was recently featured in an article by Academic and Student Affairs (DASA) about how students and staff are taking advantage of intramural sports offerings.

https://news.dasa.ncsu.edu/nc-state-take-advantage-of-intramural-sports-offerings/

The university recently held a launch event for Larry Bell's "Reds and Whites" installation in the Susan Woodson Plaza, just outside the Hunt Library. Paid for by private donations, the "visionary piece of outdoor art" salutes the creativity buzzing through the buildings on Centennial Campus.⁠

NC State News wrote a piece about the dedication ceremony and the meaningful work that the campus community now gets to enjoy.

https://news.ncsu.edu/2024/05/reds-and-whites-artwork-larry-bell/

Congrats to Scott Summers, assistant director of the NC State College of Education’s Media and Education Technology Resource Center (METRC), who has been named a Library Journal Mover & Shaker! METRC is housed currently in the Hill Library.

https://ced.ncsu.edu/news/2024/05/07/metrc-assistant-director-scott-summers-receives-library-journals-2024-movers-shakers-award/

Adebola Fabiku, the Libraries' Head of Access Services, has been elected the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) Division Councilor for the American Library Association (ALA) Council.

“Academia and libraries are a little slow sometimes in keeping up with our society's changing information needs, but RUSA has been an amazing division to be a part of because they are working towards improvements to the profession so we can better serve our users," she says of the honor.

Darby Orcutt, the Libraries' Director of Interdisciplinary Partnerships, is quoted in the article "Librarians Can Help Reframe the Research Impact Conversation" in the Charleston Hub. The article touts Sage Policy Profiles as a discovery tool for researchers.

https://www.charleston-hub.com/2024/05/librarians-can-help-reframe-the-research-impact-conversation/

May is Asian Pacific Islander South Asian Heritage Month, and the Popular Reading Display in the Hill Library's Learning Commons celebrates the struggles and family bonds of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.

Check out the full booklist on the Libraries' website.

https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/think-and-view/asian-pacific-islander-south-asian-heritage-2024

BRING A SWEATER to the Hill Library this week! We're doing maintenance to the heating system so it will be cool as a cucumber in the building.

The Libraries was recognized with a Chancellor’s Creating Community Award at the Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity’s 18th annual Recognizing Excellence in Diversity (RED) Event. The award for “Outstanding College/Unit/Organization” was accepted by the Libraries’ Greg Raschke, Nellie Maurer, Tarida Anantachai, Jennifer Garrett, and Troy Hurteau.

https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/news/main-news/libraries-honored-chancellors-creating-community-award

THURS 5/9 join Emily Smith, Senior Engagement Librarian with Sage, and Darby Orcutt, Director of Interdisciplinary Partnerships with NC State University Libraries, to learn more about social sciences resources available through the Libraries to the NC State community, including Sage Research Methods and Sage Campus.

https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/events/lunch-learn-how-social-sciences-resources-can-support-research-and-impact-any-discipline

Library Journal has named the Libraries’ Tarida Anantachai, Director of Inclusion & Talent Management, a 2024 “Mover & Shaker.” Anantachai is recognized in the award’s “Change Agents” category and is the 15th staff member from the Libraries to receive the award—the most honorees of any academic library.

https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/news/main-news/libraries-tarida-anantachai-library-journal-mover-shaker

A.I. ICE CREAM? Check out some of the madcap flavors from the Libraries' recent A.I.ce Cream pop-up event! Your mouth will be watering for taco, volcano, ocean, trans-dimensional toffee, mushroom honey, and crystal palace flavors. Do you have a favorite?

It's Autism Awareness Acceptance Month—visit our display of books and info in the Hill Library's Learning Commons! And see the whole reading list on our website's Think & View page.

DEADLINE FRIDAY 5/3 for Alt-Textbook grant proposals, a grant program collaboration between the Libraries and DELTA. Contact the Libraries' Open Knowledge Center for all the info!

https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/alttextbook/grant-application