The opening for the exhibit Bands on the Bricks: A Retrospective, will be held on May 2nd from 4-8 pm and will include music, refreshments, and a look at some well-known musicians and one-hit wonders you may have heard of or seen perform. Our DJ will be spinnin’ the vinyl hits of these entertainers.
The exhibit will run from May 2nd – October 31st, 2013 in the RIT Museum (3rd floor) and the Gladys Taylor Gallery (1st floor) of the Wallace Center.
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From photographic portraits to the elegant layouts of Harper’s Bazaar, the Cary Graphic Arts Collection’s spring exhibition, Alexey Brodovitch: Life & Livelihood, examines the life and work of the seminal art director and designer of the 20th century. A selection of portraits, publications and aphorisms will provide a glimpse into Brodovitch’s inspiring world.
For more information, visit: http://library.rit.edu/cary/exhibitions/alexey-brodovitch
The Wallace Center now has 10 MacBook Pro laptops available for 4-hour loan from the Circulation Desk. Your RIT ID and a secondary photo ID are required to borrow laptops. They are available on a first-come first-served basis.
The RIT Libraries have launched a Database Finder -- a new service for finding and browsing our extensive collection of library databases. The new Database Finder allows for browsing or searching databases by title, subject, description, or resource type and includes the ability to create and share custom lists of databases. Together with the recently launched Summon service, the RIT Libraries now offers unprecedented access to searching database content (Summon) or finding and linking directly to library databases (Database Finder).
There has always been a need for communicating with large letters. Take for example, monumental inscriptions carved into an edifice read from below or afar, or hand-lettered signs beckoning from shop windows. Carving and painting are relatively simple tasks for the human hand to scale larger, but printing in large sizes was limited by the method of type manufacture. For to cast type larger than 20 lines or 240 point, often produced unprintable letters with concave faces caused by uneven cooling of the type metal in its mould. Wood was a much lighter and more forgiving substance to work for large type, but early on, all characters had to be carved by hand.
Enter New Yorker Darius Wells who engineered the lateral router in the 1820s, the machine that could mass-produce wood type letters. And so an American industry was born in the manufacture of oversized relief block wooden type, flourishing into the twentieth century. This movement in printing history produced some of the most interesting letterforms conceived before digital typefounding, which continue to inspire and delight us even today.
For more information: http://library.rit.edu/cary/exhibitions/wood-type
In timing with the presidential election this fall, RIT Archive Collections is featuring one of the university’s historic collections: The Frederick Wiedman Jr. Collection of Presidential Papers. This fascinating group of documents with the signature of 43 United States presidents provides a glimpse into the lives of the individuals who have held the most important office in the nation. Check it out on the third floor of the library!
Summon enables a familiar web-searching experience of the full breadth of content found in library collections—from books and videos to e-resources such as articles. Through one simple search within a single unified index, the Summon service provides instant access to the breadth of authoritative content that is included in RIT Libraries. No need to broadcast searches to other databases —it provides one search box for a researcher to enter any terms they want and quickly get credible results in one relevancy ranked-list. Results are easily refined with the use of facets that can tailor content by specific type, subject, date or the availabilty of full text online. Limit results to scholarly publications or expand results beyond the RIT Libraries collections. One search - easy access - try Summon!
LibHunt is a mobile phone-based library scavenger hunt designed to introduce RIT students and guests to the library building and its services. Students can play individually or as a team of up to 5 classmates. Faculty can log in to confirm that their students have completed an assigned LibHunt activity and export scores to a myCourses gradebook. Guests can simply take the scavenger hunt for fun. Specially configured iPod Touches and instructional flyers are available at the Circulation Desk.
Play here: http://library.rit.edu/libhunt/
Instructor portal here: https://library.rit.edu/instruction/login/
The most frequently used features of the library website are now available on your smartphone. Search the catalog and course reserves, select and search library databases, reserve a study room, view your library account and more. http://library.rit.edu/m/
The Library Catalog has been refreshed with a new look and feel and some new functionality just in time for Spring.
You can now jump to book covers, reviews, excerpts, purchasing options and other features through Google Books. In a hurry? Limit to available items. Tired of clicking? View item availability, call numbers, and locations in search results.
Try it out and let us know what you think.
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