You will no longer need to find a pen and paper when doing library research. A new enhancement to the RIT Libraries’ on-line catalog is the ability to send call numbers directly to your cell phone.
Search for a book in the library catalog and click the send to phone button. Fill in your cell phone number and your cell phone carrier and an SMS text message with the location, call number, and title will be sent to you. Standard text messaging rates apply.
RIT Libraries is pleased to announce the creation of a series of 8 interactive modules designed to help increase information literacy skills. The modules incorporate gaming concepts where players earn a series of achievements; completing all 8 modules and quizzes reveals the final achievement! ---http://library.rit.edu/liv/
LIV@RIT is a self-paced interactive tutorial designed to introduce RIT students to a variety of important concepts related to the use of information resources in an academic setting. LIV@RIT is intended to help students maximize their ability to effectively use the RIT Libraries' information resources and those of the World Wide Web.
Each of the eight modules in LIV@RIT is designed to teach a different aspect of information veracity skills:
RIT Libraries has created a citation database to articles in the archived issues of City Newspaper, Rochester’s weekly alternative paper. City Citations covers issues back to 1993 and is located at: http://library.rit.edu/citynewspaper/city.php
City Citations was developed at The Wallace Center at Rochester Institute of Technology to extend the indexing of City Newspaper. The City Newspaper web site provides a searchable full text database back to May of 2002 (http://www.rochestercitynewspaper.com/archives).
The City Citations project extends the indexing of the paper back to 1993. This site contains only citations to articles. Users can request the articles through Interlibrary Loan or find them at the following libraries:
Rochester Public Library
Local History, Vol. 9, no. 7 (Nov. 1, 1979 - present)
RIT Libraries, The Wallace Center
OVER PER AN2.C564 v.12- 38 1982-2009
It is anticipated that City Citations will be particularly beneficial to those researching local Rochester area information and those studying Journalism, Communication, Urban and Community Studies, and Political Science as well as those interested in past local art exhibits.
Rebecca Skloot, the award-winning science writer and author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, will discuss the subject of her book during a visit to the RIT campus on September 30th. This is the story of one of the most important women to contribute, even without her knowledge, to science and technology in the twentieth century.
Skloot will give a presentation beginning at 7:30 p.m. in the Ingle Auditorium in the Student Alumni Union. The talk will be followed by a reception and book signing in the Fireside Lounge at 8:30pm. All events are free and open to the public.
Skloot gained national notice in 2010 with the release of her biography on Henrietta Lacks, an African American women who unwittingly donated cells from a cancerous tumor that, due to their unique properties, were used to create an immortal cell line for use in medical research studies. The cell line led to the development of a number of medicines and medical treatments, but Lacks never knew the cells had been taken and neither her nor her decedents have been compensated for the continued use of the cell line.
“Skloot’s profile of Lacks and the manner in which biological information was used without consent and continues to be traded in a multi-million industry of global tissue exchange raise pertinent questions about modern medical ethics, while also shining a light on the continued impact of racial discrimination on American society,” notes Lisa Hermsen, associate professor of English at RIT, who helped lead the effort to bring Skloot to campus.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks received the 2010 Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize and a film version is currently being developed by HBO and Oprah Winfrey. Skloot has also written for The New York Times Magazine and Discover and served as a correspondent for NPR’s Radiolab and PBS’ Nova Science Now.
The Wallace Center is pleased to announce a significant improvement to our most expensive and heavily used library resources and the launch of a new service for our users -- a completely redesigned library database portal -- http://library.rit.edu/databases/.
The list of features includes:
Search results include the following features:
The new portal is based on Xerxes -- an open source application developed by the California State University System and Johns Hopkins University and in use by over 20 academic research libraries. RIT has extensively customized the code and added new features. RIT’s code has been submitted to the national project for inclusion into the code base.
Check it out: http://library.rit.edu/databases/
In April, RIT SportsZone Producer/Director Kevin Roche and Student Executive Producer Sophie Schillaci traveled to Los Angeles for the 31st Annual College Television Awards Gala, hosted by Tom Bergeron of "Dancing With The Stars".
RIT SportsZone competed against other colleges and universities from across the nation, as the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation recognized the nation’s best student video and film productions. SportsZone, now in its eighth season, received third place honors in the magazine show category for its work on this season’s premiere episode, which can be seen online at RITSZ.com. The show featured RIT’s move to a new athletic conference, NHL players preparing for their upcoming season on campus, and one RIT alumnus working behind the scenes in minor league baseball.
RIT SportsZone has earned a number of awards throughout its eight seasons; however, this is the program's first College Television Award. "It truly is a tribute to the hard work and dedication our students put into SportsZone on a daily basis," said Kevin Roche. "We look forward to competing next season and bringing home the Academy's top honor."
The Wallace Center, ETC Production, SportsZone, and SportsZone Live all made it into the global news recently. Sports Video Group, a video industry magazine (both in print and on-line), heard about the work that we and our students were doing in broadcasting Division 1 hockey. They interviewed Mark Fragale and Jim Bober to get the scoop behind the success of these shows. As a result of this interview and others like this, the following pieces were recently released worldwide. In the 16 months since we aired our first game, SportsZone Live has aired close to 200 hrs of live broadcast across New York State, along with numerous other campus and corporate events for the University. The broadcasting capabilities housed within The Wallace Center and implemented by staff and students bring great notoriety for RIT and provide the opportunity to share with the world all the capabilities housed within The Wallace Center and the learning venues provided to RIT students. The nurturing and growth of these capabilities enable The Wallace Center to realize its vision, to be ... the heart and intellectual nexus of the Institute.
Click here (http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/447469-RIT_Builds_HD_Broadcast_Trailer_For_More_Sports_Content.php) to see the Broadcasting & Cable article.
Click here (http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/briefingroom/2010/02/01/rochester-institute-of-technology-outfits-hd-mobile-unit-with-ag-hpx500-p2-hd-camcorders-hd-broadcast-monitors-2/) to see the Panasonic press release.
Recently there has been much media attention to the H1N1 flu and its potential to cause high rates of absenteeism among faculty, students, and staff. While this particular situation, and its potential for interrupting instructional activities, is a cause for concern, other circumstances, such as severe weather, could have similar disruptive effects on student learning.
In response, Provost Jeremy Haefner has asked all RIT faculty members to consider how continuity of instruction might best be achieved in their courses, and to make plans accordingly. This contingency planning should include a focus on both higher than normal faculty absenteeism and student absenteeism, and will likely include strategies for using myCourses, RIT's course management system.
Teaching, Learning & Scholarship Services has produced a new resource, Faculty Quick Start Guide: Preparing a Continuity of Instruction Plan, that offers a step-by-step process for learning/using myCourses and rethinking what you do in the classroom (lecture, discussion, small-group activities, etc.) for possible online/distance delivery. For assistance with myCourses or in developing a continuity of instruction plan for each course you teach, please contact your assigned TLSS instructional liaison.
JASET continues to disseminate applied technical scholarship. Volume 3 includes a letter from the Editor-in-Chief titled “Navigating the Process of Publishing in a Journal”, which was written to help authors succeed in dissemination. The current volume may be found at jaset.rit.edu. The next call for manuscripts will be issued in November.
JASET Overview:
JASET is an open access, peer reviewed, double blind, journal for the dissemination of applied technical scholarship. Topics are in the combined domain of engineering, technology and applied science and focus on solving technical problems in the spirit of “Scholarship of Application” as described in Ernest L. Boyer’s landmark work, Scholarship Reconsidered:Priorities of the Professoriate. In summary, Scholarship of Application disseminates results from the application of technical knowledge to consequential problems. Applied scholarship is welcome from academia, industry and government agencies.
We recently invited the RIT community to participate in a contest to help name the new entity created by the merger of RIT Libraries, Educational Technology Center (ETC) and Online Learning.
After much deliberation, the new name we have selected is: The Wallace Center
With the new name officially approved, we are embarking upon the process of updating our Web Portal (http://wallacecenter.rit.edu). In the next several weeks we will be updating the graphics and will soon begin work on new branding. For the time being, the Portal is fully functional and we encourage you to use it to navigate the myriad services offered at The Wallace Center (Bldg. 5)
Thanks for your ongoing support and feedback.
-Your friends and colleagues at... The Wallace Center
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