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Staff

2022 Library staff awards

The University libraries recognized the individuals who most embodied the phrase 'above and beyond.'

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Event

Shall we play a game?

Grab a bag of Doritos and crack a Mountain Dew—the River Campus Libraries has a new game-playing series.

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Event

Ce-le-brate XR, come on!

Rochester’s hub for extended reality is holding a formal dedication and grand opening during Meliora Weekend 2022.

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Programs

Nurture by nature

The River Campus Libraries has created an environment that naturally fosters interest in librarianship.

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Neilly Series

Neilly Author Series: Peter Conners

A confluence of absurdity and pain pulls the accomplished nonfiction author out of his poetic hibernation.

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Collection

Commemorative codex

A 700-year-old manuscript is the first in a new University libraries collection that honors historian Richard Kaueper.

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Spaces

Physics-Optics-Astronomy Library to get refresh

After 50 years, the River Campus Libraries' quirkiest space is being revitalized and reimagined.

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Kathy Wu standing in Friedlander lobby
Staff

Checking In with Kathy Wu

We caught up with the River Campus Libraries’ subject librarian, who picked up a new subject.

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Collection

Behind—and beyond—a congresswoman’s politics

The University libraries received the Robert and Louise Slaughter Family Papers, adding to the previously acquired Slaughter congressional collection.

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XR@UR

Virtual partners

Studio X teamed up with Rochester researchers for a study on how the brain processes light and sound.

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Collection

Preserve and protect

A war that has often targeted Ukrainian heritage has made the Department of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation a cultural refuge.

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Staff

iZone’s new ‘magnetic’ director

The River Campus Libraries taps a local entrepreneur to lead the Barbara J. Burger iZone into its next era of creative problem-solving.

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Research

Digital justice through data dictionaries

A seed grant launches a project that has the River Campus Libraries helping to diversify the digital domain.

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Students

The 2022 Dean Team

There are many stars among the libraries’ student employees, but this year, only two reached the level of ‘Dean Team.’

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Jon Sauceda
Staff

Checking In with Jonathan Sauceda

As if starting a new job wasn’t already challenging, Sibley Library’s new head librarian did it during a pandemic.

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Collection

May is for manuscripts

The University libraries creates a new annual observance to highlight handwritten materials.

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Librarians Kathy Wu and Sarah Siddiqui standing with data grant winners Jean-Joel Legre, Lipeng Chen, and Ruqui Wu in Lam Square
Research

Spring 2022 data grants

The River Campus Libraries removed barriers to research with a new round of data set grants.

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Technology

Studio X, technically

A close look at the technology inside Rochester’s hub for extended reality.

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Peter Conners sitting on a small set of steps
Collection

Special Collections receives papers of BOA Editions publisher Peter Conners

Also an author and poet, Conners chose Rochester to steward his writing and editing archive.

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Research

Humanities libraries creating publication analysis tool kit

River Campus Libraries librarians aim to build a bibliometric system tailored for humanities scholarship.

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Moriana Garcia sitting next to a plant
Staff

Checking In with Moriana Garcia

We caught up with Carlson Science and Engineering Library’s STEM librarian on a new role at the River Campus Libraries.

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