Browsing by Author "Fralin, Scott"

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    25 Years of German Unity
    German Embassy; Khanke, Corinna; Bauer, Esther; Fralin, Scott (Virginia Tech, 2015-10-13)
    Poster exhibition highlighting the history and process of German Unification in celebration of 25 years of German Unity. 2015/10/13 - 2015/10/30
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    29 Days of Black Feminism
    Fralin, Scott; Turner, Valencia; Jensen-Wachspress, Arianna; Lin, Billy; Holloway, Kendall; Choate, Rebecca; Eldridge, Kyle; Zelaya, Daniella; Iasu, Saron; Barth, Tobias; Singh, Sapna (Virginia Tech, 2016-02-01)
    Poster exhibition highlighting the achievements of Black Feminists and raising awareness of the impact the Black Feminist movement has had over the course of Black history. 2016/02/01 - 2016/02/29
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    4/16 Exhibit 2018
    Fralin, Scott; Kennelly, Tamara (Virginia Tech, 2018-04-10)
    This exhibit honors those lost in the April 16 tragedy and recognizes the support of the community. It features photos taken by members of the community in the weeks following April 16, 2007. Out of hundreds of submissions, 41 images by more than 25 photographers were selected by Mary Tartaro, then director of the Perspective Gallery in Squires Student Center. Captions from the photographers, expressing their emotions at the time they took them, are included with the photos. Images include shots of rescue vehicles and satellite trucks, memorials set up on the Drillfield and around town, and students signing banners and white boards on the Drillfield. The convocation, candlelight vigil, and dedication of the Memorial are also represented. The photos show how the community moved forward together with shots of the Concert for Virginia Tech, “VT Thanks You” spelled out on the Drillfield, and the vigil held in support of Northern Illinois University. The exhibit is a collaboration of the University Libraries and Student Engagement and Campus Life.
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    The Ability Exhibit 2015
    Vickers, Pamela; Gilbert, Charla; Wright de Hernandez, Anthony; Fralin, Scott (Virginia Tech. University Libraries, 2015-10-01)
    The interactive, traveling exhibit, "Allies for Inclusion: The Ability Exhibit," was on display in Virginia Tech's Newman Library, second floor commons area, from October 1st through 7th, 2015. The opening reception was held on October 1st, 2015 from 10 am to noon at the Newman Library, 560 Drillfield Drive, Blacksburg, VA 24061. The video of the opening reception features speakers Pamela Vickers, Tyler Walters, and Jana Doyle. Initiated by Saint Louis University's Anne Marie Carroll and developed by other graduate students studying disability in higher education and society under the direction of Karen Myers, Ph.D., The Ability Exhibit launched in 2010. This traveling exhibit is designed to promote the inclusion of people with disabilities through respect for others, comfort during interactions, and awareness of disability issues.
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    Archives Month
    Fralin, Scott; Dietz, Kira A.; Wright de Hernandez, Anthony; Fitzsimmons, Rebecca (Virginia Tech, 2018-10-02)
    Glass case display containing artifacts and manuscripts from the archive collections. 2018/10/02 - 2018/11/02
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    Arts + Crafts
    Vollmer, Matthew; Fralin, Scott (Virginia Tech, 2014-05-05)
    An interactive exhibit based on the work of a graduate creative nonfiction course from the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program. Each student designed and constructed physical, interactive exhibits that deployed narratives about the subjects they were investigating. 2014/05/05 - 2014/05/09
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    Behind the Scenes of the Fair Use Week Exhibit - How We Made Our Copyright Decisions
    Pannabecker, Virginia; Sebek, Robert; Walz, Anita R.; Fralin, Scott; Gilbertson, Keith (2016-02)
    This workshop was created for a general audience, with an expectation of most being students, staff, or faculty in a higher education environment. *This workshop was developed with United States copyright law in mind. During this workshop, presenters and participants discussed decisions related to using copyrighted materials in an in-person and online exhibit. Following the discussion, they explored an interactive exhibit and consider whether uses of copyrighted materials in case studies included in the exhibit were more towards ‘Fair,’ or towards ‘Infringing.’
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    Black History Month: Vince Haley
    Fralin, Scott; Haley, Vincent (Virginia Tech, 2019-02-08)
    This year's celebration of Black History month at Virginia Tech is focused on the theme of "Black Health & Wellness." This exhibit explores this topic through the creative career and contributions of Vince Haley, an African-American industrial design professor here at Virginia Tech. 2019/02/08 - 2019/03/17
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    Building Bridges
    Fralin, Scott; Catherwood-Ginn, Jon; Thomas, Anne Elise; Alarid, Renee; Piazza, Gabrielle; Hicklin, Meggin (Virginia Tech, 2017-10-10)
    Salaam: Exploring Muslim Cultures (“salaam” means "peace" in Arabic) is a project that is engaging communities in Southwest Virginia with the diversity of Muslim cultures through an exploration of stories, images, sounds, and perspectives. Designed in collaboration with an extensive network of campus and community partners, this multi-year process of story-sharing, performing, and visual arts will culminate in an original production created by an ensemble of students and community members in collaboration with guest artists. 2017/10/10 - 2017/11/23
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    Celebrating Virginia Tech: A Chronology of 150 Years
    Brodsky, Marc; Rozema, LM; Wright de Hernandez, Anthony; Fralin, Scott (Virginia Tech, 2022-06-01)
    "Virginia Tech’s story began with a contentious battle to designate a land-grant college in Virginia. The Morrill Act of 1862 provided grants of land to each state to finance the establishment of a public institution of higher education. Funding came from the public sale of lands in the West, which the federal government took from Indigenous peoples. Each state designated or created a land-grant college, with the purpose of providing education focused on agriculture, engineering, and military training. Like other southern states that seceded from the United States, Virginia did not have access to land- grant funds until its readmittance to the Union in January 1870. The state legislature, however, was deeply divided over two important questions. First, where should the school be established? Some wanted the money to go to a well-established school, such as the University of Virginia or Virginia Military Institute, while others pushed for the creation of a new institution to offer the specific education envisioned in the Morrill Act. The second question was whether funds should be divided between two schools—one for Black people and one for White people. The General Assembly debated these matters throughout the 1870 and 1871 sessions. Late in the process, a new contender appeared: the Preston and Olin Institute in Blacksburg. A small Methodist school founded in the 1850s, the Institute was struggling when its trustees proposed to offer it to the state to become a land-grant college. The land offered to the state has a rich and complex history. The Tutelo and Monacan peoples were the traditional custodians of the area that today makes up much of Virginia and West Virginia. During the eighteenth century, the Preston family and others owned the land that would become Virginia Tech, including the Smithfield estate, the Solitude estate, and the buildings of the Preston and Olin Institute. More than 200 enslaved African and African American men, women, and children lived and worked at Smithfield and Solitude. In recent years, Virginia Tech has recognized the significance and contributions of the Tutelo/Monacan peoples, the enslaved Black people, and their descendants in making possible the founding of a major land-grant university. The 1872 legislative session finally settled the funding questions. On March 19, 1872, Governor Gilbert C. Walker signed the bill establishing the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (V.A.M.C.) at Blacksburg. The legislation designated two-thirds of the land-grant funding to the education of White students at V.A.M.C., while the remaining one-third was allocated to Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute (later to Virginia State University) for the education of Black students. The first students—only White males were admitted—arrived in Blacksburg for the Fall 1872 session. — Adapted from No Ordinary Moment: Virginia Tech, 150 Years in 150 Images (Virginia Tech Publishing)"
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    Christiansburg Institute
    Fralin, Scott; Finney, Trevor; Cline, David P.; Ogle, J. Todd; Tucker, Thomas J. (Virginia Tech, 2016-08-22)
    This exhibit features work from Virginia Tech's Technology-enhanced Learning and Online Strategies and computer science, education, and public history programs and an app developed around the history of the CI called CI-Spy. Founded in 1866 with 200 students, the Christiansburg Institute (CI) was a school that educated newly emancipated African Americans. As schools desegregated, fewer students attended the CI, and in the spring of 1966, its final senior class of 22 students graduated. 2016/08/22 - 2016/09/30
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    Claim Your Space: Projects from English 3764 Technical Writing
    Fralin, Scott; Kulak, Andrew (Virginia Tech, 2018-12-03)
    Poster and paper exhibit featuring the coursework of English 3764 Technical Writing. This semester, students in two sections of Technical Writing collaborated on course projects exploring intersections of space and student experience at Virginia Tech. Each class determined their overall project topic based on proposal presentations and worked in small groups to complete research-driven white papers and websites about different spaces where students live and work in Blacksburg. Their goal was to provide students with resources to help make decisions about where to live and to raise awareness about academic resources available in buildings across the Blacksburg campus. While researching, groups also considered the effect of space on college student well-being and academic success. 2018/12/03 - 2019/03/31
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    Computational Thinking and Digital Sound Manipulation
    Kafura, Dennis G.; Lyon, Eric; Bart, Cory; Fralin, Scott (Virginia Tech, 2015-08-19)
    Collection of videos and presentations student made to explore the ideas and methodology of computational thinking and practice the techniques for synthesizing, performing, and transforming sounds using freely available sound software. 2015/08/19 - 2015/09/25
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    Course-based exhibitions: Serendipity in the physical and digital spaces of academic libraries
    Fralin, Scott; Rogers, Alice (2019-09-18)
    Library exhibition practices vary significantly between institutions, depending on expertise, resources, and goals of the individual library. The University Libraries at Virginia Tech have supported and developed two exhibition programs within the past six years, both with a focus on showcasing products and processes from classes around campus, rather than library materials and artifacts. While such work is unique, it can provide valuable experiences both for the contributors and creators of these exhibitions, as well as those who see and interact with them. In this article, we discuss the history and origins of these programs, the Course Exhibit Initiative and the Active Learning Curation Program, how they work, and the outcomes they strive to achieve. We discuss the workflows that we take to showcase the work of our contributors, and demonstrate how these programs share some outcomes with exhibit programs based in special collections, but have their own unique challenges and opportunities. Finally, we make the case that the output of these two exhibit programs provides a new experience of serendipity in libraries.
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    Covert Coloring
    Fralin, Scott (Virginia Tech, 2017-04-18)
    An interactive exhibit, pop-up coloring station to serve as stress relief for students and faculty during finals time. 2017/04/18 - 2017/05/15
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    Creative Code
    Fralin, Scott; Duer, Zachary R. (Virginia Tech, 2018-01-29)
    Visual art exhibit featuring works created by undergraduate students in the course ART 3704, Creative Code, wherein students used the rapid-prototyping programming language Processing1 to create the artworks in this exhibit as part of their major project for the semester. 2018/01/29 - 2018/05/14
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    Exhibit on Asian America
    Fralin, Scott; Nguyen, Quynh; Lian, Joseph; Kim, Michelle; Lumba, Allan E. S.; Phan, Jenna; Sano-Franchini, Jennifer (Virginia Tech, 2019-04-08)
    This exhibit was created as an introduction to the history, culture, politics, activism, and social contexts of the experiences of Asian Americans. Especially during Asian Pacific Islander American Heritage Month, we want to emphasize the importance of mapping and understanding our histories—through stories, photos, policies, art, literature— and how they have shaped our experiences as Asian Americans today. This exhibit is split up into 5 themes: histories of inclusion and exclusion; activism; high-stakes topics and current events; culture; and identity. Within these sections, our committee members have curated content that provides a snapshot of progress and development of the Asian American identity, through the lens of that certain theme. Consider reflecting on and defining what the Asian American identity means to you, at the middle table. As you peruse and take in our exhibit, we hope you gain a greater understanding and appreciation of the struggles, experiences, nuances, and realities of our Asian American community. If you are Asian American, we truly hope this exhibit has empowered you to explore deeper within yourself for what it means to be an Asian American. During this month, reflect on our legacies in the US; we do not care to have our experiences, histories, and struggles defined by anyone else but ourselves.
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    Fair Use Week Exhibit and Event Toolkit
    Pannabecker, Virginia; Walz, Anita R.; Sebek, Robert; Fralin, Scott; Gilbertson, Keith (Virginia Tech, 2016-02-22)
    In Fall 2015, the Open Knowledge Committee of Virginia Tech’s University Libraries decided to participate in Fair Use Week 2016. This was our first time participating. We put a call out and gathered a planning group. Our week-long event included an interactive exhibit, an exhibit reception, three workshops, a website, and a blog post. Our goals for this event were to: (a) raise awareness of the nature and application of the Fair Use provision in U.S. Copyright law, and to (b) provide interactive components to engage participants in thinking about copyrights and their choices when: 1. considering the use of copyrighted materials for research, education, creative, commercial, or other purposes, and 2. creating and sharing copyrightable works in various contexts. We took a broad view of our target audience - aiming to provide in-person and online opportunities for interactive engagement by VT students, employees, instructors, researchers, and the general public. We reused resources from others, and want to share our content for further reuse. Fair Use is a 4-part exemption of U.S. Copyright Law which allows copying, redistribution, public displays, performance, transmission, and creation of new versions when the proposed use is deemed by the user’s informed analysis to be “fair” rather than “infringing.” Explore various tools and resources for your Fair Use analysis. Exhibit focuses on several local, current, and historical examples related to fair use. 2016/02/22 - 2016/03/11
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    Favorite Poem Video Project
    Fralin, Scott; Voros, Gyorgyi (Virginia Tech, 2016-04-04)
    Compilation of videos created by students in English 1604: Introduction to Poetry. The instructions for the project were for students to choose a poem that especially resonated with them, to read or recite it on video, and to talk a bit about the poem’s personal significance. They were also asked to discuss some of the aesthetic elements in their poem that made it an effective work of art. The project is modeled on the Library of Congress’s Favorite Poem Project, instituted by the poet Robert Pinsky in 1997 when he was the nation’s Poet Laureate. Pinsky asked for Americans across the land to share their favorite poems and say what they loved about them. Belying the notion that no one reads poetry anymore—or that only academics or other writers do—tens of thousands of people representing a range of ages, occupations, levels of education, ethnicities, and backgrounds submitted poems. They talked about the ways in which poetry inspired them, moved them, consoled them, helped them cope with life’s vicissitudes, gave them hope, enlightened them, amused them, made them laugh, made them cry, taught them about themselves, and connected them to the rest of life and humanity. The students in this group of videos have done much the same. They, too, come from a wide and varying range of majors and interests, from Biochemistry to Business Information Technologies, from Mathematics to Sociology, from Neuroscience to Fashion Merchandising, from Environmental Sciences to—English! Several have graduated and gone on to law school or launched careers. In their enthusiastic and felt renditions of the poems, they show how words create the world, how words express us and create us, and how we create the world through words. Poetry is for everyone. Poetry is as necessary as food. Go read a poem a today. Or write one! 2016/04/04 - 2016/05/02
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    Find, Share, Remix, Create. Legally: Learn About Creative Commons Licenses
    Walz, Anita R.; Fralin, Scott (2017-03)
    This brochure designed at Virginia Tech introduces Creative Commons licenses as a tool that one can apply one's own in-copyright works to allow redistribution, adaptation, and reuse. The brochure introduces the four Creative Commons icons, the four "open" Creative Commons licenses (those that allow derivatives) and both Public Domain marks. The brochure also describes and provides a link to further information regarding giving appropriate credit/attribution, answers the questions "what are Creative Commons licenses and why do people use its licenses?" and "Where can I find Creative Commons licensed works?" This brochure is based in part on the Creative Commons brochure located at http://creativecommons.org.nz/cc-brochure-civer and is adapted under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.