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Browsing by Author "Rogers, Alice"

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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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    Throwing It All at the Wall: Building a Comprehensive Technology and Research Equipment Lending Collection
    Bradley, Jonathan; Rogers, Alice (Association of College & Research Libraries, 2023-09-28)
    Technology is an ongoing need for instructors, students, staff, and researchers at institutions of higher education. Many academic departments attempt to solve needs on a case-by-case basis, purchasing and providing equipment to the specific groups of people they serve. Although these solutions work in the short term, they do not address widespread needs across universities or long-term use of the equipment beyond a given project. As modern academic libraries expand collections and services, we are poised to more efficiently provide access to expensive technology to our institutions due to our centralized nature. To meet this need, the Studios Network of Virginia Tech University Libraries developed the Studios Technology Lending Desk (STLD). In this chapter, we discuss how we have shaped our acquisition, support, and outreach methods to create a service that provides Virginia Tech’s faculty, staff, and students with technology to pursue a variety of creative endeavors within their fields of study and beyond. In sharing our experiences and the ethos behind choices we have made, we hope to inspire other programs to establish or extend their lending services to include technology that supports creators at their libraries.
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    Worry Boxes
    Fralin, Scott; Rogers, Alice; Hicklin, Meggin (Virginia Tech, 2018-05-02)
    Interactive public art project to help students relieve stress during finals. Worry boxes, little boxes where students can deposit what they're worried about in hopes that it will help relieve some of their end of semester stress, were placed around campus and in study areas. 2018/05/02 - 2018/05/11