The Roc Rainbow Rally was honored at the 2024 Gwennies in the DEI Initiatives category. Gwennies recognize campus partners who exemplify the values of the Greene Center for Career Education and Connections.
Studio X Annual Report 2023
In October 2022, Mary Ann Mavrinac Studio X officially opened. We celebrated the work, the people, and the vision that got us there. But opening wasn’t a finish line; it was another starting point.
Extended Reality(XR)’s Growing Use in Higher Education
I took part in a Project Briefing session on extended reality and higher education at CNI’s 2023 Spring Membership Meeting in Denver, CO.
Boundless Possibilities
When I think about the boundless possibilities of our library and our university, I think about the way we must continue to evolve, learn from our past, value each others’ expertise, and bring people together to solve the challenges that lie ahead. It isn’t easy. It’s work. But it’s also worth it.
Studio X Annual Report 2022
When I started working on Studio X in early 2019, it was an idea with a roadmap. That idea was shaped by community needs gathered through interviews, design activities, and extensive work done by the original steering committee. What we learned boiled down to issues of access.
Future of Learning Symposium, Purdue University
In spring 2022, I was invited to speak at Purdue University as part of a Future of Learning Symposium they were hosting in support of the classroom master planning initiative. The session I spoke at was focused on “Pollinating Open Space — Libraries, Innovation Centers, and Other Spaces for Cross-Disciplinary Discovery.” I centered my talk on Studio X and creating a space for cross-disciplinary experimentation, […]
CNI Digital Scholarship Planning Webinar
As part of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Digital Scholarship Planning Webinar Series, I presented a talk, “Beyond Tech: A Pedagogical Approach to Incorporating Digital Projects in the Classroom,” for a session on Initiatives for Teaching & Learning.
Digital Projects and Platforms
The Need In May 2020, I was approached by Joan Saab, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs at the University of Rochester. She was tasked with thinking about ways to help faculty prepare for the fall semester in the wake of the rapid shift to online learning that took place in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Faculty pivoted quickly to using Zoom and other online […]
IMLS Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Grant
Library Consortium Receives Grant to Support Data and Digital Literacy by: Matthew Cook, Sr. Communications Officer for Libraries and Collections, University Communications, University of Rochester, originally posted: Digital Scholarship Lab, 10 Jul 2019. Ninety percent of the world’s data is only two years old, and the tools, methods, and platforms to explore and use it are continually evolving. The overwhelming pace at which information and technology […]
Should Higher Education go Digital?
In early March 2019, I was asked to participate in an episode of the University of Rochester’s QuadCast, the university’s official podcast. The conversation was about being human in a digital world and the impact of the digital on higher ed. Jim Ver Steeg of University Communications, hosted the discussion with Joan Rubin, the Dexter Perkins Professor of History and the Ani and Mark Gabrellian […]
Behind the Curtain: The Collaborative Core of Digital Scholarship
In 2017, Bucknell University’s Library and Information Technology celebrates 20 years as a merged organization. In our fall edition of The Next Page, we look at ways that the merger has created opportunities for innovative work. As the head of the Digital Scholarship Program at Bucknell, I took the opportunity to reflect on the range of support and expertise offered by my colleagues across L&IT. While Digital […]
Digital Scene Books
At Bucknell University, Theatre 240 students traditionally compile Director’s Books for two projects during their semester: a short scene and then a longer production. As part of Library and Information Technology’s 2015 Beginning Digital Pedagogy workshop–a workshop that I created and ran–Professor Anjalee Hutchinson designed a template for her students to create their director’s books using WordPress. The template provides instructions and rubrics for each […]
Visual Literacies: Digital Essay
The documents for this digital essay assignment were created for a second year integrative perspectives course, UNIV200.09 “Visual Literacies in a Digital World.” The course was taught in the spring of 2016. Throughout this Integrative Perspectives course–taught by two faculty from different disciplines–students explored what it means to be a visually literate person in a digital age. In the second half of the semester, students created […]
Digital Art History
At Bucknell University as part of a Library and Information Technology Mellon Summer Curricular grant, Art History Professor Janice Mann worked with me to redesign her ARTH 373 “The West Encounters the Rest.” The class examined what happens to the visual arts when European cultures encounter those in other parts of the globe. Moving chronologically from the 15th to the early 20th century, ARTH373 explored how […]
Bot or Not: Digital Essay
The documents for this digital essay assignment were created for a first year composition course, ENGL101.05 “Bot or Not: Technology, Identity, Autonomy.” The course was taught in the fall of 2015. The digital essay assignment was based on Donna Haraway’s “Cyborg Manifesto” in which she argues that we are all cyborgs. After spending a week reading and discussing Haraway’s text, the students did an in class-writing exercise where […]
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