Collections and Research Engagement Projects
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Projects on this page represent a selection of the work of this department.
Voices of the Russell School
A multifaceted project that brought together members of the local community with the Libraries, the College of Education, and DELTA to present the history and voices of the Historic Russell School, a Rosenwald School built in 1926 in Durham County,…
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Collaboration with Non-Library Faculty, Learning Spaces & Services
PrideFest Exhibit for LGBTQ+ History Month
An immersive exhibit hosted by the NC State University LGBTQ Pride Center and the Libraries celebrating Pride by highlighting LGBTQ+ history, stories, media, advocacy and accomplishments.
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Visualization Spaces Development Kit for Unity Game Engine
Augmenting an industry-standard creative tool to better suit the needs of our students, instructors, researchers, and other campus creators in a one-of-a-kind Libraries space.
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Collaboration with Learning Spaces & Services
Wicked Problems, Wolfpack Solutions Open Course Library
We created a website to openly share presentations from the Wicked Problems, Wolfpack Solutions course with educators, prospective students and their families, alumni, and the general public.
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Collaboration with Acquisitions & Discovery
Beyond the Barricades, Reimagined
This project offers a reimagined visualization of anti-apartheid photography published during the heights of state brutality in South Africa. Utilizing the Visualization Studio at the Hill Library, viewers may wander in this digital exhibition to…
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Business Research Guide + Tiny Café
Students told us about their expectations regarding a business research guide. We also asked about how they conducted research for business-related class projects.
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In the Writing: Personal Letters of African American Leaders from the Mark E. Mitchell Collection
A pop-up exhibit displaying rare, personal letters of African American historical figures revealing their unknown interconnectedness and conveying that their "revolutions" were catalyzed not in solitude but collaboration.
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We conducted a survey in late 2016 and two focus groups in January 2017 to find out more about our patrons' online magazine reading habits and preferences, and their reactions to an online magazine platform.
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Exploring the Ethics of Autonomous Vehicles through Immersive Virtual Reality in the Cyma Rubin Visualization Gallery
The NC State University NeuroComputational Ethics Research Group (NCERG) and Libraries staff have combined experimental philosophy with immersive virtual reality technologies in the Cyma Rubin Visualization Gallery to capture research participants’…
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Collaboration with Learning Spaces & Services
Graphic Narratives: The Bayeux Embroidery as Visual History
Students experience the Bayeux Embroidery in life-sized digital replication on the walls of the Visualization Studio and analyze medieval visual narratives by applying Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics.
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Collaboration with Digital Library Initiatives (DLI)
Digital Field Trips: Viking Graffiti in Neolithic Orkney
History students experience Neolithic remains, transcribe and transliterate runic graffiti, and interpret graffiti in relation to its space and place. The use of an immersive environment brings alive the questions and theories of the anthropology of…
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The NC State University Libraries Textbook program is designed to reduce the burden of rising textbook costs on our student population, by purchasing and placing on reserve at least one copy of every required textbook at NC State. NC State…
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Collaboration with Access Services, Acquisitions & Discovery
Fermentology
Fermentology is a digital collection of written and media works about the culture, history, and science of fermented foods.
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Collaboration with Community Engagement
Virtual Martin Luther King, Jr. Project (vMLK)
The Virtual MLK Project is an immersive digital experience of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s "A Creative Protest (Fill Up the Jails)" speech which was delivered at White Rock Baptist Church in Durham, NC in February 1960. The project is…
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Collaboration with Community Engagement, Information Technology, Learning Spaces & Services, Open Knowledge CenterCollection Views
A tool created using collections data to help the Libraries understand how resource expenditures relates to subjects of relevence to different departments and colleges at NC State.
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The Backfiles Value Study used a calculated non-traditional Return on Investment (ROI) metric to demonstrate the impact of online journal archives purchased by NCSU Libraries. It evaluated the impact not only in terms of usage, but also in terms of…
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This project analyzed a twelve year series of print items in the NCSU Libraries collection to determine the proportion of items used by years in the collection and examined the correlation between an item's years in the collection and its…
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A tool to engage the campus community in decisions about cuts to the journal and database collection.
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