The Leatherby Libraries will be hosting an exclusive Virtual Reality Showcase for Rinker Faculty on Friday, February 23, 2024, for Rinker Campus Faculty at Building 9401, Room 180 at the Rinker Campus. Take a first look at the Meta Quest Pro VR Headsets during these hands-on workshops hosted by our Health Sciences Librarians. There will
The Leatherby Libraries is pleased to offer access to Current Protocols, the most extensive interdisciplinary collection of peer-reviewed, authoritative, and regularly updated step-by-step research techniques and procedures available. Current Protocols provides over 25,000 step-by-step instructions, techniques, procedures, and practical overviews of reliable, efficient methods that ensure reproducible results for scientific discovery. Topics covered include cell
The Leatherby Libraries is pleased to offer access to Rock’s Backpages. This resource is an online database of popular music writing and journalism that contains primary-source full-text articles from the music and mainstream press from the 1950s to the present day, along with a collection of exclusive audio interviews. For more information, please contact Chair
The Leatherby Libraries is pleased to offer access to Voting Rights & Election Law from Hein Online. This database includes thousands of titles on the electoral process dating back to the late seventeenth century: how elections are conducted, how votes are counted, how political campaigns are run and funded, and who is allowed to vote.
Introducing Presentation Studio, the newest technology upgrade at the Leatherby Libraries! Our Presentation Studio is a state-of-the-art room, custom-designed to provide a private area to record high-quality presentations. This room has been created to include acoustic wall panels, blackout shades, and dimmable lighting to give presenters control over how they want their presentation recording to
The Leatherby Libraries is pleased to offer access to the CQ Voting and Elections Collection. This database contains data, authoritative analyses, concise explanations, and historical material relating to major and minor political parties, campaigns and elections, and historical and modern races for Congress, the presidency, and governorships dating back to 1789. With the Compare Data
The library’s Health Sciences Librarian, David Carson, will lead an online workshop on Friday, November 10, 2023, from 11:00 – 11:45 a.m. to inform students, staff, and faculty about WorldCat and Interlibrary Loans as resources that can expand their research capabilities. Attendees will learn how to use WorldCat, a global library catalog that allows users to search
The Leatherby Libraries is pleased to offer access to Statista. Statista provides access to statistics, reports, and insights on over 80,000 topics from 22,500 sources in 170 industries, including commerce, artificial intelligence, sustainability, and more. This online data platform gathers and provides visualization of data from 190+ countries, allowing students and faculty to begin designing research
The Leatherby Libraries is gearing up to celebrate Open Access Week, an annual week-long event promoting free and open access to online academic resources, including published academic journals. This year, Open Access Week is from October 23 to October 29, 2023. The Leatherby Libraries is pleased to offer various open-access (OA) publishing options, including read-and-publish agreements and
The Leatherby Libraries, in collaboration with the Research Computing Team, are introducing a new Artificial Intelligence (AI) Workshop series to inform faculty about the challenges and benefits of working with generative AI tools in the classroom. First Workshop: “AI & Research: Strengths and Limitations of Generative AI,” will take place on Tuesday, November 7, at