In a year of many firsts, this summer saw RUL’s first Summer SAPAC talk series. After a discussion in the Spring Central Forum, SAPAC co-chairs Janet Croft and Bart Everts decided to send out a call for summer talks. SAPAC talks are a way for library faculty and staff to discuss research, programming, innovations, and more with a friendly audience of colleagues, and Summer SAPAC turnout was high. Bart Everts from the Robeson Library hosted the talks.
6/9: A Modest Proposal: Trusted Pick-Up Points for Interlibrary Loan for Distant Users
Janet Brennan Croft
6/23 An Environmental Scan of Artists’ Book Collections: An Ontology for Visualization
Sonia Yaco
7/22 Digital Badging
Grace Agnew, Mei Ling Lo, Ryan Womack
8/11 The Library Freedom Institute: Becoming a Privacy Advocate
Katie Anderson
8/14 Closing the Transactional Distance in an Online Graduate Course through the Practice of Embedded Librarianship
Leslin H. Charles
8/18 “Agitation of the Question”: James McCune Smith’s Nomination for Fellowship to the New York Academy of Medicine, 1847
Robert Vietrogoski
8/25 From Digital to Computational: The Current and Near-Future State of Technology and Data Storage and How We Manage our Virtual Lives
Isaiah Beard