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Acrl New England Scholarly Communication Special Interest Group Workshop: Open Access And Scholarly Societies: A Panel Discussion About The Opportunities And Challenges, Andrée J. Rathemacher

Technical Services Department Faculty Publications

This report covers a workshop held by the Scholarly Communications Interest Group of the Association of College and Research Libraries New England Chapter (ACRL/NEC), an independent chapter of ACRL. The workshop, titled "Open Access and Scholarly Societies: A Panel Discussion About the Opportunities and Challenges," took place on November 18, 2011, at the Hoagland-Pincus Conference Center in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts.

Michelino: A Gay Short Story, Michael C. Vocino

Technical Services Department Faculty Publications

A chapter, a gay short story, about a central character in an as yet unpublished novel.

Rhode Island Current Conditions Index — December 2011, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

No abstract provided.

New York: An Analysis Of Current Changes In Party Support, Kerianne E. Kane

Senior Honors Projects

This paper is an analysis of the recent changes in party support throughout the state of New York. Based on research by James Gimpel and Jason Schuknecht in their 2004 book “Patchwork Nation,” the focus is on determining which specific factors have been contributing to the shifts in support for the two major parties in key regions of the state. In particular, migration and immigration as well as demographic changes within New York’s electorate are considered. More importantly, economic changes within the state and the effects they have had on party support are examined as well. My research is based …

Alone In The Trenches: An Evening With Esera Tuaolo Event Flyer 2011, Joseph A. Santiago, Keith Labelle

Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer Center

Come hear Esera Tuaolo's searing story of terror and hope on Monday, November 28, 2011 at 7:30 PM in Edwards Hall Auditorium. Tuaolo, a Samoan raised on a Hawaiian banana plantation, had a natural talent, football. He went on to play for five NFL teams: the Green Bay Packers, the Minnesota Vikings, the Jacksonville Jaguars, the Carolina Panthers, and the Atlanta Falcons in the 1999 Super Bowl. But for the nine years he played professional football he lived in terror that when his face flashed upon the TV screen, someone would divulge his darkest secret. Esera Tuaolo is gay. …

Using The Cloud For Collaboration And Productivity, Amanda Izenstark

Public Services Faculty Presentations

Slides from a presentation, "Using the Cloud for Collaboration and Productivity" offered as part of the Rhode Island Library Association Program Technologies in Libraries: Today's Cutting Edge Services, at the Robert L. Carothers Library & Learning Commons, Kingston, RI, November 28, 2011

Creating Blended Environments That Connect Classroom To Community, Joseph A. Santiago

Office of Community, Equity, & Diversity

Creating Blended Environments That Connect Classroom to Community

Objective: To outline a blended environment model linking multiple systems, departments, and people together, that can be easily integrated into the culture of how we already live, work, and learn. Further, this model seeks to highlight mechanisms within said blended environment that would support students who might feel isolated or disconnected when they first get to URI.

Creating Blended Environments That Connect Classroom to Community; Creating Blended Environments That Connect Classroom to Community; Objective; To outline a blended environment model linking multiple systems, departments, and people together, that can be easily integrated …

Need Exceeds Space: A Serials Withdrawal Project At The University Of Rhode Island University Libraries, Brian T. Gallagher, Andrée J. Rathemacher

Public Services Faculty Publications

In 2009, the University of Rhode Island’s main library, the Robert L. Carothers Library and Learning Commons in Kingston, initiated a pilot serials withdrawal project when the need for space for new services exceeded the space available in the library. A joint venture between Acquisitions and Access Services, the successful pilot led to a subsequent withdrawal project in summer 2010 to free additional space in the library. The print journals targeted for withdrawal were ones to which the library had online access through licensed journal archives. Considerations on what to withdraw, the process of identifying titles for withdrawal, and the …

Library Impact Statement For Eec 497 Internship In Environmental Economics, Andrée J. Rathemacher

Library Impact Statements

Library Impact Statement submitted in response to new course proposal for EEC 497 Internship in Environmental Economics. New course was supported iwth no need for additional resources. Responding library faculty member: Andree J. Rathemacher. Requestion faculty member: Emi Uchida

3 G Diversity Summit, Joseph A. Santiago, Trip Hutchinson, Joe Mercadante, Kevin Cruz, Dana Speesler, Brian Sit, Marquel Wright, Ryan Vignean, Alex Papa

Office of Community, Equity, & Diversity

The 3G Summit sought to bring students together from multiple Universities to create collaboration across diversity groups in the New England area. The I Am U URI group put a call out to new members to work across Universities on collaborative goals.

The summit was designed to accomplish 3 goals. Get people from multiple Universities to come together and talk about their experiences. Brainstorm things that everyone wants to work on. Establish contact information and ways to work together.

This Summit was sponsored by HRL and the GLBT Center. Audio from this event can be streamed directly from this page.

Where’S My Journal: Open Access And Digital Repositories, Andrée J. Rathemacher

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

Presentation slides for the breakout session "Where’s My Journal: Open Access and Digital Repositories" at the 2020 Vision: The Future of URI Library Services Forum, University of Rhode Island Memorial Union, Kingston, RI. November 4, 2011.

And They Were There: Reports Of Meetings — 30th Annual Charleston Conference. Creating A Mega Technical Services Department From Smaller Departments, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Department Faculty Publications

Brief summary of a session at the 30th Annual Charleston Conference, held in Charleston, S.C. in November 2010.

Library Impact Statement For Csc 523 Advanced Intrusion Detection And Defense, Amanda Izenstark

Library Impact Statements

Library Impact Statement for CSC 523 Advanced Intrusion Detection and Defense. No new library resources are required to support this course.

Rhode Island Current Conditions Index — November 2011, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

No abstract provided.

Acrl Peer Comparison For University Of Rhode Island Libraries, 2006-2010, Andree J. Rathemacher

University Libraries Reports & Statistics

Comparison of the University of Rhode Island Libraries with peer institutions (as defined by the University's Office of Institutional Research). Data used are from the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Statistical Survey from the years 2006-2010. Metrics compared are: total library expenditures, total library materials expenditures, current serials expenditures, monographs expenditures, current serial subscriptions, number of monographic volumes purchased, salaries & wages professional staff, salaries & wages support staff, professional staff (fte), support staff (fte), and total library materials resource expenditures per student FTE.

Establishing A Gifted & Talented Center Within The Uri Honors Program, Joseph A. Santiago

Student Affairs Digital Community Development

Objective: To establish a Gifted and Talented Program that is linked with the Honors Department at URI to attract, support, and challenge individuals on the Kingston Campus. This program would work as Living Learning Community with students who elect to be live on campus together and give an opportunity for students living off campus to work collaboratively in a creative and supportive environment beyond the classroom. The targeted population for this program would be those individuals coming in from high schools and/or from other University programs.

Uri Glbt Center Halloween Party Flyer 2011, Joseph A. Santiago

Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer Center

This post contains the URI GLBT Center Halloween Party Flyer for 2011.

Robby : A Gay Short Story, Michael C. Vocino

Technical Services Department Faculty Publications

A gay short story dealing with gay life, culture in the 1970s and 1980s and how one reluctant individual deals with his sexuality.

2011-10-11 Library Impact Statement For Ocg 515 Marine Environmental Organic Chemistry, Joanna M. Burkhardt

Library Impact Statements

Library Impact Statement submitted in response to new course proposal for OCG 515 Marine Environmental Organic Chemistry. New course was supported with no need for additional resources.

Re-Imagining The Digitalcommons Collections At The University Of Rhode Island: Innovative Approaches Using Technology To Advance The Student Experience, Joseph A. Santiago

Student Affairs Digital Community Development

Proposal Application for 2012 Innovative Approaches Using Technology to Advance the Student Experience. This proposal outlines a plan to utilize the DigitalCommons Collection as a unifying platform that can be the vehicle for community scholarship, creativity, and outreach. This article communicates a strategy to connect the URI community through multiple points of access and create a blended environment in which all people may share and learn from each other.

A rough draft of the proposal has been included demonstrating a slightly different interface and the beginnings of the writing process.

2011-10-07 Library Impact Statement For Neu 501, Joanna Burkhardt

Library Impact Statements

Library Impact Statement submitted in response to new course proposal for NEU 501. New course was supported with no need for additional resources. Responding library faculty member: Joanna M. Burkhardt. Requesting faculty member: Gabrielle Kass-Simon

Diversity Week 2011 - Out Of Diversity We Speak, Multicultural Center

Multicultural Center

Out of Diversity: We Speak.

Dr. Jody Lisberger, Director, and Assistant Professor, Women’s Studies; Dr. Robert Carothers, Academic Affairs; Dr. Adam Roth, Communication Studies; Dr. Ian Reyes, Communication Studies; Dr. Mercedes Rivero Hudec, Chemical Engineering; Dr. Jeremiah Dyehouse, Writing & Rhetoric; and students who will be speaking about their lives, in relation to diversity. Students and faculty rarely find time to engage each other around the arts and share the value of their individual and collective lives. This reading of expressive writing from four culturally diverse faculty and four students will reveal the influences of our diverse ways of being …

Uri Lgbtq Community To Screen It Gets Better At Uri: Coming Out For Change Video 2011, Joseph A. Santiago

Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer Center

This is the press release for the It Gets Better At URI: Coming Out for Change video screening in 2011.

Diversity Week 2011 - From Combat To Classroom—Students Who Serve, Multicultural Center

Multicultural Center

From Combat to Classroom—Students Who Serve.

Christine Dolan, Education Specialist II, Education; Nancy Kelley, Assistant Dean, College of Human Science and Services; and Daniel Ustick, Advisor, Career Services. Accustomed to a strict, rule-bound system, student veterans face unusual challenges in their transition from the rigorous regimen of a soldier to the more self-directed environment of a college student. The transition to college is often complicated when student veterans have experienced the trauma of war, or acculturation to another country. In this workshop, a panel of student veterans discusses the challenges faced when re-integrating themselves into civilian and campus life. …

Diversity Week 2011 - The Lgbt Community In The Workplace: Status Of Legal And Organizational Policies, Joseph A. Santiago, Multicultural Center

Multicultural Center

The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community in the Workplace: The Current Status of Legal and Organizational Policies. Atty. Martha Holt, Privacy and Security Officer, Blue Cross and Blue Shield; Bryan Schneidmuller, Manager, Human Resources, Raytheon; and Joe Santiago, Coordinator, LGBT Programs and Services. Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people (LGBT) face many challenges in having their sexual orientation respected in the workplace. Although President Bill Clinton, in 1998, issued Executive Order 13087, prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation for most civilian workers in the federal legislation, protecting LGBT workers has not been successfully enacted by the U.S. Congress. The …

Library Impact Statement For Ocg 683 Air-Sea Interaction, Michael Vocino

Library Impact Statements

Library Impact Statement submitted in response to new course proposal for OCG 683 Air-Sea Interaction. New course was supported with no need for additional resources.

Rhode Island Current Conditions Index — October 2011, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

No abstract provided.

Library Impact Statement For Mls 496 Global Health, Michael Cerbo

Library Impact Statements

Library Impact Statement in response to new course proposal for MLS 496 Global Health. New course was supported with no need for additional resources.

Library Impact Statement For Mls 572 Vaccines And Biologics, Michael Cerbo

Library Impact Statements

Library Impact Statement in response to new course proposal for MLS 572 Vaccines and Biologics. New course was supported with no need for additional resources.

Library Impact Statement For Mls 573 Molecular Biology Methods, Michael Cerbo

Library Impact Statements

Library Impact Statement in response to new course proposal for MLS 573 Molecular Biology Methods. New course was supported with no need for additional resources.