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Erica Ervin showing students how to apply a design to a pencil case.
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  • Paige J Lemmon
Shapiro Design Day
The Library Ambassadors collaborated with the Design Lab to hold a Design Day event.
Student Stories
A screen shot of random files in a My Documents window, including PDF and Microsoft Word files.
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  • Lance Thomas Stuchell
A New Normal: Our Decision to Migrate DOC and DOCX Files
The thinking behind our decision to normalize files associated with the Microsoft Word program to the PDF/A-2u format for access and preservation purposes, and a brief overview of the migration process.
Bits and Pieces
Cover features a woman standing in front of an ancient Egyptian ruin, with trees on either side and crocodiles below her
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  • Vicki J Kondelik
What the River Knows by Isabel Ibañez
What the River Knows is a thrilling historical fantasy set in a version of 19th century Egypt where ancient magic exists. After her parents' deaths, the heroine, Inez Olivera, travels from Argentina to Egypt to discover what happened to them. Her last gift from her father was a golden ring, supposedly from the tomb of Cleopatra, with magic attached to it. Inez can sense the magic even after the ring is stolen from her, and she hopes it will lead her to Cleopatra's tomb. On the way, she meets Whit, her archaeologist uncle's assistant, and finds herself both annoyed by and attracted to him. They must work together to find the tomb, and what happened to Inez's parents.
Lost in the Stacks
conservator in lab with hands extended over pages from a rare book in a treatment bath
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  • Marieka Kaye
Conservation Close-up
Join us this Thursday, March 19th, between 4-6p for our next Third Thursdays at the Library event of the semester featuring conservation work!
Beyond the Reading Room
Four black 3D printed brain matrices standing vertically on a wooden table. Each matrix is a rectangle, and on the long side (the "top") has a divot with several small stripes for blades to slide through to cut the brain into slices.
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  • Boxin Zhang
3D Printed Brain Slicing Matrix Project
Brain slicing matrix for mouse brain experiments.
Lab Notes
A 3D printed rose. The petals of the rose are red, and the leaves underneath are green - the petals sit on top of the leaves.
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  • Jakob Gundersen
3D printed Rose Tea Light
3D printed Rose flower with a tea light base.
Lab Notes
The hem of a sweater being held up to the camera. The sweater is dark gray with a light gray stripe on top of the dark grey ribbed knit. Above the light gray stripe is an embroidered cutout of a red pikmin (a small bipedal video game character with a white flower on its head)
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  • Theo Spitler
Sewing Station - Sweater Mending with Pikmin
Mending a sweater using reused Pikmin embroidery in the hole.
Lab Notes
A chunky gray and dark-blue blanket being woven on a 3D printed loom set. The loom set is a long row of pegs, printed in pieces - some are lime green, and some are dark blue.
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  • Barbara M Stanny
Turning Clearance Yarn into Campus Creativity: A Blanket Saga in SBAR Format
3D Printing a loom for a blanket project.
Lab Notes
A 3D printed blue and purple earring holder. The holder is a flat, circular plate with scalloped edge (like a flower) with a grid of holes in the middle to place earring studs.
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  • Tasmine Clement
3D Printed Earring Holder
3D printed travel-sized earring holder.
Lab Notes
A white 3D printed figurine of Princess Leia from Star Wars. She is wearing the slave outfit (bikini and skirt) from the beginning of Return of the Jedi, with her hair in a bun. The statue is on a table in front of a blue carpet and a row of windows.
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  • Andrea Carolina Osteicoechea
3D Printed Star Wars Figurine
3D printed Star Wars figurine as a gift.
Lab Notes