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By: Library Staff
Register now to take advantage of DELTA’s teaching and learning with technologies workshops and seminars this summer!
This summer is filled with opportunities to
learn about the latest in Moodle 2,
explore pedagogical strategies for synchronous learning,
find out what’s coming for Mediasite, and
discover the essentials for legal considerations and social media in higher education.
To see a complete list of offerings and secure your spot, visit delta.ncsu.edu/workshops.
By: David Hiscoe
When: 1 a.m., during final exams (except for Saturday and Sunday mornings) Long after the cafes have closed for the night, the Friends of the Library will be providing free coffee, donuts, and more in the lobbies of the D. H. Hill Library and the Hunt Library throughout final examinations (except for Saturday and Sunday mornings).
So put down the books for a few moments, take a deep breath or two, and meet us at 1 a.m. to throw off the stress and boost up the energy
Thanks to University Dining for providing the coffee.
By: David Hiscoe
The Boston Globe’s “Travel” section chooses the Hunt Library as one of the nation’s “5 novel libraries.”
By: David Hiscoe
As North Carolina State University officially dedicated the new James B. Hunt Jr. Library on April 3, 2013, the NCSU Libraries also formally launched another iconic project, the Student Leadership Initiative. The website uses video oral histories, photographs, and other documents to chronicle the experiences and impact of individuals whose formative time at NC State shaped their subsequent careers and whose memories provide a valuable and interesting window into the period in which they helped shape the university.
William Aycock (Student Body President [SBP], 1935-36) explains what it was like at NC State at the height of the Great Depression and how his generation prepared itself for combat in Europe. William Friday (Senior Class President, 1941, and later the president of the University of North Carolina system for thirty years) recalls the atmosphere on campus on the day Pearl Harbor was attacked.
Four-time North Carolina governor James B. Hunt, Jr. (SBP, 1957-59) pays homage to the respected faculty who shaped his political thinking and remembers realizing at this critical point in his life how the political system could play a role in improving citizens’ lives. Eric Moore (Student Senate President, 1970) describes what campus life was like for African American students in the late 1960s, while Cathy Sterling reflects on being the first woman to serve as NC State’s Student Body President (1970-71).
Returning to campus after two years of service in the Vietnam War to see the student newspaper earnestly in debate over what types of sandwiches should be 
served in the cafeteria, Terry Carroll (SBP, 1973-74) found an atmosphere of complacency that “put a fire in [his] gut” and inspired his own attempts to awaken fellow students to what he saw as “a world on fire.” “I met a whole fleet of people . . . and between us all someone is going to change the world . . . and owe it to NC State,” concludes Greg Doucette (Student Senate President, 2009, and UNC Association of Student Government President, 2008-10).
After leaving NC State, the students profiled in the project went on to a wide variety of distinguished careers as governors, legislators, educators, business entrepreneurs, as well as leadership roles in the medical, banking, computing, and legal professions.
The Student Leadership Initiative currently highlights more than 130 former student leaders and provides engaging video interviews with over 30 who share memories of their experiences on campus. Their stories encourage present-day students to connect to the past, alumni to put their own time at NC State into perspective, and scholars to access a collection of oral histories that help tell the story of North Carolina and NC State University for almost ninety years.
The project will add new profiles as research continues and is also available as a multimedia presentation on the large-scale visualization display in the iPearl Immersion Theater in the Hunt Library.
By: David Hiscoe
The James B. Hunt Jr. Library was honored with the Non-Residential Green Design Award by the City of Raleigh at its sixth annual Environmental Awards celebration Monday evening, April 22. The library was praised “for its sustainable design and technology that reduces energy use by 31 percent.” The ceremony was held in the Nature Research Center wing of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. More than 250 people attended, leaving standing-room only.
The library is expected to receive LEED Silver certification, making it the fourth LEED certified building on campus. See the Hunt Library sustainability site for more information about how the Hunt Library represents NC State’s commitment to leading by example in advancing sustainability as a moral imperative and as an economic advantage.
By: Chuck Samuels
Matt Ratto, University of Toronto
On May 9, 2013, Matt Ratto, Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto, will present his talk “Why Johnny Can’t Read (an iPhone): Literacy, Maker Spaces, and the Modern Library,” as the featured speaker at the NCSU Libraries’ I.T. Littleton Seminar. The seminar will be held at 2:00 p.m. in the Auditorium at the James B. Hunt Jr. Library on NC State’s Centennial Campus.
Ratto will explore how new technologies are dominating the educational landscape and transforming how people experience, share, and communicate about the world. Educational institutions and libraries are grappling with how to incorporate and provide access to these technologies, while addressing their critical issues and problems. Ratto suggests that the ‘maker movement’ presents an opportunity for these institutions to engage and promote a socio-technical literacy that emphasizes not just technical skills, but individuals’ ability to make sense of the sociality of these new technologies.
Matt Ratto is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto and Director of the Semaphore research cluster on Inclusive Design, Mobile and Pervasive Computing. He also leads ThingTank Lab, a non-profit lab space and research project examining and designing the Internet of Things. Matt’s research examines how hands-on productive work – making – can supplement and extend critical reflection on the relations between digital technologies and society. This work builds upon the new possibilities offered by open source software and hardware, as well as the developing technologies of 3D printing and rapid prototyping. These technologies and the social collectives that create, use, and share them provide the context for exploring the relationship between ‘critical making’ and ‘critical thinking.’
The annual I. T. Littleton Seminar is funded by an endowment established in 1987 to explore key issues in the development of academic libraries and to honor former Library Director Littleton upon his retirement from NC State. The Libraries welcomes your continued support of the I. T. Littleton Seminar series. If you would like to make a contribution to support future seminars, please send your check, payable to the Friends of the Library, to: Friends of the Library, NCSU Libraries, Box 7111, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7111. Please note I. T. Littleton Seminar Endowment on your check. For more information, please call (919) 515-7315.
By: libstaff
Looking for an opportunity to discuss the latest popular books with some of the smartest people around (your friends and North Carolina State University’s most engaged scholars)?
NCSU Libraries and Wake County Public Libraries teamed up to make that easy with READ SMART, a series of informal discussions moderated by members of NC State’s faculty.
READ SMART is free and open to the public and is sponsored by Friends of the Library of North Carolina State University. All discussions are held at the Cameron Village Regional Library, 1930 Clark Avenue, Raleigh, NC 27605. For more information, please call 919-513-3481.
Upcoming programs:
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Thursday, May 16 at 7:00 p.m. Book discussion of Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo (winner of the 2012 National Book Award for non-fiction) Moderated by Dr. Sandria Freitag, assistant professor in the Department of History, NC State “. . quite simply, one of the finest works on contemporary India yet written.” (The Telegraph UK) |
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Thursday, August 8 at 7:00 p.m. Book discussion of Salt Sugar Fat by Michael Moss moderated by Dr. Allen Foegeding, professor of Food, Bioprocessing & Nutrition Sciences at NC State From a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter at The New York Times comes the explosive story of the rise of the processed food industry and its link to the emerging obesity epidemic. Michael Moss reveals how companies use salt, sugar, and fat to addict us and, more important, how we can fight back. |
By: David Hiscoe
Students, faculty, staff, and members of the community are invited to attend the following talks with our corporate partners in the Fishbowl, which can be found on Level 4 at the top of the yellow stairs.
We are offering many sessions to choose from, so if you miss one come back for the next! This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Computer Science.
By: David Hiscoe
News 14 Carolina profiles the new Hunt Library, a space that Chancellor Randy Woodson explains in the piece 
“is about innovation. It’s about transformation and it’s about economic development.”
By: David Hiscoe
The official magazine of the American Institute of Architects says that Snøhetta and the NCSU Libraries “set a new benchmark for technologically-sophisticated collaborative learning spaces with the design of the new Hunt Library.”
