This interview with Patricia Laughlin, Illinois Tech's outgoing Vice President for Finance and Administration, was conducted on March 7, 2017... Show moreThis interview with Patricia Laughlin, Illinois Tech's outgoing Vice President for Finance and Administration, was conducted on March 7, 2017 by Ralph Pugh, and Adam Strohm. Show less
This interview with Leroy Kennedy, Illinois Tech's outgoing Vice President, Community Affairs and Outreach Programs, was conducted on... Show moreThis interview with Leroy Kennedy, Illinois Tech's outgoing Vice President, Community Affairs and Outreach Programs, was conducted on September 20, 2016 by Ralph Pugh, and Adam Strohm. Show less
This interview with Frances Bronet, outgoing Provost at Illinois Institute of Technology, was conducted in her office on December 12, 2017 by... Show moreThis interview with Frances Bronet, outgoing Provost at Illinois Institute of Technology, was conducted in her office on December 12, 2017 by Ralph Pugh and Adam Strohm. Show less
This interview with David Baker, Illinois Tech's Vice President for External Affairs, was conducted on September 14, 2016 by Ralph Pugh, and... Show moreThis interview with David Baker, Illinois Tech's Vice President for External Affairs, was conducted on September 14, 2016 by Ralph Pugh, and Adam Strohm. Show less
Presented at LibUX Chicago From Accessibility to Inclusion. Describes the importance of developing partnerships for supporting diverse user... Show morePresented at LibUX Chicago From Accessibility to Inclusion. Describes the importance of developing partnerships for supporting diverse user needs, including in the design of accessible learning objects. Show less
Presentation at ALA Annual, 2018. Libraries have long participated in cooperative collection development as a strategic way of spending funds... Show morePresentation at ALA Annual, 2018. Libraries have long participated in cooperative collection development as a strategic way of spending funds and sharing resources. Using established best practices for collaborative collection development as a foundation, this session will describe updated strategies for initiating and assessing simple but effective cooperative collection development projects that increase the number of unique titles that can be shared among libraries with minimal commitment. The strategies are applicable to any library setting.
Co-sponsored by RUSA CODES and the Social Responsibilities Round Table (SRRT) Show less
Logan Arcade is a new arcade-bar that opened just February 2014. It features over twenty-five pinball machines and forty-five vintage arcade... Show moreLogan Arcade is a new arcade-bar that opened just February 2014. It features over twenty-five pinball machines and forty-five vintage arcade-games. Owner Jim Zespy collects and restores arcade games, including those in the arcade. His collection started in 2009; he seeks out games from the mid-1970s through the present. He often buys broken arcade machines and fixes them. Any machine that couldn't be fixed is as spare parts to maintenance other arcade machines. Zespy chooses games to be placed in the arcade based on the games’ popularity with the general public. He first balanced all different eras, and placed different kinds of games to try to have a balance. Afterward he watched to see which games people gravitated to, then took out the games people didn't like and placed more popular games. Zespy’s daily concern is the maintenance of the arcade machines. Logan Arcade has its own Local Pinball League, for which the game changes every week. While the league has scoring, and there is some competition, it's meant to encourage participants to play different games, get to know them, and get to know other people. Some players have made major records in the Logan Arcade. These records are on games including Nibbler, Tron Ice Score, and Tetris. Show less
Logan Arcade is a new arcade-bar that opened just February 2014. It features over twenty-five pinball machines and forty-five vintage arcade... Show moreLogan Arcade is a new arcade-bar that opened just February 2014. It features over twenty-five pinball machines and forty-five vintage arcade-games. Owner Jim Zespy collects and restores arcade games, including those in the arcade. His collection started in 2009; he seeks out games from the mid-1970s through the present. He often buys broken arcade machines and fixes them. Any machine that couldn't be fixed is as spare parts to maintenance other arcade machines. Zespy chooses games to be placed in the arcade based on the games’ popularity with the general public. He first balanced all different eras, and placed different kinds of games to try to have a balance. Afterward he watched to see which games people gravitated to, then took out the games people didn't like and placed more popular games. Zespy’s daily concern is the maintenance of the arcade machines. Logan Arcade has its own Local Pinball League, for which the game changes every week. While the league has scoring, and there is some competition, it's meant to encourage participants to play different games, get to know them, and get to know other people. Some players have made major records in the Logan Arcade. These records are on games including Nibbler, Tron Ice Score, and Tetris. Show less
This poster, created by undergraduate students at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), details Karl Menger's 1926-discovered fractal... Show moreThis poster, created by undergraduate students at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), details Karl Menger's 1926-discovered fractal curve currently known as the Menger sponge. Menger is a former IIT faculty member. Show less