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Title: Interview with Sheri Rubin
Creator: Dammeier, Cole, Riley, Chris, Aynessazian, Jacob, Zaveri, Raj, Ludwig, Wes
Date: 2016-12-09, 2016-11-21
Description: Sheri Rubin was a quality assurance tester for Intelligent Technologies. As a tester, she would play the games for hours searching for odd...
Show moreSheri Rubin was a quality assurance tester for Intelligent Technologies. As a tester, she would play the games for hours searching for odd glitches and such. She played a major role in the development of some of the biggest games from the company, such as Big Buck Hunter and Golden Tee series. She got into the industry through volunteering at a card game company. Using this experience, she became interested in her friend’s work at Incredible Technologies. After finding a few flaws, her friend started asking her to try specific things. After a time, she was hired by the company as a quality assurance tester. She was eventually promoted to product support administrator, which included running the online tournament and managing the quality assurance testers. She later worked for High Voltage Software, where she helped develop and design games. She then started her own company, Design Direct Deliver. The company helps people with job searching and personal branding. She is still very active in the video game industry, spending time helping other game developers and volunteering for many organizations. She has been a member of the International Game Designer Association since 1999. She has been secretary in the past and was a board member from 2012 to 2014. She uses her status in the industry to support women in the field by leading special interest groups, or SIGs, such as Women in Games. She has spoken many times at Girls Who Code, a group that introduces women to computer coding. Additionally, she has volunteered for the American Red Cross and Girl Scouts. Sheri Rubin hopes that in the future, game developers learn to respect the coin-op industry, and learn from the mistakes she made. She feels that, too often, developers make the same mistakes others have made in the past. She also wants to inspire a new generation of game developers who continue making games. She wants to see more diversity in the video game industry, and works hard to make women accepted in the industry.
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Title: Interview with Sean Davis
Creator: Nguyen, Ricky, Chionglo, Jeremy, Otgontulga, Khashkhuu, Brekke, Eric, Castellanos, Christopher
Date: 2016-12-09, 2016-11-03
Description: Lucky Strike FTW (For the Win) arcade is a bowling alley and arcade located in downtown Chicago. With 130 games that give prizes every time, a...
Show moreLucky Strike FTW (For the Win) arcade is a bowling alley and arcade located in downtown Chicago. With 130 games that give prizes every time, a mini golf course, pool tables, and bowling, it has something for everyone. Featuring fresh made food developed by an in-house chef, private suites overlooking the Chicago skyline, and a variety of party options, it’s a great experience. In charge of all of this is Sean Davis, the Director of Operations at Lucky Strike FTW. Mr. Davis has meddled in all areas of the entertainment business throughout his career, including working as a cook, waiter, bartender, manager, and general manager. He first discovered that he loved working in the entertainment industry when working as a local Massachusetts pizza maker, whose venue housed several bar games like billiards and its own mini golf course. He studied business at Northeastern University, and went on to work at Jillian’s arcade around 1993 in Boston, which featured 52 pool tables, 200 games, and 70,000 square feet of restaurant space. Then, in 2011 he started working at FTW in Chicago. As Director of Operations, Mr. Davis checks on things like making sure the arcade is staffed, ensuring each department has what they need, ordering, scheduling, and generally makes sure that everything in his arcade runs smoothly from day to day. However, as he’ll tell you, “There’s always something going on, there’s always a catastrophe... It’s never ‘Hey everything’s great,’” citing a time when a nearby pipe burst and caused the entire floor to flood, as one extreme case. Mr. Davis plays the games in his arcade as often as possible (his favorite game being Silent Scope), and loves watching other people enjoy themselves. He has said that some of his best days at work are when they bring in groups of less fortunate or handicapped children and let them play and have fun to their heart’s desire. Davis says that FTW is really a place for everyone. The arcade uses large cabinets and displays so that even adults can feel like a kid again when standing in front of the big games, part of the appeal to going to the arcade. “We serve great food, great beer. It really is like the total package. And it’s geared more towards adults than it is kids, because we do have a lot of adults saying, ‘Hey we’re going to bring our kids here,’ and they have their birthday parties here and kids love it. Typically the bigger arcades are more designed for kids and they have to bring their parents, and so we said well why don’t we make it for the parents, and they have to bring their kids. It seems to be working out.”
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Title: Interview with Patricia Laughlin
Creator: Illinois Institute of Technology. University Archives and Special Collections
Date: 3/7/2017
Description: 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.
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Title: Interview With Leroy Kennedy
Creator: Illinois Institute of Technology. University Archives and Special Collections
Date: 9/20/2016
Description: 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.
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Title: Interview with Frances Bronet
Creator: Illinois Institute of Technology. University Archives and Special Collections
Date: 12/12/2017
Description: 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.
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Title: Interview With David Baker
Creator: Illinois Institute of Technology. University Archives and Special Collections
Date: 9/4/2016
Description: 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.
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Title: Bringing It All Together: Integrating Text, Audio, Metadata, GIS, and Scholarly Criticism in a Holocaust Oral History Archive
Creator: English, Eben
Date: 2009

Title: Bringing It All Together: Integrating Text, Audio, Metadata, GIS, and Scholarly Criticism in a Holocaust Oral History Archive (Poster)
Creator: English, Eben
Date: 2009

Title: Bringing It All Together: Integrating Text, Audio, Metadata, GIS, and Scholarly Criticism in a Holocaust Oral History Archive (Text)
Creator: English, Eben
Date: 2009
Collection: 2009 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS)

Title: Voices of the Holocaust: A Collection of Interviews with Displaced Persons Recorded by Dr. David Boder in the Aftermath of World War II
Creator: Pugh, Ralph, English, Eben
Date: 2009
Description: Presentation to Northwestern University about the Voices of the Holocaust project.

Title: Remarks to the Board of Trustees
Creator: Mitchell, M. Ellen
Date: 2009
Description: Presentation notes for remarks to the Board of Trustees regarding the Voices of the Holocaust project.

Title: Voices of the Holocaust: Interviews with Displaced Persons Recorded by Dr. David Boder in the Aftermath of World War II
Creator: Stewart, Christopher, English, Eben, Pugh, Ralph
Description: Presentation to the Spertus Institute about the Voices of the Holocaust project.

Title: Voices of the Holocaust: A Collection of Interviews with Displaced Persons Recorded by Dr. David Boder in the Aftermath of World War II
Creator: Stewart, Christopher, English, Eben, Pugh, Ralph
Date: 2009
Description: Presentation to the Association of Jewish Libraries about the Voices of the Holocaust project.

Title: Creating partnerships and mapping events
Creator: Shotick, Kimberly
Date: 6/23/2019
Description: Presentation at ALA Annual 2019.
Collection: ALA Annual 2019 Panel: Stay on Target!: Stellar practices for strategic outreach through collaborations, marketing, and peer leaders

Title: Building accessibility partnerships
Creator: Shotick, Kimberly
Date: 7/23/2018
Description: 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.
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Collection: LibUX Chicago

Title: Collaborative Collection Development: Increasing Equity in Times of Austerity
Creator: Shotick, Kimberly, McGuigan, Niamh
Date: 6/24/2018
Description: 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)
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Title: From in-person to webinar
Creator: Jakubas, Andrea
Date: 6/26/2019
Description: Slides used at the IIT Libraries 2019 Mini Conference.

Title: Metadata Librarian's Little Helper: OpenRefine Reconciliation Services
Creator: Martin, Greer
Date: 2017-01-22
Description: Presentation for ALCTS Metadata Interest Group Meeting, American Libraries Association Midwinter Meeting, Atlanta, 22 January 2017
Collection: American Libraries Association Midwinter Meeting 2017

Title: Interview with Jim Zespy: Photos
Creator: Barker, Thomas, Mei, Wei Shao, Elgin, Tobias, Mayorga, Ariana, Moy, Brian
Date: 2014-11-21, 2014-11-21
Description: 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.
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