Category: Projects and Processes
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International Area Studies Team discusses the globalization of Emory Libraries
When buying a book, the best practice is often to actually look at the book first…even if it means going half way around the world. Last week, Emory Libraries’ International Area Studies Team presented at the InfoForum. Over the past year, members of this team travelled to Argentina, China, India, Japan, Mexico, and Spain on…
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Virtual reality research may change the way we teach and learn
Earlier this year, Arya Basu, a visual information specialist working in the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS), conducted a virtual reality (VR) experiment in the Woodruff Library that led to some fascinating hypotheses about the future of education. Arya believes his results suggest that VR should be the classroom of the future. In the experiment, users…
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Rosalyn Metz selected to attend a senior library cohort at UCLA
Rosalyn Metz, Emory’s director of library technologies and digital strategies, was recently selected to join a group of 17 top academic library directors to be Library Senior Fellows at UCLA for fall 2018. This international cohort of leaders will travel to UCLA in August for a three-week residential program featuring lectures, guest speakers, case studies,…
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Important change coming to on-campus use of the VPN
An important change is coming this month to Duo two-factor authentication and VPN usage. Prior to the roll out of Duo, LITS required RSA two-factor authentication for VPN access to certain protected Emory network cores. This was true regardless of whether one was connecting to the VPN from off campus or not. When Emory switched…
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InfoForums to get a facelift based on user feedback
The Campus and Community Relations (CCR) department recently conducted a user survey regarding the InfoForums, Emory Libraries’ employee information seminar. As a result of the outstanding feedback we received, the InfoForums are being re-introduced this month with a new look and feel. Re-envisioned as a part of an overarching LITS-wide communication plan, the InfoForums will…
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OnBase information platform team to offer new training
OnBase by Hyland Software is an information platform that centralizes important documents and business content into one secure location, which allows for safe access from anywhere via mobile and web clients. The platform provides the ability to create solutions across many business practices and departments, which at Emory currently includes Accounts Payable, Human Resources, Clinical Research,…
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It’s a makeover for MAKEmory@TechLab at Student Digital Life…Meta-more-phosis?
In a space where things are imagined, imaged and built (sometimes repeatedly as designs are tweaked), it’s easy to reach the saturation mark where finding places to put things can become overwhelming. There is a need for organization, a plan to fit the space and then the space must be able to continue to evolve…