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August 2018, Issue 1

Little Manila Recreated

by Joshua Salyers
The Digital Delta Project started as a grant to embed digital humanities projects into history department classrooms, but the showcase of the initiative is the competitive interdisciplinary Summer Fellowship.
 
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Hackathon

by Brenda Carillo
On July 16th- 18th, the Pacific Library hosted the 3rd Annual SCELC eResources Hackfest. SCELC, is the Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium, which helps support libraries in acquiring, licensing and managing of databases. 
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Ask Us Desk

by Cassie Etter

Take a walk through the library lobby, and the change is obvious. Front and center is the desk with an Ask Us banner affixed to the front and a friendly face sitting behind.

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Electronic Theses and Dissertations

by Michele Gibney

Starting in the Summer of 2017, the University Libraries worked with the Graduate School to set up the institutional repository, Scholarly Commons for publishing electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) submitted to ProQuest.

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DID YOU KNOW?


Most of the equipment in the Cube has been purchased using monies from external sources. We recently received $2,700 from a donor, which will help fund a 3D printer. Earlier this year we secured $13,400 from the Technology in Education grant that helped us fund more than 14 Virtual Reality systems.

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STATISTICS


Scholarly Commons
• 159,065 downloads and counting

Link+
• 1,760+ books loaned out to California & Nevada libraries
• 419 users

Kanopy 
• 33,761+ minutes of videos watched

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