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Hello I'm Kari Horowicz the librarian for the College of Art and Design. Welcome! This is a second session in the Level Up Virtual series.
Level Up Virtual is a series of short presentations aimed at highlighting various library resources, tools, potential uses and expertise,
that can potentially help. We are currently in virtual mode and you can find recordings and resources on the infoguide at infoguides with
an "S".RIT.edu forward slash LUV (infoguides.rit.edu/LUV). OK, now i'm going to share my screen to present to you all.
Where is your library? So we're going to discover Wallace on Ice our new temporary location,
but we have a couple different places that we're living -
the whole RIT libraries, and I want to talk about that briefly. So the RIT libraries is in a variety of locations now for approximately two
years due to the construction of the Student Hall for Exploration and Development, called the SHED. So, we have essentially four locations.
or four collections in three locations -- there's the Wallace on Ice in Ritter Arena; there's our Offsite collections and then we have our RIT Archives
and Cary Graphic Arts Collections.
which are relocated in the Wallace library on the west end of the second floor. I'm going to talk & show you just a brief few visuals so you
get a sense of what's going on.
So Wallace on Ice is really what the focus of this presentation is going to be on, but it is in the Ritter Arena and I'm going to be showing
you how to get there and what services are available and collections are available there.
The other areas the Offsite collections and it is not available for browsing but it's very,
very accessible and i'll talk about that briefly in a little bit.
And then the RIT Archives and the Cary Graphic Arts Collection are still here in the Wallace Library building that you are commonly
familiar with. They are, however, not available for walk-in appointments or walk-in visits. The front doors within the lobby of the library are in
fact locked, but you can certainly visit.
The the image on the right is a photograph that I took of the classroom just this morning, so they want to welcome you and their email is on
the screen ritarchive@rit.edu for RIT Archives materials and the Cary Graphic Arts Collection is cary@rit.edu.
So what's in Wallace on Ice or the Ritter Arena? We have our circulating book collection and also our journals and magazines.
We are a fully staffed circulation desk where we can loan laptops you can get your course reserves that are printed,
you know, physical books that your professors may have put on reserve for you to read. We also have a large collection of
DVDs. We also have this is where you can pick up.
your books, if you put requests on them and i'm going to talk about that in a little bit, and this is also where you can pick up
your interlibrary loan requests.
Also in Wallace on Ice, we have an instruction space and we call it the Instruction Junction and it's a series of rows and
rows. Three rows of tables where classes
come in and use the collection and learn about the resources that we have.
We also have two print and scan stations, a microfilm reader printer for you, public computers to use, seating and study areas. Wi-fi
and wireless printing is available throughout the building -- Wallace on Ice or the Ritter Arena.
So how do you get to the Wallace on Ice? So, this
map shows you the location of the Wallace Library, as many people commonly know it, it's right across the way from Liberal Arts and you
can see, on this map that the SHED construction zone is
inbetween the Library and Monroe Hall, or the Student Alumni u=Union or SAU. So there's a green path that takes you to the east
towards dorm side and you walk to the Albert Paley Sentinel, big sculpture, and you take a left. We also have a blue path for wheelchair
accessible entrance and it's on the ground level and it's easy to get to, you just have to go down a ramp across the bridge.
I'm just showing you my scenic route, I have the Kari scenic route and I am in the RIT libraries, of the Wallace library building,
and I often go by the Tojo Memorial Garden. It's a beautiful spot right now, in the fall, and it goes by the Gannett building and then there's a path
that goes by the Bausch & Lomb building that takes you down.
I'm going to just show you a few photographs just to get a sense. There's the Albert Paley Sentinel and there's a sign says now open
Wallace Library in Ritter Arena.
And then there's the entrance -- a student walking into the Frank Ritter Ice Arena. There's a sign to indicate that the library is
downstairs. If you're using the accessible entrance,
you will just come in on the ground level, and you don't have to worry about stairs. So, here's the entrance again to the Wallace on Ice Ritter
Arena showing the entranceway and showing our sign about Advancing Knowledge. Sparking Creativity. and Connecting Communities. -- Our
Mission.
So the Wallace on Ice/Ritter Arena, this is the ice level, and this kind of outlines,
where the collections are. We use Library of Congress and they're arranged alphabetically A to Z several times throughout the building.
The green indicates sort of the regular section and then oversized in the light blue and huge and so forth.
You'll see that there are tables on the bottom part of the image in this study zone area, these are tables for you to study and then the upper
part of the image, there are tables as well, but those have computers on them.
So you can have computer access, you can sign on to one of the computers there and the round little circles that are underneath those
are high top tables where you can stand or sit at high chairs and work.
And then, at the far end you see the Instruction Junction, the three rows, that's our classroom and then on the big area, the light gray, is our
circulation department and our interlibrary loan.
And lots of folks working back there to make things accessible for you and there's also a printer,
and scanner on the far southern end and then there's also, just missing on this map, there's another one here next to the circulation area.
So then, on the upper level.
there's a lot, a lot of stands, so you can certainly sit in the stands, if you like, I did that, today, but,
there are tables and study areas and there're study pods - the Brody chair study pods, those are the little sort-of pill-shaped lozenges
that you see in this map.
There's a fair amount of study space, but clearly not as much as we had in our original building here, the main library building.
So we want to let you know that there are additional study spaces outside of Wallace on Ice that we've identified here. There's just sort of
neutral zones, so to speak.
You can also connect with your fellow classmates in your own college to find study areas that meet may be unique to your college,
but these are the general ones that we think are very good for people to find additional study spaces.
So now, I want to talk a little bit about the circulating collections, there's
Some.
Obviously, in the Ritter Ice Arena, you know about 140,000 titles in the Wallace on Ice or the Ritter Arena and there's a little over 200,000 in
our Offsite collections.
And so I want to make sure that you understand that you can access both very, very easily by using the request button and the next
slide kind of explains,
that not only do you have access to the Wallace on Ice and the RIT Offsite collections, but you can access even more titles using a
resource that we have called ConnectNY a partnership that we have with other
institutions in New York State where we can borrow resources and then IDS express, is our interlibrary loan system, that allows us to borrow
things from the World! So this lovely sort of Sunshine Arc
depicts, kind of, the types of things and the access, you have to Wallace on Ice and beyond.
So, I want to talk about the request button, it's a really great feature, you can request anything using this button than the library catalog.
You can request books that are even in Ritter and we will pull them for you and have them available for you at the circulation desk or
they can be requested from Offsite storage using this button,
in the library catalog. So, i'm going to walk you through that step really quickly. So the request button in the library catalog is featured right
here. There's a green arrow that I'm
looking for this book on "Willa Cather: the emerging voice", and it is indeed off in the Offsite area, but you can request it and,
it's an easy button to click on and then you put your RIT username and password in and click submit and then your request will come in
in approximately 24 hours. We have a full time staff person,
working in the Offsite collection and comes in delivers twice to the Wallace on Ice and the Ritter Arena, sometimes more if needed.
So we've also have an enhanced book cover browse function in our library catalog and I'm just giving you an example here of a title
dealing with industrial design "Open design now."
And if you scroll down a little bit on that entry, you can see the browse shelf on the right-hand side, it says browse shelf and you can see the
full shelf if you'd like to.
And when you click on that full shelf, you can actually see it's fully responsive design, this is actually an image that you could have on your
phone.
So you could be browsing the covers of the books, while you're in the stacks as well, so this is a really enhanced and wonderful feature that
we've added to the library catalog.
So.
We want to make sure that you know that assistance and research help is available all the time, via our chat, via email, via zoom.
through various in various timeframes, not all the time, but through various timeframes and the modalities for consultations could be in
person or a zoom will vary among the Librarians.
So please note the Infoguide that's on the bottom of the page infoguides dot rit dot edu forward slash construction.
Because this links to all the ways, you can contact us for assistance and research help and all the Librarians are listed on this page as
well, so feel free and take advantage of our assistance and research help that we can give to you. We are here for you.
This is your Library, so please ask questions and give us suggestions.
Thanks for attending today, and please email us with any questions at libraryhelp at rit dot edu.
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