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Dean Nitecki congratulates winner Marcus Henderson

Drexel University Libraries hosted a Writing Challenge on Tuesday, May 22nd as a part of the University Archives’ Inventing the Page exhibition and the 2012 Week of Writing activities, sponsored by the Drexel Publishing Group. The challenge, held in the Libraries’ Bookmark Café, welcomed over thirty writers who were tasked with creating themed six-word stories.

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You have completed your PhD/EdD or a masters degree at Drexel University.

Tuesday, May 22nd from 4:30 – 6 PM
W. W. Hagerty Library’s Bookmark Cafe

Sharpen your pencils and gather your favorite writing utensils to celebrate the Week of Writing at the Drexel University Libraries’ upcoming Writing Challenge event on Tuesday, May 22nd!  Attendees will compete in a two-round writing challenge to compose the best six-word story. Prizes will be awarded to the top three writers, selected by a panel of judges including Drexel students, staff and alumni.

Tuesday, May 22nd from 4:30 - 6 PM
W. W. Hagerty Library's Bookmark Cafe

Sharpen your pencils and gather your favorite writing utensils to celebrate the Week of Writing at the Drexel University Libraries’ upcoming Writing Challenge event on Tuesday, May 22nd!  Attendees will compete in a two-round writing challenge to compose the best six-word story.

Earlier issues of this newsletter have highlighted various strategic directions within the Libraries’ evolving Strategic Plan—building learning environments, deepening connections with scholarship, and modeling a library organization. I have left the most enduring and perhaps obvious one for last—that the Libraries ensures access to ideas and authoritative information sources, regardless of time or geography, for Drexel’s diverse community to learn, contribute to scholarship, and serve society.

Libraries staff is undertaking innovative initiatives to address this important responsibility. We continue to license access to electronic information resources, critical to research and teaching, and are challenged in doing so by the growing population at Drexel, as well as the expansion of the University’s scholarly communications and research scope. We are also working to simplify the discovery of multiple unique collections across Drexel and beyond, and collaboratively with others, to ensure that the creative expressions at Drexel are available to others for future use in teaching and research.

Alumni join in the discussion at the Opening Reception

January brought football to the Libraries for two Dragons on the Gridiron events on Wednesday, January 18th and Saturday, January 28th. This exhibition, tracing the history of football at Drexel University, was unveiled at 4 p.m. at the Opening Reception on January 18th to an audience of students, staff, and football alumni. Materials and memorabilia from the University Archives were used in the exhibit.

The opening reception featured a dynamic conversation about the evolving role and increased emphasis of athletics in higher education, and current Drexel director of athletics, Dr. Eric Zilmer, helped to add an insider perspective to the discussion.

On Monday, December 19th the Libraries welcomed Alexis Antracoli as the  Records Management Archivist, a new position that will help Drexel staff organize documents for archiving.

Blogger Kevin Impellizeri recaps the Going National with Apple Computers event on his blog, Primary Source Code. Read more at:Primary Source Code.

Thursday, November 10th from 6 - 8 PM
Library Learning Terrace, 33rd & Race Streets
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In 1985, Steve Jobs visited Drexel to congratulate the University on its cutting edge decision to require all incoming students to have a personal computer. This project, the Microcomputer Project, changed learning at Drexel and inspired a culture of innovation. Join Drexel University Libraries for a special screening of the entertaining and informative documentary, Going National, produced by Dean of Pennoni Honors College, Dave Jones, Ph.D., which details the project and the cutting edge decision that Drexel took by choosing Macintosh computers.

By: Rob Sieczkiewicz and Jenny James Lee

Several new items were added to the Archives' collection at W. W. Hagerty Library after the opening of a time capsule, found in Matheson Hall, during a sledgehammer ceremony on October 5th. The ceremony was lead by Dean of LeBow, George Tsetsekos, with members of his advisory board, Drexel students, staff and faculty, as well as representatives from the Keating Building Company.

During construction at Matheson Hall on September 30, crews found the time capsule behind the building’s 1965 cornerstone plaque. The capsule was sealed and in good condition, as were its contents.