The New York Times Digital Edition and Digital Wall Street Journal Available

The Library is pleased to provide access to The New York Times Digital Edition and The Wall Street Journal to SUNY Cortland students, faculty, and staff.

Please check out the guides for more information about creating an account and what is included in the subscription:
• New York Times Digital Edition LibGuide
• Wall Street Journal LibGuide

Access is available to both digital editions through the library database listings in myRedDragon.

Books and Bears 4/24/19

Books and Bears
Wednesday, April 24th: 5-6pm
Memorial Library’s Teaching Material Center (TMC)

The SUNY Cortland Memorial Library is partnering with the SUNY Cortland Epsilon Chi chapter of Kappa Delta Pi to promote literacy skills in children through the Books and Bears program. The Books and Bears program was created by SUNY Cortland students and members of the honor society. The event will promote literacy through hands-on activities revolving around children’s literature and informational books about bears. At the end of the FREE program, each child will receive a book and a beanie baby to take home.

Hidden Treasures in the Library: Design Help

Memorial Library B121A: Design Help and the Design Lab
Come into the library, go left. Right before the Teaching Materials Center (TMC) steer right and go down the hallway by the elevator.

Design Help assists in the creation of learning aids, informational materials and online learning. Design Help team consists of Hailey Ruoff, Kristina Maricle and Mary Wilhelm-Chapin. They are available to any member of the SUNY Cortland community (Faculty, Staff, and Students) for assistance with educational technology.
• Instructional Design
• Blackboard Course Design
• Accessibility concerns with face to face and online learning
• Poster Creation and Design Assistance
• Skype for Business solutions for Online Learning
• SMART Board training
• Online Meetings and Office Hours utilizing Skype for Business
• Lecture capture software and video creation training
• Recording Room available for faculty and staff use
• Web 2.0 tool integration for effective student engagement
• Polling and Survey Software

And…

Design Help partners with faculty in their design of pedagogical tools to improve engaged learning, collaborative projects and exercises in critical thinking. We assist in the creation of learning aids, informational materials for new students for systems and online learning, revise and adapt content for online teaching, and assist in developing learning objectives that will enhance student engagement. Design Help works with faculty in establishing rubrics and assessment resources.  Our focus is to assist with meeting the needs of today’s college students and digital natives learning styles. We guide and train faculty members in

  • Identifying what students need to learn
  • Developing objectives and ensure content matches those objectives
  • Revising and rewriting content to shape it for learning needs
  • Structuring content and activities for student learning
  • Creating media to support learning (e.g., visual aids for face-to-face, various multimedia for e-learning and online)
  • Developing assessments
  • Assisting with technology and Blackboard training
  • Using interactive Whiteboard software
  • Adapting instructional materials created for one format to another format (i.e., face-to-face to e-learning

Who is your Instructional Designer?
Africana Studies Hailey Ruoff
Anthropology Kristina Maricle
Art Hailey Ruoff
Biology Kristina Maricle
Business / Economics Hailey Ruoff
CAP Mary Wilhelm-Chapin
Chemistry Kristina Maricle
Communications Kristina Maricle
Communication Disorders Kristina Maricle
Education (FSA/EDL) Mary Wilhelm-Chapin
Education (CEC/LIT/TMC) Kristina Maricle
English Mary Wilhelm-Chapin
Geography Mary Wilhelm-Chapin
Geology Mary Wilhelm-Chapin
Health Mary Wilhelm-Chapin
History Kristina Maricle
Kinesiology Hailey Ruoff
Mathematics Mary Wilhelm-Chapin
Modern Languages Mary Wilhelm-Chapin
Performing Arts (Theatre/Music) Kristina Maricle
Physical Education Mary Wilhelm-Chapin
Philosophy Mary Wilhelm-Chapin
Physics Kristina Maricle
Political Science Hailey Ruoff
Psychology Mary Wilhelm-Chapin
Recreation Kristina Maricle
Sociology Kristina Maricle
Sport Management Hailey Ruoff

Walk-In Hours during Semester
Design Help offers regular Walk-In hours during the semester.

Monday/Tuesday 1PM – 4PM
Wednesday/Thursday 9AM – 12PM
Friday Closed

Extended Semester Hours:
During the first week and finals week, we offer extended walk-in hours.

Monday-Friday 9AM – 12PM and 1PM – 4PM

Summer Hours:
During the summer, we ask that you send us an email message to ensure that we are on campus and will be available.

Not Open?
Simple! Send an email to DesignHelp@cortland.edu and set up an appointment!

Reporting from Memorial Library: Kristina Maricle & Rick Powell

THANKS for Attending: The Education of Henry S. Randall: Founding President of the Cortland Normal School (1868-1876)

For those of you who attended, Alumnus Rick Schieffelin’s Presentation on Wednesday, thanks for coming out. We learned a lot about about the founding President of the Cortland Normal School.

Opening slide with Henry Randall photo Slide with Henry Randall & Normal School  photos Rick Scieffelin and Sesquecentenial Slide Rick Scieffelin speaking

The Education of Henry S. Randall: Founding President of the Cortland Normal School (1868-1876)
A Sesquicentennial Presentation by Richard Schieffelin

Wednesday, April 10, 20019
6-7:30 PM
Brockway Hall’s Jacobus Lounge

Henry S. Randall was the founding president of the board of overseers of the Cortland Normal School and held that position from 1868 through his death in 1876. His tenure put the school on very solid footing. His significance and contributions are certainly highlights of the long history of the school that became SUNY Cortland. This Presentation will offer historical context to the college’s founding and call attention to the wide ranging contributions that Randall, a citizen of Cortland, made to education in the nineteenth century, contributions that went well beyond the town and county, to the state and national communities.

The presenter, Richard (Rick) Schieffelin, Class of ’75, has intimate connections to the Cortland community dating to the nineteenth century. He was born in Cortland, grew up in Syracuse, returned to Cortland for college, and then attended the University of Wisconsin at Madison for graduate study in American history. From Madison he moved to Northern VA and spent thirty-three years in the aerospace industry. He retired early to devote himself full-time to completing a biography of Henry S. Randall. While continuing his archival research he has shared preliminary findings and interpretations with a number of Cortland audiences. In 2016, he lectured to several Cortland and Syracuse groups on “The Jefferson-Hemings Controversy and Henry S. Randall: The Making of a Family Defense.” And between February 2016 and August 2017 he authored a series of five short articles on Randall in The Bulletin of the Cortland County Historical Society. Rick has one daughter and three grandchildren. He lives in VA with his wife, Josie.

More information from “The Bulletin”: http://www2.cortland.edu/bulletin/news-detail.dot?id=38474ac2-64a5-47de-ba56-3e6a41dbce3a&backUrl=/bulletin/issues/bulletin-18-19/bulletin-13-march-26-2019

New York Times Digital Edition

The Library is pleased to provide access to The New York Times Digital Edition to SUNY Cortland students, faculty, and staff.

Please check out the guides for more information about creating an account and what is included in the subscription:
New York Times Digital Edition LibGuide

Please note that subscribers need to YEARLY register from campus in order to keep their subscription, because it expires after a year.

SUNY Cortland Receives $4583 Technology and Digitization Grant from SCRLC

The South Central Regional Library Council (SCRLC) has awarded a Technology and Digitization Grant of $4583 to SUNY Cortland’s Memorial Library for the digitization of its student newspapers. This round of digitization will include The Co-No Press from 1925 through 1942 and The Dragon Chronicle from 2013 through 2017. Once digitization is complete they will be freely found at the New York State Historic Newspapers site at nyshistoricnewspapers.org along with newspapers from the early 1940s through 2013 that were previously digitized in 2017.

SCRLC’s Technology and Digitization Grants are funded as part of the Regional Bibliographic Data Bases and Interlibrary Resources Sharing (RBDB) Program.

 

Art in the Library

Did you know?

During 2014-2015, Memorial Library’s Delta collection relocated from the second floor to the third floor. This left the second floor with bare walls that needed a fresh coat of paint and something to showcase. A small group of library staff members met with representatives of the Dowd Gallery to discuss ideas. They formed a partnership, and decided on a rotating display of student artists’ works in varied media to fill those bare walls. The student artists represent the diversity of all three schools on campus.

The library invites campus faculty, staff and students to visit the second floor of the library. Come and appreciate the artist in our students.

On left, ceramic art piece entitled Head in the Clouds. On right oil painting entitled Complementary Contrast Still Life.

(Left) Head in the Clouds, 2018. Ceramic.
Mike Morris, Second-Year Student, Graphic Design & Digital Media
(Right) Complementary Contrast Still Life, 2018. Oil Paint.
Anna Brasted
First-Year Student
Studio Art

Piece of aluminum art entitled Hatchet depicting forest scene

Hatchet, 2017. Aluminum.
Weikang Jia, Fourth-Year Student, Sport Management

Cotton & polypropylene weaving piece of art entitled Here Comes the Fuzz

Here Comes the Fuzz, 2017. Cotton & Polypropylene Weaving.
Hayley Truay, Third-Year Student, Art History

Reporting from Memorial Library: Lori Backus & Debra Whitney

Posted in Art

New York Times, Wall Street Journal & Chronicle of Higher Education Digital Editions

The Library is pleased to provide access to The New York Times Digital Edition and The Wall Street Journal to SUNY Cortland students, faculty, and staff.

Please check out the guides for more information about creating an account and what is included in the subscription:
New York Times Digital Edition LibGuide
Wall Street Journal LibGuide

In addition, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Digital Edition is now available. Check it out at http://libproxy.cortland.edu/login?url=https://www.chronicle.com/

SUNY Cortland Student Newspapers & Yearbooks Available Online

SUNY Cortland Student Newspapers, The Hilltop Press (1942-1971),The Press (1972-1990) and The Dragon Chronicle (1990-2013) can now be accessed online through the NYS Historic Newspapers project. NYS Historic Newspapers provides free online access to a wide range of newspapers chosen to reflect New York’s unique history.

Many of our Yearbooks have been scanned and are also available online through the SUNY Cortland Digital Commons. You can find 1926 through 1970 here.

New Database: World Book Online

World Book Online is a suite of online research tools that includes encyclopedia articles, primary source collections, educator tools, student activities, pictures, audio, and video, complemented by current periodicals and related websites that will enhance learning and reading for children around the world by developing trustworthy, engaging content to create products that will engage children of all ages at home, on the go, in the classroom or in libraries worldwide.

Includes:
World Book Kids
Engaging content, features, and tools developed especially for young students.

World Book Student
A mainstay to meet the research needs of students in primary/elementary and middle school with thousands of articles and multimedia.

World Book Timelines
Hundreds of customizable, interactive timelines of important events throughout history.

Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos
World Book’s excellent editorial content, rich media, and interactive features in Spanish for young learners.