{"id":6815,"date":"2017-08-23T19:00:18","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T19:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/liblog\/?p=6815"},"modified":"2017-08-23T19:00:18","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T19:00:18","slug":"updates-and-new-stuff-for-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/liblog\/2017\/08\/23\/updates-and-new-stuff-for-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Updates and New Stuff for Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Based on feedback gathered during space study surveys in the Spring, we\u2019ve updated and upgraded several services and programs for students this fall.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>MakerStudio Move<\/strong> Relocated to the ground floor of Bierce, <a href=\"http:\/\/libguides.uakron.edu\/makerstudio\">the expanded MakerStudio<\/a> is a great place to explore and work collaboratively<\/li>\n<li><strong>Media Collection Featured on First Floor<\/strong> Browse the DVDs, CDs and newspapers in their new location in the first floor Learning Commons in Bierce<\/li>\n<li><strong>Refreshed Study Rooms<\/strong> Each study room in Bierce got a new coat of paint and freshly cleaned carpets<\/li>\n<li><strong>New Equipment for Lending<\/strong> More calculators, cameras, tripods, and fresh laptops for checkout<\/li>\n<li><strong>New Furniture<\/strong> One person tables and new chairs for quiet individual study on the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> floor of Bierce and bean bags on the ground floor. Plus four mobile whiteboards on the 2nd and 3rd floor.<\/li>\n<li><strong>New Lockers <\/strong>at the Science and Technology Library. Program your own code and use one of the nine lockers throughout the day.<\/li>\n<li><strong>New Learning Management System <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uakron.edu\/it\/instructional_services\/dds\/brightspace\/\">Brightspace<\/a>, formerly Springboard, is our upgraded web-based course management system.<\/li>\n<li><strong>New Series of Events <\/strong>Gather @ the Library is a series of <a href=\"http:\/\/uakron.libcal.com\/calendar\/events\/?cid=6396&amp;t=m&amp;d=2017-07-01&amp;cal%5B%5D=6396\">events<\/a> curated by the University Libraries. Weekly events range from workshops and author talks to discussions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on feedback gathered during space study surveys in the Spring, we\u2019ve updated and upgraded several services and programs for students this fall. Highlights include: MakerStudio Move Relocated to the ground floor of Bierce, the expanded MakerStudio is a great place to explore and work collaboratively Media Collection Featured on First Floor Browse the DVDs, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1425,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20718,71771,20751,57767],"tags":[32982],"class_list":["post-6815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deans-office","category-design-development-services","category-science-technology-library","category-university-press","tag-university-libraries"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6815"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6831,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6815\/revisions\/6831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}