SLRC News & Updates

It's been a long road, our faculty pilot participants know, but we finally have an active subscription!

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That's right, the digital library at LSC-University Park finally has some of its own physical books! LSC-University Park students and employees can browse and borrow from this dynamic collection of popular fiction and nonfiction titles.

Mike Alose, who runs the Science Hotspot, was one of four LSC-University Park staff selected to receive a Staff Excellence Award this year!

What's he do back there in his corner? Excellent work, obviously-- including mentoring his peer coaches, putting together data reports for Coaching, sometimes getting a chance to create and edit videos as well as run the @tutorlscup Instagram account, in addition to all the day-to-day things to keep the Hotspot going. He's a fantastic go-to resource for all things Academic Coaching!

Previous SLRC employees to receive Excellence awards include: Arcelia Macedo (SLRC), Blaire Hiebsch (Library), Stephanie DeLeon (Library), Elaine Patton (Library), Leasha May (AT Lab), Sibgha Khan (Library).

The winners of the 2023 Second Life for Books are recognized for their recycled book creations, selected by voters. The theme for this year’s book art was book bans.

The 1st place artist is Usman Khan, whose piece Freedom, Imprisonment: It’s all an Illusion speaks to the influences experienced by LGBTQ+ students as they search for their place in the world.

The 2nd place art is titled The Hunger Games for the 2014 banned book by the same title. Art student Luna Chavez won 3rd place for Not All Boys Are Blue. 

2023 was the year of robots, and we had everything from the friendly to the threatening to the bizarre. However, there can be only one grand prize winner, and this year's was...

First Place

Cogsworth Mickey Gearspark by Financial Aid

Runners Up

2nd place: Rosie the Robot by Division 1

3rd place: "You sly dog, you got me monologuing." by the Assistive Technology Lab

If you didn't get a chance to see everything on display, you can view photos for this year and all previous years of pumpkin entries on our Flickr.

It's that time! Get to the know the SLRC services, resources, and the whole team on Wednesday, Sept. 13. Show up any time between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. -- but the first 50 people to complete their playbooks will receive tshirts! Therapy dogs will be in the Teaching Gallery for the entirety of the event.