Welcome to our new student employee, Luisa Pacas!

Luisa is a graduate student in the KSU iSchool from Steubenville, Ohio. She is a graduate of Franciscan University where she studied world literature. She is currently working towards her MLIS with a concentration in Archival Studies. In addition to joining our staff in Special Collections & Archives, she works as a Costumer for Franciscan University's theatre department. We are excited to have her on our team for this academic year!

Since its inception, the students writing, editing, and publishing The Kent Stater have shown a dedication to independent journalism, providing a record of university, regional, and world history. The paper has persisted and adapted through multiple technological developments and is published in print and online. Students working for The Kent Stater have won a myriad of local and national awards in student journalism. This exhibit provides a glimpse into the history of The Kent Stater to celebrate its centennial anniversary.

Special Collections Librarian, Kate Medicus, has just returned from taking RBS course L150, Modern Special Collections Cataloging. Held at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and taught by Brenna Bychowski, Catalog/Metadata Librarian at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University, this week-long course focused on using the most recent international cataloging standards for cataloging 19th and 20th century materials. It covered the variety of options for the cataloging of earlier materials that are available in these standards, Resource Description and Access (known as RDA). With plenty of hands-on exercises and class questions and discussions, it was a very productive week. Kate was able to gain additional practice cataloging ephemera, comic books, and limited editions. She fine-tuned her knowledge and learned ways to optimize our cataloging practices here, which will be documented and shared with others at KSU University Libraries.