Welcome to a special President's Reading Room edition of the Library Update newsletter! 

President Havidán Rodríguez will officially re-open the space during a special ceremony at 11:15 A.M. on Thursday, September 12. All members of the campus community are invited to attend.  

"For me, the University Library is a space for innovation. It's a space for teaching. It's a space for learning. It's a space for engagement in which our students engage with their fellow students, engage with faculty, engage with staff, with the librarians. This is the place where we come to learn and to interact and to interface with others."

A tour of Special Collections and Archives reveals the longstanding relationship between the University Libraries and UAlbany's Presidents. 

James H. Austin once said, "Chance favors those in motion." We may not yet know what chances the future will bring, but with your help, we will be ready and in motion when they arrive.
 

Your support allows the University Libraries to impact the lives and experiences of our students, faculty, staff, and community members!

The University Libraries hosted a "Framing the Future" event on March 27 to gather valuable feedback from students on the future of the libraries. The event aimed to explore how the Libraries can help students achieve academic success at UAlbany.

The University Libraries are proud to introduce our inaugural Internship Cohort. This spring we welcomed three students from the Information Science master's program. While they worked on specific projects in their homebase units, they also embarked on a series of visits with various departments across the University Libraries, giving them a broad view of the many different aspects of academic libraries. 

The University Libraries announced in May that graduate student Nodiaus DiTonno and undergraduate student Alice Russo are the 2024 Patricia Stocking Brown Research Award recipients.

When I was selected as the Digital Processing Assistant for the M.E. Grenander Special Collections and Archives last August, I almost didn’t believe it. 

On January 1, 2023, SUNY entered a three-year read-and-publish agreement with Cambridge University Press (CUP). This agreement – a market-based solution for expanding open access (OA) to scholarship – provides UAlbany access to all 400+ journals published by CUP while offering UAlbany-affiliated corresponding authors unlimited OA publishing benefits at no additional charge to the author or institution. 

Following on the success of this effort, the University Libraries launched two similar agreements in January 2024, with the Institute of Physics and American Chemical Society. 

Highlights from the Spring 2024 semester include:

• Love Data Week
• Game Nights in the Minerva Room
• Campus Conversations in Standish
• UAlbany Showcase 2024
• And more!

This semester's staff news roundup includes plenty of awards, plus the retirement of a long-time library leader. 

From strategic planning to werewolves on campus, dive into the latest scholarship produced by the faculty of the University Libraries!

The University at Albany Libraries are seeking a graduate student to assist with a student outreach initiative: Library Ambassadors. Library Ambassadors are undergraduate and graduate students who engage in conversations on the UAlbany Libraries and promote library resources, services, and events to the campus community.