McKillop Library - Newsbrief

Staff Updates

The library is pleased to welcome two new librarian colleagues to our team, Lisa Kenyon, Education and Instruction Librarian, and Erin Perfect, Research and Instruction Librarian. We are very excited about the experience and expertise each of them brings to our services and hope you will say hello to them if you see them around campus!

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You may remember Lisa Kenyon when she served as our Special Programs and Instruction Librarian in 2013 and 2014. Lisa comes with spectacular references from Mitchell College in New London, Connecticut, where she served as information literacy librarian, liaised with the education department, and helped integrate information literacy into the first-year experience. After obtaining her teacher certification, Lisa served Westerly Public Schools as Library Media Specialist, where she focused on early childhood literature. Since 2014, she has been applying the National School Library Standards to her instruction practice, as well as building a more diverse and inclusive library collection that supports elementary education. Lisa is also excited to serve as liaison to the Women & Gender Studies and Sociology and Anthropology department. Her email address is lisa.kenyon@salve.edu.

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Erin Perfect earned her BFA from the School of Visual Art in New York City, and her MLIS from San Jose State University's School of Information. Erin collaborated with faculty and taught undergraduate and graduate-level research skills for two years while at the Rhode Island School of Design's Fleet Library. She has worked with individual artists' archives and completed projects within special collections at the New York Botanical Garden's Mertz Library. Additional experience includes work as a historical interpreter, design educator, researcher, illustrator and poetry group facilitator. Erin is deeply interested in how interdisciplinary collaborations across art, science, and other areas can inform and expand knowledge and offer new perspectives. At Salve Regina, she will provide library liaison support to students and faculty in the Art and Art History department, as well as the History and American Studies departments. Erin can be reached at erin.perfect@salve.edu.

Library Services / Circulation Update

Welcome back! We are excited to see you and your students again whether in-person or virtually! Below includes information about the newest updates and changes to policies, staffing, hours, library, spaces, etc. amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Library Hours
Due to service changes during COVID-19, library hours will continue to follow the Fall 2020 schedule:

Sunday: 10am-1am
Monday-Thursday: 8am-1am
Friday: 8am-6pm
Saturday: 11am-6pm

Circulation
All current members of the Salve Regina community will continue to have access to HELIN and interlibrary loan books, in addition to the collections owned by McKillop Library. As always, you can request electronic resources via interlibrary loan.

While we have moved our hold shelf back behind the circulation desk, we are happy to offer curbside pickup for faculty, staff, and students who would like to borrow library books or films but who are concerned about entering campus buildings, or who are fully remote and are not submitting the daily Salve-Health survey. Curbside service is also available to Salve alumni and other library patrons who live in the area. For more information on curbside pickup, please email us at slcirc@salve.edu or call us at x2291 / (401) 341-2291.

Research & Information Services
Due to the pandemic, the research & information desk will be staffed remotely. Salve students/faculty/staff can still walk-in for research assistance at the Circulation desk or schedule a virtual consultation. pop-up chat

Our community can also call, email, text or chat with a librarian from the library's website.

Course Reserves & E-Reserves
McKillop Library will continue to offer physical reserves while in-person classes remain in session, and will offer online reserves through the fall and spring semesters. To this end, we have made temporary changes to our e-book and streaming film purchase policies to best accommodate students studying both in-person and virtually.

Library Facility Safety
Library access will continue being restricted to current Salve students, faculty and staff via Salve ID card swipe only. Unfortunately, alumni, Circle of Scholar members, and members of the local community will not have access to the building and cannot borrow materials at this time.

As with the rest of campus, masking is required at all times throughout the library building. The only exception to this rule will be on the first floor Café side of the library, where people can remove their masks while they are actively eating. Beverages will be allowed through the building, but we will ask patrons to please use a straw under their mask or briefly remove their mask to sip and put it back on right away.

We want to keep everyone safe. So, please, wear your mask properly, over your nose and mouth.

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Archives & Special Collections News

University Archives and Special Collections worked with the Northeast Document Conservation Center last year to conserve and digitize two scrapbooks chronicling the years 1963-1972 at Salve Regina College. These scrapbooks, most likely created and maintained by the Sisters of Mercy serving at the college, include images and memorabilia detailing events and social life on campus as well as the changing world in which the Salve community members lived. You can view the digitized scrapbooks on our new JSTOR platform here: https://www.jstor.org/site/salve-regina-university/rsm/.

From the Archives: Poulin Archives Fellow Reflection
by Kylee Babcock, class of 2020

I started working for the university archives as a Poulin Archives Fellow in the spring semester of 2019, and I am sad to be leaving as I graduate as a member of the class of 2020. Going into this position I was hoping to gain the necessary experience working with archival material to help boost my chances of one day working in a museum setting, but I came away with so much more. I started my fellowship working on digitizing, uploading, and describing the university's vast collection of athletic photos.

On my first day of work I was nervous, I had never done any of that before and the project seemed expansive. My boss, Genna, immediately alleviated any of my anxieties by taking me through the process step by step and allowing me to take on the task in my own terms. Slowly but surely, I was able to the recall the different processes for digitizing slides, negatives, and prints as well as the proper format for uploading them to Jstor Forum. Whenever I had problems, I could always count on Genna to help me work through them.

One of the greatest opportunities the Poulin Archives Fellowship awarded me was the ability to manage my own projects. Genna's trust in me to get the job done in a timely and professional manner has given me the skills necessary to thrive in the workplace. I was able to break down scanning the athletic photos into a manner I believed best suited the organization of the collection and was able to divide my time between scanning and describing how I saw fit. When Genna asked if I was willing to continue to work for the archives for another year I was thrilled. On top of working on the athletic photos I would aid in collection rehousing, organization, and press release transcribing. Working in the archives under the Poulin Archives Fellowship has given me so much more than simply archives experience. I was able to gain the confidence in myself to manage large projects on my own, as well as knowing when it is time to ask for help.

The archive has plenty of untapped potential when it comes to sharing the unique history of Salve Regina University. I will be forever grateful for my time spent working in the archives whether it be in the library or remotely from home.

Please see the library's Covid-19 Research and Support Guide. We update the guide regularly and it contains the most up-to-date information related to library services, online learning, and more!

Stay safe and be well!
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