Collections and Research Engagement Projects

About this department: The Collections & Research Engagement department (CoRE) leads the Libraries in developing collections that are responsive to the teaching and research needs of the NC State community. Many members of the department are subject specialist research  librarians who support students, faculty, and staff in deepening their research skills through course-integrated instruction, workshops, and personalized consultations. We also facilitate the use of the Libraries’ immersive teaching, learning, and research spaces.CollectionsAbout our collectionsSuggest a purchaseOpen access agreements for NC State authorsDatabasesInstruction & ConsultationRequest a library instruction sessionRequest a… More about Collections & Research Engagement

Projects on this page represent a selection of the work of this department.

  • Magnatiles, a Jot tablet, three books, and a coloring book

    Family Backpack Kits at the Libraries

    Librarians came together through a Good Ideas Grant–funded project to create family backpack kits, giving parents materials to keep their children engaged at the Libraries while they take advantage of collections, services, and spaces.

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    Collaboration with Access Services, Learning Spaces & Services, Community Engagement
  • Heat map showing how often each room in each FRC is occuped

    Faculty Research Commons Study

    The Libraries’ Faculty Research Commons (“FRCs”) at both the Hunt Library and the Hill Library were designed as alternative spaces for faculty to work independently or meet with colleagues away from their personal offices. The Libraries recognized…

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    Collaboration with User Experience
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    King & the Klan: a Visual Experience

    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke at Reynolds Coliseum at NC State University on July 31, 1966. In response to his upcoming visit, the Ku Klux Klan staged an 1,800-person march through downtown Raleigh. In this digital installation crafted by Dr.…

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    Collaboration with Collections & Research Engagement
  • Picture showing Ms. Betty Pearley discussing her time at the Russell School

    Voices of the Russell School

    A multifaceted project that brought together members of the local community with the Libraries, the College of Education, and DELTA to present the history and voices of the Historic Russell School, a Rosenwald School built in 1926 in Durham County,…

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    Collaboration with Non-Library Faculty, Learning Spaces & Services
  • A wide screen displays a colorful exhibit with the title, PrideFest, LGBTQ+ History Month Exhibit

    PrideFest Exhibit for LGBTQ+ History Month

    An immersive exhibit hosted by the NC State University LGBTQ Pride Center and the Libraries celebrating Pride by highlighting LGBTQ+ history, stories, media, advocacy and accomplishments.

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  • Visualization Spaces SDK features a display screen that emulates a theatre room

    Visualization Spaces Development Kit for Unity Game Engine

    Augmenting an industry-standard creative tool to better suit the needs of our students, instructors, researchers, and other campus creators in a one-of-a-kind Libraries space.

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    Collaboration with Learning Spaces & Services
  • Wicked Problems, Wolfpack Solutions logo over Belltower background image, with "video" and "podcast" icons.

    Wicked Problems, Wolfpack Solutions Open Course Library

    We created a website to openly share presentations from the Wicked Problems, Wolfpack Solutions course with educators, prospective students and their families, alumni, and the general public.

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    Collaboration with Acquisitions & Discovery
  • Beyond the Barricades exhibit in Visualization Studio

    Beyond the Barricades, Reimagined

    This project offers a reimagined visualization of anti-apartheid photography published during the heights of state brutality in South Africa. Utilizing the Visualization Studio at the Hill Library, viewers may wander in this digital exhibition to…

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  • A sign reads, Tiny Café: free coffee and treats for 10 minutes of your time. A smiling student worker with a clipboard is next to it. A long table laden with treats is in the background, with library employees chatting with participants.

    Business Research Guide + Tiny Café

    Students told us about their expectations regarding a business research guide. We also asked about how they conducted research for business-related class projects.

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  • Letter written by Malcom X

    In the Writing: Personal Letters of African American Leaders from the Mark E. Mitchell Collection

    A pop-up exhibit displaying rare, personal letters of African American historical figures revealing their unknown interconnectedness and conveying that their "revolutions" were catalyzed not in solitude but collaboration.

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  • Online Magazine Reading Study

    We conducted a survey in late 2016 and two focus groups in January 2017 to find out more about our patrons' online magazine reading habits and preferences, and their reactions to an online magazine platform.

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  • Faculty members chatting in a colorful room with large windows, a big screen, and cool chairs

    Building Faculty Communities that Support Scholarly Communication

    As scholarly communication grows more complex, the Libraries seeks to champion NC State researchers who represent a broad array of backgrounds to communicate their research. Our project found that researchers seek three main areas of support: help…

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  • a still image of a virtual reality scenario of two cars colliding on an intersection

    Exploring the Ethics of Autonomous Vehicles through Immersive Virtual Reality in the Cyma Rubin Visualization Gallery

    The NC State University NeuroComputational Ethics Research Group (NCERG) and Libraries staff have combined experimental philosophy with immersive virtual reality technologies in the Cyma Rubin Visualization Gallery to capture research participants’…

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    Collaboration with Learning Spaces & Services
  • projection of Bayuex tapestry with embroidered horses and soldiers

    Graphic Narratives: The Bayeux Embroidery as Visual History

    Students experience the Bayeux Embroidery in life-sized digital replication on the walls of the Visualization Studio and analyze medieval visual narratives by applying Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics.

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    Collaboration with Digital Library Initiatives (DLI)
  • wide projection screen with a picture of an ancient stonehenge.

    Digital Field Trips: Viking Graffiti in Neolithic Orkney

    History students experience Neolithic remains, transcribe and transliterate runic graffiti, and interpret graffiti in relation to its space and place. The use of an immersive environment brings alive the questions and theories of the anthropology of…

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  • Textbook Program

    The information on this page is no longer being updated and may be out of date. The NC State University Libraries Textbook program is designed to reduce the burden of rising textbook costs on our student population, by purchasing and…

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    Collaboration with Access Services, Acquisitions & Discovery
  • Fermentology banner featuring jars of fermented vegetables

    Fermentology

    Fermentology is a digital collection of written and media works about the culture, history, and science of fermented foods.   

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    Collaboration with Community Engagement
  • audience sitting in front of a black and white photo of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

    Virtual Martin Luther King, Jr. Project (vMLK)

    The Virtual MLK Project is an immersive digital experience of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s "A Creative Protest (Fill Up the Jails)" speech which was delivered at White Rock Baptist Church in Durham, NC in February 1960. The project is…

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    Collaboration with Community Engagement, Information Technology, Learning Spaces & Services, Open Knowledge Center

  • eBook Usage Trends

    A trend analysis of eBook usage from 2008 to 2012

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  • Collection Views

    A tool created using collections data to help the Libraries understand how resource expenditures relates to subjects of relevence to different departments and colleges at NC State.  

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  • Value of Journal Backfiles

    The Backfiles Value Study used a calculated non-traditional Return on Investment (ROI) metric to demonstrate the impact of online journal archives purchased by NCSU Libraries. It evaluated the impact not only in terms of usage, but also in terms of…

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  • Print Item Usage Analysis

    This project analyzed a twelve year series of print items in the NCSU Libraries collection to determine the proportion of items used by years in the collection and examined the correlation between an item's years in the collection and its…

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  • Collections Review Tool

    A tool to engage the campus community in decisions about cuts to the journal and database collection.

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