1. The Library Research Contest Reinvented Darby Orcutt, Collection Management Cindy Levine, Research and Information Services Markus Wust, Digital Library Initiatives North Carolina State University Libraries

4. Goals ●Incentivizing students to learn and use library collections and technologies, ●Increased student participation in new, high- tech library spaces, and ●Student research outputs that would provide strong, ready-made programming content (e.g., for MicroTile displays).

7. Criteria ●Originality of research ●Appropriate use of digital formats ●Creative presentation

8. Short of Time, From the Beginning...

9. Planning on Multiple Fronts ●Establishing the structure for the contest ●Publicity/encouraging participation ●Interacting with potential participants (helping them, and learning from them)

12. Logo ●Public domain images are good ●A good logo goes a long way

13. Conversations with Faculty 18th century instructors special programs (honors) faculty with multimedia interests

15. Cool 18th Century Information Sources

16. Old Bailey Demonstrator API

17. Locating London’s Past

18. Consulting with Students ●Had interest from: ○grad and undergrad ○groups and individuals ○class-related and class-independent

19. Technology Support ●Asked students to use technology in projects ●How to address need for technology support?

20. Technology Support ●Not enough time to teach technologies, but point to resources and strategies ●Librarians participated in two class sessions

21. In-Class Support Session 1: ●Overview of library tech lending program ●Available support through technology consultations

22. In-Class Support Session 2: ●Available technologies for multimedia creation, timelines and mapping ●Strategies for acquiring technology skills ●Available library support ●Project organization

23. Technology Support ●Final class project presentation (Fall 2014) and competition project demo (Spring 2015) in D.H. Hill Visualization Studio ●Helped with setting up room

24. Technology Support: Lesson ●Keep things simple: ●Students may not have the level of technical knowledge you expect. ●Introduce them to simple, user-friendly technologies that they can use to build their projects.

25. Other Competition Goals ●Gaining experience with competitions ●Code+Art competition ran simultaneously ●Providing technology support for classes ●How can it be done in a scalable manner?

26. Grand Prize Winner http://philome.la/MKaturday/philologists-who-chase/play

27. Honorable Mention http://definitions-of-personhood.weebly.com/

28. Next Competition ●Topic: Food, Clothing and Shelter ●Interdisciplinary: ●Food Science, History of Food, Agriculture ●Design, Textiles ●Architecture, Engineering

29. Thank You! Darby Orcutt: dcorcutt@ncsu.edu Cindy Levine: crlevine@ncsu.edu Markus Wust: mgwust@ncsu.edu