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MATLAB: A new Addition to RDS List of Supported Software

The Research Data Services team is excited to announce that Seton Hall University now provides access to MATLAB. MATLAB, short for MATrix LABoratory, is one of the world’s most widely used environments for programming, data analysis, and modeling. MATLAB allows faculty and students to work with large datasets, solve equations, run simulations, create visualizations, and even build predictive models using machine learning and artificial intelligence. This powerful tool is available to all students and faculty opening new opportunities for teaching, learning, and research across disciplines

At Seton Hall University, MATLAB can support teaching and research in different disciplines. Physics and pre-engineering students can use it to model systems, analyze signals, and prepare for graduate study and careers in engineering. In the health sciences and nursing, MATLAB can be applied to clinical imaging, and public health analytics. Business and economics students can use it for forecasting, optimization, and financial modeling, while the social sciences can apply it to survey analysis, behavioral research, and visualization of demographic data. Mathematics and computer science courses can take advantage of MATLAB’s strengths in linear algebra, statistics, and machine learning, and biology and chemistry labs can use it for sequence data and image analysis, experimental data processing, and computational modeling.

To help everyone get started, RDS team is launching a series of introductory workshops this semester. The full workshop calendar is available here or https://shu.libcal.com/calendar?cid=10971&t=g&d=0000-00-00&cal=10971&ct=47495&inc=0

With MATLAB now part of RDS’s supported software list, students and faculty across the university can request one-on-one consultations with the RDS team using this link or https://shu.libanswers.com/form?queue_id=5828

Happy New Year & Technology Resource Information

As we move into 2025 our information professionals are looking to provide the best possible service and resources available to the Seton Hall community. The University Libraries also joins the rest of the United States in observing National Technology Day on January 6th. Equally, the embrace of technological advance is an everyday occurrence.

Counted among the numerous resources that we provide that go beyond traditional print resources includes our specialized homepage site entitled Accessibility Information for Major Library Databases.

We welcome you to our information center in the near future, but in the meantime if you need detailed help through the University Libraries. You can book a research appointment here: Research Appointment Site.

Universal Human Rights Month & University Libraries

Human Rights Month is celebrated across the globe in December. This commemoration is based on the landmark University Declaration of Human Rights created by the United Nations and ratified by their Draft Committee headed by Eleanor Roosevelt on 10 December 1948.

The University Libraries has several resources related to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in various forms including our specially designed United Nations Library Guide along with Books on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, SHU Search – Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and via the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Site.

African American Catholic Exhibit & University Libraries

November is African American (Black) Catholic Month. In honor of this commemoration, the University Libraries has proudly created an exhibit featuring books, publication covers, and related materials in homage to the faithful.

In combination with the exhibit and an Introduction to Informational Resources on African American Catholicism, the University Libraries offers our research community print sources including starter sources that can be referred to via: African American Catholic Book Titles and African American Catholic Information Sources (SHU Search).

The display is situated on the second floor of Walsh Library. The exhibit will be available through of the semester.

For more information please visit and/or book a research appointment here.

Library Guides – Newly Created & Long Standing Sites

The Seton Hall University Libraries has hosted several unique introductory subject-specific “Research Guides” also known more popularly as: “Lib Guides” or “Library Guides” can be found on our Internet Homepage. These sites are continuously edited to include quality content and newly released information leads by our Subject Librarian Specialists.

Overall, we currently feature 252 individual guides that can be accessed independently or in conjunction with our 60 major subject headings. The full list of specialized sites can be found via the University Libraries Research Guides link found on our Homepage

Most recently, we have added a new LibGuide devoted to Faculty Publications. This page features bibliographical entries created by our esteemed professors dating from 2013 to 2024. The full listing can be found via the Faculty Pubs link found on our Homepage.

Latino/a/x Immigration Resources & University Libraries

The value of the Latino/a/x Diaspora is evident in the United States and across the globe through the exchange of a beautiful language, culture, history, music, poetry and many other aspects of the Hispanic experience.

The University Libraries contains several works related to Latino/a/x life including the story of immigration which allows us to build upon personal knowledge and local exposure. Interest is especially during Hispanic Heritage Month, but this subject area is also an important focus of study year round.

The following sites available through the University Libraries Website focus upon general immigration and specifics on Latino and Latinx life that are available through the following links that can found within Book Collections – Immigration and Journal Articles & Other Resources – Immigration, or through our Library Guides that includes our Hispanic & Latino/a/x Resources and Latin American Studies sites. In addition, we also work in collaboration and support the work being undertaken by the Joseph A. Unanue Latino Institute.

Dr. Branden Buehler Discusses “Front Office Fantasies” on University Libraries Podcast

We are happy to announce the newest episode of the University Libraries podcast series, Zet Forward, dropped in September. In the episode, Gerry Shea, Communication Librarian at Walsh Library, talks with Dr. Branden Buehler, Associate Professor of Visual and Sound Media, in the Department of Communication, Media, and Arts at Seton Hall University.

Branden Buehler is a media studies scholar who received his Ph.D. in Cinema and Media Studies from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. He teaches a wide variety of courses within the Visual and Sound Media program, including “Introduction to Film History,” “Introduction to Media Studies,” and “Sports, Media, and Culture.”

His research centers around sports media, with a particular focus on sports television and sports media industries. His book Front Office Fantasies: The Rise of Managerial Sports Media, which examines the ubiquity of sports media texts focused on administrative figures and bureaucratic duties, was published by University of Illinois Press in 2023. In this episode we discuss Front Office Fantasies.

You can find the podcast here. Please give it a listen when you have time.

Undergraduate History Internship Opportunity: Fall 2024

Student Opportunity: Seton Hall Archives & Special Collections Internship

Level: Undergraduate (Two positions available)

Mentor: Quinn Christie, Public Services Archivist

Project:

The student with an interest in archives will learn modern archival best practices, including physical rehousing, metadata description, and digitization.

The student will work under the Public Services Archivist on various tasks which may potentially include:

· Applying arrangement and rehousing best practices

· Working with a variety of format types and applying skills based on need of item

· Describing collections in ArchivesSpace and applying controlled vocabulary

· Flagging items in poor condition and creating unique housings for certain materials

· Digitizing materials for use in a digital exhibit

Learning Outcomes:

The student will learn:

· The benefits of item rehousing and recognizing common agents of decay

· To act on appraisal decisions and ethically dispose of archival materials

· To apply best practices for storing, describing, and digitizing materials

· About principles of digital curation and the production of digital exhibits

· About theory related to archival arrangement and description

Daily Work Schedule: flexible during 9-5, M-F schedule

To apply: Please send a resume and brief cover letter addressing your interest in the position to quinn.christie@shu.edu.

Please note: Registration in HIST 4710 is required for this internship. Contact Sara Fieldston to register for this course. Email: sara.fieldston@shu.edu

Podcast: Historical Scholarship on Brazil and Japan – Dr. Anne Giblin Gedacht & Dr. Kirsten Schultz

We are happy to announce the latest installment of the University Libraries podcast series entitled: Zet Forward. This podcast entitled: “Historical Scholarship on Brazil and Japan,” features an interview with Dr. Anne Giblin Gedacht and Dr. Kirsten Schultz from the Department of History, College of Arts & Sciences at Seton Hall University. Each discusses their respective research and writing process along with related perspectives on their recently published books.

Giblin, Anne Giblin. Tōhoku Unbounded: Regional Identity and the Mobile Subject in Prewar Japan. Brill, 2023.

Publication Website (Brill)

Schultz, Kirsten. From Conquest to Colony: Empire, Wealth, and Difference in Eighteenth-Century Brazil. Yale University Press, 2023.

Publication Website (Yale University Press)

Anne Giblin Gedacht, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of History at Seton Hall University has published in such academic centered journal articles as: Anne Giblin Gedacht, “The Girl from Wakamatsu: Narrative Afterlives of a Boshin War Refugee, 1868-2018,” Journal of Social History (Oxford University Press, Summer 2022): 1-24. and Anne Giblin Gedacht, “Immobility through Motion: Historicizing Emigrant Regionalism in Japanese Proletarian Literature, 1929-1939,” Japan Studies Review vol. 26, (2022): 3-34, among other works of scholarship.

Dr. Anne Giblin Gedacht – Faculty Profile Page

Kirsten Schultz, Ph.D. is a Professor of History at Seton Hall University has published such titles and book chapters as: Atlantic Transformations and Brazil’s Imperial Independence,” In John Tutino, ed. New Countries: Capitalism, Revolutions, and Nations in the Americas, 1750-1870. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016 and Tropical Versailles: Empire, Monarchy, and the Portuguese Royal Court in Rio de Janeiro 1808-1821.
Routledge, 2001 along with various academic centered journal chapters.

Dr. Kirsten Schultz – Faculty Profile Page

This podcast covers the work of both Dr. Anne Giblin Gedacht and Dr. Kirsten Schultz who have furthered the accessibility knowledge and awareness of topics related to Brazil, Japan, and Historical Scholarship along with their varied intersections in a historical and contemporary context.

You can find this podcast at: Podcast @ Seton Hall University.

Zet Forward is a podcast to celebrate authors and other individuals who are involved with projects for the benefit of Seton Hall University and the wider world. The series began in February of 2022.

For additional information please feel free to contact us via e-mail at: University Libraries

Celebrating Pride Month 2023 with the University Libraries

June 1^st marks the beginning of Pride Month, which is a celebration and remembrance of LGBTQ+ people across the United States and countries abroad. Borne from the Stonewall riots of 1969 and gay liberation protests thereafter, Pride Month highlights the struggles that LGBTQ+ peoples faced throughout history, the rights gained through protest and civil action, and honors individuals lost along the way. It is also a celebration of LGBTQ+ culture, which has permeated into the mainstream through shows like RuPaul’s Drag Race and Pose, graphic novels like Heartstopper, and movies such as Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022), Moonlight (2016), and Carol (2015).

In honor of Pride Month, this blog post will highlight some of the LGBTQ+ resources available through the University Libraries to support students, faculty, and community members. Below are some examples of these resources we carry, including both physical books and eBooks:

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (2021) by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa

Gay Gotham: Art and Underground Culture in New York (2016) by Donald Albrecht, Stephen Vider, and the Museum of the City of New York

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2007) by Audre Lorde

Men without Maps: Some Gay Males of the Generation before Stonewall (2019) by John Ibson

Female Husbands: A Trans History (2020) by Jen Manion

Search our catalogue for more resources here.

Interested in finding LGBTQ+ videos or movies? Check out our Accessing Films at SHU Research Guide, which can introduce you to the many streaming platforms available to the Seton Hall community.

Even more LGBTQ+ resources can also be found through our LGBTQ+ Research Guide.

If you have any questions or comments on the above or anything else pertaining to LGBTQ+ resources at the University Libraries, please contact the LGBTQ+ Liaison, Maria Barca (maria.barca@shu.edu).

Have a very happy Pride!