Solutions Stories

How a Student Worked with the Architecture Archives to Save Rare CMU Blueprints

Before winter break, Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences first-year Ryan Tosh found a large trash bag filled with architectural drawings depicting buildings on CMU’s campus in the KGB’s office during a cleaning session.

How Data Visualization Mapped CMU Graduate Research

Research Data Services Librarian Alfredo González-Espinoza wants to make it easier for CMU researchers to find related projects and opportunities for collaboration across disciplines.

How Careful Cataloging Helped Rediscover A Vintage Image

In July 2024, Arts and Humanities Librarian Jill Chisnell received an email from a former colleague from the School of Design, who hadn’t set foot in Hunt Library since 2010. So Chisnell put on her detective hat and dove into the search. She knew she’d have to be creative to find answers.

How RIMS Helped a Fulbright Scholar Secure Grant

At the University Libraries, Research and Information Management Services (RIMS) brings together information about scholarship, creative practices, and funded research endeavors, as well as teaching, service, awards, and leadership accomplishments, throughout Carnegie Mellon. The RIMS team, led by Program Director Jason Glenn, is leading the effort to compile faculty information, simplify assessment and documentation, and streamline collaboration across different departments and disciplines.

How Crowdsourcing Located a Rare Music Pamphlet

In February, Music Librarian Kristin Heath put out a call for a music pamphlet she was working to locate for a researcher.

How the Digitization Team Helped Disseminate Polish History

While the lab most often works with materials held by the University Archives and Special Collections, it has also played a role in digitizing key documents for local communities — for example, Pittsburgh’s Jewish newspapers. Most recently, the lab has completed a project focused on Polish history.

How the Evidence Synthesis Service Team Helped Analyze Student Research Experiences

The University Libraries’ Evidence Synthesis Service team has offered their expertise to a number of complex, long-term projects taking place across campus. Director of the Office of Undergraduate Research and Scholar Development Richelle Bernazzoli first engaged with the team during an evidence synthesis introductory workshop in 2021. Shortly after, she reached out with an idea for an initial project exploring undergraduate researchers participating in mentored research, and how that experience serves to develop their research identities.

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How the Evidence Synthesis Service Team Helped Bring High Quality, Rigorous Systematic Reviews to Business and Management

The University Libraries’ Evidence Synthesis Service team has offered their expertise to a number of complex, long-term projects taking place across campus. Over the past several years, librarians Sarah Young and Ryan Splenda have collaborated with H.J. Heinz II University Professor of Organizational Behavior and Public Policy Denise Rousseau on a systematic review that explored chief executive compensation and its effects on firm financial performance and inaccurate financial reporting. Their work on this project will serve as a proof-of-concept for conducting high quality systematic reviews in business and management.

How the Evidence Synthesis Service Team Helped an Engineering Student Explore Intersections with Open Science

The University Libraries’ Evidence Synthesis Service team has offered their expertise to a number of complex, long-term projects taking place across campus. Since October 2019, Open Science Program Director and Librarian Melanie Gainey and Principal Librarian Sarah Young have collaborated with Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering Assistant Professor Elizabeth Wayne. Their project is a scoping review about the interactions of nanoparticle-based cancer immunotherapy and macrophages in colorectal cancer.[current-date:fallback]

How the APC Fund Supported Sharing Research on African Coups

When researchers want to publish open access and make their work freely accessible and easily discoverable online, they often have to pay an Article Processing Charge (APC) to support production costs.