Ying Jin, Application Programmer, was part of a multidisciplinary team that transformed the Texas Medical Center (TMC) Library’s collection of rare anatomy atlases into a physical-digital, human-sized atlas-of-atlases. Learn more about the Electronic Vesalius project here.

In Summer 2018, Fondren welcomed Miaomiao Rimmer as data and government information librarian. She comes to Rice from the University of Oklahoma, where she worked in The Consortium for Student Retention Data Exchange. Rimmer has taught several Data and Donuts workshops, including Python for Beginners and Introduction to IBM SPSS Statistics. She hopes to provide additional hands-on training on organizing, documenting, analyzing and visualizing data. Read more about Rimmer in the Fall 2018 issue of News from Fondren.

Shannon Kipphut-Smith, Scholarly Communications Liaison, led a study of Coalition of Open Access Policy Insitutions (COAPI) member approaches to evaluating institutional open access (OA) policies.  In a 2018 article in the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, the group recommends that institutions with OA  policies be transparent about assessment activities and work toward the development of best practices.