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A smiling woman with long dark hair wears a red top, photographed indoors with a warmly lit, blurred background.

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Three men install a wall-mounted sculpture of the United States made from weathered scrap metal panels, each state crafted from distinct salvaged materials like car parts and rusted sheet metal.
Ian Bird works with GMU maintenance staff to hang his map, created with found metal objects and discarded car body, "Lower 48," in the Research 1 computer lab.

A group of people sit at tables with laptops open, engaged in conversation during what appears to be a workshop or meeting, with water bottles and notepads scattered among them.
In 2009 CHNM hosted what would be the first of a series of two day workshops to equip people at educational institutions with a detailed understanding of how Zotero worked and how they could make it useful and used at their institutions. This image was taken during a part of the workshop where participants explored and started developing and refining supporting documentation for making Zotero fit their organizations local needs. You can see more about who participated and the agenda for the…

Black-and-white portrait of a woman with long, curly dark hair, smiling slightly at the camera against a plain light background.

Rows of colorful handwritten name cards held upright by black binder clips on a wooden table, each labeled with individual names such as Fred, Dan, and Kelly.
To plan for the acquisition of a bunch of new office space there was a need to reshuffle the staff to make best use of the office space. So, we ended up making a big foam-core backed map and a set of little models of people to place to work through how to best organize the space. Each of the colors corresponds to different work groups in CHNM. This picture shows those little figures. To make it easier to identify, pink is education, green is public projects, blue is research projects, yellow was…

Photograph of Rwany Sibaja

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One of my favorite items on the GMU campus.

An office interior under renovation, with stacked chairs, desks, and partition panels, a lamp with owl figurines in the foreground, and a red exit sign on the ceiling.
When the Center first moved to Research 1, staff was divided among three unconnected office spaces on the 4th floor. In 2009, CHNM acquired the corner office space that had been occupied by a robot lab. With this new space, CHNM's staff could finally work in one contiguous office. Nicknamed the "robot room" for its former occupants, this large open area gave the Center enough space to have multiple group-work tables.

This photo was taken soon after the Center moved into the "robot room."

A group of seven people pose together in an office, smiling in front of a blanket featuring a portrait of Dolly Parton with the text "I will always love you."
2011 Omeka team photo with Dolly Parton souvenir blanket (l-r): Sharon Leon, John Flatness, Sheila Brennan, Patrick Murray-John, Roberto Sanchez, Kim Nguyen, and Tom Scheinfeldt