Did you know that on this date, 100 years ago, the design for the Coca-Cola bottle was patented? This familiar contoured shaped bottle was designed after the cocoa pod, the 
main ingredient in chocolate! You can read more about this patent, or see it on display at the National Archives.
A big part of what we do in the Kelley Center is helping the public search for patents. As a patent depository library, that is one of our mandates. Siu and Linda offer patent searching classes on a regular basis to entrepreneurs from Rice and the Houston area. In addition, this year, we hosted two widely attended training sessions given by staff from the US Patent and Trademark Office. Our Rice affiliates are productive and garner numerous patents. To support their work and bring more visibility to the library and Rice community, the Rice patents are now deposited in the Rice Digital Scholarship Archive. This project seems to be a first among libraries and one that is sure to garner much attention. Along with the Kelley Center’s Linda Spiro, Siu Min Yu and me, contributors to this project were Scott Carlson, metadata coordinator; Monica Rivero, digital curation coordinator; Lisa Spiro, executive director of digital scholarship services; and Shannon Kipphut-Smith, scholarly communications liaison.
Joining the Kelley Center staff this fall is Yen-Nhi (Annie) Pham as our Government Information and Data Specialist. Annie is a recent graduate of UH with a degree in Anthropology and is currently pursuing her masters’ degree, also at UH, in Sociology. In this part- time position, Annie will be working at the Kelley Center desk as well as building library services for government agency datasets.