Weekly Review

2011 ARL Fellow Selected:

Jennifer Garrett has been selected to become UK Libraries' next ARL Career Enhancement Fellow. An Oregon resident, she is currently in her second semester of graduate work in library science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. This early in her studies, Jennifer is open to exploring many areas of librarianship, and we are in the process of developing her eight week summer internship. Judy Sackett will serve as Jennifer's mentor. Pat Wilson and Judy attended the ARL CEP Mentor's Training at ALA earlier this month. A second fellow who was set to participate this summer has unexpectedly dropped out of the program. We are working with ARL and hope to secure a substitute. Current plans call for the second fellow to be mentored by Pat Wilson and supervised by Kathryn Lybarger.


Meghan Manor Resigns:

Meghan Manor, Administrative Support Associate I since June 2008, has resigned her position in the Dean’s Office. We thank her for her excellent work in personnel and wish her good health and much happiness and success for the future. Meghan's last day was Tuesday, January 18.

Personnel questions and issues may be referred to Judy Sackett, jsackett@uky.edu until further notice.


Plans Underway To Move A-V Library from Nursing Building to Medical Center Library:

Continuing UK Libraries’ efforts to provide better service and create efficiencies we plan to move the A-V Library Collection from the 6th floor of Nursing to the Medical Center Library. Janet Stith has discussed this with representatives of the health sciences colleges and they support the move.

As we are doing in Agriculture, we plan to maintain a presence on the 6thfloor of nursing with an embedded librarian who will continue to work with collection development and provide scheduled personal reference assistance for students and faculty. Since UK Libraries personnel were providing a couple of non-libraries services (assigning study rooms, etc.) UKIT has offered to cover these services with their student personnel at the computing lab that will remain.


Weekly Tech Tip from UK Libraries Desktop Support:

Did you know that you can connect to your work computer from home? Contact LIB-TS@LSV.UKY.EDU for information about how to set up your computer for a remote connection. If you have been using Remote Desktop, remember that you can no longer rely on using your computer's IP address for the connection. You'll need your full computer name, including ad.uky.edu (e.g., wty2n02.ad.uky.edu). Don't know your computer name? Use the handy link "Find my computer name" on the LibTS SharePoint site: http://academics.uky.edu/libraries/LT/LibTS/.


Thanks to Judy Sackett and Beth Kraemer for their contributions to the Weekly Review.


Terry Birdwhistell
Dean of Libraries