Kentucky in Prints

Dr. Jim Birchfield, Curator of Rare Books, narrated a presentation at the Blue Grass Trust Antiques Show on Sunday afternoon, March 10th, called "Kentucky in Prints."  He showed many examples of Kentucky-related engravings, lithographs, woodcuts, and broadsides, chiefly drawn from UK collections.  Portraits, landscapes, battle scenes, city views, maps, and other images figured in the talk, which also brought attention to issues of condition, conservation, and display.     

"The Capture of the Daughters of D. Boone and Callaway by the Indians."  Lithograph by Karl Bodmer, printed in Paris, France in 1852.  The print was a gift to U.K. Libraries by Dr. Thomas D. Clark.   

Adalin Wichman

UK Libraries lost a great friend last week with the passing of Adalin Wichman.  In addition to her many other honors and accomplishments, she was the 2011 recipient of the UK Libraries Medallion for Intellectual Achievement.  

She also served several years on the Board of the UK Library Associates Executive Committee and as president in 2007.   

                            

A video about Adalin’s life and career produced by the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History can be seen here:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7uAfeqgOLs          

Kentucky American Water Room Dedication

The University of Kentucky Libraries request

the pleasure of your company as we dedicate

the newly renovated

Kentucky American Water Room

William T. Young Library

Core 4, Kentucky American Water Room 1-77

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

4:00 P.M.

Reception immediately following program

UK Humanity Academy

In addition to Marie Dale (reported last week), UK Libraries had four other employees participating in the UK Humanity Academy

·         Marsha Seamans, Director of Cataloging & Database Integrity

·         Sharon Clark, Database Integrity

·         Terri Brown, Head of the Circulation Department

·         Crystal Heis, Digital Library Services

Their participation helps demonstrate UK Libraries commitment to diversity with the university and beyond.

Special Collections provides content for history of basketball film

Bluegrass Kingdom: The Gospel of Kentucky Basketball premiered on Sunday March 17th.  It was written and directed by Mike Tolajian for Turner Sports and truTV.  The film tells the tale of the University of Kentucky basketball program, and in Tolajian's words, "arguable the most successful (and most controversial) college hoops program in history."

                                               

The film features original interviews with Joe B. Hall, Pat Riley, Ashley Judd, Cliff Hagan, Kenny “Sky” Walker, Derek Anderson and more.  The documentary also features a large portion of archival footage and still photographs from UK Libraries Special Collections. 

Pat Riley

One of the producers, Spencer Wilking said, "Honestly when Mike & I say: 'we couldn't have done it without you,' we really mean it. Without your assistance and fantastic library our archival images would've suffered terribly. Almost everything that hadn't been widely seen before came from you guys -- without the UK Libraries we would've been stuck with the stock visuals wheeled out with every UK project." 

Campus Banners Promote UK Libraries

Two banners hanging on campus are promoting the important work underway in UK Libraries.  One highlights UK Libraries’ leadership role in digital initiatives including the national newspaper digitization project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

A second banner highlights the work of Dr. Doug Boyd and his colleagues in the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History.  Thanks to Lewis Warden, Special Collections, for providing the photographs.

Reminder about upcoming webinars offered for ASERL members

“Introduction to Digital Preservation” – A 4-part series in April.  See http://www.aserl.org/intro-dp-2013/ for details and registration links.

“’Independent Voices’ – A New Model for Open-Access Digital Collections”  April 9, 2pm ET

More info and register at https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/240256450

NEW!  “Creating Digital Media Content and Services at UVA Libraries”  May 8, 2pm ET

More info and registration at https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/971401706

As always, these sessions are free and open to any ASERL member.  Each session will be recorded for later playback for anyone who cannot attend the ‘live’ event.  Please let me know any questions or if you encounter any difficulties with the links above.  Ideas for future webinars are always welcome, too!

Lyndsey Calico Leaving UK Libraries

March 29^th will be Lyndsey Calico’s last day with UK Libraries.  Lyndsey has been with UK Libraries for six years beginning as the Library Technician in the Collections Department’s Gifts & Exchange Unit.  She then moved to the new Digital Scholarship Department in 2011 as a Library Technician Senior.  Lyndsey earned an M.S. in Library Science from the University of Kentucky.  She has been active on campus with the Women’s Forum Board and currently serves as Secretary of the organization. 

Within UK Libraries Lyndsey was most recently a member of the 2012 Open Access Week Work Group and the 2011 Institutional Repository Event Day Planning Committee.  Lyndsey will be co-presenting with Dr. Cleo Price of the Graduate School during this spring’s KLA/SLA Joint Conference on the “Changing Strategies for Electronic Theses and Dissertations:  Communicating between an Academic Library, Graduate School, Academic Departments and Students.” 

We wish Lyndsey much success in her future endeavors and thank her for years of service to UK Libraries.

Observations and Reflections

This month Mary Beth Thomson and I are scheduled to present an “update” on UK Libraries to the University Senate.  It will be another opportunity to thank the UK faculty, staff, and students for their support this past year.  Mary Beth and I will also be sharing with the Senate information about collections, the budget, and new initiatives underway and planned to benefit students and faculty.

Marie Dale to participate in Humanity Academy

Marie Dale, Special Collections, is among a select few members of the UK community participating in The Humanity Academy, a one week seminar being held March 11-15.  Participants will meet daily for stimulating discussion, experiential activities and exercises, and provocative strategy sessions as we examine the dimensions of the broad topic of diversity.

The Humanity Academy’s goal is to have a representative group of change agents within the University. Marie will be learning about and interacting with a diverse group of staff, faculty, and students.  After March 15 the group will continue meeting periodically for support, networking, and further work on establishing a culture here at the University that embraces all the dynamics of diversity.   

Doug Boyd keynotes Family History Program

The Louisville Free Public Library is offering Genealogy Day at the Library on Saturday, March 23, 2013.  Dr. Doug Boyd, Director of UK Libraries Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, will speak on “Oral Traditions: The importance of Oral History to Document Family and Community History.”

UK Libraries supports students during DanceBlue

Again this year UK Libraries provided laptop computers for more than 800 student dancers at DanceBlue, a student-run philanthropic event at the University of Kentucky.  The year-long fundraising effort involving thousands of UK student volunteers, culminates in a 24-hour no-sitting, no-sleeping dance marathon.

 This year, for the first time in the events eight year history, DanceBlue raised more than $1 million.  The laptops provided by UK Libraries allowed participants to connect with the outside world and share their experiences throughout the marathon.

Thanks to Kevin Campbell of UK Libraries Audio-Visual Services for providing laptop computers to DanceBlue participants once again.

UK Librarians participate in International Leadership Summit

Four librarians recently attended the annual SLA Leadership Summit in Dallas.  In addition, Meghan Moran, a graduate student intern who is also Student Chapter President of the School of Library and Information Science SLA Chapter, participated in the event.  The Leadership Summit provides attendees with the opportunity to participate in leadership development activities with information professionals from around the world.   In addition to leadership training, annual conference planning meetings, and association leadership cabinet meetings, the summit offered discussion panels on hot topics. Summit participants included:

• Stacey Greenwell –Professional Development Advisory Council, Academic Division Awards Committee, spoke on the panel “Investing in Ourselves: Developing Leadership Skills and Developing Future Leaders”
• Alex Grigg– Information Technology Division Chair and Kentucky Chapter Treasurer
• Jason Keinsley – Information Technology Division Conference Planner for San Diego 2013 and Academic Division Membership Chair
• Meghan Moran–UK SLIS Student Chapter President of SLA
• Valerie Perry –Kentucky Chapter Past President

UK Libraries promotes information resources at Engineer’s Day

Sue Smith, Rebecca Hamburgess, Laura Whayne and Victoria Brock, representing the Shaver Engineering Library and the Transportation Library, exhibited at Engineer’s Day on Saturday, February 23^rd.  One of UK Libraries’ databases, Films On Demand, and other Internet resources were used to show short film clips on unusual Engineering careers relating to birdbots, swarm technology, and bubble engineering.

Engineer’s Day, or E-Day, is an annual event during National Engineers Week.  Games, activities, exhibits and information are offered and geared towards elementary, middle and high school students as a way to promote engineering, science and math as a possible career choice. Those with an interest will hopefully choose the University of Kentucky for their academic studies in engineering.

http://www.engr.uky.edu/eday/faqs/

ASERL names Visiting Program Officer

John Burger, Executive Director of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries recently announced that Christine Fruin, J.D., M.S.L.I.S., will serve as our Visiting Program Officer for Scholarly Communications.  Fruin is the Scholarly Communications Librarian at the University of Florida. Her one-year term as VPO will start in April.  Fruin has been very active in cultivating a statewide interest group in Florida, worked closely with UF’s University Libraries Committee to draft UF’s first-ever Open Access Policy, and brings a wide network of professional contacts and expertise to this role.

As VPO, one of Fruin’s roles will be to interview scholarly communications/open access leaders within ASERL as the basis for a series of articles on the evolving nature of this work, highlighting the lessons our members have learned, and identifying common themes and possible best practices. 

Exhibit chronicles Kentucky “Women at Work”

To celebrate Women's History Month, University of Kentucky Libraries' Special Collections is currently hosting an exhibit of pictures chronicling the lives and work of Kentucky women through the years. "Women at Work," which is on display through March 31, at the Margaret I. King Building, is free and open to the public. 

 To celebrate Women's History Month, University of Kentucky Libraries' Special Collections is currently hosting an exhibit of pictures chronicling the lives and work of Kentucky women through the years. "Women at Work," which is on display through March 31, at the Margaret I. King Building, is free and open to the public. 

The photographs on display as part of "Women at Work" have been curated by Deirdre A. Scaggs, associate dean of UK Special Collections, and Lewis Warden, coordinator for logistics in UK Special Collections. Images are from various archival collections available through UK Libraries.

You can find out more here:  http://uknow.uky.edu/content/exhibit-chronicles-ky-women-work            

Observations and Reflections

This month Mary Beth Thomson and I are scheduled to present an “update” on UK Libraries to the University Senate.  It will be another opportunity to thank the UK faculty, staff, and students for their support this past year.  Mary Beth and I will also be sharing with the Senate information about collections, the budget, and new initiatives underway and planned to benefit students and faculty.