Sixth Annual Library Career Day:


On March 24, 2012, the Annual Library Career Day was held for the UK Minority College Awareness Program (MCAP). The event is coordinated each year by UK librarian Reinette Jones and Mildred Bailey, Director of UK MCAP. Christopher Johnson and Carlos Marin, both with the Area Health Education Center, co-sponsored the career day program. The event was held from 9:00 a.m. to noon in the College of Medicine

Presentations were delivered by UK librarian Mary Congleton as well as other UK faculty and staff. UK MCAP was established by the Council on Postsecondary Education in 1986. The programs prepare African American and other under-represented students for success in post-secondary education.

Mary Congleton

Mildred Bailey noted that, “Reinette Jones has made a definite and permanent impact on our program. We appreciate the way Reinette actually embraced all librarians in our area to participate and share the love of libraries that she has with our young people.”

Reinette Jones

Deirdre Scaggs Named Co-Director of Wendell H. Ford Public Policy Research Center:

Deirdre Scaggs, Associate Dean for Special Collections, will now also serve as Co-Director of the Wendell H. Ford Public Policy Research Center. Established in 1999, the Ford Center seeks to support research and programming dealing with issues relating to public policy, politics, and Congress. The Center also promotes access to UK Libraries’ large Public Policy Archives. Tracy Campbell, UK Professor of History, serves as the other Co-Director of the Center. The Center is named for Wendell H. Ford who represented Kentucky in the United States Senate for twenty-four years and served as Lieutenant Governor and Governor of Kentucky.

Robert Post Reception:

UK Libraries Special Collections will host a reception for Robert C. Post, Dean and Sol and Lillian Goldman Professor of Law, Yale Law School, Thursday, April 12, 2012 in Special Collections, Margaret I. King Building from 5:15 to 6:15 pm. An exhibit featuring items from the collections former Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson and former Supreme Court Justice Stanley F. Reed will be on view. The UK College of Law is hosting Dean Post as its Roy R. and Virginia F. Ray Distinguished Lecturer. Please RSVP to Kate Hesseldenz (kate.hesseldenz@uky.edu).

New Director of Digital Scholarship:

Adrian Ho will join UK Libraries faculty as Director of Digital Scholarship, Collections and Technical Services Division, effective May 1. He brings to the job a strong professional background as a serials cataloger, technical processing librarian, social sciences librarian, and collection development coordinator. Since 2008, Adrian has been Scholarly Communication Librarian at the University of Western Ontario, Ontario, Canada, where he launched, developed, and managed that institution's institutional repository.

He is professionally active in the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS), and the Library Leadership and Management Association (LLAMA), and was an Association of Research Libraries' Leadership and Career Development Program Fellow. Adrian earned his MLIS degree from McGill University, and holds an MA in Communications Studies from the University of Calgary. We look forward to Adrian's arrival!

Many thanks to the members of the Digital Scholarship Search Committee: Kate Seago, Chair, Doug Boyd, Kathryn Lybarger, Jen Martin, Eric Weig, and Judy Sackett, ex officio.

Chris Worland Helps Colleagues and Students at Aquinas College:

A librarian at Aquinas College recently contacted Chris Worland in Young Library’s Reference Services. The librarian asked about using one of Chris’ “Prezi’s” for an eight-week, one-credit hour class. A Prezi is an online presentation tool that operates like a digital whiteboard providing movement during transitions and also allows users to zoom in and out of content.

The librarian noted that, “I found your Prezi's when searching Google for ‘wind energy.’ I'm always looking for better ways to teach topic selection and I'm wondering if you might give me permission to use your Prezi's?”

One of the best aspects of online resource development is sharing ideas with others and making connections with new colleagues. We hope that Chris’ work is useful for the students at Aquinas College and elsewhere.


Kate Black Serves on Graduate School Fellowship Review Committee:

The University of Kentucky offers a James Still Fellowship for Graduate Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The fellowship provides $15,000, plus a tuition scholarship and student health insurance. Kate Black, Special Collections, served on this year’s fellowship selection committee.

“Endowed by a gift from the Bingham Fund and named to honor author James Still, the James Still Fellowship is available for graduate study in the humanities and social sciences at the University of Kentucky for an entering graduate student who graduated from a high school in the Appalachian region and encompasses a wide range of academic areas. Non-traditional students and those with financial need (as demonstrated in the student statement) are encouraged to apply. The award is potentially renewable for a second year (Master's students) or for a total of three years (Doctoral students).”

The James Still Collection is in UK Libraries Special Collections. A native of Alabama, author James Still spent most of his life in the Hindman Settlement of Knott County. In addition to his writing, Still worked as a farmer, librarian and teacher. Winner of many literary awards, including two Guggenheim fellowships, Still published novels, short stories and poems which reflect his passionate feelings for the Kentucky mountains.

The Still Collections includes typescripts, many with Still's handwritten comments, for such noted works as River of Earth, Still's first novel; Hounds on the Mountain, a book of poems; On Troublesome Creek, Sporty Creek, and many others. Files in this collection include printed copies of Still's published works, biographical information, correspondence dating from the 1930s to 1990s, photographs, reviews, and clippings. There are materials on the Hindman Settlement School where Still served as librarian (1932-1939) and 1951-1961), and Morehead College where he taught. Files of printed materials relate to Lincoln Memorial University, Vanderbilt, and the University of Illinois, schools from which Still received degrees in English and Library Science.


Freshman Composition Is Not Teaching Key Skills in Analysis, Researchers Argue:

http://chronicle.com/article/Freshman-Composition-Is-Not/131278/?sid=pm&utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en

 
National Advisory Board Member Busy with Architecture and History:

UK Libraries Advisory Board Member Alan Sullivan, Director of Healthcare Studio, KZF DESIGN, INC. spoke this week at a national healthcare conference on “Best Practices in Healthcare Engineering and Facilities Management.”

Alan is also working to complete a book about his father Claude Sullivan, one of the original “Voices” of UK sports. The Claude Sullivan Collection is in UK Libraries Special Collections. The collection is comprised of 254 1/4" reel to reel audio tapes which have been digitized. The tapes contain Sullivan announcing U.K. football and basketball games and covering his trip to the Soviet Union in 1959.


UK Libraries Helps Prepare for Severe Weather:


Sue Smith, Head of the Science and Engneering Library recently announced the availability of a new research guide. It has a wide variety of resources for tornado research as well as information on chasing extreme weather, videos, books, preparedness, and disaster relief for Kentuckians. Sue is updating daily as she finds more resources to try and keep it current for central and eastern Kentucky.

Here is the link: http://libguides.uky.edu/tornadoes

African-American Photo Collections Available Online:



       Elizabeth Beatrice Cooke Fouse


• Fouse family photographs http://eris.uky.edu/exploreuk/catalog/xt7dfn10pm9f/guide

• Collection on African Americans in Kentucky http://eris.uky.edu/exploreuk/catalog/xt7j6q1sfw2s/guide

• Joshua Soule Smith papers, 1863-1905 http://eris.uky.edu/exploreuk/catalog/xt78pk06xc5r/guide

• John Winston Coleman Jr. collection on slavery in Kentucky http://eris.uky.edu/exploreuk/catalog/xt74xg9f541m/guide

• Sallie Price papers (images will be linked asap) http://eris.uky.edu/exploreuk/catalog/xt76q52f7x6t/guide


Sara Price processed the collections under the supervision of Jason Flahardy:

ProQuest / GODORT / ALA Recognizes ASERL for Innovation in Managing Federal Documents:

The Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) was recently awarded the 2012 "Documents to the People” Award, presented by ProQuest, the American Library Association (ALA), and ALA’s Government Documents Round Table (GODORT). This award is presented each year to an individual or organization that has most effectively encouraged the use of government documents in support of library service.

ASERL’s Collaborative Federal Depository Program (CFDP) was selected for this award in
recognition of its “achievable and sustainable plan for the development and preservation of
comprehensive depository collections on a multi-state level.” ASERL’s program for managing federal documents began in 2005 to coordinate the future development of these important library collections within the Southeast region. The program seeks to create “Centers of Excellence” within depository libraries, to develop comprehensive-as-possible documents collections relating to a government agency, SuDoc stem, subject matter, or format. This allows researchers to identify the best documents collections for their selected areas. The collections are also supported by expert librarians who manage the Centers of Excellence.  Further development of the program was supported by a 2009 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) as well as by the Government Printing Office (GPO).

The entire press release can be found here: http://laurientaylor.org/2012/03/16/aserl-govdocs-work-recognized-with-documents-to-the-people-award/