Books from UPK and UK Libraries faculty featured in Courier-Journal gift guide

The Louisville Courier-Journal featured five books connected to the University Press of Kentucky and UK Libraries on their holiday gift giving list for 2015.

The article, available to read online, lists the following UPK books:

Kentucky by Design: The Decorative Arts and American Culture, edited by Andrew Kelly, published by UPK.

The Birth of Bourbon: A Photographic Tour of Early Distilleries, by Carol Peachee, published by UPK.

The Manhattan Cocktail: A Modern Guide to the Whiskey Classic, by Albert W.A. Schmid, published by UPK.

Venerable Trees: History, Biology and Conservation in the Bluegrass, by Tom Kimmerer, published by UPK.

A fifth book on the newspaper’s list is Row by Row: Talking With Kentucky Gardeners, by Katherine Black, a former archivist at UK Libraries. Photos in the book are by Deirdre Scaggs, associate dean of the UK Libraries Special Collections Research Center. The book is published by Ohio University Press.

Special Collections Research Center: digital collections update

Preparing a grave, from the Hargis Family photographs, circa 1908

Several collections have been digitized recently and are now available on ExploreUK and the Kentucky Digital Library. The urls have been added to ArchivesSpace when applicable. Many thanks to those who played a role in providing access to this content.

·         Kentucky Circuit Court (Hardin County) complaints, 1797-1811 

·         District Superior Court of Kentucky records, 1785-1799 

·         Perry family papers, 1800-1952 

·         Mary Steele copybook, 1800 

·         Kentucky Circuit Court (Jessamine County) records, 1800-1823 

·         Jessamine County Fiscal Court record book, 1898-1916 

·         Kentucky County Court (Muhlenberg County) records, 1801-1812 

·         Hargis family photographs, circa 1908 

·         The Idea, 1909-1915 (precursor to the Kentucky Kernel)

·         The State College Cadet, 1891-1895 (precursor to the Kentucky Kernel)

·         Kentucky Kernel, 1961-1970

·         2014 and 2015 UK Bulletin

InfoKat Discovery is coming in 2016

UK Libraries will release a new library search system, InfoKat Discovery, on January 20, 2016. InfoKat Discovery will be a significant improvement to unified searching of scholarly resources including everything in the current InfoKat, plus hundreds of electronic databases, E-Journals, E-Books, articles, archival resources, media, and much more – all in a single search interface.  InfoKat Discovery will replace the current InfoKat catalog, the E-Journals list, the E-Books list, the Get Text services and WorldCat Local article searching on the 20th.  UK Libraries' own digital resources, such as Explore UK and UKnowledge, will also be added soon to InfoKat Discovery.  

For more information, visit the UK Libraries news page. 

Joseph Gabbard joins UK Libraries

Joseph Gabbard will join UK Libraries as a computer support specialist II for Audio Visual Services. His first day will be December 14, 2015.  Joseph received his MLS degree from the University of Kentucky and previously worked at the AV lab in the Whitehall Classroom building as an instructional television technician.

Iris Law resigns

Iris Law, assistant editor at the University Press of Kentucky, has resigned from UK. Her last day at work will be January 8, 2016. 

Twenty UPK authors attend Kentucky Book Fair

By Whitney Hale, UK Public Relations and Marketing

The 34^th annual Kentucky Book Fair took place in Frankfort, Kentucky, on Saturday, November 14, 2015. The fair featured more than 200 authors and editors showcasing their most recent books, including several writers from University Press of Kentucky (UPK). Twenty of the 2015 authors were from University Press of Kentucky.

UPK authors participating in the Kentucky Book Fair included:

• Terri Blom Crocker, The Christmas Truce: Myth, Memory, and the First World War;

• Peter P. Bosomworth, F. Douglas Scutchfield, and Paul Evans Holbrook Jr., The Letters of Thomas Merton and Victor and Carolyn Hammer: Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam;

• Theodore A. Hallam, Gerald L. Smith, Karen Cotton McDaniels, and John A. Hardin, The Kentucky African-American Encyclopedia;

• James Archambeault, Kentucky Horse Country: Images of the Bluegrass ;

• Roberta Simpson Brown and Lonnie E. Brown, Haunted Holidays: Twelve Months of Kentucky Ghosts;

• Kathryn Canavan, Lincoln’s Final Hours: Conspiracy, Terror, and the Assassination of America’s Greatest President;

• Robert Crane and Christopher Fryer, Crane: Sex, Celebrity, and My Father's Unsolved Murder;

• Kathleen Driskell, Next Door to the Dead: Poems;

• Richard Holl, Committed to Victory: The Kentucky Home Front During World War II;

• Tom Kimmerer, Venerable Trees: History, Biology, and Conservation in the Bluegrass;

• William Lynwood Montell, Tales from Kentucky Nurses;

• Carol Peachee, The Birth of Bourbon: A Photographic Tour of Early Distilleries; and

• Aimee Zaring, Flavors from Home: Refugees in Kentucky Share Their Stories and Comfort Foods.

Sponsored by The State-Journal, and co-sponsored by the Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, Joseph-Beth Booksellers, UPK and the Kentucky Humanities Council, the Kentucky Book Fair attracts thousands of avid readers and patrons from across the country. Founded in 1981, the Kentucky Book Fair is the state's leading literary event. Since its inception, the fair has recognized outstanding Kentucky authors and editors. The largest and oldest event of its kind in the state, the Kentucky Book Fair has three key goals:

· to honor the profession of writing in the form of a one-day celebration;

· to provide a format for authors to meet their reading public; and

· to raise money through the sale of books and donate all profits to mostly school and public libraries throughout Kentucky

The proceeds benefit libraries that have few resources to expand collections, replace old books or fund literacy-related causes. Those contributions to date total more than $375,000.

Excerpted with permission from UKNow.

Eastern Kentucky Health Services, Inc. records now available at SCRC

Student workers Matthew Noe and Ashley Keith rehouse and create the inventory of blueprints
related to grant applications in the Eastern Kentucky Health Services, Inc. records.
Here is the blueprint for a proposed addition to Memorial Hospital in Manchester, Kentucky.

In 2014 the UK Libraries Special Collections  Research Center received Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) funding to process "Action in Appalachia: Revealing Public Health, Housing, and Community Development Records in the UK Libraries Special Collections Research Center." This processing project is now well underway and the first collection, records of Eastern Kentucky Health Services, Inc., is newly housed, arranged, and described. This collection provides unique documentation for researchers of public health efforts in rural Kentucky during the 1970s and 1980s.

The Eastern Kentucky Health Services, Inc. records’ finding aid is now available on ExploreUK.