UK Libraries welcomes students to campus and hosts K Week activities

UK Libraries has planned activities with a “Survivor” theme for K Week and beyond to welcome students to campus. There will be a staffed “Survivor” inspired information desk on the first floor of the Young Library from Wednesday, Aug. 17 through Friday, Sept. 9. Students are encouraged to stop by for “Ask Us! Live!” – a live edition of helpful answers to questions with a prize wheel, memory games and treats.

Survival Skills! Finding Your Way around UK Libraries – Monday, Aug. 22, 11am-noon and Tuesday, Aug. 23, 3-4pm. Begins at the Young Library first floor “Way Station.”

On the Hunt: Librarians As Your Guide – Tuesday, Aug. 30, 4-4:45pm, The Hub@ W.T.s

Bagging the Big Prize:  How to Approach College Level Research – Wednesday, Sept. 7, 4-4:45pm, Young Library Room 1-78

Deirdre Scaggs helps open the time capsule buried in 1958

Associate Dean for Special Collections, Deirdre Scaggs, joined Kodie Kiser of UKPR recently to reveal the contents of a time capsule located during the construction of the new Limestone Park residential complex. UK publications from the late 50s along with a Louie Armstrong concert ticket stub, a Keeneland betting ticket, and a stick of lipstick were among the items pulled from the rusty box. The event was streamed over Facebook live.

SCRC faculty present at Society of American Archivists annual meeting

Deirdre Scaggs, associate dean for Special Collections, chaired two sessions at the Society of American Archivists conference in Atlanta  – “Recipes from Culinary Collections: Creative (and Tasty!) Approaches to Outreach” and “Archives and Institutional Power: A Critical Perspective.”

Ruth Bryan, director and university archivist in the SCRC, chaired “Capstone Officials and Public Records:  Risk, Buy-in, and Archival Selection.” The session consisted of five case studies using the new National Archives and Records Administration’s concept of “capstone officials” as a selection tool for certain categories of public records scheduled for permanent retention. Ruth also presented “Public University Faculty as Capstone Officials,” where she argued that faculty can be considered capstone or senior university officials and demonstrated how this approach has impacted the work of the UK records management task force that she co-facilitates.

Lisa Beatty leaves UK Libraries

Lisa Beatty, library technician in acquisitions and electronic resources, has resigned and her last day at UK Libraries will be August 18. Thank you Lisa for your service and best wishes for all your future endeavors.

Kelly McQueen Joins UK Libraries as Business Services Manager

Kelly McQueen is the new Finance and Administration business services manager effective September 6. Kelly, who has worked in financial roles at UK since 2011 beginning with the College of Agriculture, Food and Environment, was most recently the senior financial analyst for the College of Nursing. Before joining UK, she had more than 15 years of experience in a variety of financial operations and clerical roles in manufacturing, building and service-based industries. Kelly has an associate degree and is currently working on her bachelor’s in business administration at UK.

Sarah Wade is New SCRC Processing Archivist

Sarah Wade joins UK Libraries as a processing archivist for the Special Collections Research Center on August 8. She has previously worked in SCRC on various projects. Since December 2015, she has processed portions of the Prichard Committee records and the W. Hugh Peal Collection. As the UK Libraries Ezra Gillis University Archives Fellow, Sarah spent three months processing the Ron Eller papers.

Before relocating to Lexington, Sarah was a librarian and archivist at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. She received master’s degrees in library science and art history from the Pratt Institute in New York, where she pursued coursework focused on cultural history and special collections, and earned an advanced certificate in archives.

UK Libraries Hosts International Session on Digitization of News

University of Kentucky Libraries is hosting the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) 2016 News Media Satellite Session, August 10-12, at the Hilton Downtown Lexington. Keynote speakers include Patrick Fleming, of the British Library at St. Pancras Campus, and award-winning newspaper columnist Tom Eblen, of the Lexington Herald-Leader.

The session will look at how different news preservation players serve news content creators through digital curation and preservation support, with emphasis on examining strategies toward legal deposit and preservation on local, state and national levels.

UK Libraries has played a major role in newspaper preservation and digitization. One of the first institutions to participate in the NEH United States Newspaper Project (USNP), UK Libraries catalogued and microfilmed more than 3 million pages of historic Kentucky newspapers over 20 years. In 2005, UK Libraries was again on the cutting edge of newspaper preservation, as one of the first six institutions awarded the NEH funded National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) grant. UK  Libraries was awarded four consecutive NDNP awards, the last of which concluded in 2013, and developed meta|morphosis, a film-to-digital institute that brought people from around the world for hands-on training in newspaper digitization. 

IFLA keynote speaker Patrick Fleming, a journalist and former newspaper editor, is head of Business Change at the British Library’s St. Pancras Campus. The British Library serves business and industry, researchers, academics and students in the United Kingdom and worldwide. Every year, 6 million searches are generated by the British Library’s online catalogue and more than 100 million items have been supplied to users.

Tom Eblen, the second keynote speaker, is the metro/state columnist for the Lexington Herald-Leader. He was the Herald-Leader's managing editor from 1998 to 2008. Tom returned to his hometown in 1998 after 14 years with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where he was a regional/national reporter, a business reporter and editor, and an Olympics reporter and editor. Tom is a former board member of the Associated Press Managing Editors and a member of the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame.

IFLA is the leading international body that represents the interests of library and information services and their users. As the global voice of the library and information profession, IFLA has more than 1,300 members in approximately 140 countries.