Happy Holidays

What a wonderful holiday lunch we had today including a good contingent of our retirees. Thank you to the Hospitality Committee for making the arrangements and to Ovid’s and UK Catering for a tasty lunch and a lovely setting. We also had a fun time today with the photo on the steps. Thank you, Debbie Sharp, for this good idea. I’m sure we’ll have lots of opportunities to use these photos in our marketing efforts.

Let me also thank each of you for the good work you’ve done this year

• You’ve done more with less
• You’ve been innovative and creative
• You’ve been responsive to the needs of our faculty, staff and community
• You’ve made a difference in the lives of those we serve

I hope you have a relaxing, restful, and joyful holiday.

UK Libraries Wins Three Awards for our Marketing Materials

Earlier this month, UK Libraries took home awards for 3 out of our 4 Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, Kentucky chapter (CASE-KY) award submissions and 2 of the awards were first prize Grand Awards. By virtue of winning our state competitions, we’re still in the competition for the CASE Region III Awards in Feb. 2009.

Congratulations to Doug Boyd for the Grand Award in CASE-KY (Audiovisual Communications) Radio Programs and Announcements for their collaboration in the oral history series. Doug collaborated with WUKY for a series about the Nunn Center for Oral History; topics have included the Bill Keightley archive project, dirty tricks in Kentucky political campaigns of yesteryear and the Frontier Nursing Program.

Congratulations to Sharon Ross and Jessica Hughes for the Grand Award for our newsletter, Speaking Volumes in the External Tabloids and Newsletters. Congratulations to Kelley Nalli and Cornett for their help in developing the template three years ago. Jessica has developed desktop publishing and photography skills that help make this an excellent publication.

Our new brochure for the UK Libraries also received a Merit Award in the Direct Mail, Brochure category.

Sharon Ross attended the meeting for the Libraries and was presented with a certificate, at the CASE-KY award program at the Mohammed Ali Center in Louisville. President Todd will receive a letter announcing the awards this week. A press release with more details is available at http://news.uky.edu/news/display_article.php?category=1&artid=4247

My thanks to Sharon and Jessica for preparing our submissions so that they could contend for these awards.

SOLINET/PALINET Merger

Some of you will have seen a recent message from SOLINET relating to the plans to merge the two networks into a new organization. As chair of the Board of SOLINET, I’ve the unique opportunity this year to participate in the complex and at times vexing process of trying to merge two groups together with different policies, cultures, and approaches to their business. What follows is an extract from a recent mailing from the Board of SOLINET to the governing members of the organizations (of which UK is one):

The strategic and operational benefits of this merger remain relevant to our initial vision, and will result in:

· Cost control and savings to members
· Applying operational best practices from both organizations
· Expanding our capacity for innovation
· Rapid implementation of new programs
· Enhanced technology leadership

Your vote as a Governing member is the next and final step in this process. Voting will begin on January 8th and continue through January 28th via a secure online site, followed by a special membership meeting. During the voting period, we will host optional webinars to answer any questions. More information about the voting process and these online sessions will be sent in early January. You can also find information at www.mergerupdate.org, a combined site for PALINET and SOLINET members.

Next Dean's Update

The next Dean’s Update will be January 9, 2009.

Library of Congress Releases Report on its Use of Flickr

The Library of Congress has just released a report on its initial months of experience in making a portfolio of photographs available to the public via the Flickr photo-sharing service. This is a fascinating project that helps to illuminate the ways in which interactions between cultural memory organizations and audiences around collections are changing in the digital environment, and I think that the report will be of interest to many CNI-announce readers. Both a summary and full report, along with other material on the project, are available at: http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/flickr_pilot.html

Springer to Preserve Content in CLOCKSS

From American Libraries Direct

Publisher Springer Science+Business Media is partnering with the cooperative electronic archive CLOCKSS to preserve the content of its more than 1,700 periodical titles. The archive ensures perpetual access to journal content that has been orphaned, abandoned, or interrupted. Springer, a founding member of CLOCKSS, has also submitted a proposal to the archive’s board outlining a pilot project to test the feasibility and legal issues surrounding the preservation of its eBook content.... http://www.clockss.org/clockss/Springer_helps_launch_CLOCKSS
CLOCKSS, Dec. 3

Google Book Search Puts Magazines Online

From American Libraries Direct

Google Book Search puts magazines online

Google announced an initiative December 9 to enable full-text searches of millions of articles from more than 10 magazines (with hundreds more to come). Eventually, Google will begin blending magazine results into the main search results. For now, you can turn up magazine articles by trying an advanced Google Book Search. Unfortunately, no browsable guide to all the magazines indexed is planned....Search Engine Land, Dec. 9

Deirdre Scaggs Appointed Director of Archives

Deirdre Scaggs, currently University Archivist, has been hired as the new Director of Archives, Special Collections and Digital Programs Division. She will be responsible for the administration of an archival program which includes Manuscripts, University Archives and Records Program, Audio-Visual, Public Policy Archives and the Bert T. Combs Appalachian Collection. Deirdre will begin her new assignment on January 1, 2009. Congratulations, Deirdre!

Jeff (Podge) Rion Apppinted Computer Support Specialist

Jeff (Podge) Rion, formerly a student and then a STEPS employee in the Information Technology Division, will move into a regular position on January 5. As Computer Support Specialist II, he will continue to provide first-level computer hardware and software support to the Libraries. Welcome, Podge!

Coordinator of Metadata and Caraloging Position

The search for a Coordinator of Cataloging and Metadata has not resulted in a hiring. However, the position description has been updated and a new search will be announced soon.

ConsultFour Report on R&E and IT

This report from our consultants, Marilu Goodyear and Beth Warner, will be presented at meetings early next week on Tuesday. The full report will be posted in Office of the Dean SharePoint site under ConsultFour Report after those meetings. A PowerPoint presentation summary will also posted which lays out the key observations and recommendations as well as next steps.

Article in Kentucky Libraries by Kopana Terry

Check out the most recent Kentucky Libraries (vol. 72, no. 4) which includes an article by Kopana Terry entitled “Paging Through the Past: Kentucky’s Newspapers on the National Newsstand.” Congratulations Kopana!

Science experiments: reaching out to users

From American Libraries Direct

Science experiments: Reaching out to users

Convincing faculty and students in the sciences of the value of libraries and librarians can be a particularly hard sell as more and more of their primary journal literature becomes available online everywhere. Six science librarians from the University of Washington experimented with both traditional and unconventional ways to engage their users. They tried meeting in the users’ spaces, luring them into the library’s, and using creative initiatives that included blogs, giveaways, and geocaching....Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, no. 55 (Fall)

Europeana goes online, gets overwhelmed

From American Libraries Direct

Europeana goes online, gets overwhelmed

A new digital library of Europe’s cultural heritage crashed just hours after it went online and will be out of operation for several weeks, the European Commission said, attributing the failure to as many as 10 million hits an hour. Europeana, a website of 3.5 million documents and images, opened November 20 with international publicity. But by the next day, those trying to log on were greeted with a message telling them that the service may not be running again until mid-December, while computer capacity is upgraded. Watch the BBC report (1:55) on the Europeana launch....New York Times, Nov. 21; European Commission, Nov. 21; BBC News, Nov. 21

Social Networks and citation tools for scientists

From American Libraries Direct

Social networks and citation tools for scientists

Lorcan Dempsey writes: “The emergence of social-network services is symptomatic of the move from website to workflow as our unit of attention on the Web. We want to get things done, by tying things together ourselves or by having them tied together in prefabricated services. It is interesting to see how many of them strongly feature literature resources.” Here are a handful of useful tools for science researchers....Lorcan Dempsey’s Weblog, Dec. 1

Promote your federal depository collection

From American Libraries Direct

Promote your federal depository collection

Using the theme, “Easy as FDL: Free information, Dedicated service, and Limitless possibilities,” this video (5:10) demonstrates what makes federal depository libraries essential to the American public. Librarians and others knowledgeable about the Federal Depository Library Program were interviewed and asked to explain its benefits. The video is downloadable for use on library websites....FDLP Desktop, Nov. 3

What do stduents want in a library newsletter?

From American Libraries Direct

What do students want in a library newsletter?

Brian Mathews conducted an informal assessment of student reactions to the Georgia Institute of Technology’s library newsletter: “I tested different layout styles to see how much text was too much text, what types of images or themes students liked, and what they remembered based upon a quick glance. The editorial group is working through that data now.” He sums up the things that male and female students liked to see in the publication....The Ubiquitous Librarian, Dec. 2

New Programmer Hired

Edward (Ed) Brown has been offered and has accepted the Server Administrator /Programmer II position in the Information Technology Division. He will bring over 10 years of programming experience to his position and will begin work on January 2, 2009. Ed's work area will be located in the Reference/IT staff area on the second floor of Young Library.

UK Archives and Collections Highlighted in Wikipedia

In an ongoing agenda to take our resources to where people are, SCDP has added links to our collections to records in Wikipedia. The first institutions to take this approach were the University of Washington and the Library of Congress. It’s very cool to see links to our rich resources in this source. Thanks, SCDP!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jacob_Niles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier_Nursing_Service
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earle_Clements
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Nelson_National_Cemetery

Partnership with UK Athletics Makes Mr. Wildcat Interviews Available Online

In a partnership funded by UK Athletics and in a new interface developed in SCDP, the oral history interviews of Bill Keightley, Mr. Wildcat, at now available online. The first seven Keightley interviews can be found at http://kdl.kyvl.org/

New Faculty Directory and Other Information

Here’s a link from the Provost’s Office to orientation details that they have created for new faculty. You might be interested in seeing the information that’s on this page for the new faculty as well. You’ll find the 2007 and 2008 new faculty directories on this site http://www.uky.edu/Provost/APFA/Recruitment/. If you have ideas about the site, please let Heidi Anderson in the Provost’s Office know.

Save the Date for SLIS Lazerow Lecture

Please mark your calendars for the 2009 Lazerow Lecture sponsored by the School of Library and Information Studies. The Lecture will be held April 22 including a reception from 4:30 pm-5:00 pm and the lecture from 5:00 pm-6:00 pm. Dr. Bill Stead from Vanderbilt will deliver the 2009 Lazerow Lecture. You may find more information about Dr. Stead at: http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/infocntr/stead/stead.htm

Open Source Integrated Library Systems

Open Source Integrated Library Systems, A new Library Technology Reports

This new volume by Marshall Breeding (Vanderbilt) “provides extensive information about the emerging open source software movement as it applies to integrated library systems, and details the differences between using an open source approach to that of using conventional proprietary software.” http://www.techsource.ala.org/ltr/open-source-integrated-library-systems.html

RSS and Scholarly Journal Tables of Contents

From American Libraries Direct

RSS and scholarly journal tables of contents

Lisa Rogers writes: “A growing number of scholarly journal publishers provide RSS feeds for their tables of contents. Subscribing to a feed enables someone to not only read the latest TOC, but also to share and reuse the information by publishing it to their blog or adding it as a widget to their website. In theory, anyone can keep fully up to date with all the scholarly journals they want. However, as I have found from my work on the ticTOCs project, it isn’t always that easy.”...FUMSI, Oct.

ACRL Launches First Interest Group

From American Libraries Direct

ACRL launches first interest group

ACRL has created a Residency Interest Group, the first interest group approved by its board of directors. The RIG supports the creation, implementation, management, and promotion of library residency programs. It accomplishes this by providing a central location for information about program availability; the creation of core competencies, evaluation, and assessment standards; and the overall advancement of the quality of resident education....

ACRL Launches First Interest Group

From American Libraries Direct

ACRL launches first interest group

ACRL has created a Residency Interest Group, the first interest group approved by its board of directors. The RIG supports the creation, implementation, management, and promotion of library residency programs. It accomplishes this by providing a central location for information about program availability; the creation of core competencies, evaluation, and assessment standards; and the overall advancement of the quality of resident education....

Five Ways Social Media will change recorded history

From American Libraries Direct

Five ways social media will change recorded history

Ben Parr writes: “History tends to remember only pivotal moments in time, discarding the day-to-day struggles. Even when the occasional diary survives, it only archives what one person does—it doesn’t track his or her interactions with others. But with social media, that information is readily available and archives how we interact with others over time. For the first time in human history, the day-to-day interactions between people are being permanently recorded and formatted in easily organizable segments of information.”...Mashable, Nov. 18

Emory and George Mason team up on Zotero project

From American Libraries Direct

Emory and George Mason team up on Zotero project

Emory University Libraries and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University have entered a cooperative partnership on Zotero, the free, open-source bibliographic manager. A team of librarians, information technologists, and faculty members led by Connie Moon Sehat, Emory Libraries’ new director of digital scholarship initiatives, will extend the research capabilities of the software in collaboration with Zotero’s main development team....Emory University, Nov. 14