Bill Marshall Honored by the KY SHRAB

The Kentucky State Historical Records Advisory Board (SHRAB) presented four Certificates of Merit to commemorate Kentucky Archives Month. William J. Marshall was honored with a Certificate of Merit for Significant Service as an Archivist, having worked thirty years or more in archival repositories in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Congratulations Bill!

Michel Thompson Hired as Library Tech

Michel (pronounced Michelle) Thompson has been hired as a Library Technician in the Interlibrary Loan Department, Access and Delivery Division. Since 2006, Ms. Thompson has been a librarian assistant at the Beaumont Branch of the Lexington Public Library. She has a BA from Transylvania University and a Masters in Clinical Psychology from EKU. Michel's starting date will be November 10. Welcome Michel!

On the Lighter Side -- Homecoming at the University of Florida

My colleague, Judy Russell, Dean of Libraries at the University of Florida, shared the following link to photos the Libraries’ homecoming float last weekend. That’s Judy stirring the pot which appears to be boiling a UK Wildcat! Certainly not our best showing on the football field that weekend. http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/pio/float2008.pdf

SOLINET Educational Services Video

SOLINET is airing a new four-minute video presentation on You Tube, which encapsulates their expansive offering of live and self-paced classes. Check it out at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jVBMMljsmo

From the Association for Research Libraries

• E-Science Talking Points for ARL Deans and Directors – ARL and CNI hosted a forum on Re-inventing Science Librarianship which offered a rich exploration of emerging trends in e-science and new paradigms of library support. Rick Brewer, Jan Carver and I were able to attend. As background for the Forum and as a resource for the ARL membership, the ARL E-Science Working Group released this document which offers a mix of definitions, key concepts, exemplary projects, and further reading. http://www.arl.org/rtl/escience/eresource.shtml
• ARL Annual Salary Survey 2007-08 – the survey analyzes salary data for all professional staff working in the 123 ARL member libraries during 2007-08. Data are reported for 9,983 professional staff in the 113 university ARL libraries and for 3,797 professional staff in the 10 non-university ARL libraries. In the Salary Survey, data for university library staff are usually reported in three distinct groups: general library systems, health sciences libraries, and law libraries. http://www.arl.org/stats/annualsurveys/salary/arl-annual-salary-survey-2007-08.shtml
• Planning a Learning Space in a Research Library: Pre-Programming Tool Kit – This tool kit enables library staff--without reliance on outside experts--to conduct pre-programming assessment and customize their learning spaces to fit their local circumstances. The kit includes an overview of the planning process for building a learning commons as well as easy-to-use, one- to two-page guides to implementing a dozen different pre-programming assessment techniques. The techniques have been tested in several libraries and consistently produce excellent data for developing informed building programs. http://www.arl.org/rtl/space/
• Author Rights under NIH Public Access Policy – Author rights affected by the new National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy are featured in the latest issue of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Bimonthly Report, no. 259. http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/br/br259.shtml
• Records Management: SPEC Kit 305 – explores the state of records management in ARL member institutions. Records management is the field of management responsible for efficient and systematic control of the creation, receipt, maintenance, use, and disposition of the records of a business or organization. The table of contents and executive summary from this SPEC Kit are available online at http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/spec305web.pdf. A print copy is in the collection.

Landmark Decision for Google Book Search

From American Libraries Direct and elsewhere

As many expected, at some point Google would settle the lawsuits brought by the publishers concerning their Book Search scanning process. Much detail remains to be understood about this agreement. The settlement agreement itself is more than 200 pages.

Google settles scanning suit with authors, publishers
After two years of negotiations, a settlement has been reached in lawsuits between Google and author and publisher groups over the search-engine company’s scanning of copyrighted books. Under the settlement, announced October 28 and subject to approval by a New York federal court, Google would pay $125 million to resolve a class-action lawsuit brought in 2005 by book authors and the Authors Guild, as well as a separate suit filed by five publishers. The payment would go toward creation of a Book Rights Registry where authors and publishers can register works and receive compensation....American Libraries Online, Oct. 29

Also in the Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/free/2008/10/6010n.htm?utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

Harvard opts out of settlement due to uncertainties about the cost http://chronicle.com/news/article/5417/harvard-says-no-thanks-to-google-deal-for-scanning-in-copyright-works?utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

Student writing and development award

From American Libraries Direct

Student writing and development award

LLAMA is now accepting entries for the 2009 YBP Student Writing and Development Award. All students enrolled in a library and information studies graduate program are eligible to submit essays on the theme “Take the lead @ your library.” The winning article will be published in a future issue of Library Leadership & Management....

Apply for a travel grant to ALA Annual Conference

From American Libraries Direct

Apply for a travel grant to ALA Annual Conference

ALA Library Director Karen Muller writes: “Other bloggers are discussing the cost of attending an ALA Annual Conference. I’m going to help you do something about it. There is now easy access to the entire list of travel grants offered by ALA and its divisions and round tables on the new website. The time to get your application together is now, because the deadline for most of the awards is the first business day in December.”...ALA Marginalia, Oct. 22

GMU Sued by Reuteres over Zotero

From American Libraries Direct

GMU sued by Reuters over Zotero

Peter Murray writes: “Thomson Reuters is suing George Mason University to stop distribution of the newest version of Zotero, a Firefox browser plug-in for managing citation data. Reuters is claiming (PDF file) that GMU is violating the terms of its license agreement by including a function in Zotero that will convert citation styles from its proprietary EndNote format to a format that can be used by Zotero. Reuters is also asking for $10 million in damages for destroying the EndNote customer base. Since GMU is a state institution, the Commonwealth of Virginia is also named in the suit.”...Disruptive Library Technology Jester, Sept. 27; Courthouse News Service

Google library partners to offer digital backup

From American Libraries Direct

Google library partners to offer digital backup

A group of major universities has been quietly working for the past two years to build one of the largest online collections of books ever assembled, by pooling the millions of volumes that Google has scanned in its partnership with university libraries. One of the most important functions of the project is to create a stable backup of the digital books should Google go bankrupt or lose interest in the book-searching business. The project is called HathiTrust, and so far it consists of the members of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation....Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 13