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