Promotion to Librarian I

Amy Osborne, Head of Public Services at the Law Library, has been promoted to Librarian I effective July 1, 2008, subject to the approval of the Board of Trustees Promotion to Librarian I recognizes Amy’s expertise in international foreign law and her extensive professional service. Congratulations Amy!

Promotion from Librarian IV to Librarian III

I’m pleased to report that two of our librarians – Eeva Hoch and Jan Carver – have been promoted to Librarian III effective July 1, 2008, subject to the approval of the Board of Trustees. Promotion from Librarian IV to Librarian III is the first step in our promotion and tenure process. Congratulations Eeva and Jan!

UK Libraries Selected to Host HBCU Exchange

We’ve just learned that our proposal to host another HBCU librarian as part of the ASERL/HBCU Alliance has been accepted. Eddie Hughes, Southern University and A&M College, Baton Rouge, LA will be spending some time with us this summer. His project – to create a database of prominent African Americans in Baton Rouge – is a perfect match with the work that Reinette Jones and Rob Aken have done on our Notable Kentucky African-Americans database. We’ll also plan for Eddie to spend some time with the Kentucky African American Encyclopedia Project housed in the King Building. I will be meeting Eddie and making plans for his visit during the upcoming SOLINET Annual Membership Meeting in Atlanta in early May.

Who Speaks for the Negro Exhibit at Vanderbilt

The Nunn Center has been working with Vanderbilt to provide with access to interview conducted by Robert Penn Warren with Martin Luther King. The Vanderbilt online exhibit is now available at http://whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu/

Here’s an excerpt from the message that Vanderbilt library director, Paul Gherman, sent to the ARL Directors:

"The Robert Penn Warren Center at Vanderbilt is commemorating the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s death by focusing a conference on Warren’s book “Who Speaks for the Negro” for which he interviewed many of the civil rights leaders of the time. The reel to reel tapes of the interviews are held by the University of Kentucky and Yale University. These interviews are now digitized and available via the web at the following URL;

The interviews are wonderfully candid and captivating to listen to, as Warren talks with King, Malcolm X and many other African American leaders of the Civil Rights movement. Please enjoy them.

I would like to thank Carol Diedrichs, Alice Prochaska and Ann Okerson and their staff for their generosity and support in providing the recordings. This is a wonderful example of cooperation and sharing within our community."

In Honor of National Library Week, April 13-19

From American Libraries Direct

National Library Week video: The reference desk

“How do you undo nerve gas?” “How do you make rope out of human hair?” “Would you mind checking out this rash?” These and other burning reference questions are answered in this National Library Week (April 13–19) homage (1:55) to the 7.2 million questions answered weekly by the nation’s public and academic librarians. Starring Chicago improv comic Shad Kunkle, and shot at lovely Morton College Library in Cicero, Illinois. The animated introduction is available as a separate video (0:21) that can be downloaded and incorporated into your own NLW productions....