Renee DelMese Resigns

Renee DelMese, Library Technician Senior in the Medical Center Library, has submitted her resignation. She has been employed with the Libraries since August 2001, and was promoted from a Library Technician to LT Sr. position in 2005. Renee's last day at UK will be May 15. We thank her for her good work for the Libraries and wish her good fortune and much success as she relocates to South Carolina.

Video Exhibition of Artworks by High School Students in the Hub

May 11th will mark the opening of the first video exhibit of artwork by high school students at the Hub. In collaboration with Tates Creek High School, Gail Kennedy and Stacey Greenwell have arranged this exhibit which will run from May 11th through June 12th. An opening reception recognizing the high school artists and their work will be held from 5:30 to 7 p.m. on Monday, May 11. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public. We invited the school’s Art Department to exhibit student works this spring in The Hub’s video windows, thus making the school the first Lexington high school to mount an art exhibition in Young Library. Pencil Drawings, chalk pastels, tempera paintings, India ink and ceramics from approximately 150 students will be on display as part of the exhibition. Students represented in the show take Art I, Drawing I and Beginning Ceramics classes. This extends our existing partnership with the high school’s International Baccalaureate program.

Spring Book Arts Event

The King Library Press Spring Book Arts Event will feature a lecture on Elizabeth Yeats and the Cuala Press by scholar Declan Kiely, curator of Literary and Historical Manuscripts at New York's Pierpont Morgan Library. The lecture, "A Family Affair: The Yeatses & the Cuala Press," is scheduled for 7 p.m. Friday, May 8, in the Great Hall of the Margaret I. King Building. The event is free and open to the public. See the full press release at http://news.uky.edu/news/display_article.php?category=1&artid=4656

New Institutional Effectiveness Web Site Launched

A new website of the Office of Institutional Research, Planning, and Effectiveness has been launched. They have been developing this website for 18 months in response to requests for improved navigation and user-friendliness. New features that may be of interest to you include:

• A more comprehensive, collaborative overview of institutional data from offices across the University to provide a “first-stop” shopping site for information commonly sought.
• Data are categorized in various ways and represented in tabs across the top to assist users in finding quickly the information needed. For example, a Diversity tab brings together in one place all the information now available on diverse groups of students, faculty, staff and administrators, even though such information is also available through the student, faculty and staff tabs.
• Customized college pages are provided through the Colleges tab, rather than requiring a user to look for college data throughout all the other various locations where it might reside.
  
  We are working with Institutional Effectiveness to add a page for the Libraries with the other colleges. The site can be found at http://www.uky.edu/IRPE/welcome.html