Spot Bonus for Marie Dale

Marie Dale’s primary assignment in SCDP as a Library Tech Sr. is to serve as an office manager for Preservation and Digital Programs.. Marie manages both the very beginning and the very end of the microfilming process by managing relations with customers, orders, receipts, claims, invoicing, and shipping. Her responsibilities also include payroll responsibilities for the large number of staff and students in Preservation and Digital Programs. During the transition following Adrienne Steven’s retirement, Marie played a crucial role in making it possible for SCDP to retool the procedures for payroll in SCDP. Each pay period she reviewed the SCDP paperwork and provided individual instruction to supervisors regarding the payroll process. Congratulations, Marie!

Spot Bonus for Theresa Yocum

Theresa's regular assignments are related to accounting support, but with the resignation of Payroll & HR Assistant Melody Brian last November, Theresa's primary responsibility became processing the payroll for the student workers and staff employees. This included time entry, adding and deleting people from payroll, managing payroll paperwork and absence reports, and maintaining the monthly absence reports. Theresa accepted this assignment willingly and, due to her conscientiousness and exact attention to detail, became very skilled very quickly. She solved a number of complicated payroll issues, improved procedures, and was very responsive and unfailingly pleasant and thorough in handling employee and student payroll questions and resolving problems. Theresa also played an instrumental role in training the new Payroll Assistant, Troy Martin. Her patience, thoroughness, and ongoing support have helped assure a smooth and mostly seamless transition as the majority of the payroll duties have shifted over to Troy. Congratulations, Theresa!

Poem by Jane Vance Posted

For those of you who were able to attend the 10th anniversary celebration in May, we were delighted when Kentucky’s poet laureate, Jane Gentry Vance, honors the Library with the presentation of an original poem about the library. Her poem is now posted on our web site at http://www.uky.edu/Libraries/libpage.php?lweb_id=723&llib_id=14

The Map of Early Modern London

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The Map of Early Modern London

This site maps the streets, sites, and significant boundaries of late 16th-century and early 17th-century London. You can find many of the theatres and landmarks of Shakespeare’s time, and learn about the history and culture of the city in which he lived and worked. Navigation is by index or by tagged map section; an experimental map adds Google-style layers to the map platform. Janelle Jenstad, assistant professor of English at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, is editor and coordinator of the project....Map of Early Modern London

Factors that improve the online experience

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Factors that improve the online experience

The Institute for Dynamic Educational Advancement has released a report that sheds light on how people find information online and how the experience of website visitors can be improved. Some of its key findings: Easy access to complete information is key to visitor enjoyment; visitors want information fast; and designers are overly optimistic about visitors’ ability to maintain orientation. More than 50% report that there is a gap between what they are looking for and what typical websites provide, and 60% think that a personal navigational guide would help....Institute for Dynamic Educational Advancement

On the move with the mobile web

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On the move with the mobile web

In the fifth issue of Library Technology Reports this year, author and library-technology blogger Ellyssa Kroski outlines the components of the mobile web—the users, the devices, the operating systems, the services, the content—and illuminates the research that tracks how users currently engage with information on the Web via their mobile devices. She also delineates several library mobile initiatives and provides a “how to” chapter for libraries interested in developing a mobile experience for their users....

New Partners for Flickr Commons

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New partners for Flickr Commons

The George Eastman House and the Bibliothèque de Toulouse have joined Flickr Commons and are providing open access to some of their images there. The woman dressed as an Egyptian dancer (right) is an autochrome provided by the George Eastman House. The Lumière brothers, inventors of the motion picture camera, invented the autochrome process in 1904. (The Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian is also providing access to part of its collection on Flickr, though not as part of the Commons project.)...Open Access News, July 28