University Archivist, Head of Archival Services, and Associate Professor of Bibliography S. Victor Fleischer was part of the Ohio History Author-to-Author panel event last Saturday at the 2020 Virtual Buckeye Book Fair. The book fair, a nonprofit organization, is Ohio’s showcase literary event. Participation is by invitation only for nearly 100 of Ohio’s notable writers, illustrators, and photographers to autograph and discuss their books. During the event, Fleischer discussed his new book, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company: A Photographic History, 1898-1951, which was recently published by The University of Akron Press.
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Thea Ledendecker attended a webinar through The ACES Academy entitled “Empowering Editors to Talk About Conscious Language and Representation.” She also finished a Designing a Book course on LinkedIn Learning. Part of the description reads: This class covers setting up your document, placing and styling text, working with images, creating the book cover, and preparing the book for printing. https://www.linkedin.com/learning/designing-a-book-2/creating-a-book-in-indesign?u=79600362
After she finished the course, she was then able to typeset one of our forthcoming books, Akron’s Daily Miracle.
Inspiring accomplishments, Thea!
Over the past year, David Procházka served on the planning committee for the 2020 OLAC Conference (http://www.olacinc.org/2020conference/). It was originally set to be held in Columbus, but had to switch to online delivery, due to COVID. The conference was held October 13-16, and David moderated half-a-dozen sessions by introducing the speakers, managing scores of questions, and keeping events on schedule. OLAC is a professional organization for catalogers, which supports the development of expertise in cataloging resources in many formats, including video, audio, and three-dimensional objects, by offering format-specific training.
Impressive work, David!
As part of the 2020 ALAO Annual Conference, Tammy Stitz participated in creating the poster is “Ensuring your Microsoft Word created PDFs are Accessible”. To see the short video about the poster, use the following link.
Nice going, Tammy!
University Archivist and Head of Archival Services S. Victor Fleischer presented on a panel titled “Archives During COVID: Local Perspectives” at the Cleveland Archival Roundtable Meeting on October 15, 2020. Fleischer presented with John Bowen, Director of Archives at the Cleveland Clinic, and Pamela Eyerdam, Fine Arts and Special Collections Manager at Cleveland Public Library. Fleischer and the panel presented and led a discussion on COVID and its effects on archives and the archives profession.
Timely work, Vic!
University Archivist, Head of Archival Services, and Associate Professor of Bibliography S. Victor Fleischer’s book, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company: A Photographic History, 1898-1951 has been recently published by The University of Akron Press. Copies can be purchased for a 30% discount on the University Press website at www.uakron.edu/uapress with the code AIRSHIPS. Vic will be doing a book signing and book talk at the Summit County Historical Society on Saturday, October 17th from 1:30-3:00pm and at the Ellet Public Library at 6:30 on Tuesday, October 20th. He’s also scheduled for a book signing at the Learned Owl in Hudson on Sunday, November 15th and will appear at the online Buckeye Book Fair as part of an author to author talk on Saturday, November 14th at 6:30pm.
Nice work, Vic!
Marilia Yesenia Antunez and Tammy A. Stitz presented in August 2020 at a virtual joint conference:
https://opalpalni2020.sched.com/event/ceda/widening-tailored-research-workshops-for-honors-students
The presentation examined the planning process of a series of workshops supporting honors students in creating their theses. The process was informed by lessons learned from previous workshops. The formation of the series was a partnership of librarians and the honors college to deliver 12 one-hour workshops.
Nice teamwork, Marilia and Tammy!
From the UA-Digest:
New officers elected by University Council
At their Sept. 14 meeting, members of University Council elected a new slate of officers. Dr. Philip Allen, interim director of research administration and immediate past chair of University Council, called the meeting to order and conducted the election of the UC chair.
- Dr. Tonia P. Ferrell was appointed by acclimation as the new chair. She was the only person nominated and will serve a two-year term. Ferrell is director of prospect development and campaigns in the Department of Development, and had served as secretary of University Council for several years.
- Jeanette Carson, Director of Audio Visual and Distance Learning Services, was elected as vice chair.
- Dr. Kristine Kraft, an associate professor and interim director of the School of Allied Health, was elected secretary.
Congratulations, Jeanette!
In his role as business librarian, Jeffrey Franks assisted with a SWOT Analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) of the board game industry and provided support in the development of a new board game. Tyler Novak, a two-time UA alumnus, and founder of The Novak Gaming Co. is producing a tip of the tongue word game “Goes Both Ways”. In the process, Joe Mulea, took on developing a marketing program for the Company as an independent study project during the spring semester, prior to earning his MBA. That’s where Jeff’s assistance was important. To read more about “Goes Both Ways”, see the July 10, 2020 UA-Digest.
Nicely done, Jeff!
Brittany Hayes, Electronic Services, and Zoe Orcutt, Archives, gave a presentation with Sidney Gao and James Van Mil from the University of Cincinnati on June 16 at Society of Ohio Archivists virtual conference. The title of the presentation was “Initial Steps on a Digital Preservation Policy.”
Great teamwork!