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Electronic Services General Interest Professional Development

Monaco Presents & Publishes

Mike Monaco presented “The life-changing magic of RegEx” at the Library Collective’s 2020 conference in Knoxville, Tennessee, on Thursday, March 12. This was a hands-on workshop introducing the attendees to what regular expressions (RegEx) are and how to use them to match different patterns in text or data, using games. His co-presenter, Kathryn Lybarger of the University of Kentucky, was unable to attend this conference due to illness.

In addition, he published:

Report of the Catalog Form & Function Interest Group Meeting. American Library Association Annual Conference, Washington, DC, June 2019, Technical Services Quarterly, 37:2, 201-202, DOI: 10.1080/07317131.2020.1728135

Nice work, Mike!

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General Interest Professional Development Science & Technology Library

McCullough Wins Grant

Ian McCullough won a professional development grant of (up to) $2,500 to attend the two-day Library Carpentry Workshops in Baltimore this March. This is sponsored by the National Network of Libraries of Medicine Southeastern Atlantic Region and “focuses on building software and data skills within library and information-related communities.” Specifically, Ian will be learning about GitHub and getting a brief introduction to Python.

Well done, Ian! 

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Electronic Services General Interest Professional Development

Kaufman, Kennedy News

Steve Kaufman, Senior Instructional Designer, was thoughtful enough to share several interesting things going on.  Steve and Sean Kennedy, UL Electronic Services, are representing UA’s Affordable Learning Initiative. 

  • Our Affordable Learning Initiative has been accepted to present a panel on “Designing for Open: Success Stories in Implementing Open Textbooks and Resources” on February 28th at Cleveland State’s OpenCon Cleveland 2020. We will be bringing our faculty development teams to present on the process of adopting an open textbook and share the results of student surveys.

Other UA faculty development teams presenting are as follows:

Intro to Geography
– Meera Chatterjee
– Jeremy Spencer

Management Principles
– Sheri Schulte
– Scott Bible

Intro to Social Welfare
– Michele Thornton
– Naomi White
– Baomei Zhao

Humanities in the Western Tradition
– Rose Eichler

  • Kaufman and Kennedy also submitted a proposal and have been accepted to present at the New Explorations in Teaching Conference (NEXT) on March 13th. Same presentation, different audience.
  • On January 31st, Kaufman will be the keynote speaker for North Carolina’s Quality Matters Consortium kickoff meeting. He will be presenting “Building a Statewide Culture of Quality”, which shows how 60 institutions in Ohio work together to provide professional development and course reviews to our members.

Impressive work, Steve & Sean!

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Electronic Services General Interest Professional Development

Bloom & Hayes Presentation

Mark Bloom and Brittany Hayes presented at OhioDIG on November 14, 2019 at the Columbus Metro Library.  They gave a PowerPoint presentation titled “Sharing Initial Steps on a Digital Preservation Policy and Program at The University of Akron.”  OhioDIG stands for Ohio Digitization Interest Group.  It meets every other month.  For more information, check their website:  https://ohiodig.org/

Nice teamwork, Mark & Brittany!

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Electronic Services General Interest Professional Development

Monaco Published

Mike Monaco published an article in the Journal of Library Metadata. Methods for In-Sourcing Authority Control with MarcEdit, SQL, and Regular Expressions (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19386389.2019.1703497).  

Nice work, Mike!

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Access Services Electronic Services General Interest Professional Development

Sausmikat & Suarez Scholarship Recipients

Congratulations to Rita Sausmikat and Laracarina Suarez, Friends of the University Library Scholarship Awardees!

Let’s hear it for Rita and La! As qualified recipients of the 2019/2020 Friends of the University Library Professional Development Scholarship, these future librarians are pursuing their studies in graduate library science programs. They have demonstrated potential for accomplishments in librarianship and each will receive a scholarship to assist with funding their education.

The scholarship recipients will also be recognized at a library ceremony in the Spring Semester 2020, where the recipients’ names will be added to a library plaque. We wish them success!

Thank you to the Scholarship Committee for their thoughtful work:

Marilia Antúnez

Sean Kennedy

David Procházka, Chair

Once again, Kudos to Rita Sausmikat and Laracarina Suarez!

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Electronic Services General Interest Professional Development Research & Learning Services

Kennedy Published

Sean Kennedy, along with his co-presenters (including UL alums Garewal and Wisneski) were invited to write a chapter in the annual conference proceedings monograph for the Charleston Conference. The book is open access and was just published a few days ago online at https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/f7623f16x?locale=en

Our chapter is titled Springing into Collections: Best Practices for Inheriting an Academic Library Collections Budget.

Great collaboration, Sean!

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General Interest Science & Technology Library

Stitz as Co-Chair

Tammy Stitz will be serving as Co-Chair of the Faculty Senate Accessibility Committee from January to September 2020.  Way to go, Tammy!

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General Interest Professional Development Research & Learning Services

Tosko’s Been Busy

Mike Tosko has been elected to the Dean’s Review Committee for UL.  In addition, he has the following reviews published:

“Encyclopedia of the Black Arts Movement.”  Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. vol. 57, no. 3, Nov. 2019.  p. 286.

“Bobby Maduro and the Cuban Sugar Kings.”  Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. vol. 57, no. 1, Sep. 2019.  p. 76.

“Breaking Barriers:  A History of Integration in Professional Basketball.”   Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. vol. 56, no. 10, June 2019.  p. 1276.

“Encyclopedia of African-American Writing: Five Centuries of Contribution: Trials and Triumphs of Writers, Poets, Publications and Organizations.”  Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. vol. 56, no. 7, Mar. 2019.  p. 855.

“Invisible Ball of Dreams:  Literary Representations of Baseball Behind the Color Line.”  Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. vol. 56, no. 6, Feb. 2019.  p. 741.

Impressive work, Mike!

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Design & Development Services General Interest

Lampner Committee Work

Wendy Lampner, Manager of Design & Development Services, is serving on the Computing & Communications Technologies Committee (CCTC).  She is also chairing the Web Conferencing Subcommittee of CCTC.  

Well done, Wendy!