Category: General Interest

Footage of UA’s First Bowl Appearance Now Online

Post author By mabloom
Post date December 22, 2015

As The University of Akron Football Team heads to Boise this week to take part in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, it is only appropriate to take a look back at past UA bowl appearances. The first bowl game the Zips appeared in was the 1968 Grantland Rice Bowl, named after popular early 20th-century American sportswriter Grantland Rice. The game took place on December 13, 1968 in Mufreesboro, Tennessee. The Zips, who went 7-3-1 that year, met the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs, who were also making their first bowl appearance. To read more.

Tags Akron Zips, Archival Services, College Football, The University of Akron

General Interest

PreFinals Week- The Dogs are Back!

Post author By sdawson
Post date December 2, 2015

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Whoa- PreFinals week is here already! Monday, December 7 through Friday, December, 11, students will be able to enjoy some stress-reducing, free and fun activities.
• WagTime Therapy Dogs will visit each day noon to 2pm.
• Krispy Kreme doughnuts will be first come first served Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning.
• Late-night coffee will be offered nightly in Bierce and Science Libraries from 8-11 p.m. Monday through Thursday.

Tags events, University Libraries

General Interest

Double Header at Friday’s ALAO Conference

Post author By David Procházka
Post date November 23, 2015

If you weren’t at the ALAO Conference last Friday, in Lewis Center, Ohio, you may not have heard the brouhaha when our Karen Plummer was awarded not one, but TWO awards! She received the Teddy award from the Technical, Electronic, and Digital Services Interest Group, which “recognizes an individual’s significant contributions to the technical, electronic or digital services fields” (http://www.alaoweb.org/igs/tedsig/index.html).

Karen also received ALAO’s Jay Ladd Distinguished Service Award, in acknowledgement of her ongoing promotion of “academic libraries and librarianship not only on …her own campus, but also within the state” (http://www.alaoweb.org/aboutalao/jay-ladd-award.php). This is the second time in three years a colleague at The University of Akron has been honored with this prestigious award; Don Appleby received it in 2013.

Congratulations, Karen! This is reportedly the first time a single ALAO member has won two of their awards in a single year.

Tags ALAO, awards

General Interest Policy & Planning

OCLC Research publishes ‘The Library in the Life of the User’

Post author By David Procházka
Post date November 10, 2015

DUBLIN, Ohio, 09 November 2015—OCLC Research has published a new compilation, The Library in the Life of the User: Engaging with People Where They Live and Learn, which represents more than a decade of collaborative work studying the information-seeking behaviors of library users.

Compiled and co-authored by Lynn Silipigni Connaway, findings from The Library in the Life of the User articulate the need for the design of future library services to be focused on the library user. The compilation is intended to provide a sequential overview of the findings of user behavior research for librarians, information scientists, and library and information science students and researchers as they think about new ways to provide user-centered library services.

For more details, see: http://www.oclc.org/news/releases/2015/201532dublin.en.html.

General Interest Professional Development

Vic Fleischer– Presents & Publishes

Post author By janine1
Post date October 8, 2015

Victor Fleischer

Archival Services

Vic offers input on Archivists’ challenges and contingency planning for libraries. Well Done!

Vic Fleischer, University Archivist and Head of Archival Services,

Presentation:

On a panel titled “Shared Challenges of Archivists and Museum Professionals” at the Society of American Archivists Conference in Cleveland on August 19^th.

Publication:

Published a chapter with Jo Ann Calzonetti, Head of the Science & Technology Library, titled “Deferred Maintenance and Space Repurposing: The Impact on Libraries and Archives Disaster and Contingency Planning,” in Emily Decker and Jennifer Townes, eds., Disaster Management and Contingency Planning in Modern Libraries (Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2015).

Tags Archival Services, University Libraries

General Interest Professional Development Science & Technology Library

Ian McCullough Published

Post author By janine1
Post date October 8, 2015

Ian McCullough

Physical Sciences Librarian

Science and Technology Library

Ian put the word out by writing about the Science Faculty Research Gallery for the “Short Communications” section of ISTL as noted below. Nice work!

“Science Outreach through Art: A Journal Article Cover Gallery.” Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 81(Summer 2015). doi:10.5062/F4CJ8BGG

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General Interest Professional Development Research & Learning Services

Shelley Blundell Recognized

Post author By janine1
Post date October 8, 2015

Shelley Blundell

Instructional Design Librarian

Research and Learning Services

Shelley has been busy expanding her professional horizons on a variety of levels. Congratulations!

Awards:

Shelley Blundell will receive a Kent State University Faculty Recognition Award on October 23, 2015. This award is student-nominated, and allows students the opportunity to provide their perspective on an individual faculty member through this nomination, providing support for a faculty member who truly made a difference in their life at Kent State University.

Presentations:

Shelley Blundell was selected to present the poster “A descriptive phenomenological investigation of the academic information search process of remedial undergraduate students” as a part of the Jean Tague-Sutcliffe Doctoral Student Poster Competition at the Association for Library and Information Science Education conference in Boston, Massachusetts, in January, 2016.

Publications:

Blundell, S. (July, 2015). Alternative medicine’s allure: Benjamin L. Hill. Timeline Magazine: The official publication of the Ohio History Connection (formerly the Ohio Historical Society).

Tags University Libraries

Electronic Services General Interest

End of an Era

Post author By David Procházka
Post date October 6, 2015

OCLC prints last library catalog cards

OCLC printed its last library catalog cards October 1, officially closing the book on what was once a familiar resource for generations of information seekers who now use computer catalogs and online search engines to access library collections. The final print run marked the end of a service that has steadily decreased over the past few decades as libraries moved their catalogs online. During the 44-year run of automated catalog card production, OCLC printed more than 1.9 billion cards.

More of the story available at http://www.oclc.org/news/releases/2015/201529dublin.en.html.

Access Services Dean's Office Electronic Services General Interest

Easier than Ever to Book Rooms in Bierce

Post author By sdawson
Post date September 23, 2015

Booking study rooms and learning studios in Bierce Library got a much needed upgrade!

Over the summer, Paul and the Access Services staff moved all our student booking of Bierce Library study rooms from the Sierra platform to the LibCal platform. We believe the LibCal platform will be more user-friendly and require less staff time to manage.

At the beginning of this semester, we started moving our mediated booking (Learning Studios) bookings to LibCal as well. As of yesterday, Don will be approving all Learning Studio bookings via LibCal only (thanks Don!). The links on our website have been updated and hopefully you’ll find the experience to be seamless and much simpler.

This is the direct link for booking a learning studio: http://uakron.libcal.com/booking/learningstudios

If you have questions about how the system works, please contact Paul x6986 or Stephanie x7224.

Tags University Libraries