Thanks to all the volunteers for your willingness to serve on this committee to recognize our wonderful student employees! This year’s committee will be:
The committee will meet shortly and nomination information will be distributed soon. The award(s) will be given at our service awards celebration at the end of April.
Please note this update to the previous post about Rethinking Race events:
To Cross An Ocean Four Centuries Long, a recording of the play by Dr. Amanda Kamp, will be shown Wednesday, February 11th at 2pm in Bierce 154. Please consider joining us for this event, and be sure to check out the other Rethinking Race events scheduled throughout this month.
The Library of Congress and OCLC just released a white paper comparing the linked data initiatives at both institutions: LC’s BibFrame and OCLC’s Schema.org. To find out more, follow this link: http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/2015/oclcresearch-loc-linked-data. It’s short: only 12 pages!
On Saturday, 3 January 2015, OCLC has scheduled a technology upgrade to support system performance and reliability.
During this upgrade, all OCLC services will be unavailable on 3 January 2015, from 12:01 am to 3:00 pm, U.S. Eastern Standard Time (approximately 15 hours).
Michelle Mascaro, Electronic Services
Michelle Mascaro has been formally appointed to the ACRL/RBMS Descriptive Cataloging for Rare Materials Task Force to create an initial version of a consolidated Descriptive Cataloging for Rare Materials (DCRM) standard based on RDA (Resource Description and Access).
http://www.ala.org/acrl/rbms/acr-rbmdctf
Tammy A Stitz, Science & Technology
Tammy A. Stitz has been teaching an Information Technology for Library and Information Professionals 3-credit core course in the MLIS program at Kent State University this past semester. It was a condensed 10 week option that was 100% online with students enrolled from across the country. This course instructs students in a variety of technical expertise including hardware and software that librarians need to be aware, an introduction to HTML and relational databases, and an awareness of emerging technologies including current trends in discovery systems and new generation catalogs.
Victor Fleischer, Archival Services, delivered the following presentation:
“Collections that Bite: Hazardous Materials in Your Collections,” Ohio Local History Alliance Annual Conference, Worthington, Ohio (October 3, 2014)
Bonnie Chojnacki, Science & Technology
National Presentations at Scholarly Conferences:
Chojnacki, Bonnie. Affordable Care Act Panel:” Breast Cancer, Affordable Care, and Politics.” Annual Conference of the Association of Politics and the Life Sciences. Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, October 2014.
Chojnacki, Bonnie. Health Care and Public Health Panel. “Patenting Life: Law, Biology, and Health.” Annual Conference of the Association of Politics and the Life Sciences. Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, October 2013.
Book Review:
Chojnacki, Bonnie. Derkx, Peter and Harry Kunneman, eds. Genomics and Democracy: Towards a ‘Lingua Democratica’ for the Public Debate on Genomics. Amsterdam-New York, NY: Rodopi, 2013. 355pp. US $99.00. ISBN 978-90-420-3719-9. Politics and the Life Sciences. Forthcoming
Blind Reviewer:
World Medical and Health Policy (Wiley). August 2014-
Elected Representative:
University Libraries, Liaison to Akron Chapter, American Association of University Professors, 2010-2015 (elected annually).
Akron Chapter of the American Association of University Professors, Liaison Council Member at Large to the Executive Committee, 2012-2015 (elected annually).
Annual Conference on the State of Higher Education and Business Meeting, American Association of University Professors (AAUP), Akron Chapter, 2010-2014 (elected annually).
OCLC has announced new training opportunities for cataloging & metadata, digital collection management, research sharing & delivery, and reference & discovery. For details, follow this link: OCLC Training update.
