Join us as we celebrate summer with a Big Summer Potluck! Sign-ups will be going around soon.
Plates, silverware & drinks will all be provided!
DATE: 8/8/2014 (Fri 11:30AM – 1:00PM)
LOCATION: Staff Room (Bierce 351)
If you’d like to sign up online, use this link: www.SignUpGenius.com/go/10C054AAFA723A7FE3-summer/18738995
The Annual Meeting of the Document Academy (DOCAM’14) will be held this year in Kent, OH from August 7-9!
It’s an international, interdisciplinary conference for scholars, practitioners, and students where you can rub elbows with some of LIS big wigs, such as Michael Buckland and Brian C. O’Connor.
You do not have to be presenting to attend. We are still accepting proposals for the poster session (email Jodi Kearns if you’re interested: jkearns@uakron.edu) and DOCAM is launching the brand new peer-reviewed conference proceedings. So come join us!
Registration and program information can be found on the conference website: www.kent.edu/docam14
2013/2014 Professional Accomplishments
We are pleased to acknowledge our colleagues for their professional endeavors during the 2013/2014 fiscal year.
Bonnie Chojnacki
Assistant Professor of Bibliography
Life and Allied Health Services Librarian
Science and Technology Library
PUBLICATIONS
Chojnacki, Bonnie and Ronald F. White. 2013. “The BRCA Gene Patents: Arguments Over Patentability and Social Utility.” World Medical and Health Policy 5 (3): 276-300.
PRESENTATIONS – NATIONAL
American Political Science Association. Chicago, IL. 2013.
Association of Politics and the Life Sciences. Lubbock, TX. 2013.
SERVICE
Co-Coordinator, Buzz Spector, “Thoughts as Pages, Stacks as Memories”
Akron AAUP Departmental Liaison, University Libraries
Akron AAUP Executive Committee, Member-at-Large
Akron AAUP Delegate, State of Higher Education National Meeting and Collective Bargaining Congress
Science & Technology Merit Guidelines Revision Committee
Medical Library Association, Collection Development Section, Nominating Committee
Special Library Association, Biomedical and Life Sciences Division, Ethics Ambassador
Victor Fleischer
Head, Archival Services
Associate Professor
Presentations:
Exhibits Curated:
Committee Appointments:
Grants:
Michelle J Mascaro
UL Electronic Services
Assistant Professor
-Co-winner of the David B. Gracy II award, for article “Faster Digital Output: Using Student Workers to Create Metadata for a Grant-Funded Project,” that appeared in 2012 issue of the journal Provenance.
-Appointment to the DCRM-RDA Revision Title and Statement of Responsibility Task Group
-Co-presenting at ALAO TEDSIG and SCAIG spring workshop “What is that and how do I catalog it!?! RDA and Special Formats Cataloging” June 11, 2014 in Columbus, Ohio.
Joseph A. Salem, Jr.
Head, Research & Learning Services
Interim Head, Access Services
Joseph A. Salem, Jr. “Assessment Roundtable Discussion.” Academic Library Association of Ohio Annual Conference. Canton, OH, October 25, 2013.
Kenneth J. Burhanna, Joseph A. Salem, Jr., and Jennifer Schwelik. “New Trails for TRAILS: The Path to Reliability & Validity. Ohio Educational Library Media Association Annual Conference. Sandusky, OH, October 18, 2013.
(My contribution: 50%).
Michael P Tosko
UL Research & Learning Services
Associate Professor
Books Reviewed:
“Academic Charts Online: International Popular Music.” Booklist 110.2 (2013): 55-.
“American Sports: A History of Icons, Idols, and Ideas.” Reference & User Services Quarterly 53.3 (2014): 272-3.
“Battles that Changed American History: 100 of the Greatest Victories and Defeats.” Booklist 110.17 (2014): 85-.
“Berkshire Encyclopedia of World Sport. 3rd Ed.” Booklist 110.4 (2013): 34-.
“The Chronicle of Jazz.” Booklist 110.12 (2014): 40-.
“Encyclopedia of Japanese American Internment.” Booklist 110.2 (2013): 50-.
“Historical Dictionary of Ice Hockey.” Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 51.1 (2013): 40-.
“Historical Dictionary of Ireland.” Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 51.9 (2014): 1570-.
“The Literature of Autobiographical Narrative.” Booklist 1 Dec.
(2013): 809.
The Literature of Propaganda. Booklist 1 Dec. (2013): 809.
“The Manifesto in Literature.” Booklist 1, Dec. (2013): 809.
“Music in American Life: An Encyclopedia of the Songs, Styles, Stars, and Stories that Shaped our Culture.” Booklist 110.11 (2014): 48-.
“St. James Literature of Society.” Booklist 110.7 (2013): 41-.
“Vietnam War: The Essential Reference Guide.” Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 50.11 (2013): 1996-.
“The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Cultural Geography. 2nd Ed.” Booklist 110.1 (2013): 63-.
Five years ago linked data was introduced to the library community as a powerful technology with great promise for libraries, visionary but abstract. In the years since, what was a buzzword has become a fixture in our lexicon. Yet as our understanding of the technology has progressed and solidified, we still struggle to identify the specific benefits of linked data within our individual institutions. Join OCLC’s Ted Fons, Corey Harper of New York University, and Phil Schreur of Stanford University as they trace the evolution of linked data technology over the years, and demonstrate practical applications of the latest linked data technologies being utilized in libraries today.
Ted will introduce the topic and provide a brief overview on the evolution of linked data; Corey and Phil will dig deeper with specific examples that will help illustrate this evolution.
Corey will discuss next steps for LOD-LAM (Linked Open Data for Libraries & Museums), exploring tools and techniques to process, enrich and aggregate metadata. He will touch on recent developments, especially focused on efforts within the Hydra and Blacklight community and in the user groups for the Ex Libris product suite. Corey will give special attention to the need for use cases and experimentation.
Phil will speak on Linked Data for Libraries, a promising new grant created through a partnership among Cornell, Harvard and Stanford universities. The project goal is creation of a Scholarly Resource Semantic Information Store (SRSIS) model that works both within the individual institutions and through a coordinated, extensible network of linked open data. Phil will discuss the choice of BIBFRAME as the common data format for this project and conversion to BIBFRAME from MARC data.
Monday, April 28
| When | Where | What |
| All Day | Lobby/Einstein’s | Legos/Puzzles |
| 8pm-close | Bierce/S&T | Coffee Break |
Tuesday, April 29
| When | Where | What |
| All Day | Lobby/Einstein’s | Legos/Puzzles |
| 11am-12pm | Bierce 168 | Meditation Lesson |
| 8pm-close | Bierce/S&T | Coffee Break |
| 8pm- | Bierce | PB& J Deli |
Wednesday, April 30
| When | Where | What |
| All Day | Lobby/Einstein’s | Legos/Puzzles |
| 11am- 3pm | Lobby | Therapy Dogs |
| 8pm-close | Bierce/S&T | Coffee Break |
Thursday, May 1
| When | Where | What |
| All Day | Lobby/Einstein’s | Legos/Puzzles |
| 11am-12pm | Bierce 168 | Meditation Lesson |
| 5-7pm | Lobby | Chair Massages |
| 8pm-close | Bierce/S&T | Coffee Break |
Sign up here to volunteer to help with the Therapy Dogs: http://vols.pt/u2DVfK
Wednesday’s Therapy Dogs Schedule:
Christine & Sophie (Golden Retriever Mix) 11-12:30
Marisa & Vinnie (Dachshund) 11-1
Rhea & Clark (Bullmastiff) 12-2
Christin & Gracie (Newfoundland) 1-3
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.
Our annual service awards celebration will be TUESDAY, April 22 from 2-3:30pm in Bierce 351.
We’ll be celebrating:
Mark your calendar and please share with your students!
Installation has begun on “Thoughts as Pages, Stacks as Memories” a collaboration between artist Buzz Spector and UA Myers School of Art students. Exhibit opens tomorrow in Bierce lobby!
Acclaimed artist, Buzz Spector, is collaborating with students from The University of Akron’s Myers School of Art in “Thoughts as Pages, Stacks as Memories,” a free exhibition March 12 through April 18 in the lobby of UA’s Bierce Library.
In addition to Spector’s works, the exhibition will feature works created by students in a painting class taught by UA Art Professor Matthew Kolodziej. The art students have created works from books donated by UA’s Center for the History of Psychology. After studying the content of the books, they altered them and incorporated their artistic responses to the Center’s intriguing collection of devices used for testing memory and perception. Some of the devices are also in the exhibition.
To open the exhibition, Spector will give a free public lecture at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, March 12, in the auditorium of Folk Hall, home of the Myers School of Art, 150 E. Exchange St.
Librarians Lori Fielding and Bonnie Chojnacki were instrumental in getting this project off the ground.
We just dismantled The Race Card Project whiteboard installation. Participation was great!
Can you guess how many cards were up there?
Answer: 174