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Come to the 2013 United Way RooNited campaign kick-off party on 11/1

The 2013 United Way RooNited campaign kick-off party will be on Friday, November 1, from 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. in the Student Union Ballroom. Join us for pizza and hot dogs and an all-campus celebration. Free to attend!

You can purchase tickets to participate in the raffle for a chance to win an iPad Mini and other prizes. Money raised from the raffle will support scholarships for UA students through United Way. You can also participate in games and purchase tickets to Saturday’s ‘Zippy’s Great Chili Cook-off’ (proceeds go to the campaign) and the UA/KSU football game.

The RooNited campaign runs from November 1 – 15, 2013 and provides the UA campus community the opportunity to positively impact the lives of students. You can choose to earmark any portion of your contribution to support several new scholarships designed to help University of Akron students graduate in a timely fashion.

For campaign updates, like RooNited on Facebook or follow on Twitter @RooNitedUA.

We hope to see you at this fun filled university sponsored event! Please let Kaye (x 7495) or  Susan (x 7240)  know if you have any questions about the kick-off party or the 2013 UA United Way Campaign.

 Come on …. Get in the Game!!!

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Electronic Services General Interest Research & Learning Services Science & Technology Library

Virtual Lab

Some specialized software that the libraries do not have installed on the public workstations or that students don’t have installed on their personal machines is available via the university’s Virtual Lab.

Information about the university’s Virtual Lab is available from their site: http://www.uakron.edu/dts/virtual-lab/

The list of software available via the Virtual Lab is listed under Machine & Software Configuration.

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Access Services Electronic Services General Interest Research & Learning Services Science & Technology Library

OhioLINK scheduled outages on Nov 1 & 2

OhioLINK has Scheduled Maintenance on several of their products and services from 11/1-11/2

Expect 30-minute Service Outages starting on Friday, November 1 (at 11 PM) and ending on Saturday, November 2 (at 3 AM)

OhioLINK expects service outages of approximately 30 minutes at varying times for each OhioLINK service during scheduled maintenance on the Ohio Technology Consortium (OH-TECH) shared infrastructure firewall. On-campus access to content on third-party (non-OhioLINK) vendor websites will not be affected.

The following access/services will be affected by 30-minute outages: Libraries using OhioLINK’s remote authentication (proxy) for off-campus access to third-party vendor websites; and all other OhioLINK-hosted services, including online databases, the OhioLINK central catalog, the OhioLINK Electronic Journals Center (EJC), the OhioLINK Electronic Book Center (EBC), OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD), OhioLINK Music Center, OhioLINK Finding Aid Repository, and the OhioLINK Digital Resource Commons (DRC).

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Center for the History of Psychology Electronic Services General Interest

UA Librarians Win Society of Georgia Archivists Award

The Society of Georgia Archivists has named Emily Gainer, Special Collections Librarian/Assistant Processing Archivist at the Center for the History of Psychology, and Michelle Mascaro, Coordinator of Cataloging Services and Special Collections Cataloger at University Libraries, as the 2012 winners of the David B. Gracy II Award. The David B. Gracy II Award is awarded annually in recognition of a superior contribution to the society’s journal, Provenance.

Emily and Michelle’s winning article “Faster Digital Output: Using Student Workers to Create Metadata for a Grant-Funded Project,” is a case study on training and supervising student workers involved with University Libraries, Archival Services’ National Endowment of Humanities grant-funded project to digitize and make available online photographic negatives from the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company Records. Over the course of the project, ten students created metadata for over 23,400 digitized images. These images are available online as part of University Libraries, Archival Services Digital Collections (http://cdm15960.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15960coll3) .

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Electronic Services General Interest

New browse feature in Sierra update 1.1.2

For those of you who don’t like the lengthy big-box display of results in Sierra, there’s a new option in version 1.1.2 called compact browse display.  It’s explained at http://csdirect.iii.com/sierrahelp/Default.htm#sril_compact_browse_display.html#kanchor1878.

To activate it in Sierra, go to Admin, Settings, and select the ‘Display’ tab.  Check the box for Compact Browse, then click on OK and Save Settings.  I had to exit Sierra and then relaunch it to get the feature to work properly.  In addition to getting single-line results lists, large sets of results display much more quickly than in Sierra’s standard browse display.

If you’re working on a laptop, you might have to move the taskbar to save the setting changes; Susan reported having this problem.  She also suggested that folks might want try the new Glacier Point skin for Sierra that became available in update 1.1.1.  If you have any trouble changing these settings, just let Susan know.

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Electronic Services General Interest Research & Learning Services

Search-A-Roo and the new eJournal list are live!

Search-A-Roo and the new A-to-Z eJournal list are now available from the library homepage! Please note that we are still working our way through the various library sites and correcting miscellaneous links that point to the old services.

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General Interest Research & Learning Services

Banned Books Reading Today and Tomorrow

Members of the campus community will read from challenged/banned books today and tomorrow in the Bierce Library lobby between 12 and 1: To Kill A Mockingbird, The Holy Bible, Lolita, Clockwork Orange, The Scarlett Letter, Last Exit to Brooklyn, A Wrinkle in Time, and more…

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General Interest

OH-TECH Blog

OH-TECH (Ohio Technology Consortium) has announced the launch of a new blog and daily news aggregation site. Check it out at: https://www.oh-tech.org/blog

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General Interest

New sculpture on campus

I haven’t seen a press release yet, but there’s a new sculpture on campus.  Designed by David Tonnesen, it’s on Carroll Avenue between Auburn Science & Engineering Center and the student union.  Check it out when you have a chance.

A photo blog is available at http://publicartohio.blogspot.com/.  The artist’s blog also has some pictures, along with snaps of some earlier, related sculptures:  http://tonnesenwork.blogspot.com/.