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MLIS Online Course

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.

 

 

 

 

 

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Presentations, Reviews & More

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).

 

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General Interest Research & Learning Services Science & Technology Library

University Libraries Keeps Students Going During Pre-Finals Week

Once again, Bierce Library will extend its hours during pre-finals week, December 1-7. Monday through Thursday, as well as Sunday, December 7th, the library will be open until 1 a.m.; Friday and Saturday until midnight. Students can take a break from their studies and enjoy some free and fun activities.

Late-night coffee will be served at both Bierce and the Science & Technology Library from 8 p.m. until closing, Monday through Thursday. Early birds can enjoy Krispy Kreme doughnuts at Bierce Library on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, starting at 8 a.m. Night owls can opt for the PB & J deli on Tuesday night, starting at 8 p.m.

On Thursday, December 4, at 3 p.m. students are invited to celebrate the winners of this year’s Common Reading essay contest.

Back by popular demand, Summa Health System’s WAGtime program will bring some of their favorite four-legged volunteers to Bierce. Students can spend time with therapy dogs on Monday and Tuesday between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. and Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

For more information, please contact Beate Gersch at bgersch@uakron.edu.

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General Interest Science & Technology Library

Join us for Ada Lovelace Day, October 14

Join us for Ada Lovelace Day celebrating the achievements of women in STEM. The UL will be sponsoring a poster session featuring the work of 18 UA female graduate students in the Goodyear Polymer Center, 2nd Floor Atrium on Tuesday, October 14 from 10am-noon. Open to all!

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Dean's Office General Interest Science & Technology Library

Science Faculty Research Gallery Reception- Thursday Jan. 23

Please join us on Thursday, January 23, 2014 at 3:00pm at the Science Faculty Research Gallery reception in the Science and Technology library.

In the sciences, most research output is in the form of journal articles and over time a tradition developed of honoring particularly excellent articles by putting art from the article on the journal’s cover. To ‘get a cover’ means the researchers have combined excellent research with something visually engaging. If you walk through the halls of a research building, you will see journal covers like these proudly displayed on doorways and lab windows.

This gallery collects journal covers from University of Akron researchers in Biology, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Computer Science, Polymer Engineering and Polymer Science.

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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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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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Curious about Discovery? Attend an open session!

Are you curious about how the new Discovery Service works? Do you have questions? Have you already been exploring Search-A-Roo and have feedback that you’d like to share?

Attend one of the upcoming open sessions. See a brief demo of the discovery service and how it works, talk about some of its potentials and limitations, and share your own experiences.

Open Sessions:

  • Sept 24 (Tuesday)  10.00-11.00 Bierce 154
  • Sept 26 (Thursday) 3.00-4.00 Bierce 279
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Electronic Services Research & Learning Services Science & Technology Library UAL User Interfaces Committee

LinkSource link resolver

You may have been searching our databases this week and noticed a new link called LinkSource. We are currently replacing our old OLinks link resolver with a product from EBSCO called LinkSource. A link resolver helps connect citations from one database with the article’s full text located in another database. To do this it takes information about the citation and tries to match it with the information about our electronic journals (and sometimes other electronic resources) that we maintain in our eJournal A-Z list. Migrating all of our eJournal information from our current A-Z list to a new product, also from EBSCO, is part of this project as well. Ultimately all of this work is important in setting the stage for the new Discovery Service, which we expect to launch publicly in late September.

As we move through this project you may see different links, such as LinkSource, presented as part of your database search results. There may also be some glitches in linking from a citation in one database to the full text in another while we work on improving the system, and we appreciate your patience with this process. If you have any serious problems to report please do so through the Footprints system so that we can track them properly.

 

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LibQual Drawing Winners Selected

iPad Mini Winner – Joe Demczuk

The drawing winners for the LibQual survey have been selected and will be coming to Bierce to claim their prizes. The grand prize winner (iPad Mini – pictured) and second prize winner (4 Cedar Point tickets) have already stopped by. Here are the winners and their prizes:

1) iPad Mini – Joe Demczuk
2) 4 Cedar Point Tickets – Jonathon Provchy
3) $50 UA Gift Card – Gregory Close
4) $50 UA Gift Card – Caleb Steidl
5) $50 UA Gift Card – Sherie Acierto (fac/staff)
6) $50 UA Gift Card – Elisha Ann Dumser (fac/staff)
7) $50 UA Gift Card – Jo Dangel (fac/staff)
8) $50 UA Gift Card – Scott Sell
9) $50 UA Gift Card – Charles Hier (fac/staff)
10) $50 UA Gift Card – Richard Londraville (fac/staff)
11) $50 UA Gift Card – Charles Stallings
12) $50 UA Gift Card – Hao Wong

I am sure that these incentives helped us to get such a good response rate (20%) and thank the LibQual Team:

Jo Ann Calzonetti
Ann Evans
Lori Fielding
Charles Fisher
Shari Laster
Pete Linberger