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.
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.
Sign up for dog duty will be coming shortly.
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.
On December 8, at 2:00, University Libraries will host a live showing of an ALCTS webinar titled “RDA Serials Cataloging Update,” presented by Steve Shadle (University of Washington). We’ve reserved Bierce Learning Studio 154 for the event. Additional information about the webinar is available at http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/121015. Questions? Ask David or Michelle.
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.
Due to positive response the showing of the Goodyear Airship films has been moved to the Taylor Institute room 567 on the 5th floor of the Polsky Building.
Archival Services of University Libraries at The University of Akron will be hosting a public showing of three historic airship films on Friday, October 23, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. in Archival Services, Polsky Building, Room LL10. The original films, which are part of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Records in Archival Services, were transferred from their original nitrate motion picture stock to safety film and digitized thanks to a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation. The films, which are now publicly available for the first time, include footage of the construction, christening, and operation of the U.S.S. Akron (ZRS-4), a U.S. Navy rigid airship that was once called “the largest, strongest aerial creature ever fashioned and flown by man.” The event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. Seating is limited and available on a first come, first served basis. For directions and parking see http://www.uakron.edu/libraries/archives/about/directions.dot.
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 19th.
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).
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
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).