General Interest Professional Development

Noteworthy New Publication

Post author By janine1
Post date November 6, 2014

Professor Emeritus of Bibliography and retired department head Julia A. Gammon had an article about an OCLC-OhioLINK study recently published. The study, which examines the circulation of 28,475,701 items from more than 100 academic libraries, is the largest and most diverse compilation of academic usage data for books ever collected. A PDF version of the article can be found with a quick search in Search-A-Roo.

Edward T. O’Neill and Julia A. Gammon

“Consortial Book Circulation Patterns: The OCLC-OhioLINK Study”

College and Research Libraries. November 2014, Vol. 75 Issue 6, p791-807

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Electronic Services

Sierra: Update 1.2.2 to be installed on 11/11/2014

Post author By Susan DiRenzo Ashby
Post date November 6, 2014

The Sierra application and database servers will be updated to Sierra 1.2.2 on Tuesday, November 11, 2014. There is no downtime required for this update. However, a Sierra restart will be required after the install in order to download new SDA (Sierra Desktop Application) software.

This update resolves several reported known issues.

For more details, click on the Release 1.2.2 link on the Sierra SharePoint

Tags Sierra, systems

Electronic Services

EZProxy unavailable from 4-7am on 10/23/2014 for system update

Post author By Susan DiRenzo Ashby
Post date October 21, 2014

Campus IT will be updating the EZProxy server to the latest version EZProxy (5.7.42) between 4 am and 7 am on Thursday, October 23rd. The update requires downtime so remote access to library resources via EZProxy will be unavailable at during this time.

Tags electronic resources, EZProxy

Electronic Services Professional Development

Dissertation Available

Post author By janine1
Post date October 14, 2014

Access to the dissertation by Aimee L. deChambeau, Ph. D., entitled Supported Student Success: Communities of Practice in Higher Education is available at:

http://gradworks.umi.com/36/29/3629604.html

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Electronic Services General Interest

New White Paper Available from OCLC on Discovery of E-Content

Post author By David Procházka
Post date October 7, 2014

OCLC has just released a new white paper titled “Success Strategies for Electronic Content Discovery and Access.” It’s available here: http://www.oclc.org/go/en/econtent-access.html. (24 pages)

General Interest Science & Technology Library

Join us for Ada Lovelace Day, October 14

Post author By sdawson
Post date October 7, 2014

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!

Tags events, University Libraries

UAL User Interfaces Committee

SearchOhio icon added to UAL Catalog

Post author By Susan DiRenzo Ashby
Post date October 6, 2014

The UAL Catalog now displays the SearchOhio icon in addition to the OhioLINK icon. Users can now pass their search directly to SearchOhio from the UAL Catalog.

Tags SearchOhio, systems, UAL Catalog, University Libraries

Electronic Services General Interest

Results from OCLC Research International Linked Data Survey for Implementers Now Available

Post author By David Procházka
Post date September 23, 2014

OCLC Research conducted an international linked data survey for implementers between 7 July and 15 August 2014 to learn details of specific projects or services that format metadata as linked data and/or make subsequent uses of it. This was an exploratory survey prompted by the OCLC Research Library Partners Metadata Managers Focus Group, who are excited by the potential of linked data applications to make new, valuable uses of existing metadata and wanted to learn from the experiences in the libraries/archives/museums community what is possible to do and how to go about it.

For more details, go to: http://oclc.org/research/news/2014/09-19.html.

General Interest Research & Learning Services

Banned Books Week Read-Out

Post author By bgersch
Post date September 12, 2014

Bierce Library will celebrate Banned Books Week, September 21-27.

We are still looking for students, faculty, and staff to join us in a Read-Out of challenged and banned books.

When: Wednesday, September 24 between 12:00 and 1:00 p.m.
What: A 7-10 minute excerpt from your favorite challenged or banned book
Not sure what has been challenged or banned? Check out the list of Challenged Books in 2013 or Challenged Classics, which include “The Hunger Games,” “Harry Potter,” “The Great Gatsby,” “The Lord of the Rings,” “To Kill a Mockingbird,” “Brave New World,” and “A Wrinkle in Time.”

To add your voice to the Read-Out, please e-mail Beate Gersch at bgersch@uakron.edu.