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General Interest

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 Dean's Office

Don Appleby Awarded Jay Ladd Distinguished Service Award

Don Appleby was awarded the prestigious Jay Ladd Distinguished Service Award during the Academic Library Association of Ohio (ALAO) Annual Conference on October 25, 2013.

The award recognizes an individual who has promoted academic libraries and librarianship statewide and who has provided leadership in the promotion of ALAO through service such as committee membership, executive board office, or interest group office.

Don was nominated by Alisa Mizikar of Wittenberg University. A member since 2005, he was recognized for his many years of service on the Executive Board as well as the Conference Planning Committee. Don is currently serving his second term as Treasurer.

Congrats, Don!

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Dean's Office

Halloween Fun at Bierce

Need a place to donate your leftover candy? Bring it to Bierce! We are hosting a few fun themed activities on Thursday to celebrate All Hallows’ Eve.

There will be a photobooth set-up in Joe LaRose’s old office, candy at the service desks and a fun Search-A-Roo Halloween themed activity to win a study room for pre-finals week.

Volunteers are needed to staff a table in the lobby from 10am-2pm to handout candy and the activity.

Be sure to encourage your students (and colleagues) to get in the spirit and dress up!

Contact Stephanie with any questions.

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Electronic Services Research & Learning Services

Search A Roo Open session Oct 31

There will be a basic intro to Search A Roo for library staff on Oct 31 from 10-11, Bierce 274.

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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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Electronic Services

MARC Records: Wiley Online Library (OhioLINK)

1,611 MARC records provided by OhioLINK were recently loaded for the Wiley Online Library. 602 existing records were overlaid and 1,009 new records were created.   These records are available in the UAL Catalog now and will be available in Search-A-Roo within the next 26-48 hours.

Link to example record:
http://library.uakron.edu/record=b4284272~S24

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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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Dean's Office

UL Hourly Timecard Training- Nov 14

Mark your calendars! IT will be hosting a training for hourly library employees from 10-11:30am on November 14, 2013 in Bierce 274.

This session is open to any hourly employee in the UL (including students). Our go-live date for hourly employees is November 18.

Other training opportunities for online timecards: