During final exam week, additional testing space will be available in Bierce Library 279 for testing regularly done in Schrank Hall North 152. Please visit the Computer Based Assessment & Evaluation website for testing hours and additional information
The files referenced at today’s strategic planning presentation can be found on the Strategic Planning Documents SharePoint.
For reasons of security and accountability the security on the doors on the ground floor of Bierce has changed, effective today, April 23, 2013.
There is no longer an ADA Accessible door into the ground floor. Alarms have been activated on the double inside doors to the right of the elevator. Exit through these doors is for emergencies only. The outside door is locked.
The double doors to the left of the elevator, the ones that lead to the loading dock and LIB 75 (Audio-Visual Classroom Services) are to be closed at all times. Other than for entry to LIB 75, this entrance and exit will be for Bierce Library staff only. Students are not to use this either as an exit or entrance—except, of course, in case of an emergency.
Starting Sunday, April 28 and continuing through Sunday, May 6, the University Libraries will be transformed into a Stress-Free Zone with several events aimed at reducing end of semester stress and anxiety.
Sunday, April 28
| When | Where | What |
| 1-3pm | Lobby | WAGTime Therapy Dogs |
Monday, April 29
| When | Where | What |
| 10-11am | LIB168 | Meditation Lesson |
| 11am- noon | LIB154 | Pam Jackson- Reducing Test Anxiety |
| 2:30-4:30pm | Lobby | WAGTime Therapy Dogs |
| 8pm-midnight | Bierce/S&T | Coffee Break |
Tuesday, April 30
| When | Where | What |
| 10-11am | LIB168 | Meditation Lesson |
| 11am-1pm | Lobby | WAGTime Therapy Dogs |
| 8pm-midnight | Bierce/S&T | Coffee Break |
Wednesday, May 1
| When | Where | What |
| 10-11am | LIB168 | Meditation Lesson |
| 11am-1pm | Lobby | WAGTime Therapy Dogs |
| 3:30-4:30pm | LIB154 | Eric Hayden- Stress Management with biofeedback demo |
| 8pm-midnight | Bierce/S&T | Coffee Break |
Thursday, May 2
| When | Where | What |
| 1-3pm | Lobby | WAGTime Therapy Dogs |
| 8pm-midnight | Bierce/S&T | Coffee Break |
Friday, May 3
| When | Where | What |
| 1-3pm | Lobby | WAGTime Therapy Dogs |
Saturday, May 4
| When | Where | What |
| 9-11am | Lobby | WAGTime Therapy Dogs |
Sunday, May 5
| When | Where | What |
| 8pm-midnight | Bierce/S&T | Coffee Break |
As you may know, University Libraries is hosting two sessions in conjunction with the Institute for Teaching and Learning entitled Know the Roo: University Libraries Resources, Services, and Partnerships to Enhance Success. The sessions are today (4/17) at 1:00 and tomorrow (4/18) at 2:00 in room 154. I am lucky enough to be hosting the sessions and wanted to share the Libguide that I prepared (with plenty of help from Trevor and Lisa): http://libguides.uakron.edu/faculty. This is just for these sessions and can grow into a more general guide for faculty. Please send me any ideas you have for additional content or let me know if you would like to add to the guide.
As an aside, Trevor and I are aware that three of the widgets are not working properly. They will be fixed ASAP!
We are adding a 3D printer to Bierce Library. The Makerbot Replicator 2X will arrive within the next month. The Emerging Technology Lab team is working on its implementation and will announce the machine’s availability when it arrives.
The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) routinely offers one hour continuing education webinars on a variety of topics including cataloging, preservation, and institutional repositories to name a few. After 90 days of original broadcast, these webinars are made freely available in the ALCTS webinar archive and on the ALCTS YouTube Channel.
Included are several introductory level webinars on Resource Description and Access (RDA), the new rules and guidelines for creating cataloging recordings that will be fully adopted by the Library of Congress at the of the month. Those wanting to know more about the standard may be interested in the RDA for the Non-Cataloger webinar from Oct. 2012. (One word of caution: RDA continues to evolve as a standard so some of the older RDA webinars contain information that is now out of date.)
Changes to the OhioLINK central catalog for new RDA elements… and we need your input
What: open forum on RDA elements
Purpose: to gather your input
Where: Bierce 274 Learning Studio
When: April 17, 1.00-2.00
Who? YOU!
OhioLINK’s Database Maintenance and Standards Committee (DMSC) wants to put forth a proposal for how several new or changed RDA elements will appear and function in OhioLINK’s central catalog. They’ve distributed a draft of the proposal and are seeking feedback. A core group of UAL technical services folks will be evaluating the technical elements of the draft.
We are also having an open forum to present the proposal and get feedback that we can forward to DMSC. We’ll have the open forum on April 17, 2013, from 1:00 to 2:00, in Bierce Learning Studio 274. Anyone interested is welcome to participate in the forum. We plan to include some screen shots or live displays of how these RDA elements currently appear in public catalogs.
If you’re interested in seeing the draft of the actual proposal, it’s available on SharePoint.
For more information, contact David Procházka (davidp@uakron.edu)
As you may have seen, May 4 is UA Night at old Canal Park. The UA marching band will perform and the first 1,000 fans will get a Jim Tressel bobble head. Game time is 6:05 and tickets are only $6! It is a Saturday, so this may not be the best date for a UL outing, and if there is little interest in this game, I will look into another, but I thought I would see if anyone wanted to go as a group. I have contacted our Aeros ticket rep (yes, we have one) and can give him a headcount as late as 4/26 for the game. If you are interested, please send me an e-mail with the number of tickets you need ($6 each). Payment will not be due until I drop off the tickets to you (the week of 4/29).
See the attached flyer for more information: UA Night @ Canal Park
Joe (jsalem@uakron.edu)
There was a pretty good article in the Chronicle of Higher Education on UA’s early work on prior learning assessment / credentialing:
http://chronicle.com/article/U-of-Akron-to-Offer-Tutorials/138243/.