Due to a potential issue with the installation program, III did not install Sierra Update 65 on our servers. III will reschedule once the issue has been identified and resolved.
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The Sierra application and database servers will be updated to Sierra 1.0 update 65 on Wednesday, March 6. There is no downtime required for this update. This update resolves several outstanding issues and reported problems.
Update 65 Notes can be found under the Sierra Knowledge Base page. A link to Update 65 Notes and instructions for accessing the Sierra Knowledge Base can be found on the Sierra SharePoint.
Archival Services would like to note
Susannah Chamberlain (Cole) 1849-1929, class of 1873. “Susie” entered Buchtel College the first day it opened and was one of four members of its first graduating class. After graduation, Miss Chamberlin taught English and Rhetoric at Buchtel College from 1873 until 1887 when she married Frank F. Cole.
For more about her see: http://www3.uakron.edu/schlcomm/womenshistory/cole_s.htm
If you or any student you know is interested in researching role of women in the community Archival Services has the following collections:
Helen E. Arnold Papers, 1970-1975 (President of local NAACP)
Thelma A Furry Papers, 1935-1980 (Akron attorney known for defending Civil Rights cases)
Mary E. Gladwin Papers, 1895-1920 (Red Cross Nurse who travelled the world)
League of Women Voters of Akron Records, 1940-1974
League of Women Voters of Canton Records, 1920-1970
Tuesday Musical Club, 1893-1973 (An organization still bringing music to Akron)
Helen Waterhouse Papers, 1930-1964 (Local Journalist)
Young Women’s Christian Association of Akron Records, 1940-1968
Akron-Summit County Federation of Women’s Clubs, 1894 – 1986
A message from LexisNexis about their upcoming offerings:
LexisNexis Academic
Learn about this premier general reference tool that provides access to news, business, and legal information from one interface. Redesigned specifically with students in mind, this research tool provides students as well as other researchers across all disciplines with comprehensive results on the past and the present. Whether the search is on a current hot topic in the news, financial information of a specific company, or a following of a judgment on a case, LexisNexis Academic has it all.
- Friday, March 8; noon to 1 p.m. (EST)—Register here(Telephone ONLY)
- Tuesday, March 26; 2 to 3 p.m. (EST)—Register here(VOIP ONLY)
LexisNexis Academic – Business
Learn about this premier general reference tool that provides access to news, business, and legal information from one interface. This seminar focuses on business resources and Company Dossier.
- Tuesday, March 5; 1 to 2 p.m. (EST)—Register here(VOIP ONLY)
LexisNexis Academic – Legal Research
Learn about this premier general reference tool that provides access to news, business, and legal information from one interface. Redesigned specifically with students in mind, this research tool provides students as well as other researchers across all disciplines with comprehensive results on the past and the present. This session will concentrate specifically on conducting legal research.
- Tuesday, February 26; 2 to 3 p.m. (EST)—Register here(VOIP ONLY)
- Tuesday, March 19; 2 to 3 p.m. (EST)—Register here(VOIP ONLY)
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Join OCLC Research and the University of Pennsylvania Libraries in person at the Hall of Flags, Perelman Quadrangle and also live on the web for thoughtful and provocative presentations about how libraries are already getting involved with MOOCs. Whether your institution is already on board or on the fence, you’ll learn from the pioneers how library content and services can be represented in these new learning environments, and about opportunities for new discussions with partners in supporting learning on campus.
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11,640 MARC records were recently loaded for Legislative Insight. 9,333 records were loaded on 2/18 and 2,314 records were loaded on 2/19.
Link to example record: http://library.uakron.edu/record=b4470887~S24
Monday February 18th the Akron Beacon Journal had an article announcing that the Summit County Historical Society will recognize Alvin Coe Voris with the Summit Award. [ http://www.ohio.com/news/summit-historical-society-to-honor-civil-war-general-1.374092 ] That article contained excerpts from a letter Voris wrote his wife describing a visit to a field hospital at Folly Island, SC. If you are interested in reading more here is a pdf of the complete letter. Alvin Coe Voris letter July 3 1863 If you or a student you know is interested in the Civil War, the Alvin Coe Voris papers 1860-1865 are available for researchers. If reading hand writing is not your thing many of the letters were published in Professor Mushkat’s book A Citizen-Soldier’s Civil War : the letters of Brevet Major General Alvin C. Voris available in Archival Services.
Scoping has been set-up for the UAL Catalog. Members of the Scoping Implementation Task Force will start testing to make sure scopes are working as intended. We will be testing on the staging server and not the live server. The only change you should notice at this time is the end of the permanent URLS has changed from S0 to S24. Older links with permanent URLS ending in S0 still work.
http://library.uakron.edu/record=b2449509~S24
http://library.uakron.edu/record=b2449509~S0
For more information about Scoping: https://sps.uakron.edu/sites/UL/depts/es/ulsys/scoping/default.aspx
ILLiad will be unavailable starting at 9pm tonight, 2/7, for a short bit while critical maintenance is performed. OCLC predicts about 2 hours for the work to be completed.
As of 1/28/2013, we received a new shipment of jump drives. They are for sale at the access services desk for $5.50.