Tammy Stitz will be serving as Co-Chair of the Faculty Senate Accessibility Committee from January to September 2020. Way to go, Tammy!
Sean Kennedy, along with his co-presenters (including UL alums Garewal and Wisneski) were invited to write a chapter in the annual conference proceedings monograph for the Charleston Conference. The book is open access and was just published a few days ago online at https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/f7623f16x?locale=en
Our chapter is titled Springing into Collections: Best Practices for Inheriting an Academic Library Collections Budget.
Great collaboration, Sean!
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Mallison Committee Work
Theodore Mallison, Archival Services, is serving as Chair of University Libraries Sesquicentennial Planning Committee through August 2020. He has also begun serving on the Society of Ohio Archivists’ Marketing and Communications Committee for 2019-2020.
Nice work!
University Libraries is pleased to announce that Marilia Antúnez, Life & Allied Health Sciences Librarian, has been nationally recognized by the Medical Library Association (MLA) for attaining membership in the Academy of Health Information Professionals (AHIP). The Academy is the credentialing and career development program for health information professionals. Academy membership is based on three areas of achievement: academic preparation, professional experience, and professional accomplishment. Ms. Antúnez’s membership was approved at the Distinguished Member level.
University Libraries is proud to have Marilia Antúnez supporting the needs of the health information profession. “We are excited to celebrate this recognition of Ms. Antúnez’s achievements. This is really wonderful news!” Dean Aimée deChambeau.
Offered since 1978, the Academy provides membership to over 1,000 health sciences librarians and information professionals. For more information about MLA, visit MLANET (www.mlanet.org).
Ian McCullough was recently elected as a Liaison Council Member-At-Large to the Executive Committee of Akron AAUP. He will preside as a co-chair during meetings of the Department’s Liaisons Council in addition to serving on the Executive Committee. His term lasts until next fall.
Congratulations on being elected!
David Procházka has been uniquely busy this year.
Musikproduktion Jürgen Höflich published three scores with new introductions by David Procházka. For Darius Milhaud’s Cantate de psaumes (https://repertoire-explorer.musikmph.de/wp-content/uploads/vorworte_prefaces/4232.html), David tracked down a live recording that was only available at the Cleveland Institute of Music. He also wrote about Nikolai Tcherepnin’s 1903 ballet Le pavillon d’Armide (https://repertoire-explorer.musikmph.de/wp-content/uploads/vorworte_prefaces/4148.html) and Henry Hadley’s Symphonic Fantasia (https://repertoire-explorer.musikmph.de/wp-content/uploads/vorworte_prefaces/4119.html). For the last work, David had the Library of Congress digitize a recording of a 1938 performance by the Los Angeles Federal Symphony, which was broadcast and recorded as part of the Federal Music Project.
That’s quite a variety of accomplishments, David! Nicely done!
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UL Migration to SharePoint 365
IT migrated the UL SharePoint to SharePoint 365 in the cloud. Migration started 10/9/2019 and was completed on 10/10/2019. The old SharePoint site will be read-only for 14 days. After 14 days the old site will be locked.
Things to do and know regarding the UL SharePoint migration
- UL SharePoint to be migrated: https://sps.uakron.edu/sites/UL/
- New UL SharePoint: https://uazips.sharepoint.com/sites/UL
- The old UL SharePoint will be read only for 14 days
- The old SharePoint will be locked and unavailable after 14 days (10/28/2019)
- Access, edit, add, and upload documents to the new UL SharePoint
- If you manage a subsite or a document library/libraries within the UL SharePoint please log in before 10/18/2019 and to make sure you are able to access, edit, add, and upload documents
- If you use departmental documentation on SharePoint please log in before 10/18/2019 to make sure you can access the documents you regularly use
- All UL personnel from the following units should test to make sure they have access to SharePoint 365 before the end of next week:
- Access Services
- Archives
- Dean’s Office
- Electronic Services
- Research and Learning Services
- Science and Technology Library
- Update shortcuts or links to point to the new UL SharePoint on 365
- E-mail Susan (ashby@uakron.edu) if you encounter any post-migration issues or problems or you have any questions.
October is Archives Month. Archival Services photograph of the Goodyear Moon House was one of the images selected for the Society of Ohio Archivists (SOA) Archives Month Poster. Each year the SOA decides on a theme for the upcoming poster and Archives from around the state submit photographs or documents. Members of the SOA select their favorite images and the Poster committee selects the top three to five images to use in designing the poster.
Fleischer and Newhall Win another Award for Documentary
The documentary film Lost Voices of the Great War: Summit County in the First World War won a Leadership in History Award of Excellence from the American Association of State & Local History (AASLH) at their annual conference on Friday, August 30th in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. According to AASLH, the awards are given to “establish and encourage standards of excellence in the collection, preservation, and interpretation of state and local history” and “recognize superior and innovative achievements.”
S. Victor Fleischer, University Archivist, Head of Archival Services, and Associate Professor of Bibliography, served as lead researcher, co-writer, and co-producer of the film, while Jamie Newhall, Sr. Multi-Media Producer in Design & Development Services, served as videographer/editor. The film was produced with Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens and other community partners with the generous support of a grant from the Ohio Humanities Council.
Congratulations, Vic & Jamie! Impressive work!
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Freels Reappointed
Amy Freels, University of Akron Press, has been reappointed to the UC Communications Standing Committee for 2019-2022 as an at-large representative for Staff Employee Advisory Committee (SEAC) which serves as an advisory committee to the President of The University of Akron.
Congratulations, Amy!