Tuesday Times

Tuesday Times – January 30, 2018

Send your news to Kelsey Lovewell Lippard by 5:00 p.m. on Mondays! View each week’s Tuesday Times on the Libraries’ blog, 365 McIlroy. 

University of Arkansas Libraries Featured in The New Yorker
The story of discovering some of Florence Price’s forgotten work in our Special Collections department made it into the Feb. 5 issue of The New Yorker! Read about “how an African-American composer’s works were saved from destruction” here.

Digital Measures Overview
The U of A has purchased Digital Measures, a faculty activity reporting system, campus-wide. Please join Kathryn Baker Parks (Director, Data & Academic Systems for WCOB) and Elizabeth McCorcle (Solution Architect, Information Technology Services) for a demo of Digital Measures on Wednesday, Feb. 7 at 9 a.m. in MULN 104. A Q&A session will follow the demo.

Cultural Competence for Information Professionals
Join us at 11 a.m. Feb. 21 in MULN 486 for this month’s National Network of Libraries of Medicine webinar, Cultural Competence for Information Professionals. According to the National Association of Social Workers, cultural competence is “a congruent set of behaviors, attitudes, and policies that enable a person or group to work effectively in cross-cultural situations.” This webinar will provide an introduction to cultural competence and discuss why it is important and how it applies to the work of information professionals.

Guest Speaker: Shaundra Walker, PhD, Interim Library Director of the Ina Dillard Russell Library at Georgia College

Jazz and the Civil Rights Movement
Join us Monday, February 12 from 2-5 in the Walton Reading Room to hear a lecture and performance by renowned flautist Galen Abdur-Razzaq.

Wrangling Library Data: Analytics, Dashboards, and Spreadsheets
Tabatha Farney, author of Using Digital Analytics for Smart Assessment (ALA Editions, 2018), will kick off the conference with her talk, “Being a True Analytics Advocate.” As the Director of Web Services and Emerging Technologies for the Kraemer Family Library at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Tabatha brings her experience using and writing about different types of analytics to our discussion.

During the day, learn from a variety of peers and experts – each time slot offers two or three different programming options. A sampling of the sessions includes:

• Moving from Excel to LibInsight
• Data Visualization for the Rest of Us: A Beginner’s Guide
• Finding Your Meaningful Metrics
• The Evolution of Cataloging: Best Practices for Metadata Management and Measuring Metadata Quality

Check out the conference website for complete session descriptions and registration information.

We have registered as a library and reserved room 472B for Thursday, Feb. 22 from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. All are welcome to attend all day or to drop into sessions of interest.

Libraries Sustainability Group
The purpose of the newly created Libraries Sustainability Group is to brainstorm and implement initiatives that promote sustainability within the Libraries. An open meeting will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 1 in room 302B. All who have interest are welcome to attend. Send agenda items to Marianne Williams at mw052@uark.edu.

Calendar of Libraries’ Events – mark your personal calendars! 

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