Tuesday Times – February 6, 2018
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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.
Florence Price Luncheon
The Libraries will host ‘Florence Price: Her Life, Her Music, Her Impact’ next Friday, Feb. 16 in the Walton Reading Room. The event will involve a free, public luncheon catered by Briar Rose and a discussion about Florence Price’s life and work. The WRR will be closed from 9:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. that day. This is part of a three-day series of events paying tribute to Price for Black History Month.
Reminder: Digital Measures Overview Tomorrow
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
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.
Developing Integrated Services for Open Access and Data – Presentation Sponsored by the Open Access Group
Please join us on Tuesday, 27 February, at 3 PM in Mullins 486 for the virtual presentation ‘Open Scholarship at Indiana University: Developing Integrated Services for Open Access and Data Services.’ This presentation will address Indiana University Libraries’ model for providing repository, journal, and data publishing services in the Scholarly Communication Department. Jamie Wittenberg will discuss the adoption and implementation of the Indiana University Bloomington Open Access Policy and its impact on the formation of library services in support of open scholarship. She will share information related to outreach, faculty engagement, assessment, campus partnerships, and plans for future work.
About the presenter:
Jamie Wittenberg is the Head of the Scholarly Communication Department at the IU Libraries. Her work focuses on enabling open access to scholarship, facilitating reuse, and advocating for transparent research practices. Jamie and her team run an institutional repository for the IU research community as well as an open journal publishing platform and research data service. Jamie is working in collaboration with library developers to operationalize workflows from the IU faculty reporting system to the institutional repository. Jamie’s current research includes work on preprint deposit pipelines, pedagogical models for data services, personal digital archiving methods, and NSF and Sloan-funded research on publishing digital 3D objects.
Shout Out (n.) Informal. A message of congratulation, support, or appreciation.
Kathleen Lehman, Head of User Services, would like to give a shout out to Sherryl Faulkner-Robinson for holding two instructional sessions with the new Storage and Stacks personnel on how to create item records for various types of material. Sherryl has already been barcoding and creating records for items in our collection that don’t have them; by training others, she has increased our ability to have the collection storage-ready.
Calendar of Libraries’ Events – mark your personal calendars!
| Date | Event |
| 2/7 | Digital Measures info session, 9 AM, MULN 104 |
| 2/12 | Jazz & the Civil Rights Movement with flautist Galen Abdur-Razzaq |
| 2/16 | Florence Price Luncheon, 11:30 AM, Walton Reading Room |
| 2/21 | Cultural Competence webinar, 11 AM, MULN 486 |
| 2/22 | Wrangling Library Data, 9-4, MULN 472B |
| 2/27 | Developing Integrated Services for Open Access & Data, 3 PM, MULN 486 |
| 2/28 | Opera in the Ozarks: Master Class with Dr. Joel Burcham |
| 3/1 | Opera in the Ozarks: Archive Viewing, Concert & Reception |
| 3/19 | Sierra system moving to hosted; downtime 8-10 AM |
Out-of-Office Notices
| Name | Dates | Need Anything, Please Contact (479-575-XXXX) |
| Kasey Kelm | 1/31-2/2 | Lora Lennertz 5-5545 |
| Mary Leverance | 2/8-13 | Diane Baker 5-5512 |
| Mary Gilbertson | 2/9-12 | Carol Warriner 5-6793 |