Tuesday Times

Tuesday Times

September 24, 2019

 

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

Research Compliance Instructional Session: Human Subjects Research 
Do you…
Conduct your own research?
Assist researchers?
If so, this session is for you. Come learn about these important research compliance topics:
  • Ethics and integrity
  • Guidelines and regulations
  • Internal Review Boards (IRB)
Jason Ramage, assistant vice chancellor for research and innovation, will present Friday, Oct. 4 from 10-11 a.m. in Mullins 104. 
 
Amigos Online Conference
The Amigos online conference Healthy Habits – Cultivating a Culture of Health and Wellness in Libraries and Communities will be offered Thursday, October 10, from 10:00 to 4:00 in Room 302B.  Everyone is welcome. The full schedule with session descriptions is available at:  https://www.amigos.org/healthy_habits

Scholarly Communications Task Force – Feedback Requested
The Scholarly Communications Task Force of the University Libraries welcomes your feedback on proposed revisions for the University of Arkansas Open Access Policy and the proposed Value Statement for the University Libraries. If you were not able to attend the forum or if you would prefer to leave your comments anonymously, please complete this Qualtrics survey [https://uark.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1XI00c7lBDrTebr] no later than 5 PM tomorrow, 25 September 2019. You will find these two documents embedded within the survey.

The Task Force will submit the comments gathered during this forum and from this survey to the University Libraries Administration Group.  Thank you for providing feedback.

 
CONTENTdm Upgrades
The new CONTENTdm responsive design platform used for displaying our digital collections continues upgrading the system. There will be another set of upgrades for Thursday, September 26.  Those improvements include:

  • Enhanced searching of compound objects by showing all pages by default and provides a toggle to filter search results
  • Automatically generated IIIF Presentation manifests for Monograph compound objects
  • More efficient building of IIIF collection-level manifests for extremely large collections
  • New customization recipes in the CONTENTdm Cookbook, like a PDF download button and Twitter Follow button
  • Easier access for downloading and viewing the code for all CONTENTdm Cookbook recipes through a new web portal
  • Corrected thumbnail preview when sharing to social media

Shout Out (n.) Informal. Message of support, congratulation or appreciation. 

Rachel Krest gives a hout out to Cedar Middleton, Deb Cheval, Kelsey Lovewell Lippard, and Dean Clark for all the help in preparing a special report for some very important benefactors. Thank you so much!

Out-of-Office Notices

Name Date Contact
Renee Rogers 9/27-10/7 Deb Cheval, dcheval@uark.edu, 5-6639
Marianne Williams 9/20-30  
Drew Beisswenger 9/23-30 Deb Kulczak, dkulczak@uark.edu, 5-4811
Cedar Middleton 9/24-27 Melody Herr, herr@uark.edu, 5-4233
Lynaire Hartsell 9/26-30 Kathleen Lehman, kalehman@uark.ed, 5-7408
Kathleen Lehman 10/3-8 Lynaire Hartsell, hartsell@uark.edu or Matthew Kelly, mekelly@uark.edu