Tuesday Times
🕸 October 1, 2019 🕸
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Yearbook Digitization Update
The University of Arkansas Yearbooks digital collection is now live! Upon completion, there will be 119 books or 45,000 single scans made available. Currently, the digital collection comprises 51 volumes (1897 – 1949) or 15,055 single scans.
Crosswalking Metadata
Archivist practitioners, librarians and others who are responsible for normalizing, updating and migrating legacy metadata or interested in repurposing metadata for other systems and projects are invited to attend the SSA session Crosswalking Metadata this Friday, Oct. 4 in Mullins Library. Learn more and register: https://mysaa.archivists.org/nc__event?id=a0l0b00000EHu0YAAT
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
Graduate Student Speaker Series
Will Teague, a doctoral candidate in history, will present “Deportation as Diplomacy: Carter and the US-Iranian Relationship” at 5 p.m. Oct. 10 in the Special Collections reading room.
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The Scholarly Communications Task Force thanks all library faculty and staff who provided comments on the proposed revision of the Open Access Policy and the University Libraries Value Statement, either during the open forum held on 20 September or through the online survey. All comments were kept anonymous, and we’ve now submitted them to Dean Clark.
Out-of-Office Notices
| Name | Date | Contact |
| Deb Cheval | 10/3-7 | Marco De Prosperis, 5-2592 or Brian Curtis, 5-3808 or Renee Rogers (after 10/4), 5-5674 |
| Kathleen Lehman | 10/3-8 | Lynaire Hartsell, hartsell@uark.edu or Matthew Kelly, mekelly@uark.edu |
| Joel Thornton | 10/7-8 | Tony Stankus, tstankus@uark.edu |
Calendar of Libraries’ Events – mark your personal calendars!
| Date | Event |
| 10/3 | Faculty Promo/Tenure Event, Walton Reading Room |
| 10/4 | Crosswalking Metadata, 9 AM, MULN |
| 10/4 | Research Compliance Session, 10 AM, MULN 104 |
| 10/10 | Amicos Online Conference, 10 AM, MULN 302B |
| 10/10 | Graduate Student Speaker Will Teague, 5 PM, Special Collections |