Tuesday Times

The Summon Implementation Team Needs You
The Discovery Implementation Steering Committee is still taking name suggestions for the implementation of Summon. So far the list includes such catchy names as Prometheus, Whole Search, and Searchzilla. Here’s the full list of names we’ve received so far:

• Whole Hog Search
• Prometheus
• One Search
• Search it all!
• Search Everything (but not really everything)
• Whole Search
• Combined Search
• Easy Search
• Better-than-Google Search
• Big Gulp
• Quick Search
• gARgle
• Searchzilla

If you have other ideas to add to the list please email them to Joel Thornton or Kathleen Lehman by Monday, 4/18.  In the next few weeks, the Steering Committee plans to send out a poll of the top choices for Libraries personnel to cast their votes for their Summon favorite name.

Happy National Library Workers Day!
I hope you had an opportunity to stop by the NLWD awards ceremony today in MULN’s Staff Lounge, or caught a few of the thanks and praises traveling around social media and the interwebs. This day celebrates YOU, so thank you for all that you do to make the Libraries successful and productive.  We’re also celebrating National Library Week this week by highlighting posts on 365 McIlroy that show how #LibrariesTransform. Today’s post is from NLWD Rookie of the Year Rachel Paul, from Performing Arts and Media, “What’s Google Got to Do with It?: Linked Data Transforms Library Catalog Searching.” Show some library love by sharing her post. And stay tuned all week long for more. The full list of winners this year includes:

• Rookie of the Year: Ila Irizarry, Dean’s Office (nominated by Martha Guirl-Phillips)
  • “Ila is by no means a rookie in professional terms. She might be new here in the Libraries, but her professional experience has been valuable to us.”
• Rookie of the Year: Rachel Paul, Performing Arts and (nominated by Tim Zou)
  • “Rachel’s diligent work and expertise has contributed directly into the transformation of the digital library services and information delivery method as well as putting the Libraries on the list of just a few academic libraries in the country to stream institutional concert recordings.”
• Extra Mile Award: Olivia Wood, User Services (nominated by Dennis Stephenson)
  • “Olivia is a fantastic employee. She handles the desk well, and deals with even the most difficult patrons with a smile.”
• Extra Mile Award: Christina Wampler, Interlibrary Loan (nominated by Robin Roggio)
  • “Christina is such a great asset to our department. She always goes beyond what is asked of her to make sure ILL continues to shine for our own patrons, as well as for other libraries borrowing our materials.”
• Keystone Award: Deb Kulczak, Technical Services (nominated by Beth Juhl and Janet Parsch)
  • “Deb began to wear a considerable number of hats in 2015, exchanging and juggling them as the occasion arose,while continuing to offer amazing expertise on the specific issues of cataloging every day. She does this with considerable grace, fairness, patience, and good humor.”
• Outstanding Support Service Award: Arlyn Brazell (nominated by Cole Davis)
  • “Arlyn is a real go getter. He’s really stepped up in the last year, taking on extra duties and responsibilities.”
• Team Project Award: Team Serials – Judy Casada, Lisa Lindsey, Jefferie Renegar, Ashley Mitchell, Cody Hackett, and Judy Robinson (nominated by Molly Moore)
  • All of the Serials employees pulled together to solve problems or improvise in areas where the Serials Supervisor would have provided guidance. Each person provided one piece of the puzzle for those problems.”

Congratulations to all the winners! And a special thanks to this year’s Awards Committee: Micah Hampton, Vera Ekechukwu, Bridget Penrose, Jozef Laincz, and Tim Zou.

IUG Overview Moved to 4/20
Due to a scheduling conflict, we are moving the IUG reports originally scheduled for THIS coming Wednesday, to NEXT Wednesday, April 20, at 10:30 in MULN 104.  Please plan to attend if you are able to hear your colleagues report on what they saw and heard at the Innovative Users Group Annual Meeting (the meeting of libraries who use the Sierra / Millennium library system).  Thank you, Beth!

Reminders and Such:

• TRAIL Comes to U of A: TRAIL is celebrating 10 years of digitizing technical reports from Federal government agencies and this year’s meeting will be held April 26 – 27 at the U of A.
• ALPS Registration Deadline 4/30: The 2016 Arkansas Library Paraprofessionals Spring Conference is May 18-20 in Hot Springs – and you’re invited! Travel stipends are available through the Libraries’ budget office. Let me know if you need more info!
• Please remember to COPY the person or people who are serving as your back-ups in your out-of-office emails to me. It serves as not only an excellent last minute confirmation for you, but also a handy way for me to procure the contact info that I add to each entry. Thank you!

Out of Office Notices

Calendar of Libraries’ Events – Mark Your Personal Calendars!