Tuesday Times

Learn About RSS Feeds in the Composition Classroom this Thursday
Julia Paganelli from the Creative Writing MFA program, and Michelle Gibeault, English and Communication Librarian, will present an expanded version of their College English Association talk, RSS Feeds in the Composition Classroom, as a workshop this Thursday, April 28 at 3:30pm in Kimpel 314. The presentation will show why RSS works well to connect students to political and social content through socially focused pedagogy. Though methods used in Comp I are the general focus, Paganelli and Gibeault will also discuss progress by Michel LaCrue regarding RSS feeds for Comp II and investigating discourse communities. During the session, they will share methods used and data collected about RSS in Comp I. This is an interactive presentation, so please bring your laptops. Attendees will have the opportunity to create their own RSS feeds.  Thank you, Michelle!

Libraries Represented at United States Agriculture Information Network Conference
Luti Salisbury, Head of the CHBC Library, is currently attending the USAIN Conference at University of Florida, Gainesville.  While there she is engaged in several sessions. Today she is presenting a paper titled “Issues in Scholarly Communication: Highlight from Science and Technology Librarians,” she presents  a poster on “Helping Patrons Identify Free Full-text Resources in Agriculture, Food and Life Sciences,” and she co-moderates the Technology Interest Group Lightning Talks.  Yesterday she facilitated a mini-session on “Metrics/Data/Usage” during the session on “Sharing Collection Management Ideas and Experience: Tales from our Libraries.” Thank you, Luti!

Database News Updates: Celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month
The Database News channel of 365 McIlroy has two recent updates to check out. In April is the Coolest Month, Beth Juhl highlights the Libraries’ campus wide subscription to Naxos Music Library: Jazz, a streaming service  with more than 32,000 artists on more than 200 labels, including Fantasy, Blue Note, EMI, Sun, and Warner Classics. Streaming some jazz might be the best way to celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month. And in Share Your Ebook Opinions, Mary Gilbertson and Beth Juhl link students to a Global Student & Researcher Ebook Survey aimed at improving the ebook experience. If you are a student, Why not take 15 minutes to share your thoughts with ProQuest to be entered to win one of 3 Apple Watches. Thanks, Beth!

Fabula Bound Debuts Undergraduate Literary Magazine
Fabula Bound, the U of A’s Creative Writing and Bookbinding RSO is celebrating the premiere of The Fiddler, an undergraduate literary magazine, today.  After the premiere event for students, any remaining issues of The Fiddler will be free to any student who wishes to pick one up at the Research Assistance Desk in Mullins Library. Michelle Gibeault, English and Communication Librarian, is Fabula Bound’s faculty advisor. As an aside: I was fortunate to see an advanced promotional copy of the lovely magazine – it has an inviting, clean design and is chock-full of creative writing. Check it out and follow Fabula Bound on Facebook. Thank you, Michelle!

Voting Underway: the Summon Implementation Team Needs You
Let the voting begin!  Joel Thornton reports that you can now cast your vote to name our new discovery search tool, Summon.  ProQuest calls the Summon Service a “web-scale discovery service that provides relevant, easily refined results.”  Polls are open April 26 – May 10.  The top choices are: discovery, One Search, Quick Search, and Whole Hog Search.  Your ballot is available at the top of StaffWeb. Thank you, Joel and team!

Extended Hours Start Friday – Study Breaks on Deck
Mullins Library will once again be open for extended hours during finals prep and finals week. The full schedule is available online.  Study Breaks begin Monday, May 2. As always, the team has put together a great mix of diversions and snacks for students and this year UAPD will be bringing their K-9 officers for a visit. The dogs will be outside of the West Entrance to Mullins. A full schedule is available online and will hit the Newswire soon. Thank you, Sarah!

Staff Senate Elections Are Also Underway – Let Your Voice Be Heard
Staff Senate elections are happening now through 5pm on May 2. All eligible staff should have received an email with a personal the link to vote in the appropriate division(s) (Academic Affairs and At-Large for those in the Libraries). If you believe you should have received a ballot but did not, Blake Chapman is the Election Chair and may be reached at pbc@uark.edu. Thank you Steph and Cedar!

Shout Out (n.) Informal. A message of congratulation, support, or appreciation.
 (This is a new, semi-regular feature for the Tuesday Times, proposed by Melody Herr, Head of the Scholarly Communications Office.)  A big thank you to Dylan Hurd, Deb Kulczak, Beth Juhl, and Cedar Middleton, who demonstrated the extraordinary power of teamwork. By bringing together their individual expertise, these four created a method for automatically transferring data from ProQuest directly into the ScholarWorks@UARK database.  This method will replace a formerly manual process and greatly expedite the ingestion of dissertations and theses into the institutional repository. Thank you! Have you noticed someone going the extra mile for a colleague or a patron? Have you seen colleagues demonstrating the team spirit? Give a shout out in the next Tuesday Times.  – submitted by Melody Herr.  Thanks Melody!

Int’l Jazz Day Events hosted in Washington DC on April 30
Tim Zou reports that Washington DC will serve as the International Jazz Day Global Host City this year. Int’l Jazz Day celebrates its 5th anniversary on Saturday, April 30 and the US nation’s capital will host a multitude of jazz performances, community service initiatives, and education programs in schools, libraries, hospitals, community centers and arts venues across the city. Washington DC is the birthplace of the great jazz pianist and bandleader Duke Ellington, and the city has enjoyed a thriving jazz scene for the past century. Washington DC will join with towns, cities and villages in over 190 countries on all 7 continents to observe Int’l Jazz Day through thousands of performances and programs. More info is available on UNESCO’s site. Thank you, Tim!

Reminders, Tidbits, and Such:

• Ari Shapiro (@arishapiro) was chatting about the US Embassy in Delhi: He retweeted @FayJonesSchool’s comment that tagged it as an Edward Durell Stone Thanks, Cat!
• Take a Moment to View Small Works on Paper: Visit the gallery space inside Mullins Library before Friday to see Arkansas Arts Council’s 2016 Small Works on Paper. The art exhibit will next travel to the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith.
• Arkansas’s Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet: The Pulitzer Prize turns 100 this year. To help celebrate, Joshua Youngblood put together a post introducing readers to the papers and book collection of Arkansas’s only Pulitzer-winning poet, John Gould Fletcher. Check it out over at 365 McIlroy.
• U of A Benefits Briefing: Richard Ray, Director of Benefits, will explain recent changes to retirement and health care on Wednesday, May 4, at 2:30pm in Mullins 104.
• 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 today and tomorrow at the U of A.
• ALPS registration deadline is fast approaching: 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. Deadline to register is 4/30.
• 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!

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