December 12, 2011

News From Around the Libraries
 
Digital Collections Internal Grant Program Awardees
The Digital Library Services (DLS) department would like to congratulate all of the awardees of this year's Internal Grant Program.  The selection committee felt that these fourteen projects represented an opportunity to further highlight the University Libraries' unique and distinct collections.  DLS staff will work with this group of partners over the next six months to digitize these works and make them freely and openly available to our online patrons.

- Ames Library of South Asia: Enhancing the South Asia Historical Images Collection
- James Ford Bell Library: John Gabriel Stedman Archive and Book Manuscript
- Immigration History Research Center: On Their Behalf and in Their Own Voices: Digitizing IHRC's Foundational Collection of Immigration Oral Histories
- Borchert Map Library: Mississippi River Historic Maps; Historic City Maps
- Northwest Archetectural Archives: Larson and McLaren Papers - Renderings; William Channing Whitney - Renderings
- Performing Arts Archives: Penumbra Theatre Company Magnetic Video Performance Recordings
- Spanish Political Texts Online: Additional three volumes to this collection
- University Archives: University of Minnesota Gopher yearbooks
- University of Minnesota Extension Service: Historical University of Minnesota Extension Publications
- Veterinary Medical Library: Allen D. Leman Swine Conference Digitization Project
- Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine: The History and Development of Caesarean Section through the pioneering 19th century statistical method of Dr. Robert Patterson Harris (1822-1899)
- Kautz Family YMCA Archives: Emma Young Dickson papers, 1917-1955, 1998
 
Thanks again to all our submitters for their willingness to put forth such an amazing array of funding opportunities, and to our selection committee for their work in choosing from such a wonderful set of proposals.  Support for this program was provided through the use of one time central collections funds.
- Jason Roy
 
HathiTrust Update
The November 2011 update is now available at: http://www.hathitrust.org/updates_november2011 .
- Marlo Welshons, on behalf of the HathiTrust Communications Working Group
 
Tech Services Ten Cents: November 2011
The Thanksgiving holiday reminds us in Technical Services of the people to whom we are thankful... Abundance of talent working together... Stuffed to capacity, then clean up... Getting the creative juices flowing... Making room... See what Technical Services has been up to at: https://wiki.lib.umn.edu/TS/Newsletter .
- Libraries Technical Services
 
 
Staff Tidings and Kudos
 
A Thank You From Beth Kaplan
It was great to see so many of you at my going-away party, and I wanted to share my new contact information, as well as my thanks for twelve years of wonderful collegiality at the University Libraries.  It's been a rich and rewarding experience and I've learned so much from all of you.  Best wishes and keep in touch - you can reach me via email at: ekaplan.66@gmail.com .
- Beth Kaplan
 
Best Wishes to Linda Eells
Best wishes to Linda Eells, Head of the Forestry and Entomology, Fisheries, and Wildlife Libraries in Academic Programs, Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Sciences (ABES), who has accepted a position as the Librarian at the Waite Library in the Department of Applied Economics, right here at the University of Minnesota.  ABES will certainly miss Linda, but we are happy to know she will be close by (right next door in Ruttan Hall), and that we will be able to continue to work with her on programs like AgEcon Search.

Linda's last day with the University Libraries will be Tuesday, December 20, 2011.  Thank you to Linda for her many contributions to the Libraries and her liaison departments and we wish her success in his new position.  After December 20, 2011, referrals and questions related to forestry, entomology, fisheries, wildlife, and conservation biology can be directed to Philip Herold at: herol008@umn.edu .
- Philip Herold
 
Linda Eells and Julie Kelly Recieve IonE Grant Award
Congratulations to Linda Eells and Julie Kelly on their recent mini-grant award from the University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment!  Their proposal, titled, "EnviroSearch: A Feasibility Study for a Repository of Environmental Research and Policy," was selected as one of thirteen awards made by IonE.  The grant program encourages collaboration among faculty, staff, and students across University of Minnesota disciplines, units, and campuses on environmental themes.  Along with up to $3,000 in funding, each recipient is provided space for meetings, workshops, conferences, and some administrative support for a year.  Linda and Julie will lead an investigation to determine whether the University of Minnesota should develop an online, open access environmental sciences resource repository.
- Philip Herold
 
Paper Presentation Published
In October 2010, Katherine Chew and Erinn Aspinall presented a paper at the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Library Assessment Conference titled, "Serving Multiple Stakeholders: Crafting a "Blended" Scorecard at the University of Minnesota Health Sciences Libraries."  The conference proceedings have now been published, and you can find their paper on pages 335 through 343 at: http://libraryassessment.org/bm~doc/proceedings-lac-2010.pdf .  The paper outlines the ambitious approach that the Health Sciences Libraries (HSL) took to develop "metrics that matter" and the lessons that were learned along the way.
- Janice Jaguszewski
 
Perry Dean Retiring
Please join Magrath Library staff this Wednesday, December 14, 2011, 11:00 am to 2:00 pm, in Room 2< Magrath Library, as we gather to celebrate Perry Dean's thirty-nine years of employment with the University Libraries.  Enjoy a light lunch and dessert and wish Perry well in this new phase of his life.
- Steve Koehler
 
 
Workshops, Training Sessions, Brown Bags, etc.
 
Association of Research Libraries (ARL)/Digital Library Federation (DLF) E-Science Webcasts
Please drop-in to one or more of the following webcasts.  no reservations necessary.
 
Data Curation Operations in Libraries
Sayeed Choudhury, JHU
Friday, December 16, 2011
2:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Room S-30B, Wilson Library
 
Cyberinfrastructure for e-Science
David Monor, UCSD
Wednesday, January 4, 2011
2:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Room S-30B, Wilson Library
 
- John Butler
 
Collaboration in Technical Services Webinar
Staff with an interest in collections or technical services issues are invited to attend a viewing of the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) webinar, "2CUL: Cornell and Columbia Collaborate - Aspirations for Next Gen Tech Services."
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Room S-30B, Wilson Library
 
This webinar will describe a collaboration by Columbia University and Cornell University to integrate some of their technical services functions.  The presenters are Scott Wicks and Bob Wolven.  Further details may be found at: http://connect.ala.org/node/161412 .  A recording will be available after the event.
- Chew Chiat Naun
 
 
Exhibits at the Libraries

The Old Wooden Synagogues of Lithuania: An Artist's Perspective
Through Friday, December 30, 2011
Room 210, Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library, Rapson Hall
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/lib-web/events/architecture-landscape-archite/the-old-wooden-synagogues-of-l.html 
 
Winter Holidays in Children's Literature
Through Saturday, January 28, 2012
Gallery, Elmer L. Andersen Library
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/lib-web/events/university-libraries-exhibits/winter-holidays-in-childrens-l.html 
 
The Word Made Flesh: 400th Anniversary of the King James Bible
Through Friday, February 24, 2012
T. R. Anderson Gallery, James Ford Bell Library, O. Meredith Wilson Library
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/lib-web/events/university-libraries-exhibits/400th-anniversary-of-the-king-james-bible.html
 
 

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