Learn How to Hack Your Library (in a Good Way)

Great tips for making shortcuts in all things library. Check them out here.

Be sure to check out the section on building an “invisible bookshelf.” Great idea!

Crit Stuart Lecture

New Face

We are pleased to announce Letha Johnson as our newest KU Libraries employee.   She has accepted the Assistant Archivist position and will be reporting to Becky Schulte.

Letha is from Topeka and comes to us with extensive Archivist work experience from the Kansas State Historical Society .  Letha received a bachelor’s degree from Washburn in American History and has a an MLIS degree from Emporia State University. Letha’s first day will be this Monday,  July 21st.  Be sure to stop in at Spencer and say “hi.”

It Came from the Stacks!

In spite of rain and campus parking challenges, Jeromy Horkman tells us that people turned out in good numbers for Saturday’s Sci-Fi book sale.  We began with 17 full book trucks and it appears we cleared at least 6 full trucks.  The remaining books will be placed back to additional Sci-Fi book sales to be held in the Fall and Spring semesters.

Proceeds from the sale will support processing and development for the science fiction collection at KU Libraries. Unsold books will be donated to a non-profit organization dedicated to literacy programs

ELI 2009 Annual Meeting-Call for Proposals

Participation and Collaboration: Social Learning for the 21st Century
January 20-22, 2009  Orlando, Florida

I would like to personally invite you to join us at the EDUCAUSE Learning
Initiative 2009 Annual Meeting
<http://educause.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT0xMTY0NjUmcD0xJnU9MTAwMDAyOTQyNCZsa
T0zMDcwMDI/index.html> , January 20-22 in Orlando.

The meeting offers a setting for interactive, hands-on learning and
networking, with a variety of presentations, discussions, learning
innovations, and workshops. Supporting the meeting’s theme, “Participation
and Collaboration: Social Learning for the 21st Century,” we are seeking
proposals for presentation sessions, project briefings, and poster sessions.
Proposal focus areas for 2009 include: research-based, innovative practice,
learning technology, and learner showcase.

Submit Your Proposal Online
<http://educause.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT0xMTY0NjUmcD0xJnU9MTAwMDAyOTQyNCZsa
T0zMDcwMDM/index.html>  We invite you to submit a presentation proposal
online through September 9, 2008.

Sincerely,
Julie K. Little
ELI Interim Director

Kudos

Our own Sarah Goodwin Thiel chaired the committee which revised BCR’s Collaborative Digitization Project updated “Digital Imaging Best Practices” document.  Congratulations, Sarah, on this achievement!  The full BCR announcement is below.

Sarah Goodwin Thiel, digital services librarian, University of Kansas, served as the working group chair. She notes, “While continuing to address the needs of a particular audience, beginning practitioners and those from institutions with limited resources and/or expertise, Version 2.0 is developed to assist practitioners from the cultural heritage section to navigate the quickly evolving world of image digitization and to efficiently increase and improve access to digital scholarship.”

Reading Madness!

Class Act

Zanice Bond de Perez of the Writing Center helps student athletes develop thesis statements for their papers in the Libraries’ LA&S 292 Research Methods course this summer. The course was taught by Librarians Tami Albin and Julie Petr, and is open to all KU students.

Award Winner!

Susan Craig recently received the Distinguished Service Award from ARLIS. Read her remarks from the conference here.

Logo Files

For those of you who attended the all-staff meeting and are interested in the page I mentioned with the KU Libraries logo files, the Libraries image gallery (it’s rudimentary at the moment, but I hope still useful), and more goodies to come, here is the URL:

www.lib.ku.edu/staff/tools <http://www.lib.ku.edu/staff/tools>

Have a great weekend!

- Sarah