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Southeastern Law Librarian 2023 Special Election Edition, Seaall

Newsletters

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Southeastern Law Librarian Winter 2023, Seaall

Newsletters

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So You Want To Be A Leader? Examining Pathways To Special Collections Administration, Sarah Horowitz, Colleen W. Barrett

Library Faculty and Staff Publications

This article seeks to understand the current state of the field of special collections library administration in the United States. Using a dataset gathered through publicly available information about special collections directors from the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), Independent Research Libraries Association (IRLA), and the Oberlin Group institutional members, the authors explore the educational backgrounds of directors, the types of positions they held prior to taking on their current roles, and the effect of gender on leadership advancement. This article also discusses the similarities and differences between institution types as well as promotions within institutions and across types of …

Looking Back: Kentucky And Children’S Book Publishers, Reinette F. Jones, Charlotte Stephens

Library Faculty and Staff Publications

Though Kentucky was not a leader in the early publishing industry for children, it was an active participant. Printers within the state, as in the rest of the country, saw the potential in producing literature for young readers. Through the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries, this literature became more established. Slowly, children’s books started to step away from solemn moral instruction toward the playful stories we know and love today.

Looking Back: Woman's Library Club In Kentucky, Reinette F. Jones

Library Faculty and Staff Publications

The Woman’s Library Club Movement arrived in Kentucky around 1896. It was not a true movement, but rather a period when dissociated groups named Woman’s Library Club were established throughout the United States. There was not a national office or state offices. Each club functioned independently. The state of Kentucky was a minor player in the Woman’s Library Club Movement. Had it not been for the Paducah newspaper articles, the state as whole may have been overlooked.

The University Of Kentucky, James M. Donovan

Law Faculty Books and Chapters

On July 1, 2010, a long-sought realignment between the University of Kentucky’s main library and the Law Library went into effect. Under the new arrangement, the Law Library would no longer be a semi-autonomous entity with oversight performed by both the law school and the main library, but rather a unit wholly situated within the law school. The steps toward this outcome and the negotiated details are sketched below.

Exhibit: Documenting The Presence Of Hispanic And Latinx Students At The University Of Kentucky, Ruth E. Bryan, Taylor Leigh

Library Presentations

From December 6-7, 2022, at the request of Hispanic Studies Department faculty Heather Campbell-Speltz, University Archivist Ruth Bryan and Hispanic Studies Librarian Taylor Leigh presented to students in classes SPA 211 and 208 an exhibit of items from the University Archives in the UK Libraries Special Collections Research Center that document the presence of Hispanic and Latinx students at the University of Kentucky. Starting with the first student from Latin America to graduate from the Agricultural and Mechanical College in 1878 (the precursor to today’s university) and going through some of the activities of the Latino Student Union in 2022, …

About Private Tommie D. Smith Guy, Wac, Reinette F. Jones

Library Presentations

Tommie D. Smith [Guy], from Lexington, KY, was one of the three African American WACs who were beaten by the local police and charged with disorderly conduct for sitting in the white waiting area of the bus station in Elizabethtown, KY. The three WACs were with the 1550th Service Command Unit, WAC Section II. The three women were eventually found not guilty of any charges.

Born Digital Layer Cake: A Tiered Approach To Digital Preservation At The Ukl Scrc, Megan M. Mummey

Library Presentations

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Their Challenges Are Our Challenges Too, Julene L. Jones, Megan Oakleaf, Jackie Belanger, Becky Croxton, Heather C. Owen

Library Faculty and Staff Publications

The Grand Challenges in Assessment Project (https://assessment.charlotte.edu/excellence-assessment/grand-challenges-assessment-project) is a national, collaborative effort to create national strategic plans to address pressing challenges facing assessment in higher education. Endorsed by key higher education assessment organizations including the Association for the Assessment of Learning in Higher Education (AALHE), the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), and the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA), as well as the Assessment Institute, assessment practitioners and community members across higher education participated in the identification of three grand challenges facing assessment in academia: (1) using assessment findings to increase equity, (2) using assessment …

Southeastern Law Librarian Fall 2022, Seaall

Newsletters

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William T. Young Library Space Survey Results, 2022, Julene L. Jones

Library Presentations

Describes results from the Spring 2022 William T. Young Library space survey

Advocating For Higher Wages For Archival Student Workers: Or How To Stop Exploiting Your Students, Megan M. Mummey

Library Presentations

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Suddenly, Everything's Online! What Do We Do Now?, Ruth E. Bryan

Library Presentations

In this presentation, the author, the University of Kentucky university archivist, outlines a problem with acquiring currently-created university documents and offers some initial solutions. The problem is that key university records of historical and strategic importance are being distributed or published online and not routinely transferred to the archives the way they were in the past. Unless these documents are proactively acquired by the university archives, they are likely to be lost because of the ephemeral nature of the Web. Yet, crawling or otherwise capturing dynamic and changing web platforms adds technological complexity and thus requires additional resources. Given that …

Southeastern Law Librarian Summer 2022 Special Annual Meeting Issue, Seaall

Newsletters

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Southeastern Law Librarian Summer 2022, Seaall

Newsletters

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Soap Eaters & Coon Dogs… According To Kentucky Newspapers!, Reinette F. Jones, Kopana Terry

Library Presentations

Kentucky newspapers are a valuable research option with many articles about the history of the state, as well as national and international news. This presentation was brief overview of the Kentucky Newspaper Digital Program [KDNP] and its development over many years. KDNP provides patrons access to the hundreds of Kentucky newspaper titles. Many of these titles are available full-text online via the University of Kentucky Library catalog. The weekly history vignettes are based on Kentucky newspaper articles and cover a wide range of topics. They are online at the KDNP Facebook site.

Sacscoc In Libraries, Julene L. Jones, Kathleen Bell

Library Presentations

In this webinar, two Assessment Librarians describe SACSCOC Library standards 11.1-11.3 as well as the narratives and evidentiary documents they compiled for their institutions' 2022 and 2023 reaffirmation processes. Slides also available at http://www.aserl.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/SACSCOC-in-Libraries.pdf

"Online Learning: Steps Taken, Lessons Learned", Matthew Strandmark

Library Presentations

This presentation details the creation of digital learning objects for use in the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center education program during the COVID-19 pandemic, and in following semesters. It discusses the origins of the online learning modules, how they were created, how they are advertised, and how they are assessed.

Pivoting Standard Services For A New Remote Reality, Kopana Terry

Library Presentations

As the internet has gained popularity over the past 20 years, the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries has adapted by improving search and discovery through our catalogue and content management system Spokedb, the Oral History Metadata Synchronizer (OHMS), and mass digitization of analogue interviews. The sudden COVID-19 Pandemic shut down the face-to-face world and forced us to quickly devise methods for our other not-so-digital services such as interviewing, accessioning, preservation, and the workflows they rely on. This presentation will explore the methods behind these adjustments and how they have become tools in …

Southeastern Law Librarian Spring 2022, Seaall

Newsletters

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If It’S Not In The Newspapers, Don’T Believe It!, Kopana Terry, Reinette F. Jones

Library Presentations

Kentucky newspapers are a major asset for historical research and genealogical work. They hold the treasures not found in any other resource and are a great educational tool for all ages. We will share with the audience how the Kentucky Digital Newspaper Program (KDNP) came to exist in its present form, who uses it, and why it is free to all who have internet service. Added to that, will be the overview of why so much local African American history can be found in the newspapers, and how the newspapers have been a vital resource in the development of the …

Southeastern Law Librarian Winter 2022, Seaall

Newsletters

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Introduction To Data Science, Spencer P. Greenhalgh

Information Science Textbook Gallery

This book was developed for ICT/LIS 661: Introduction to Data Science, as offered in the University of Kentucky's School of Information Science. It adapts and expands on openly licensed materials to introduce readers to basic statistical concepts, the R programming language, and philosophical critique of data science.

This open access textbook was supported by the University of Kentucky Libraries Alternative Textbook program

Finding The Way Forward: Expectations For Interim Law Library Directors, Billie Jo Kaufman, James M. Donovan

Law Faculty Books and Chapters

The literature on directorships within law libraries is thin, and virtually none of it focuses explicitly on the special issues that arise from temporary appointments, including interim. This paucity is hardly surprising. In their literature review covering all of librarianship from 2007 to 2017, Irwin and DeVries were able to identify only four articles on interim leadership.

Finding The Way Forward: Expectations For Interim Law Library Directors, Billie Jo Kaufman, James M. Donovan

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

With almost 7 percent of all academic law libraries being headed by interim directors, this chapter seeks to fill a gap in the literature about what these leaders can expect.

1918: Over Here, Carol Street, Jennifer Hootman

Library Faculty Digital Projects

1918 Over Here is an online, curated exhibit of holdings in the University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center and other repositories. The exhibit is intended to tell the story of the impact of World War I on the University of Kentucky campus and Lexington primarily during 1918.

Exploring Topics And Genres In Storytime Books: A Text Mining Approach, Soohyung Joo, Erin E. Ingram, Maria Cahill

Information Science Faculty Publications

Objective – While storytime programs for preschool children are offered in nearly all public libraries in the United States, little is known about the books librarians use in these programs. This study employed text analysis to explore topics and genres of books recommended for public library storytime programs.

Methods – In the study, the researchers randomly selected 429 children books recommended for preschool storytime programs. Two corpuses of text were extracted from the titles, abstracts, and subject terms from bibliographic data. Multiple text mining methods were employed to investigate the content of the selected books, including term frequency, bi-gram analysis, …

Exploring The Digital Humanities Research Agenda: A Text Mining Approach, Soohyung Joo, Jennifer Hootman, Marie Katsurai

Information Science Faculty Publications

Purpose

This study aims to explore knowledge structure and research trends in the domain of digital humanities (DH) in the recent decade. The study identified prevailing topics and then, analyzed trends of such topics over time in the DH field.

Design/methodology/approach

Research bibliographic data in the area of DH were collected from scholarly databases. Multiple text mining techniques were used to identify prevailing research topics and trends, such as keyword co-occurrences, bigram analysis, structural topic models and bi-term topic models.

Findings

Term-level analysis revealed that cultural heritage, geographic information, semantic web, linked data and digital media were among the most …

A Survey Of Surveys: Developing A Survey Strategy For Your Library Using Standardized And/Or Local Instruments, Anita R. Hall, Julene L. Jones

Library Presentations

How can librarians decide on a survey strategy for their library, and what are the advantages and disadvantages of standardized survey instruments versus locally-developed instruments? Come hear how two Kentucky libraries have implemented both types of surveys and what conclusions we drew from the results: both about the surveys and about our users.