Bryant & Stratton College Cleveland Campus News
The Bryant & Stratton College, Cleveland campus library has a newly updated library website. Created using the LibGuides CMS, the website includes tabbed navigation to multiple subject collections, easy access to the library’s eBook collections, and user-friendly access to the library’s databases. The new library website features ease of access from multiple device and screen types and quick email access to the campus librarian from any screen.
Joseph Dudley presented “Collection Development at Bryant & Stratton College, Cleveland Campus” at the Spring 2015 ACRL LF-PEI Virtual Conference (Librarianship in For-Profit Educational Institutions), on May 7, 2015.
Joseph Dudley, Bryant & Stratton College, Cleveland Campus
Case Western Reserve Kelvin Smith Library News
Elizabeth Meinke was hired as Scholarly Resources & Special Collections Librarian on March 30, 2015.
Learn about Kelvin Smith Library’s strategic vision for advancing research, teaching and learning at Case Western Reserve University in the latest issue of KSL Connects, available now online. Discover what “a day in the life” of a research services librarian entails, explore exhibits and events, envision redesigned library spaces, celebrate faculty authors and more. View the magazine now at: http://library.case.edu/ksl/aboutus/connects/.
Arnold Hirshon, Case Western Reserve University Associate Provost and University Librarian, was the co-facilitator of a three-day Library Leadership Institute on “Leading the Next Generation Research Library.” The Institute, which was organized by the University of Hong Kong Libraries, was held in Xiamen, China from April 24-27. Hirshon’s sessions concentrated on aligning with and strategically managing within the academic environment, achieving strategic change through the effective organization of human resources, and achieving library goals through the effective allocation of financial resources the redesign of facilities, operations and services.
While in the region, Hirshon was also invited to give lectures in three other cities: Taipei, Taiwan; Hong Kong; and Bangkok, Thailand. His topic at those three conferences was on driving intentional change through strategic redesign.
Hirshon also is the Chair of the Management Board of EIFL, a consortium that serves libraries in over 50 developing countries located in Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, and Asia. The Board met recently in The Hague, Netherlands. In addition to its work negotiating affordable licenses for electronic resources for these countries, EIFL also
provides services to build country consortia, to engage in advocacy for effective copyright legislation, to advance the availability and use of open access publications, and to engage in technology innovation. More information about EIFL can be found at www.eifl.net.
Amanda Koziura, Digital Learning & Scholarship Librarian, was elected as an ALAO board member and will take office in July 2015 as Public Relations/Outreach Coordinator.
Hannah Levy, Case Western Reserve University
Kent State University Libraries News
Kent State Special Collections and Archives has recently made new digital content available including thirteen recently released oral histories related to the Kent State Shootings of May 4, 1970. More information is available in the Libraries’ newsletter: http://libguides.library.kent.edu/content.php?pid=657543&sid=5467439#may4 .
Also, newly available this spring are the campus newspaper issues from the 1950s and the 1970s. The Digital Daily Kent Stater now includes access from fall 1939 through fall 1979. The 1980s decade is currently being put into digital format. Access is available at http://www.library.kent.edu/dks .
Three Kent State University Libraries faculty (Cara Gilgenbach, Lae’l Hughes-Watkins, and Virginia Dressler) have been awarded an Ohio Archives Grant of $2,000 for the proposal “Providing Access to the Kent State Shootings Audio Archive.” The Ohio Archives Grants are funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, an
arm of the National Archives and Records Administration through their State and National Archival Partnership Grants program. The project will digitally capture all of the reel-to-reel audio recordings in the May 4 archive, which contains primary, archival sources related to the 1970 Kent State shootings and their aftermath.
Cara Gilgenbach, Kent State University
Malone University News
Jan L. Anderson, Catalog/Reference Librarian at Malone University will be retiring from the Everett L. Cattell Library staff at the end of August. She has been employed in various roles in cataloging, reference, and interlibrary loan since June 1972.
Jan L. Anderson, Malone University
National Legislative Day in Washington D.C.
As Government Relations Liaison, I attended National Library Legislative Day (NLLD)in Washington D.C. Sylvia Halladay, the winner of the ALAO Legislative Day Travel Award, also attended the conference with the Ohio delegation. As always, I would like to extend a thank you to ALAO for supporting our travel to this important event.
On May 4, myself and Sylvia attended a set of briefings organized by the American Library Association’s (ALA) Washington Office. We were members of the Ohio delegation which was made up of 13 people that included academics, public librarians, trustees, and educational lobbyists. William Morris of the State Library of Ohio headed the state delegation and did an excellent job in coordinating the states efforts at the conference. While mostly attended by public and school librarians, the presence of academic librarians was up this year with nearly 30 participating. Continue reading
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