Steely Library News
Announcements
- Steely Library Receives Grant from Cincinnati Bar Foundation
- Steely Library receives Cincinnati Bar Foundation grant to provide educational Copyright awareness film and website for regional schools. Extended Collection Services Librarian John Schlipp has been awarded $9,000 to produce Creative Thinking: Intellectual Property for Teens and Young Adults. An NKU summer film class is creating an original film, while a project committee of NKU, U of L, and other regional community partners such as CET and the Campbell County Public Library will coordinate the final film/website presentation.
- The Information Desk is Now Hiring
- The Information Desk is currently hiring Student Assistants for the Fall Semester. For more information please view the listing for "Student Assistant (4-6 Positions) - student employment" under job title at jobs.nku.edu.
Publications and Presentations
- Lois Schultz published in African American National Biography
- Lois Schultz wrote the entry on Jane Roberta Summers in the African American National Biography published by Oxford University Press in 2008. (Vol. 7 p. 455-456)
- Lois Schultz Presents at OVGTSL
- "Soaring High Two Years Past the Crossroads" was presented at the 2008 Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians Conference in Dayton, Ohio on May 16, 2008.
- Perry Bratcher Published in Thinking Outside the Book
- "Publishing an Article in a Scholarly Journal" was published in the book Thinking Outside the Book: Essays for Innovative Librarians edited by Carol Smallwood.
- Rob Zai and Michael Providenti Present at Educause
- "Measuring Southeastern Academic Library Website Accessibility," was presented at the 2008 EDUCAUSE Southeast Regional Conference in Jacksonville, Florida on June 3, 2008.
- Rob Zai and Michael Providenti Present at Tech Connection 2008
- "The Accessibility of Ohio Public and Academic Library Web Sites, Past and Present" was presented at Tech Connections 2008 in Columbus, Ohio on April 28, 2008.
- Leslie Hammann Presents at Educause
- "Can we raise the bar? Collaboration with others using instructional technology" was presented at the 2008 EDUCAUSE Southeast Regional Conference in Jacksonville, Florida on June 3, 2008.
- Mary Chesnut, Leslie Hammann, and Stephanie Henderson present at CPE Conference 2008
- "Raise the Bar through Collaboration: Prepare Students for Academic Research" was presented at the 2008 Kentucky Conference on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Lexington, KY on May 21, 2008.
- Dr. Arne Almquist Published in Kentucky Libraries
- Dr. Arne Almquist's article "SAALCK (State-Assisted Academic Library Council of Kentucky): The Continuing Story, From 1997 to 2007," appears in the Winter 2008 (Vol. 72, No. 1) issue of Kentucky Libraries.
Other
- eContent Production Area Survey
- The W. Frank Steely Library is seeking volunteers to participate in a brief , anonymous survey regarding electronic production software (Photoshop, Dreamweaver, etc.) within the library. Data collected from the Survey will be used in a future Kentucky Department of Library and Archives grant application, but will not be published.
If you have any questions, contact Robert Zai III.