Steely Library News http://library.nku.edu/news/news3.php All the news that's fit to print, about Steely Library en-us Copyright 2007, Sheri Myers myerssh@nku.edu providenti@nku.edu Dr. Jennifer Smith appointed to the John Newbery Committee The Newbery committee selects the most distinguished book for children published during the year. The award is sponsored by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association. The committee is composed of 15 members from across the nation. The appointment is for two years. 2008-03-24 Dr. Jennifer Smith published in Children & Libraries "The Music of Appalachian Children's Literature" appears in Children & Libraries Volume 5, Number 3, Winter 2007pp. 31-37. 2008-03-24 RefWorks (http://proxy1.nku.edu/login?url=http://refworks.com/refworks/) RefWorks is now available to the entire NKU community through a W. Frank Steely and the Office of Information Technology partnership! (http://proxy1.nku.edu/login?url=http://refworks.com/refworks/) RefWorks is an online research management, writing and collaboration tool, designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies. (http://proxy1.nku.edu/login?url=https://www.refworks.com/Refworks/newuser.asp) Creating a RefWorks account is easy and free. For more information, (/ask/) Ask a Librarian. 2008-03-24 New Service for Faculty If a faculty member finds a title in (http://nku.kyvl.org) NKUIRE that he/she would like to have delivered to their office, all that person has to do is click on "Place a hold" in NKUIRE. Just supply the last eight digits of your All Card number and your last name. Access Services will find the item, check it out to you and deliver it to your office. 2008-03-24 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. 2008-03-25 Rob Zai and Michael Providenti to Present at Educause "Measuring Southeastern Academic Library Website Accessibility," will be presented at the 2008 EDUCAUSE Southeast Regional Conference in Jacksonville, Florida on June 3, 2008. 2008-03-26 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. 2008-04-29 Allen Ellis chairs panels at Popular Culture Association's annual international conference Allen, as area chair for Libraries, Archives, and Popular Culture, chaired four panels at the 38th annual conference of the Popular Culture Association, in San Francisco, CA, March 19-12. 2008-03-27 Leslie Hammann to Present at EDUCAUSE "Can we raise the bar? Collaboration with others using instructional technology" will be presented at the 2008 EDUCAUSE Southeast Regional Conference in Jacksonville, Florida on June 3, 2008. 2008-04-01 Mary Chesnut, Leslie Hammann, and Stephanie Henderson to present at CPE Conference 2008 "Raise the Bar through Collaboration: Prepare Students for Academic Research" will be presented at the 2008 Kentucky Conference on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Lexington, KY on May 21, 2008. 2008-04-07 (http://library.nku.edu/econtent/econtentsurvey.html) 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 (mailto:zair1@nku.edu?subject=eContent_Production_Area_Survey) Robert Zai III. 2008-04-24