SLIS Alumni Newsletter Fall 2014

Volume 36 Number 2

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College to Expand Degree Offerings with SLIS ICT Master’s Program Two years ago the newsletter reported that the School of Library and Information Science would launch an undergraduate program spring semester 2013. The program, in Information Studies, would begin as a minor. We noted: “The program is a significant step in the evolution of the School, a presence in the undergraduate curriculum. This is seen as important at a time of increased emphasis on undergraduate studies and increased competition for resources.” The SLIS proposal made clear the minor would be the first of two phases, the second of which would be a major.

The major in Information Communication Technology (ICT) was introduced this fall.

In addition, the newsletter reported two years ago that SLIS also proposed a master’s degree in ICT. At the time, Director Jeff Huber stressed that the School’s ALA-accredited master’s degree program would continue, and he said the School would not seek ALA accreditation for the ICT master’s degree. The School announced this fall that the MS in ICT would be introduced fall semester 2015. The following appears on the School’s web site: This fall, the University of Kentucky College of Communication and Information introduced the undergraduate major in Information Communication Technology (ICT) which provides students with applied information technology skills to succeed in today’s increasingly interconnected world. Coming in fall 2015, the ICT program announces it will expand its degree offerings to graduate students by including a master’s degree in Information Communication Technology.

The UK ICT program focuses on the intersection of technology, the people who use that technology, the policies and regulations governing or affecting use of that technology, and the community or environment in which that technology is used, in order to facilitate communicating information in meaningful ways. The

ICT master’s program focuses on providing students with the knowledge and skills to assume leadership positions charged with effectively applying, using, and managing technology when solving problems specifically related to information and communication.

Expanding upon the undergraduate ICT curriculum which is designed to prepare students for positions that require basic knowledge and skills commensurate with bachelor’s level preparation, the master’s curriculum is designed to prepare students to assume positions that require more in-depth knowledge of the field. In the ICT master’s program, students will begin to concentrate their studies on a certain area or aspect of ICT. “Launch of the ICT master’s degree program in fall 2015 extends the School’s information technology initiatives,” Dr. Jeff Huber, Director of the School of Library and Information Science which houses the ICT program explains. “The ICT master’s degree will allow students to pursue programs designed to prepare them for higher level positions in industry, government, or academic environments.”

Students admitted to the master’s program may concentrate their studies into one of three tracks—health, technology and analytics, or policy and regulation—or work with their adviser to create a program of study befitting their educational and professional goals.

ICT is a fast emerging field that encompasses many job sectors. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, employment growth rates in the ICT sector are forecasted to rise over the next 10 years, with most job categories reflecting double-digit percentage increases.

Job categories include information security analysts, Web developers, database administrators, computer network architects, and media and communication specialists.

The College of Communication and Information is the designated iSchool for UK. iSchools are a group of information schools dedicated to advancing the information field.

Prof. Emerita Lois Mai Chan Dies at 80

formation Science since 1980. (Dr. Chan also earned her doctorate, in comparative literature, from UK.) She has authored several books on classification, including authoritative references on the Dewey Decimal and Library of Congress systems, as well as dozens of articles and reports in peer-reviewed academic journals and professional publications.

She has given talks and lectures in the Czech Republic, Great Britain, Sweden, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, Israel, Russia, and the Ukraine.

In addition to her own research, Dr. Chan has contributed to collaborative ventures in the field of library science, most notably the Online Computer Library Catalog's FAST project, which she has served as a consultant since 1999.

Dr. Chan has received numerous awards throughout her academic career. In 2006, she received the American Library Association's Beta Phi Mu Award for Distinguished Service to Education in Librarianship. In 2001, she received the Excellence in Teaching Award from the UK College of Communications and Information Studies.

I want to take a moment to acknowledge this tremendous faculty member who has served

Prof. Emerita Lois Mai Chan died on August 20 as a result of injuries she sustained in a recent fall. She had celebrated her 80th birthday in July. When he learned of Prof. Chan’s death, School of Library and Information Science Director Jeff Huber commented: “Dr. Chan was a pioneer in the field of cataloging and classification. Her work helped shape the modern conception of how information is organized. Lois was a consummate professional, respected by colleagues and students alike. She was a teacher’s teacher – both in the classroom and out. She remained an unassuming presence despite her many notable accomplishments.”

After coming to the US, Prof.

Chan earned an MS in Library Science at Florida State University. Prior to coming to UK, she held positions in several academic libraries. She was Assistant Librarian, Lake Forest College Library, 1964-1966; Serials Acquisition Librarian, Northwestern University Libraries, 1963-1964; Assistant Cataloger, Purdue University Libraries, 19611963; and Assistant Order with distinction in so many Librarian, Purdue University Lois and S.K. Chan with their children, Stephen important roles at the University.

Libraries, 1960-1961. and Jennifer, in front of the plaque in the Thank you Dr. Chan.

In 1966, when Prof. Chan came Lois Mai Chan Conference Room. to UK, she was appointed Serials The newsletter asked Dr. Deanna Marcum (’71) and Prof.

Librarian. The following year she enrolled in the doctoral proEmeritus Tom Waldhart to reflect on Lois as mentor, colgram in comparative literature in the English Department, league, and friend. which she completed in 1970, the year she joined the faculty of what was then the College of Library Science.

Lois retired at the end of the fall semester 2011. Her many Deanna Marcum, In Memory of Lois Chan contributions to the School of Library and Information Science and the University were recognized in November 2011, when In the fall of 1970, I entered library school at the University the College of Communication and Information conference of Kentucky, knowing almost nothing about the profession I room was dedicated in her honor and became the Lois Mai had chosen. It was my extraordinarily good fortune to have Chan Conference Room. The dedication included installation Lois Chan as my professor in that first semester. Lois was of a plaque, on which are the remarks of Dean Dan O’Hair. A an exemplary cataloging instructor, to be sure, but even reception followed. more, she was the consummate professional who taught me In his comments about Lois at the November 7, 2011, recepwhat it means to be a librarian. The cataloging knowledge I tion to honor her, then UK Provost Kumble Subbaswamy gained has faded, but the attitudes and values I learned from called attention to her record of teaching, research, and service her will be with me forever. and urged junior faculty to adopt Lois as a role model.

From the moment I met Lois, I wanted to be like her— UK President Eli Capilouto made remarks about Lois at the knowledgeable, articulate, confident, and accessible. I could October 25, 2011, meeting of the UK Board of Trustees: not begin to match her command of cataloging, so I aimed Dr. Lois Chan, a professor of Library and Information Scito be the best librarian I could be in other ways. I would ence, is retiring after more than 40 years of service. She has emulate her equitable treatment of everyone in the class, her dedicated her career to making information more accessible patience with those who were a bit slower in catching on, and easier to find. You, of course, may know her in a different and her allegiance to the highest professional standards. role as she has served as the University Marshal since 1989 and After I finished my degree, I had the opportunity to work as a member of the President's Commission on Diversity since in the Margaret I. King Library as a cataloger, in large part its inception in 2001. because I had taken Lois’ introductory and advanced cataDr. Chan started working at the University of Kentucky Liloging courses. I was well prepared. Much later, when servbraries in 1966 as a serials cataloger. In 1970, she joined the ing as the Associate Librarian of Congress and embroiled in faculty of what was then the College of Library Science, and national debates about changes in cataloging for a digital she has been a full professor in the School of Library and InFall 2014

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environment, I could always put my critics at ease by reminding them that I had been taught by Lois Chan. That was enough to establish my credentials!

I left the University of Kentucky in 1977, but my friendship with and admiration of Lois continued through her lifetime. We always scheduled time for coffee or a meal together at ALA and IFLA conferences. Every time I saw her, she told me about the changes she was making in her courses to adapt to the digital nature of modern librarianship. She told me about her research and where she was with her latest book. But mostly, she wanted to hear about my professional accomplishments and challenges.

I think now of all of the students she taught over the years. I think of all that she invested in me. But she did the same for all of her students. We all owe her an enormous professional debt. Librarianship is a better profession because of her contributions, and all of us touched by her are better librarians. We’ll always remember Lois.

Tom Waldhart, Lois Mai Chan—A Model Professional Colleague If I were to describe a model professional colleague in the field of library and information science, I would suggest that the person possess the following: The knowledge-base, professional experience and personal drive that would allow her/him to address, in depth and over extended periods of time, important problems or issues facing the profession; high personal standards regarding her/his contributions in all three functional responsibilities of a research university faculty member—teaching, research and professional service; high energy, drive, and self-motivation to consistently perform at a high level throughout her/his professional career; and the social skills so necessary to work effectively with students, faculty and administrators within the academic community and the broader professional community.

To say that Lois Mai Chan possessed all of these characteristics would be an understatement.

Lois and I joined the faculty of the College of Library Science as assistant professors in 1970 and were colleagues for 34 years. It soon became apparent that Lois was an exceptional fit as a university faculty member. She knew what was expected of her as a faculty member and, more importantly, what she expected of herself regarding those responsibilities. For more than forty years, Lois consistently performed at a level that placed her among the most productive faculty in library and information science education, not only at the University of Kentucky, but at similar academic programs throughout the country – year after year, decade after decade. Most faculty members can perform at a high level for several years but few can consistently perform at a high level over an entire career. For Lois, there were no performance peaks and valleys!

Students in the program, especially those who were interested in cataloging and classification, knew that Lois was a nationally recognized authority in her field and, at the same

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time, knew that she was an exceptional classroom teacher.

Indeed, many of these students came to the University of Kentucky because it was recommended by professionals throughout the country who had studied with Lois or had attended one of the many workshops, clinics or institutes she conducted over the years. The books that she published are considered to be of the highest quality with many adopted as textbooks by other programs of library and information science education and, in addition, are used as training materials in libraries.

Lois’ research/scholarly papers were published in the most authoritative journals in the profession, throughout her career.

While much of her publishing focused on cataloging and classification, in later years they increasingly examined the broader area of computer-based information storage and retrieval. If Lois published a paper, you could be assured that it dealt with an important topic, and that it was done well— nobody could edit a paper like Lois could edit a paper!

Lois’ service contributions over her career were remarkable. She made many workshop presentations within the Commonwealth, throughout the nation and in many foreign countries as well, combining her willingness to provide professional service with her passion for travel. For her entire career she worked with the staff of the Library of Congress and OCLC, and actively participated in the work of the American Library Association and the International Federation of Library Associations, with all these activities informing both her teaching and her research.

It seems to me that Lois possessed one characteristic that made her special and perhaps unique as a colleague.

Throughout her life, her behavior was always guided by her high expectations of herself, her husband S.K., her children Jennifer and Stephen, and her students and professional colleagues. She didn’t have to express those personal expectations explicitly to others (well, she did so to me, once), but from what she said, those who knew her understood what she expected of them, and they almost always tried hard to not disappoint her—a measure of the respect she received from her family, students and colleagues. Lois Chan, in her quiet and unassuming way, helped those around her to be better than they might have been had they not known her. She always seemed to know the “right” thing to do in a given situation.

Over the many years that we worked together, I heard Lois express her opinion regarding different subjects many times, but I never heard her raise her voice in anger and I never heard her get personal. Even when the issues or topics were controversial, highly emotional and sometimes heated, Lois’ voice was always calm, thoughtful and controlled— she offered her views regarding the subject at hand and, more often than not, most of the faculty found her views to be persuasive.

Her students and colleagues, including me, will remember Lois Mai Chan with respect, appreciation and love for what she gave them. She will be deeply missed by all those she touched and especially those who counted her as a dear friend.

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Credit Hour Production Positions SLIS Well for New Budget Model

Dr. Timothy Sellnow Joins ICT Faculty

Dr. Timothy Sellnow, who came to the University of Kentucky in 2007 with the rank of professor in the Department State funding for UK has declined by $50 million in the last of Communication within the College of Communication five years, increasing the importance of tuition and promptand Information, has joined the Information Communication ing the University to move to “a values-based financial Technology program faculty of the School of Library and model.” Although the new financial model has not been Information Science. Between 2009 and 2013 Prof. Sellnow introduced, it is expected that, in the new model, enrollment was Associate Dean for Graduate Programs, within the Colwill influence the amount of revenue allocated to a college. lege. His other administrative experience includes: Information prepared by SLIS Assistant Director for Ad• Risk Communication Theme Leader, National Center ministration and Enrollment Planning Will Buntin for fall for Food Protection and Defense, a Department of Home2014 shows that the School of Library and Information Sciland Security Center of Excellence, 2007-present. ence is responsible for approximately 40% of total credit • Editor, Journal of Applied Communication Research, hour production within the College of Information and 2006-2008.

Communication. The School’s 40% comprises: In June 1987 Dr. Sellnow completed the PhD at Wayne • Instructional Communication and Research (ICR), 29% State University, where he was in the Department of Speech of total College, 72.5% of total School; Communication, Theatre and Journalism. Prior to coming to • Library and Information Science (LIS) graduate, 6% of UK he was on the faculty at North Dakota State University, total College, 15% of total School; Fargo, where he was appointed assistant professor in 1988, • Information Studies/Information Communication Techpromoted to associate professor in 1993, and to professor in nology (IS/ICT), 4% of total College, 10% of total School; 2000. Between 1994 and 2000 Prof. Sellnow served two • Education service courses, 1% of total College, 2.5% of consecutive terms as Department Chair, Department of total School.

Communication. Also while at NDSU, he: The significant contribution of ICR to • Initiated and received approval of a credit hour production reflects the presPhD program in Communication. ence of certain courses, for which ICR is • Served as Director of Graduate responsible, in UK Core, the general eduPrograms in Communication, Department cation curriculum for all undergraduates. of Communication, 1991-1994.

Two such courses are CIS 110 and 111 • Served as Director of Internships in Composition and Communication I and Communication, 1991-1996.

II. A third course, CIS 112 Accelerated Dr. Sellnow’s research interest is Composition and Communication, is a risk/crisis communication, and he has one-semester version of 110 and 111 for been associated with a number of related students enrolled in the UK Honors grants and contracts in various capacities: Program. Another course taught by ICR principal investigator, investigator, project faculty, CIS 300 Strategic Business and director, advisory board member. Since Professional Communication, is required 2007 he has been Theme Leader for Risk for all undergraduates majoring in Communication, Principal Investigator programs within the College of Business and Risk Communication Activities and and Economics.

Prof. Tim Sellnow Advisory Board Member on the multiIS/ICT contribution to credit hour year grant, “Advancing the Robust Case Study Research and production also should be noted. This semester there are Translational Research,” in the amount of $922,719, funded nearly 200 students in the multiple sections of UKC 101 by the National Center for Food Protection and Defense in Information Literacy and Critical Thinking. Prof. Jasmine the Department of Homeland Security. He explained: McNealy, a faculty member in the School’s ICT program, As Theme Leader for Risk Communication I oversee told the newsletter: risk communication projects sponsored by the NCFPD. UKC 101 is the UK Core number for what is really Investigators for projects currently underway are located IS/ICT 200 Information Literacy and Critical Thinking. at North Dakota State University, Rutgers University, This class is required of all ICT majors and IS minors. We University of Kentucky, University of Louisville, Univerthink, however, that the subject-matter is important for all sity of Minnesota, University of Montana, University of students across campus, and so that’s why we have subSouthern Mississippi, and Virginia State University. mitted it for UK Core approval. For students not in ICT or As principal investigator I oversee a project that tracks IS it is an elective. media coverage, including traditional and new media, of The School’s web site explains: food-related events. The objective is to provide governThe undergraduate Information Studies (IS) course Informent agencies and organizations with feedback about the mation Literacy and Critical Thinking was granted experireceptivity and accuracy of their messages in all aspects mental approval as a UK Course for Spring and Fall seof the media. The project produces tracking information mesters in 2014.

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in a format that is: a) meaningful to risk communicators Dr. Soohyung Joo Joins LIS Faculty in the midst of a high-risk food borne event; b) appropriate for theoretical analysis and publication in refereed Dr. Soohyung Joo has joined the School of Library and Inforacademic journals; and c) translatable into training modmation Science faculty as Assistant Professor in the Library ules for risk and crisis communication practitioners. and Information Science program. Dr. Joo did his doctoral As principal investigator in the 2007-2009 phase of this work in the School of Information Studies (SOIS) at the Unimulti-year grant, I oversaw a project in collaboration with versity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and received his PhD in 2013. systems strategists at the University of Minnesota and In his dissertation, Investigating Use Search Tactic Application Louisiana State University designed to better understand and System Support in Searching Digital Libraries, Dr. Joo the correlation between media coverage of food-related developed a new evaluation method for digital libraries focuscrisis events and consumer confidence. A portion of the ing on user-system interactions. project also involved collaboration with event modelers During his PhD residency, Dr. Joo engaged in several refrom Rutgers University and Wayne State university to search projects in the areas of digital libraries, information redetermine key communication points in the pre-crisis, critrieval, and data mining; produced nine journal articles and one sis, and post-crisis periods associated with a food-related book chapter; and presented a number of papers and posters. crisis.

Currently, he is working on research projects regarding digital Other funded research includes: library system design, digital library evaluation, • Principal Investigator on the multi-year and interactive information retrieval. He is au(2011-2014) grant “Instructional Strategies thor or coauthor of a number of refereed journal for Tailoring Risk Communication Messagarticles. His CV lists many presentations at ing,” in the amount of $76,295, funded by the information science conferences, such as National Center for Risk and Economic ASIS&T, JCDL, and iConference. In addition, Analysis of Terrorist Events in the Departhe is a joint author of several research reports for ment of Homeland Security. sponsors.

• Co-Principal Investigator on the two-year Soohyung’s teaching interests are in digital (2013-2014) grant “Instructional Strategies libraries, information retrieval, system design, for Tailoring Risk Communication Messagusability engineering, programming, and ing,” in the amount of $199,721, funded by database systems. Before joining SLIS, he taught the United States Geological Center. several courses in the Information Science • Co-Investigator on the multi-year (2011&Technology program at the University of 2013) grant “Community Engagement and Wisconsin-Milwaukee, including Introduction to Case Analysis: Methods for Developing PostSystem Analysis, Human Factors in Information Incident Risk Communication Guidelines for Seeking and Use, and Information Architecture.

Prof. Soohyung Joo an Intentional Biological Environmental In 2012 he was awarded the SOIS Teaching Contamination,” in the amount of $369,233, funded by the Award for teaching excellence. In his first semester at SLIS, he Environmental Protection Agency. is teaching LIS 630 Information Retrieval, and is expected to Dr. Sellnow’s book, Narratives of Crisis: Telling the Stoteach IT related courses and other core courses in future semesries of Ruin and Renewal, is under contract with Stanford ters. His scholarships and other awards from the University of University Press. His other books on risk/crisis communicaWisconsin-Milwaukee include: tion are: • Dissertation Fellowship (2012-2013), • Ulmer, R. R., Sellnow, T. L., & Seeger, M.W. (2014).

• Doctoral Research Award Grant (2011), Effective crisis communication: Moving from crisis to op• Chancellor's Scholarship (2008-2012), portunity (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

• Dean's Scholarship (2008-2011), • Sellnow, T. L., & Seeger, M. W. (2013) Theorizing cri• Graduate School Travel Awards (2009). sis communication. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.

In 2010 he received the ASIS&T Annual Meeting Best Poster • Sellnow, T. L., Ulmer, R. R., Seeger, M. W., & LittleAward. field, R. S. (2009). Effective risk communication: A mesA native of South Korea, Soohyung earned Master of Lisage-centered approach. New York: Springer Science + brary and Information Science and Bachelor of Arts (in sociolBusiness Media, LLC. ogy) degrees at Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. While at • Seeger, M. W., Sellnow, T. L., Ulmer, R. R. (Eds.) Yonsei University, he received a National Research Foundation (2008). Crisis communication and the public health. CressFellowship from the Korea Research Foundation (2007-2008) kill, NJ: Hampton Press. and the Yonsei Graduate School Scholarship (2006).

• Seeger, M. W., Sellnow, T. L., & Ulmer, R. R. (2003).

Soohyung told the newsletter: Communication and organizational crisis Westport, CT: I am very excited to be joining the faculty at SLIS and to Praeger. be part of its vibrant research community. My goals as a facHe is the author or co-author of 20 book chapters and a ulty member are to be a positive contributor to the School, to substantial number of refereed journal articles on risk/crisis make practical contributions to the field of digital libraries, communication. and to build active connections with students.

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Instructional Communication and Research Adds Five Faculty The newsletter reported a year ago it had been decided to lodge the Division of Instructional Communication and Research (ICR) within the School of Library and Information Science. This fall, ICR welcomed five new faculty.

Allyson Beutke DeVito was a part-time instructor in ICR from August 2011 to July 2014, when she accepted a fulltime appointment. During the time she taught part-time at UK, she also was a member of the part-time faculty at Eastern Kentucky University (EKU), responsible for teaching print and broadcast writing and reporting courses and hybrid mass media and society courses.

In August of this year Allyson completed a PhD in Communication and Information at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She concentrated in media ethics and multimedia journalism. The title of her dissertation is How Tweets and Likes Change News: The Role of Social Media Editors in Local Television Newsrooms. In May 2000 she earned an MA in Mass Communication at the University of Florida, Gainesville. In December 1998 she completed a BS in Telecommunication, also at the University of Florida.

In addition to UK and EKU teaching experience, from August 2006 until December 2010 Allyson was Graduate Teaching Associate and Lecturer at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. In the position she was: • responsible for teaching a weekly introduction to mass media writing lab and a news writing and reporting class each semester (JEM 200 and JEM 311); • involved in evaluating student writing, lecturing about forms of media and convergence journalism, planning quizzes, meeting individually with students; • preparing and grading homework, and providing counseling.

From fall 2008 through spring 2011 she was Assistant Faculty Adviser, The Tennessee Journalist. In the position she was: • responsible for advising more than 100 undergraduate students per semester who publish the School of Journalism and Electronic Media’s online news site; • involved in assisting students with editing video and producing Internet radio newscasts.

From September 2000 until July 2006, Allyson was Coordinator of Media Relations, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Florida. In the position she: • was responsible for managing the production of the college’s publications, including newsletters, alumni magazines, graphics projects, and Web sites; • served as editor of the college’s alumni magazine; • managed a staff of three full-time workers and two interns.

Allyson has received a number of honors and awards: • Reeder-Siler Fellowship, University of Tennessee, 20072008, 2008-2009; • Wolfson Media History Center Award for Excellence in Film and Video, May 2001; Fall 2014

• Society of Professional Journalists National 1st Place Award for Radio In-Depth Reporting, 1999; • Ruth and Rae O. Weimer Award for the Outstanding Journalism Graduate, University of Florida, 1999; • Associated Press Awards for Best Radio Feature and Individual Achievement, 1998; • Radio and Television News Directors Association Scholarship, 1998; • Broadcast Education Association Scholarship, 1998; • Ralph Lowenstein Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism, University of Florida, 1998.

Stephen J. Haggerty, who has completed 36 hours of doctoral work and passed the doctoral qualifying exams, earned an MA in Interpersonal Communication Studies at Marshall University and a BA in Interpersonal and Public Communication at Bowling Green State University. At UK he teaches multiple courses in ICR, including CIS 110, 111, and 112. He is also adjunct faculty at Bluegrass Community and Technical College, where he teaches the basic public speaking class.

From 2005 until this year Stephen was on the staff of TRiO Student Support Services at Eastern Kentucky University (EKU), serving as Assistant Director, Academic Specialist, and Academic & Life Advisor. Stephen told the newsletter he enjoyed his time helping students be successful in college and in life but was ready for a new challenge in the area he has always felt called, full-time teaching. He has taught numerous courses for several institutions for over two decades, and he was prepared to bring his love of teaching to a full-time position. “I am very excited to be at UK!” From 2007 to 2013 he was Quality Enhancement Program Coach at EKU. His role was to train faculty, staff, administrators, and students to become informed, critical and creative thinkers who communicate effectively. He believes this role also enhanced his teaching skills and helped him become a more critical and creative teacher, advisor, and mentor.

Stephen has received or been nominated for a number of awards, including: • Critical Thinking Teacher of the Year: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014; • EKU Teaching Star, 2012-2013 (ranked in top 14% of all EKU faculty); • Golden Apple Award for Teaching Excellence, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013; • First Year Courses Outstanding Instructor Award, EKU 2011, 2012; • Professor of the Month, Lambda Sigma Honor Society: 2013.

Stephen said of these awards, “I truly feel blessed and honored to be recognized for something that I love to do. Every time I walk into the classroom, I want my students to know I care about their success not only in my class but in every class they take as well as the journey of life.”

He has made many presentations and conducted numerous workshops, and he comes to the ICR position with considerable teaching experience. In addition, Stephen has a substantial record of service/professional development activities.

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A Lexington native, Stephen is married to Solita and has two children (Joseph age 6 and Maya age 12). He is active in his church (Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton) and enjoys golf, ping pong, and helping coach his son’s soccer team. He told the newsletter, “I love Lexington, and to be a part of the Big Blue Nation is a dream come true!”

Concluding, Stephen said he is “honored to be a part of such a fantastic group of faculty and is excited to continue to develop as a teacher, a mentor, and a colleague. I truly love teaching, and feel right at home in ICR.” In 2006 Joe C. Martin completed a BA in Communication Studies at Eastern Kentucky University (EKU), which conferred the degree cum laude. While an undergraduate, he served as a recruiter for the Communication Studies major and was selected to represent the Communication Studies Department in the Senior Capstone Event. He subsequently earned Master of Divinity and Master of Theology degrees at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He completed the ThM program with a 3.94 GPA, and his studies included

• Addressed various needs as the business grew, from helping to construct the first clinic, to auditing the financials of the now $2 million company.

Clark-Moores Middle School, Richmond, KY, boys soccer head coach 2010-2013: • Coached and mentored as many as 20 middle-school boys per season.

• Responsibilities included creating and maintaining the team schedule, coaching games, administering the Facebook page, maintaining and ordering equipment, safe-keeping of confidential player information, planning practices, administering first aid, overseeing interns, and communicating with parents.

Buckhorn Children and Family Services 2006: • Lived in a home with six at-risk teen boys.

• Oversaw the boys’ emotional health, provided transportation, resolved conflicts, maintained a safe environment, dispensed prescription medication, encouraged positive choices, and facilitated recreation.

Shown left-to-right are SLIS student Melinda Borie (who took new faculty on a campus tour) and new ICR faculty Jessalyn Vallade, Joe Martin, Kari Wold, and Stephen Haggerty. Missing from the photo: Allyson Beutke DeVito.

worldview, ethics, and Islam. In the MDiv program Joe’s studies included the Greek and Hebrew languages, and he produced more than 350 pages of papers and book reviews.

Between 2011 and 2014 Joe was an adjunct instructor in communication studies at EKU, teaching CMS 100 Introduction to Communication and CMS 210 Public Speaking.

He was faculty advisor for the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, which was founded in 1994 at The George Washington University and is a member of the Association of College Honor Societies, recognized at more than 300 campuses.

During the academic year 2013-2014 Joe was nominated for the Critical Thinking Teacher of the Year Award and for the Golden Apple for excellence in teaching, at EKU. Joe has a considerable record of service to the community: Advanced Animal Care 2003-2014: • Aided in the establishment and success of five animal hospitals, including the region’s first 24-hour animal hospital and the world’s first learning clinic embedded in a high school campus.

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Earlier this year Jessalyn I. Vallade completed a PhD in Communication Studies at West Virginia University (WVU).

Her primary area was Interpersonal Communication and her secondary area was Instructional Communication. The title of her dissertation is Extradyadic Communication with Friends about Negative Relational Events in Romantic Relationships: Development of a Measure and Implications for Friendship and Romantic Relationship Functioning. Jessalyn earned BA and MA degrees in Speech Communication at Miami University of Ohio. She wrote a master’s thesis on College Student Expectations in the Classroom: An Examination of Expected Instructor Behavior.

In 2013 Jessalyn received the Judee K. Burgoon Outstanding Research Award at WVU, and in 2010 she received the COM 135 Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award at Miami. She has been a member of Phi Kappa Phi since 2010, the nation's oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines, with chapters on more than 300 campuses.

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and a Graduate Teaching Assistant at WVU 2010-2013. The academic year 2013-2014 she was Visiting Lecturer at WVU. Courses she has taught include: • Business and Professional Communication • Interpersonal Communication • Persuasion • Presentational Speaking • Research Methods Jessalyn is the author or coauthor of a number of peerreviewed articles and has made numerous professional presentations. She has a record of service to the department, the university, and the field of communication, including: • member of the curriculum committee, ICR, 2014-2015; • member of the diversity committee, School of Library and Information Science, 2014-2015; • Graduate Student Advisor, Lambda Pi Eta, Department of Communication Studies, WVU, 2012-2013; • Research Coordinator, Department of Communication Studies, WVU, 2012-2013; • Chair/Program Planner, Nonverbal Communication Interest Group, Eastern Communication Association, 2012-13.

• Skilled instructor working with diverse groups such as international populations, language learners, and those with special needs.

• Successful director of instructional design projects using digital tools.

• Accomplished curriculum designer / program evaluator.

• Published researcher and presenter at national and international conferences.

From 2005 to 2011 Kari was Writing Specialist/ Curriculum Designer at Walden University, in which she instructed higher education students in academic writing and in APA style both virtually and in the classroom, created materials for a growing department, and trained and evaluated incoming and current employees.

In what must be her most unusual experience, Kari was Teacher/Curriculum consultant for Shamineau International, a non profit corporation located in Oakdale, Minnesota. In the position she taught English to Chinese and Mongolian K-12 students during the summers of 2005 and 2006 in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China, and created curriculum for English language learners.

In August 2013 Kari A. Wold completed a PhD in Education with an emphasis in Instructional Technology at the University of Virginia. Her dissertation title is Evaluating the Impact of Role-playing Simulations on Global Competency in an Online Transnational Engineering Course. In May 2009 she was awarded an MA in International Education at The George Washington University, where she wrote a master’s thesis on Seeking Best Practices: How Online Writing Services Can Strengthen Self-Efficacy Levels in English Language Learners. In May 2005 she completed a BA in Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. She minored in economics, with emphasis in international trade and development. Since 2010 she has been an editor at the University of Virginia, editing journal articles and dissertations for faculty and graduate students.

Kari’s academic interests are: • Engagement in virtual, blended, and face-to-face communication; • Platforms for international and transnational education; • Instructional design in virtual environments; • Approaches of instruction for diverse populations.

She comes to the ICR position with teaching experience as instructor and teaching assistant. From 2009 to 2013 she was Instructional Designer/Research Assistant at the University of Virginia, in which she surveyed and tracked development of students in transnational higher education programs in blended and virtual environments, and assessed and made recommendations to multiple higher educational departments to enhance their instructional programs based on current learning theories and practices.

According to her professional profile, Kari is an: • Experienced instructor in virtual, blended, and face-toface communication.

• Accomplished researcher focused on studying the uses of emerging digital technologies in global communication.

Pres. Capilouto Recognizes Prof. Choi

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At the end of May, UK President Eli Capilouto sent the following letter to SLIS Prof. Namjoo Choi: Dear Dr. Choi: On behalf of the University of Kentucky, it is my pleasure to congratulate you on your invitation to the Supporting Cultural Heritage Open Source Software Symposium in Atlanta, Georgia.

Our faculty and staff add richly to the University, their respective fields and the communities they touch. Your daily activities reflect our flagship, land-grant and research mission as a leader in the state and region.

Your exemplary effort was added to the official record of the University of Kentucky as part of my report (PR1) at the May 9, 2014 Board of Trustees meeting.

Once again, congratulations, and thank you for your devotion to the University of Kentucky.

Sincerely, Eli Capilouto President The April symposium was sponsored by LYRASIS with funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Prof. Sean Burns’ Study Explores Notion of Academic Libraries Being ‘Disintermediated’ SLIS Prof. Sean Burns’ discussion, “Academic Libraries and Open Access Strategies,” appears in Advances in Library Administration and Organization 32 (2014): 147-211. In the chapter, he examines the proposition that With the rise of alternative discovery services, such as Google Scholar, in conjunction with the increase in open access content, researchers have the option to bypass acaPage 8

demic libraries when they search for and retrieve scholarly information.

According to Prof. Burns, “This state of affairs implies that academic libraries exist in competition with these alternative services and with the patrons who use them.” If the process grows in popularity, at some point academic libraries “may be disintermediated from the scholarly information seeking and retrieval process.” On the basis of his research, however, Prof. Burns concludes that “although scholars may choose to bypass libraries when they seek scholarly information, academic libraries continue to provide a majority of scholarly documentation needs through open access and institutional repositories.”

A 2009 survey* led investigators to conclude that, as a result of a rapid shift in the way scholars gather and use information, “the academic library is increasingly being disintermediated from the discovery process, risking irrelevance in one of its core functional areas.” This finding is the basis for Prof. Burns’ first research question: “Is the current state of affairs, at the network level, such that non-library electronic discovery services marginalize academic libraries?” Complementing the conclusion from the 2009 survey, about the result of a rapid shift in the way scholars gather and use information, is the availability of open access content, which, according to Prof. Burns, “adds an additional problem for academic libraries.” The “influence and reach” of open access content is the basis for his second research question: “Does open access content, in conjunction with nonlibrary electronic discovery services, marginalize academic libraries?”

Prof. Burns is quick to state that his intention is not “to suggest an argument against open access publishing.”

Rather, the objective of this study is to understand how trends in information seeking practices (e.g., searching for information outside the library with services such as Google and Google Scholar) in conjunction with the increasing availability of open access content (e.g., the ability to acquire a growing amount of quality information outside the library from open access entities such as PLOS ONE, PeerJ, and others) will change the fundamental notion of what an academic library is and will be in the 21st century.

According to Prof. Burns: Although the sources providing full text access via Google Scholar are varied, when classified by type, the data shows that the dominant source providing full text access to journal articles is the university, which is largely composed of two sources: institutional and subject repositories.

He concludes: We can therefore reject the argument about the marginalization of academic libraries.

In a conversation with Prof. Burns, he told the newsletter: Academic libraries provided nearly 60% of the open access articles in the sample and this shows that despite changing information seeking practices among researchers, libraries are acting competitively with third party, non-library affiliated discovery services and information sources.

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around 145 academic libraries. This kind of decentralization increases the chance that someone will be able to find an open access article on the web.

Some problems: The open access material is largely provided by academic library institutional repositories. These repositories are largely invisible to the researchers even when researchers retrieve articles from them. In order to maintain or increase their relevance in the collective perceptions of academics, academic libraries can pursue strategies that raise awareness of the use of their services at the point of use. Some institutional repository software helps with this already. * Schonfeld, R. C., & Housewright, R. (2010). Faculty survey 2009: Key strategic insights for libraries, publishers, and societies. Retrieved from www.sr.ithaka.org/research-publications/faculty-survey-2009

SLIS Director Jeff Huber Attends Microsoft Research Faculty Summit Student Affairs Officer Heather Burke wrote the following, which she made available to the newsletter: Dr. Jeff Huber, Director of UK SLIS, was invited to attend the 15th annual Microsoft Research Faculty Summit for 2014. The Summit, an invite-only event hosted by the Microsoft Corporation, features faculty from around the world.

Held this year from July 14–15 in Redmond, Washington, the summit’s theme was “Fueling the future of computer science research.” Topics ranged from “computing devices and the Internet of Things, hardware-software co-design, data visualization, crowdsourcing applications, machine learning, and the algorithms that underlie emerging fields, such as computational neuroscience” (Microsoft, 2014).

SLIS spoke with Dr. Huber about the event.

How does one merit an invitation to the research summit? Is there a particular type of research they look for in guests and presenters?

I can’t answer this one. They do not share how faculty members are selected for invitations. Sorry! But I can say that the majority of the presentations represented multidisciplinary teams of researchers. Disciplines represented by faculty members included computer science, information science, library science, informatics, sociology, design, mathematics, linguistics, communication, etc.

The summit would appear to have a computer science focus, yet many topics included also relate directly to information and communication professions—what is your take on this?

Microsoft Research focuses on interdisciplinary research that should ultimately benefit the community. For example, Microsoft Research related to health focuses on “treating the body as a prolific generator of big data that needs to be captures and analyzed” to assist with preventative measures.

How do SLIS faculty and programs play a role in researching the future of people and technology?

I believe we bring the “human” perspective to initiatives related to technological advances.

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Prof. Shannon Oltmann Receives Diversity in Research Grant SLIS Prof. Shannon Oltmann has received a 2014 ALA Diversity in Research Grant to study the inclusion of LGBT materials in school media centers. According to information on the ALA web site: Applications [for a Diversity Research Grant] may address any diversity topic, including the recruitment and promotion of diverse individuals within the profession or the provision of library services to diverse populations, which addresses critical gaps in the knowledge of diversity issues within library and information science.

Prof. Oltmann told the newsletter: I am pleased to continue my work on inclusion of LGBT materials in school media centers. I first conducted a quantitative study of inclusion in school media centers across two different states; this research will be published in Libri in 2015. With the ALA Diversity Grant, I can expand upon the previous work with in-depth interviews. I hope to uncover the perceptions of school media center librarians about adding LGBT materials to high school libraries. I plan to speak to individuals on all sides of this complex issue, to better understand why these materials are or are not included.

Sixth Edition of Introduction to Reference Sources in the Health Sciences Published Thirty-five years ago the Medical Library Association considered a book proposal, and in May of this year ALA NealSchuman published the sixth edition of the book, Introduction to Reference Sources in the Health Sciences. As with prior editions, the sixth was prepared in collaboration with the Medical Library Association.

SLIS Director Jeff Huber, who served as editor of the fourth and fifth editions, continues in the role of compiler and editor. Susan Swogger, Collections Development Librarian at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Health Sciences Library, joins him in that role. The editors acknowledge the production assistance of SLIS Graduate Assistant Heather Burke (’13), who is now the School’s Student Affairs Officer.

As with prior editions, the sixth edition includes “A Brief History of Introduction to Reference Sources in the Health Sciences.” In 1979 Fred Roper, who at the time was teaching a course in health sciences reference at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill’s School of Library Science, proposed such a volume to the Medical Library Association’s publications program. He had in mind a text to be used in his course and that “would be useful for others teaching similar courses at other library schools.” The MLA was interested but saw “a broader audience for such a text among practicing health sciences librarians and for supporting MLA’s CE course in reference resources.”

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individuals in the health sciences information field. Retirements have brought new editors. Jeff Huber joined the editors for the fourth edition and was senior editor (along with Jo Anne Boorkman and Jean Blackwell) for the fifth edition.

The fifth edition’s 14 chapters have grown to 17 in the sixth edition, with the addition of chapters on point-of-care sources and global health sources. In addition to those new chapters, in the sixth edition UK Department of Communication Prof. J. David Johnson joins the contributors with a chapter on “Health Information Seeking Behaviors.”

A Brief History comments that, although chapter titles in the sixth edition are the same as those in the fifth edition, “A different mix of authors was invited to contribute to this edition for another successful collaboration that is in keeping with the idea originally promoted by Fred and MLA almost thirty years ago.”

SLIS Director Jeff Huber, Prof. Feili Tu-Keefner Edit Volume on Health Librarianship In August, Libraries Unlimited published Health Librarianship: An Introduction, edited by Jeff Huber, UK SLIS Director, and Feili Tu-Keefner, Associate Professor, School of Library and Information Science, University of South Carolina. Fred W. Roper, past president of the Medical Library Association and former Dean of the College of Library and Information Science, University of South Carolina, wrote a foreword, in which he comments: This textbook should be a great boon to the whole area of education for health sciences librarianship. Although it is certainly prepared with the library and information science student in mind, it will be important for the entire continuum of learning – from the introduction to health sciences librarianship, to preparation for the Academy of Health Information Professionals, to continuing education for practitioners, to career changes as those may occur, and to the need for refreshing and reviewing.

The introduction says of the volume: Its focus on current trends and issues in the field includes the design and delivery of health information services, the foundations of health librarianship, current healthcare systems, embedded knowledge-based information services, librarians’ professional status, and professional networks.

Topics dealt with in the 15 chapters support the comment, in the preface, that “the contents provide thorough coverage of current developments in the field, as well as cutting-edge information services concepts in a variety of health information settings.” They include an overview not only of health sciences libraries and librarianship but also of the healthcare environment, evidence-based healthcare and practice, and health and biomedical informatics. Mike Flannery (’89) contributes a chapter on “Historical Collections in Health Sciences Libraries,” and Robert Shapiro (’10) contributes a chapter on “Health Literacy.”

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Prof. Melissa Adler Discusses Her Work in Committee on Social Theory Series In October SLIS Prof. Melissa Adler discussed the introduction to her book manuscript, tentatively titled Perverse Subjects: Becoming Bodies of Literature in the Library, in the UK Committee on Social Theory work-in-progress series. The paper was made available to attendees prior to the discussion, along with this information: The book provides an account of the ways in which the Library of Congress classification standards that organize research libraries in the U.S. and abroad have reproduced normative ideas about sexuality since the beginning of the 20th century. The project challenges these classifications through the lens of perversion, echoing Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s call to become “perverse readers.”

Prof. Adler’s point of departure is Sedgwick’s book Epistemology of the Closet, which was published in 1990. Melissa begins her discussion by imagining a Library of Congress catalog librarian in that year on whose desk “the book has just landed” and whose responsibility it is “to determine a single location on a library shelf” for the book.

The cataloger assigned the call number PS374.H63, “that positioned Epistemology of the Closet with books on homosexuality in the history of American literature.” Dr. Adler’s research revealed that Sedgwick appealed LC’s “classificatory decision,” but no change was made.

Alternatives were available: “class PN56.H57 was an available option, designated for the topic of homosexuality within theory and general literature,” and there were others. Prof.

Adler points out that widespread reliance on LC’s cataloging decision (“this classification is printed on the verso of the title page”) meant “this class assignment has been repeated in nearly every research library that owns the book and uses the Library of Congress classification system to organize their collections.”

Program moderator was Prof. Marion Rust (English). Respondents were Profs. Carol Mason (Gender and Women’s Studies) and Rusty Barrett (Linguistics). Alerting the audience that her comments were “intended to be playful rather than critical,” Prof. Mason titled her remarks “Pulp, Place, and Necropolitics: A Free-Association Response to Dr. Adler.” Referring to Prof. Adler’s use of the expression “Perverse Subjects,” Prof. Mason explained the approach she had taken: I am delighted to provide some recommendations for further perversity. In particular, I’m interested in pulp, place, and – given that we are poised this week between the Thriller parade [in downtown Lexington] and Halloween – necropolitics. So: pulp, place, necropolitics.

Concluding his comments, Prof. Barrett said: Dr. Adler's work raises major issues related to research on gender and sexuality across a wide range of disciplines. She demonstrates the crucial role of library science in shaping the ways in which issues of sexuality are categorized and researched by academics from a wide range of backgrounds. This is a very important contribution to the Gender/Sexuality Studies that will demonstrate the importance of library science to scholars in other areas.

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Work of Profs. Tsikerdekis and Zeadally Featured in UKNow The work of Profs. Sherali Zeadally and Michael Tsikerdekis was featured in the following article that appeared in UKNow, the University news service.

UK Information Communication Technology Professors Explore Deception in Social Media LEXINGTON, Ky.( Aug. 28, 2014) — The explosion of the Internet and social media has literally put the world at our fingertips, revolutionizing the way people connect and share information. However, for all the positives social media provides, it can also open the door to deception, potentially wreaking havoc on people's lives both personally and professionally.

For instance, you may receive a ‘friend request’ on Facebook from someone you vaguely remember from your childhood but how do you determine if the person making the request is a genuine person or someone masquerading as such in order to obtain personal information from your Facebook page? Assistant Professor Michael Tsikerdekis and Associate Professor Sherali Zeadally, in the Information Communication Technology (ICT) program at the University of Kentucky College of Communication and Information are currently exploring the area of deception in social media.

Their most recent article, "Multiple Account Identity Deception Detection in Social Media Using Non-Verbal Behavior” was published in the August 2014 IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, the most renowned peer reviewed journal in the information security area. The article describes how they used Wikipedia as an experimental case to demonstrate the high accuracy of their method over previous deception detection methods.

“There are many fake accounts being created on Wikipedia with the sole intent to add biases to articles,” Tsikerdekis said.

“These accounts are discovered and banned but it could take up to a year or more to get them banned.”

The method tracks non-verbal user activity in order to distinguish fake accounts from real ones. Just like with nonverbal behavior in the real world, such as body movement, in social media services we all leave signs that betray our behavior. The speed that we type on a keyboard, the choice on whether to send a message or view a profile and the number of comments we make to certain pages, all reveal things about us. The method measured this non-verbal behavior on the early days of each account on Wikipedia. The results indicated a divergence between the number of revisions people made in the first days after creating an account, the time it took between revisions, the mean number of bytes added or removed in each revision, and, the places on which revisions were made. The last case was in particular a strong clue that an account was created with bad intention since this behavior betrayed where people spend most of their time on Wikipedia. Similarly, with social media such as Facebook and TwitPage 11

ter, a photo of someone can be used to set up a fake account.

“A fake Twitter account exists for UK President Capilouto that is going strong with over 7,000 followers. The account does disclose it is a fake account, but what if it did not? How would you be able to tell the difference?” Tsikerdekis said.

In a follow-up study titled “Online Deception in Social Media” that will appear in the September 2014 peer-reviewed Communications of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery – the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society with professional and student membership exceeding 100,000 worldwide) magazine, Tsikerdekis and Zeadally compared traditional (offline) deception to online deception using social media and focused on why online deception is so much easier than traditional deception. Tsikerdekis and Zeadally argue that ICT knowledge is an important factor because not only can it be used as a tool for deceivers but also as a defensive mechanism for victims. Deceivers, especially those possessing the technical know-how, are likely to look for easy targets that are less technologicallyinclined and therefore easier to deceive.

“Simply detecting deception, while a step in the right direction in this emerging area, is clearly not sufficient” explains Zeadally. “Our long term goal in the area of deception in social media at UK is to develop novel techniques that can be deployed and used by software designers as well as social media users to prevent deception in the first place” Zeadally said.

“We want UK to become a leader in the field of deception internationally as it also complements our ongoing activities in the area of cybersecurity in the ICT program at the College of Communication and Information at the University of Kentucky” Zeadally and Tsikerdekis explained.

Reprinted with the permission of Ann Blackford, UKNow.

Prof. Youngseek Kim Comments on ‘Big Data’ and LIS Education When Prof. Youngseek Kim was introduced, fall semester 2013, as a new faculty member in the School’s LIS program, he said: You may have heard about big data. There are many programs that are developing curriculums focusing on this area, and I think this is a very interesting phenomenon. I believe the library science program can produce the new information professionals who can work in this field.

The attention that “big data” is receiving prompted the newsletter to ask Prof. Kim to expand on his remarks, and we thank him for doing so. He wrote: In the modern information environment, we generate a huge amount of data; for example, individual scientists generate large amounts of data through their daily research activities, and in industry, companies have large amounts of data through their daily businesses. Therefore, managing data becomes a critical problem in our daily research and business activities.

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of positions in data specialist, data curator, and data manager have been significantly increased. Scholars (such as Borgman and Tenopir) emphasized that libraries and librarians can provide their expertise and systems for scientists’ and managers’ data curation, and facilitate the better use of big data. They also emphasized that “data service,” one of the core services and areas of expertise in library services, will potentially support data-intensive research by building knowledge and capacity within the libraries.

I also believe that library science students can join this environment and provide their valuable insights for data curation and data management for scientists and managers.

They need new information professionals who can support them in terms of their data and technology management.

The information professionals can help not only manage existing data, but also use other’s data by locating and interpreting the data. The education in LIS already has the core ideas of data management including information organization, information seeking, and information management.

I believe that our LIS students can transfer their knowledge in information management into data management easily. SLIS and UK are currently working on developing a data curation certificate program, and I believe that this will help our students develop their knowledge and skill in data management and become new information (i.e. data) professionals in the future.

Bequests Can Impact Future Generations of UK Library School Students Each issue of the newsletter includes information about how to support the School of Library and Information Science.

The information is provided by J. Ford Stanley, Director of Gift and Estate Planning at UK. For this issue he wrote: Few people understand the capacity they have to do good through personal philanthropy. Even fewer ever imagine that their gifts can make a significant difference at the University of Kentucky. But through carefully planned giving, you can impact future generations of library school students pursuing an education at the University of Kentucky.

A bequest in your will is perhaps the easiest way to help ensure that UK’s quality programs are accessible and available for future students. Through a bequest, you can determine how your resources will be used at the University after you no longer need them.

Gifts through your will, or a specific bequest added later through a codicil to your will, enable you to distribute the assets you have accumulated. Gifts through a will typically provide estate tax deductions and can be constructed in any of these ways: -- A specific bequest can designate the University of Kentucky to receive either a specific dollar amount or a specific piece of property from your estate.

-- A residuary bequest can be used to give the University what remains of an estate after all debts, taxes, expenses and other bequests have been paid.

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-- A percentage bequest can convey a specific bequest to the University as a percentage of the estate, or as a percentage of the residuary estate, rather than a specified dollar amount.

-- A restricted bequest can direct the University to use your resources for a specific purpose.

Each estate gift can be unique. Bequests can be unrestricted for greatest flexibility for the University, or they can create needed scholarships for deserving students, endow professorships and academic chairs, improve educational facilities, beautify the campus, and the list can go on and on.

If the University of Kentucky is included in your estate plan, please notify the UK Office of Gift and Estate Planning to make sure the University is prepared to be a good steward of the gift you have planned. If you are presently considering a bequest for the Library School, please contact the Gift and Estate Planning Office today for assistance in establishing your special legacy at the University of Kentucky.

J. Ford Stanley ’91 Director of Gift and Estate Planning giftandestate@uky.edu Web site: http://uky.giftlegacy.com

Elizabeth Chenevey Has Smithsonian Gardens Education and Outreach Internship Student Elizabeth Chenevey was awarded an Education and Outreach Internship at Smithsonian Gardens for summer 2014. According to the Smithsonian Gardens web site: An integral part of the Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian Gardens creates and manages the Smithsonian’s outdoor gardens, interiorscapes, and horticulture-related collections and exhibits. Established in 1972 to manage the museum grounds, Smithsonian Gardens extends the museums’ exhibits and learning environment in a public garden setting while shaping visitors’ overall experience of the Smithsonian.

The Education and Outreach Internship fosters experience in horticultural programming. It is designed to provide an intern with the opportunity to learn various components to develop education and outreach materials for curators, staff, and the general public.

Elizabeth graduated from James Madison University with a major in English and minors in environmental science and women’s studies. Two of her publications reveal the range of her interests: “Gnome Sweet Home” appeared in Hopscotch: Stories for Children by Older Children, Game 4, Fall 2011; “Full Cost Accounting of Mountain Top Mining” appeared in Mountain Top Mining in Appalachia: A Collaborative Initiative of the Environmental Management, Environmental Science & Environmental Studies minors, Spring 2011.

When the newsletter learned that Elizabeth had been selected for the internship, we congratulated her and asked for information about the program. In her May 1 reply, she provided a link to information about the internship, adding: If you have any questions for me just let me know and I'll be able to get back to you tomorrow! I'm getting ready to Fall 2014

fly back into the country (perks of being in the distance learning program!) and return tomorrow.

Curious about her reference to “getting ready to fly back into the country,” we asked Elizabeth to explain: I was actually in Spain this past year (from August until May) with my boyfriend who is studying a Master's in Spanish Lit. We were about 30 minutes outside the capital of Madrid and I was taking Spanish classes at an academy on top of studying in the LIS program full time.

Elizabeth’s reply also explains her reference to “perks of being in the distance learning program!” In online learning, location and distance are irrelevant.

Tracy Legaspi Has Position at National Archives and Records Administration Student Tracy Legaspi accepted an Archives Trainee position this fall at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in Washington, DC. It is the fourth position she has landed while enrolled in the MSLS program, all of which can be seen as complementing her course work.

Many students in the MSLS program are non-traditional.

If there are degrees of non-traditional, Tracy may be the most non-traditional among the current students. In the application to the MSLS program a person is asked to list the colleges attended. Tracy listed: • Ateneo De Manila University, Manila, Philippines; • American University of Paris, Paris, France; • Community College of Baltimore County, MD; • New York Institute of Technology [where she earned a BS in Interdisciplinary Studies]; • Thomas M Cooley Law School, Lansing, MI [where she earned a JD].

Applicants are also asked to list any foreign languages and competency level. Tracy listed: • Tagalong, fluent; • Visayan (Philippine dialect), fluent; • French, fluent; • Spanish, intermediate level.

Tracy agreed to answer serveral questions.

In your application essay, you wrote, “My passion is to have a career as a law librarian.” Is that still the case?

Yes! Working as a law librarian is still a career goal. Having worked as an attorney, I have experience with legal research and reference. However, I have also truly come to love and enjoy working with government documents and resources from working with the Department of Justice and the National Archives. I would love the opportunity to forge a career working in a federal agency’s library or archives.

Is it accurate to say you would have been unable to enroll in an MSLS program that was not online?

That is an accurate statement. I was living in Louisville when I started the MSLS program, but moved to Washington, DC for the Department of Justice opportunity. The online program made the transition easier because I could continue with my studies while living outside of Kentucky.

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By my count, you now have had three internships while enrolled in the MSLS program. The first was with the Liberty Hall Historic Site in Frankfort, KY. In general, what did you do in that position?

At Liberty Hall, I worked alongside the museum curator to catalog and archive original manuscripts in both French and English. The collection also included rare books and photographs from four generations of US Senator John Brown’s family, and about 3000 volumes dating from the 1780s 1930s.

Every day I go to work is a new adventure! The other day we came across a document signed by Abraham Lincoln and Humphrey Bogart’s naval enlistment record.

You also worked for the Office of the University of Kentucky Provost.

My work as a Graduate Assistant for the Office of the Provost at UK allowed me to work alongside the Director of the Provost’s Initiatives on a wide variety of projects. I researched articles and reports for the Provost to be published in Forbes, Harvard Business Review, and Work Style Magazine, and also assisted with tasks for the University’s Strategic Plan.

Brittany Netherton Presents at Rutgers iSchool Research Invitational 2014

You are a native of the Philippines. What prompted you to leave?

I left the Philippines to begin my undergraduate studies at the American University of Paris, France. After living in Paris, I moved to the United States with my family to live and continue with my studies.

SLIS student Brittany Netherton, Graduate Assistant in Reference Services at Young Library, attended the Rutgers iSchool Research Invitational in New Brunswick, NJ, October 17-18, where she presented a poster on her research, titled “Information Needs and Information-Seeking BehavThis past summer you had an internship at the US Departiors of Undergraduate Education Abroad Students.” Brittany ment of Justice main told the newsletter: library. How did that The presentation come about, and what did focused on the ways in you do in the internship? which libraries can use I found out about this the results of a survey to wonderful opportunity perform outreach to these through UK’s listserv. It students. Only 14 was truly a game changer students with in-progress for me! I worked under or recently completed the Deputy Director of masters degrees from Library Services, Jennifer iSchools across the McMahan, who was United States and Canada extremely generous with were chosen to participate.

Brittany Netherton at the Rutgers iSchool Research Invitational. her guidance and advice.

While at Rutgers, I had At the DOJ, I performed tasks that included expert witness the opportunity to network with peers in other LIS proresearch and vetting for US Attorneys, legal research and grams, discuss current LIS topics with top researchers in reference, and compiling legislative histories related to Althe field, and learn about the Ph.D. programs offered by cohol, Tobacco, and Firearms.

Rutgers University's School of Communication and InI was not only able to expand my skills in law librarianformation. ship and government documents, but I realized there is a supportive community of law librarians that strive to imStudents Receive Library Outreach prove the library and information profession as a whole. I Awards to Attend Conference shared an office with another law librarian, Gia Arney, who, along with the other law library staff, helped me SLIS students Tyler Nix, Lauren Robinson, and Juan make the most of my time at the DOJ. I cannot say enough Armijo were awarded Student Library Outreach Awards to great things about the people and my experience working attend the Midwest Chapter of the Medical Library Assothere! ciation Annual Meeting, October 10-14, in Bismarck, ND. How did you learn about the position at NARA, and what Information on the School’s web site explained that the are you doing in it? awards, which cover conference fees and travel/lodging, I learned about my current position through the federal are given to students who have been evaluated for their jobs website usajobs.gov. I work as an Archives Trainee in demonstrated interest in health information outreach, the Central Research Room. I provide archive and reference strength of their letters of recommendation, their plan on support for government textual and microfilm records relathow to best use what they will learn at the conference, ing to Congress, Pre-1900 Executive and Judicial branches and their own description of how the award will impact of government, American Indians, Federal courts from the their future career.

District of Columbia, Pre-World War I and II documents, Information on the web site further explained: and Maritime matters.

The National Library of Medicine Greater Midwest Region offers the award to students to allow them to parFall 2014

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ticipate in meetings, conference sessions and other activities designed for them to learn about the importance of health information outreach and services conducted by librarians in the Greater Midwest Region. Library students currently attending a graduate program in Library or Information Sciences located in the Greater Midwest Region (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin) or who are currently attending a graduate program in Library or Information Sciences and reside in the GMR are eligible to apply.

SLIS Fall Scholarships Awarded The newsletter thanks SLIS Lecturer Ashley DeWitt, who works with Assistant Director Will Buntin, for passing along the news that the School awarded scholarships to students in the Library and Information Science master’s program for the fall 2014 semester. Ashley provided information about each of the scholarship recipients.

Jennifer Nippert, who received a Hallie Day Blackburn Scholarship, received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Transylvania University and her Master of Arts in Teaching from Duke University, but says that it was during her last few years as director at the Owen County Public Library that she found her true calling. Her educational goal is to gain new tools to help libraries continue as vibrant public resources in communities across the state.

The following students received General Scholarships: Nellie Wright (formerly MacDonald) graduated from Shelby Valley High School in 2005 and went on to gain a degree in middle grades education (5-9 language arts and social studies) from Morehead State University in May of 2013. She spent the last year completing her KTIP internship in Clark County and currently teaches sixth grade language arts at East Carter Middle School in Grayson, KY. She plans to work in a public or academic library and also aspires to work with children or in an adolescent literature setting after her time in SLIS program.

James West is an Eastern Kentucky University graduate with a Bachelor’s in Police Studies. He has worked at the Beaumont Branch of the Lexington Public Library for the last 10 years and is interested in eventually moving into a management position. In his spare time he is also a martial arts instructor. His areas of interest are public libraries, digital media, and graphic novels.

Hope Nottmeyer grew up in Hoffman, a tiny farming community in southern Illinois. She earned a Spanish Minor, a Bachelor's degree in English, and teacher certification at Eastern Illinois University. After teaching high school English for two years, she chose to pursue Library and Information Science to influence school wide literacy

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programs. Like many librarians, she loves devouring novels and watching movie adaptations of her favorite books.

She also enjoys traveling and spending time with family and friends.

This is Secily Luker's first semester in the Library Science program. She is originally from Arkansas, but is currently living and teaching in South Korea. She received her Bachelor's degree from Harding University.

She also has a Master's degree from Texas Christian University, where she received a fellowship through the Global Outlooks on Education Institute and conducted research in the United Kingdom, Belgium, and Germany.

Her research interests include international access to information, information technology, and children's literature. She hopes to one day work as a children's librarian.

Seth Newell was born and raised in northeast Ohio, and then lived six years in Oklahoma while attending Oklahoma Christian University. In January 2013, he moved to Lexington, KY after being accepted into the Master’s in Library and Information Science program at the University of Kentucky. While attending UK, Seth worked within the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History and as the Earle C. Clements Graduate Assistant. Currently, he is employed with the Marion County (WV) Public Library System as the Technical Systems and Services Librarian.

Roda Ferraro is a graduate of Emory University with a B.A. in Anthropology. She completed graduate coursework in Anthropology at Indiana University and in Public History at Middle Tennessee State University. Roda worked in applied anthropology fields and museum collections before beginning the LIS program last year. She applied her prior experience in information and collections management, education, and outreach in a 2013-14 William T. Young Library research internship and a 2014 field experience with the University of Kentucky Archives. Roda has worked in the William T. Young Conservation Lab since January 2014, and she will continue to work in preservation until program completion. Roda will assume a new internship with the William T. Young Library during the 2014-15 academic year.

Josh Burczyk entered the LIS master's degree program at SLIS in Summer of 2014. He graduated from Berea College in 2011 with a BA in Asian studies and philosophy and currently lives in Berea, KY with his 8-year-old daughter. Burczyk describes LIS as a “somewhat new territory for me, but an exciting change of pace. I am highly inspired by the rapid advancement of educational technologies and their effect on education, and by the increased need for information professionals in the current market.”

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The newsletter thanks Mike Flannery (’89) and Judith Gibbons (’78) for contributing essays to this issue.

Twenty-five Years as a Librarian: Fondly Looking Backward

by Michael A. Flannery There it hangs, looking quite official, emblazoned with, “University of Kentucky,” my MLS degree reads: “conferred this third day of August, 1989.” My first reaction was, rather predictably, where did the time go? On further reflection I began to recall all those mentors who set me on a path that would define the remainder of my life—names like Tom Waldhart, Larry Allen, and Mike Harris (the first name familiarity was at least how I came to know them in and out of class)—and others who each placed a certain stamp upon my professional life. I’ve lost touch with them all now, but they still reside in my outlook and my commitment to quality librarianship.

Actually, my library career started before that as a paraprofessional working in the cataloging department of Northern Kentucky University under Lois Schultz. It was a dramatically different environment back then, one of massive card catalogs, pre-coordinate headings, range upon range of bound volumes of the National Union Catalog (and, yes, we did use them!), and “cutting-edge” Telnet technology that worked at best unpredictably. That experience formed the foundation upon which SLIS would build, and build it did; not so much upon those technologies (although technology was not neglected), but more significantly upon what Pierce Butler (1884-1953) once called “deep librarianship.” Perhaps none so deeply as Mike Harris. His understanding of the field and its cultural and historical contexts would fix my interests in the past, and like a directional compass, lead me towards rare books, bibliography, and historiography.

Starting out as a professional cataloger, I eventually landed as director of the Lloyd Library & Museum in Cincinnati, Ohio, one of the largest and most comprehensive pharmacognosy collections in the world. With materials dating to the 15th century and housing the records and publications of the Eclectic Medical Institute, it was well-suited to my historical interests and scholarly passions. It was from plumbing the depths of that collection that my first book emerged, John Uri Lloyd: The Great American Eclectic (1998), for which I received the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy’s Edward Kremers Award in 2001 for outstanding scholarship in pharmaceutical history by an American. Not long after that I teamed up with a long-time patron and benefactor of the library, the late Dr. Alex Berman, to publish America’s Botanico-Medical Movements: Vox Populi (2001), which was listed among the Choice “outstanding academic titles” for that year.

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Archives certainly delivered beyond my every expectation.

I’ve not only been able to serve as an administrator for a very fine special collections, but I’ve held adjunct appointments with the history and sociology departments where I’ve taught the undergraduate history of medicine course and some graduate courses on the social history of medicine. I’ve been able to write quite a bit too. One article I’m particularly proud of is “The Early Botanical Medical Movement as a Reflection of Life, Liberty, and Literacy in Jacksonian America,” having received the Medical Library Association’s 2002 Gottlieb Prize for historical writing, a special honor bestowed by my colleagues that I’ll always cherish. Other book-length studies followed: Civil War Pharmacy: A History of Drugs, Drug Supply and Provision, and Therapeutics for the Union and Confederacy (2004), which received the Archivist & Librarians in the History of the Health Sciences Publications Award for 2006; the reissue of Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician (Boston, 1708) that I edited with explanatory notes in 2007; and another interesting editorial project published that same year with Katherine Oomens, Well Satisfied With My Position: The Civil War Journal of Spencer Bonsall. More recently I’ve turned my attentions to the co-discoverer of natural selection Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913); first with Alfred Russel Wallace’s Theory of Intelligent Evolution: How Wallace’s World of Life Challenged Darwinism (2008, revised 2011); and a biography, Alfred Russel Wallace: A Rediscovered Life. Each of these grew organically from the collections I have managed here at UAB. In some measure, these publications have been my way of providing value-added service and collection outreach to the reading public.

This, however, is not the most defining characteristic of the field. For most of us in the workaday world of libraries it is not about scholarship but about technical, procedural and administrative issues. As my opening comments have already suggested, I needn’t tell anyone reading this alumni publication that this aspect of the discipline has changed dramatically over the past 25 to 30 years. When I was in library school, OPACS and “automated systems” were things that everyone was looking at, now the OPAC is commonplace, even passé, and the current wave of activity, especially in special collections, concerns lots of digitizing and massive scanning projects. We’ve been doing quite a bit of that as well with our own collections, but even here I’ve tried to make such projects “value-added.” Whether with our Pellagra, Florence Nightingale, Historical Medical Figures, or Civil War websites or classroom tours and presentations, it has always been important to make them more than mere repositories of data or displays of “pretty books,” but sites and activities that inform, give context, and provide something beyond the collections and/or documents they feature. Of course, these achievements were the accomplishments of personnel who were always as committed to excellence as I was, and I must say it has been my good fortune to always have colleagues at all levels that were driven by innovation, service, and quality. They have not only assisted me but at times have formed an important part of my “post-graduate” education.

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For me, then, librarianship has always been something of a balancing act. On the one hand it is essential to keep pace with innovations and technical proficiencies; on the other hand it is critical to always look at those process-related functions with a scholar’s eye. I’ve tried to do that, and I think that duality of approach was obtained particularly through the instruction I received at SLIS. We’ve come a long way from the days of Wilfrid Lancaster’s “paperless library.” I can recall interesting—sometimes heated—discussions about Lancaster’s vision for the future.

Some of his predictions have come to pass; some haven’t.

One thing that significantly has developed is the shift away from libraries towards librarians. The importance of the librarian is in greater evidence as our ability to provide access and context to the deconstructed resources we now manage electronically becomes less a matter of shelf space and more a matter of cyberspace. That has assuredly been the case with medical libraries generally, even if less so for its special collections.

But the old, custodial model of librarianship was foreign to me from the beginning. At SLIS it always was about the librarian as a professional who could effectively engage with his or her community (whether with the public at-large or with students and faculty). The processes and procedures have surely changed, but those were always means to ends.

This shift really isn’t new either. One thing I took away from Mike Harris’s “History of Libraries” class was the importance of the great Alexandrian Library. Its legacy is instructive and pertinent to today. We, in fact, know very little about its collections, but we do know about its librarians—interesting comments about Callimachus, Eratosthenes, Zenodotus, and others from the lecture notes that I’ve retained to this day refresh my memory. Looking at the library landscape today, we may be coming full circle. Only history will give us our modern-day counterparts.

While a second master’s degree in history from California State University-Dominguez Hills helped solidify the subject expertise in historiography and bibliography that enhanced my work in special collections, at heart I’ve always been a librarian. If I had a professional worldview it was one built by the faculty I still recall with fondness and admiration at SLIS.

Retirement Is No Different

by Judith Gibbons Decisions, decisions, decisions…at every step of our careers, we face decisions. Retirement is no different. Should it be cold turkey? The professional contacts are purged along with business attire. Is it time to become a Wal-Mart greeter or find a new career? Some people go from library land directly into a new and sometimes challenging profession: others kickback. What about transitioning from fulltime to part-time? This is a popular option. This nebulous mix works when you are no longer employed full-time but not ready to close the book on library employment.

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leaving a full-time career that I loved but finding ways to stay active in the profession.

As an extrovert, I always enjoyed the people part of the business. My Myers-Briggs positioned me to be out there.

My internal composition did not make me a cataloger or an IT professional. At the start of retirement, I used some of the tools acquired in 30 years of library work to do a SWOT analysis in preparation for the next phase.

My personality, experience and networking fit in the strengths category. Poor technology skills, years as a bureaucrat and lack of sales experience were weaknesses.

There were myriad opportunities including being a citizen library advocate, restarting my teaching career and pursuing writing options. Threats included a vocal anti-library tax sentiment, declining operating budgets and Google as a catch-all.

There were countless possibilities and as is popular today, I found that I was divergent. Just like in daily life, I had the abilities to mix and match projects. Using Maslow as a guide, my goal was (and still is) self-actualization.

After retirement, I was pleased to be asked to resume teaching Adult Services for the School of Library and Information Science. Teaching motivated me to keep abreast of professional literature and learn new skills from emerging librarians. As an adjunct; it was an opportunity to give back to my profession. The research also enabled me to present “soft skills” workshops including advocacy, customer service, grants and marketing. Instead of writing RFP’s, I responded. My customers include public libraries, state library agencies and associations.

An easy decision was keeping up professional relationships. After retirement, I was elected to the American Library Association Council while transitioning from Chair of the Public Awareness Committee to chairing the Advocacy Training Subcommittee. I continued to love the camaraderie, energy and productivity of committee work but found a dislike for the monotony of governance. So with the freedom of a retiree, I became a “one term wonder” on Council.

Current projects include serving on the American Library Association Committee for Library Advocacy and the Campaign for America’s Libraries. I also co-chair the Southeastern Library Association Long Range Planning Committee and the Kentucky Library Association Minority Scholarship Committee. As a founding member of the Kentucky public libraries legislative/advocacy committee, this is a chosen area for long-term commitment.

Writing is also a constant although there doesn’t seem to be a great American novel in my heart. Since retiring, I have had two articles published in American Libraries, wrote the Foreword to The Accidental Library Marketer, a short to-do piece for The Library PR Handbook, a profile for Kentucky Monthly and a program summary for Kentucky Libraries.

There was also a bevy of rejection letters.

MLS: Marketing Library Services is home to my regular column called “Interviews with Marketing Masters”. Primarily written via email, this focuses on showcasing the work of outstanding marketing professionals in all types of libraries. In early summer, 2014, “10 Ways to Avoid the Political Cliff” was also published. My work with MLS Page 17

keeps me in touch with marketing practitioners around the world. It is also productive background for teaching and workshops. Check out: http://infotoday.stores.yahoo.net/gensym-4.html.

Before retiring, I made a promise to help jump start the defunct Friends of Kentucky Libraries. After the organization got up and running; I backed off a leadership role. (But I am still a card carrying member.) For more, see: http://www.friendskylibraries.org/.

Threaded throughout my career at Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives and post-retirement is my work with the non-profit Kentucky Book Fair. Each year, this one day event grosses $100,000 plus. In the 33 years of the event, over $350,000 in proceeds were distributed through grants to needy Kentucky libraries: http://kybookfair.blogspot.com/.

As Grants Chair, my major functions include acting as a liaison from the Kentucky Book Fair to library staff; chairing the Grants Committee; hosting an author’s lunch for librarians and working the National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. My free-wheeling schedule also gives me the opportunity to be a retiree. There are still decisions to be made; schedules to keep. But vacations aren’t wedged into one week blocks and there is ample time for travel within spending limits. Cycling isn’t just for summer evenings and weekends. There are plants to plant, shrubs to trim and weeds to pull. My husband and I go out for dinner on Monday instead of the weekend. Lunches with friends don’t include clock watching. And when the mood strikes, I get to be fulfill everyman’s version of a librarian: I sit and read.

Jackie Hawes Reflects on Year as Public Library Director On October 1, 2013, Jackie Hawes (’11) became Director of the Washington Public Library, in Washington, Missouri. She agreed to reflect on her first year as a library director.

Did you work at Washington Public Library prior to being appointed director?

No, I did not work at the library prior to being appointed director. While in my last semester of graduate school, I accepted a position at Maysville Community & Technical College [KY] as Library Coordinator. The Public Libraries and Business Management course armed me with the skills to be successful in this position. As library coordinator, I basically managed the budget and day-to-day operations of the library.

After two years, I decided to begin the job search in the St. Louis area. Public libraries was always where I wanted to be, but due to my experience being in academic libraries, my career path kept me in academia. Most public library job postings for director require experience in public libraries and usually 5-10 years. This one did not require/specify public library experience. During the interview, board members made it clear that my transition from a community college library to a public library was a concern. Fortunately, a community college president on the board saw the connection.

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I assume your budget is set by the City of Washington. To whom do you report as a city department head?

Yes, the budget is approved by City Council. I report to the City Administrator as a department head.

Do you also report to a library board?

Actually, I report to both the City Administrator and to the Washington Public Library Board of Trustees. The library is a city department, which makes me a department. head. I report three times a month at Department Head meetings and two times a month at City Council meetings. The library board of trustees, which meet monthly, set policies, hire/fire the director, and have to approve certain expenditures.

I left out that I have to report to an Administrative/ Operations Committee meeting once a month. This occurs on the same night of the month as my library board meetings. If the Administrative/ Operations Committee meeting is still in session when I finish with my board meeting, then I report to that meeting also.

In 1924, the city council voted to support a city library. In 1930, when the library began receiving tax support, the library board of trustees was established to comply with state law. The board's duties are spelled out in the board bylaws.

Originally, the duties were spelled out in a document titled “Washington Public Library: Constitution and Condensed Minutes” dated 1930 that I found in my WPL History files.

The original City Librarian/Director's salary was $510/year!

I'm so glad that the salary has increased tremendously since then.

In an early email, you wrote, “We have a cooperative service agreement with Scenic Regional Library.” Could you explain that?

WPL has an interesting setup because of the library district being such a small percent of actual city limits. Due to state law, Missouri municipal library districts cannot expand past their 1965 boundaries, and, as you can imagine, the city has grown immensely since 1965. Therefore, most tax revenue for libraries goes to Scenic Regional Library (SRL), and the Cooperative Service Agreement was established to regain some of those lost funds. Approximately 70% of our circulations are to Scenic patrons, and SRL pays us $.35 per transaction, which is approximately $39,000 annually. In April, SRL got a tax levy passed, an increase from $.10 to $.20 which will double their revenue. As per their promise during the campaign, their reciprocal payment to us will double. SRL provides all of our electronic resources, bookmobile service, and some outreach, per our agreement. In addition, the city supplements our annual budget, and some operating expenses come from other departments such as building maintenance and IT. The Washington Public Library building is attractive and appears to be relatively new. When was it completed?

The building remodel was finished approximately two years ago. It's a beautiful library! The library receives a tremendous amount of support from the entire Washington community including city administration, many volunteers (56 regularly), the local newspaper, and a very active Friends group. I still pinch myself on occasion to ensure I'm not dreaming!

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What has been the biggest surprise during your first year as director?

I’ve had a couple of big surprises during my first year as director. The first being how smoothly things have gone. I figured I would really struggle and work many long weeks, but, although at times I feel like I’m barely “keeping my head above water,” the first year has gone well. Being Director of WPL has truly challenged and inspired me, and I’m proud of the opportunity to foster a positive and creative work environment. The second biggest surprise was the governor withholds of REAL [National Science Foundation Research on Education and Learning] program funds and State Aid funds for public libraries. This was devastating for many public libraries across the state. For my library district, the impact was just over $14,000; however, for many others it was more profound. For example, our neighbor Scenic Regional was hit with a loss of $110,000! I was reminded exactly how fragile public libraries are and how important it is to advocate and support them.

What has been the biggest challenge during your first year as director?

My biggest challenge this first year was learning how to juggle all my job duties and responsibilities while maintaining a positive attitude with a smile on my face! I’ve always prided myself on my ability to pay close attention to details, but being a library director requires you to remember many, many, many details. I’ve had to find a balance reporting to the Board of Trustees and city administration. I do not think I will ever get used to being interviewed and photographed by the local newspaper. Even when I’m not at the library, I still am “working” since I am the face of the library and represent WPL and the City of Washington at all times. In addition, I’m expected to belong to local civic organizations in order to give back to the community. Shortly after moving to Washington, I became a member of the Lions Club, which keeps me busy with fundraising, meetings, and events. Now that I have year one out of the way, I’m hoping year two is even better!

And my final question. In an email the end of July you wrote: “Next week is the fair. The fair is manned completely by volunteers, so as a city department head and Lions Club member, I'm going to practically live out at the fairgrounds the entire week!” How did that go?

I did practically live at the fair for the week; however, the weather was wonderful! I worked hard at the fair, but I also had TONS of FUN! I was able to see two concerts: Three Doors Down and Trace Adkins.

Kim Fender Joins SLIS Advisory Council Kim Fender (’83), the Eva Jane Romaine Coombe Director of the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, has accepted SLIS Director Jeff Huber’s invitation to join the School of Library and Information Science External Advisory Council. The Council meets annually, or more often if necessary, and met on November 14.

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The role of the Advisory Council was explained in the January 2011 Program Presentation, prepared in conjunction with ALA accreditation review: “Communication and planning with School constituencies is both formal and informal. The School currently has an …

Advisory Council consisting of senior administrators in agencies that are major employers of our graduates and who serve staggered three-year terms. [T]he Council met in March 2009 at which time members were brought up to date on activities in the School. They reviewed the School’s strategic plan and discussed facilities needs, the latest efforts in distance learning, and plans for minority student recruiting. In addition, they were briefed on the continuing accreditation process, its schedule, and their role in it. The Advisory Council reviewed the draft of the Program Presentation and provided very helpful input used to prepare the final draft.”

Other members of the Advisory Council 2014-2015 are: Wenda Fischer, Research Assistant, Stoll Keenan Ogden PLC, Louisville; Rebecca Montano-Smith, Assistant Director, Eagle Creek Branch, Lexington Public Library; JC Morgan, Director, Campbell County Public Library; Neal Nixon, Director, Kornhauser Health Sciences Library, University of Louisville; Amber Tongate, Librarian, The Learning Center at Linlee, Fayette County Schools; Wayne Onkst, State Librarian/Commissioner, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives; Kathy Watson, Library Media Specialist/School Technology Coordinator, Academy for Leadership at Millcreek Elementary, Fayette County Schools.

JC Morgan Selected for Leadership Kentucky JC Morgan (’97), Director of the Campbell County Public Library, KY, is a member of Leadership Kentucky 2014. According to its web site, “Leadership Kentucky, created in 1984 as a non-profit educational organization, brings together a selected group of people that possess a broad variety of leadership abilities, career accomplishments, and volunteer activities to gain insight into complex issues facing the state.

Our goal is to prepare our participants to take an active role in advancing the state for the common good. Leadership Kentucky graduates bring a fresh and informed perspective to their communities and companies, serving as important participants in the unified effort to shape Kentucky’s future.”

The newsletter asked JC to comment on his participation in Leadership Kentucky, and he wrote: I am, I think, the first librarian to be part of the program, and I seem to be the first librarian that some of the folks have really had much contact with. It's a great honor for me to participate in the group. There are people from all around the state in lots of various professions. We're exposed to many of the issues and solutions that are at work in Kentucky: military, prisons, healthcare, legislative concerns, industry (both manufacturing and extractive industries), education, and somehow I hope to be able to insert the word “library” into all of that.

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Kenton County Public Library Receives OverDrive Allstar Grand Prize …

Kenton County Public Library, in northern Kentucky, where Dave Schroeder (’97) is Director, received the OverDrive Digital Library Champions Allstar Award. According to the announcement, from the dozens of entries that were submitted, 12 semifinalists were selected, and from those 12 the “final winners were handpicked by members of the editorial staff at Library Journal, who graciously partnered with us to find the best of the best for this year’s contest.”

In addition to awards in several categories – Online, Inside the Library, Outside the Library, Test Drive, Excellent eBook Educator (K-12 Schools/Colleges) – there was an Allstar Award Grand Prize, which went to Kenton County Public Library. According to the announcement: The grand prize winner, Kenton County Public Library, introduced a new mascot that represented their digital resources. Their mascot KC was used across multiple platforms to promote their eBooks. Some examples of where KC popped up include their OverDrive website logo, Twitter, screens and displays inside of the library and on cards handed out in the community with information about their eBook collection.

… Wins Harry Potter Librarians' Contest Kenton County Public Library Erlanger Branch was one of only15 public libraries across the U.S. to win the Harry Potter Librarians’ Contest. The contest was sponsored by Scholastic, publisher of the new Harry Potter U.S. trade paperback editions. According to the Scholastic press release, the contest was held “In honor of the 15th anniversary of the U.S. publication of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, the first book in the award-winning Harry Potter series.”

Taking inspiration from the series, hundreds of librarians submitted their ideas for Harry Potter celebrations designed to introduce a new generation of readers to the wizarding world. Librarians’ ideas include serving Harry Potter-themed food, hosting trivia contests, dressing up as favorite Potter characters, having live owls, house-sorting parties, scavenger hunts, Quidditch matches, wand-making, and classes from Hogwarts such as Potions, Divination, and Herbology.

The release also explained: A panel of judges from Scholastic read the hundreds of entries and winners were chosen based on creativity, originality, and their promotional plans to help bring Harry Potter to life for a whole new generation of readers.

Ohio Library Council Honors Don Barlow as Hall of Fame Librarian The Ohio Library Council (OLC) honored Don Barlow (’82) with its 2014 Hall of Fame Librarian Award. The OLC announcement reads: Fall 2014

Don W. Barlow, Director, Westerville Public Library, is recognized in the library world as an innovator and tireless advocate for technological advancement in public libraries.

During his 25-year tenure as director, usage of the library has doubled, the size of the library facility has tripled, and fresh concepts like the drive-up window and self-checkout machines were introduced. The library has gained both state and national recognition under Barlow’s leadership.

Barlow has been a respected leader in state and national library organizations throughout his long career, serving on boards and committees with PLA, OCLC, OHIONET, and OPLIN. He has been a member of the OLC for many years and served on its Board of Directors. The community of Westerville has benefited from his service in many community organizations including Westerville Area Chamber of Commerce, Leadership Westerville, and Westerville Kiwanis. The City of Westerville proclaimed Sept. 3, 2013 as Don W. Barlow Day recognizing his 25 years as director of the library and his personal service to the community.

Alumna Cheyenne Hohman Is Director of Free Music Archive ‘Expecting some highly technical, coding-type job, I instead saw a list of many of the skills I had acquired in Library school.’

Student Affairs Officer Heather Burke, who talked to Cheyenne Hohman (’11) about her new position, made Cheyenne’s comments available to the newsletter.

I'm serving as the director of the Free Music Archive, which is a digital repository for mp3s licensed under Public Domain, Creative Commons or other ‘free’ download licenses.

Many of our users treat the Archive as a discovery tool (we have suggestion algorithms courtesy of Echo Nest) for new artists or for music they can use in their audio/video/media projects.

The FMA came to be when WFMU, a world-renowned freeform noncommercial radio station, wanted to start collecting music that could be used in podcasts and webcasts for free. I started working here on October 1st, 2014 and I feel that, though there's still a lot for me to learn, I'm excited for where the FMA will go with me behind the wheel.

As director, I do a bit of everything! In the course of an ‘average’ day, I answer questions about music licensing, build playlists and curate blog entries on the site, update social media outlets, do research, choose a “Song of the Day,” coordinate volunteers/interns, help users set up accounts, and whatever else needs doing. Currently, we are working on a bunch of initiatives that are in line with a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, which include a podcast series, educational resources, and a few music contests.

I came to be here by a series of unusual and auspicious events: I was working for the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Kentucky, and was in the midst of training a student how to use one of my favorite sources of Creative Commons music when I saw a “We're Hiring!” button on their front page. Expecting some highly technical, codingPage 20

type job, I instead saw a list of many of the skills I had acquired in Library school and also at my position with A&S. I applied for the position, not knowing what to expect, and a couple of months later I was on a plane bound for NYC! I now live in Jersey City, where our office is, but I can see New York's financial district from the street. Not quite where this Kentucky girl endeavored to end up, but here I am, and I can't complain.

When I interviewed, we talked a lot about tagging, metadata, cataloging, helping users have a better experience with search and other functions of the site – my library training definitely helped with all of that – and my background in college radio and zines also helped. Having some working knowledge of the limitations of copyright when it came to digital music rights was a boon, as well.

Judge Coffman on Her ‘Secret Weapon’ As the newsletter reported last spring, retired US District Court Judge Jennifer Coffman (’71) received the School’s Outstanding Alumna/us Award at the November 2013 Anniversary Celebration and Awards Banquet. Following receipt of the spring newsletter, Judge Coffman sent an email to the newsletter, in which she wrote: Thanks for the nice newsletter piece about my receiving the Outstanding Alumna Award last fall and about my career.

As I said at the time I accepted the Award, the library science education was my secret weapon in law school and throughout my legal career. I had so much training and experience in research, whereas other law students, and later other lawyers, were struggling with research and complaining about it. With my background as a librarian, that research always came naturally to me and in fact I quite enjoyed it.

Jane Fuller Binger Dies in June Jane Fuller Binger (’66) died in June of this year. According to her obituary in the Lexington Herald-Leader, she was born in Hot Springs, VA, and was raised in Lexington, VA. She attended Goucher College in Baltimore, MD, and graduated from the University of North Carolina. In 1949 Jane and her husband, Norman, moved to Lexington, KY. The obituary notes, “She was a faithful member of Christ Church Cathedral for over fifty years, and belonged to the University Women's Club and Pi Beta Phi sorority.”

Dalarna Tuttle Breetz Dies at 75 Dalarna Gayle Tuttle Breetz (’81) died in May of this year in Louisville. She was born July 29, 1938, in Henderson County, KY, graduated from Owensboro Catholic High School, and received an undergraduate degree from what was then Nazareth College and is now Spalding University, in Louisville. According to her obituary in the Courier-Journal, “After raising five children she went back to school and received her Master's Degree in library science from the University of Kentucky. She worked with the Kentucky DepartFall 2014

ment of Library [sic] and Archives and retired in 1997 as its Director of Field Services.” Her obituary comments: Dalarna was a dedicated wife, mother, grandmother, teacher, and librarian. All she ever wanted in life was to be a mother and a teacher, and she lovingly did both with great ease and success. An avid reader, gardener, and traveler, she led a blessed and wonderful life and was at great peace with all chapters of her life, including her final one.

Death Ends Charlene Davis’ Nearly Four-Decade Career at KDLA Charlene Davis (’75) died in June of this year after a short illness. She had retired from the Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives in May, following a 38-year career with the agency. KDLA Commissioner Wayne Onkst (’79) wrote a thoughtful remembrance of Charlene, from which the following is excerpted, with permission: Just about the time Charlene joined the KDLA staff, technology was being developed to assist librarians in providing service. Over the following 4 decades, technology would transform library service. Charlene was in a perfect position – and she was the perfect person – to lead this transformation.

Charlene provided the first introduction of many Kentucky librarians to the new world of technology. She demonstrated to many skeptical librarians across the state that painstaking functions which had previously been handled in house could easily be handled with the new methods and tools offered through inter-library cooperation suddenly available with modern technology. Every library – from Fulton County to Pike County – benefited from her training, patient handholding and wise counsel. As a result of her work, Kentucky’s network for interlibrary loan and materials sharing was a national example. *** Her final big project on behalf of Kentucky’s public libraries was the Broadband Technology Opportunities Project funded in 2009 by the Federal government. This project allowed 45 Kentucky public libraries to expand public computing centers. Charlene guided this project on a daily basis for more than 3 years. While it provided some 1000 additional computers for libraries, with Charlene’s guidance the project demonstrated how public libraries could play a larger role in the community and become an integral resource in meeting the needs of the community.

Charlene’s vision was that the public library could become an agent of change – assisting the community in realizing its aspirations for improving the lives of its residents. The BTOP grant demonstrated how librarians can provide even stronger information service and make libraries an even more indispensable service in today’s communities.

Charlene was not only highly respected by the public library community, but also by the numerous partners in state government, organizations, academics, and others with whom she has built relationships. A consummate professional, always fully prepared, completely organized and totally focused – this is how Charlene Davis will be remembered by her library colleagues.

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Alumni Activities Pauline Kline (’90) sent the following news: I wanted to share that I will be retiring from the Charlotte County [FL] library system on November 4 after 10 years of service here. I worked at Lee County [FL] for 3 years, DeKalb county (GA) for 10 years and Clemson University for 2 years. I have truly enjoyed my library career and believe that UK prepared me to be an effective librarian.

Thanks to UK and thanks for the newsletter.

JC Morgan (’97) is a member of the Leadership Kentucky Class of 2014. He told the newsletter he intends to continue in his day job, Director of the Campbell County Public Library, KY. Dave Schroeder (’97) received the 2013 Kentucky Public Library Association Outstanding Public Library Service Award. In 2013 Kenton County Public Library, in northern Kentucky, where Dave is director, became the first Kentucky library to be recognized among Library Journal “star libraries.”

The newsletter learned, near the end of May, that Dr. Suzie Allard (MSLS ’99 PhD ’03) had been appointed Associate Dean for Research in the College of Communication and Information (CCI), University of Tennessee, Knoxville. In addition, Suzie was appointed Director of the CCI Center for Information and Communication Studies. Both appointments were effective July1, 2014. Also, Suzie was promoted to Professor, effective in August.

In the spring 2014 issue the newsletter reported Suzie received the 2013 Library Journal Teaching Award.

Nancy Fawley’s (’03) article, “Flipped Classrooms: Turning the tables on traditional library instruction,” appears in the September/October 2014 issue of American Libraries.

She discusses an approach to library instruction that may help librarians deal with “how to cover the concepts they need to teach in the short amount of time instructors allot them….” It is “the flipped (or inverted) classroom method.”

Instead of a lecture in class and hands-on work at home, instructors assign material to be reviewed ahead of time, allowing for problem-solving activities during class time.

Concluding, Nancy comments: Since the flipped classroom model is still young, there is little research to determine whether this approach improves student learning. However, anecdotal evidence suggests that the hands-on learning and group activities hold students’ attention more than a traditional lecture format.

Nancy is head of the library liaison program at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Sarah Flood (’10) was appointed Director of the Breckinridge County Public Library, KY, effective the first of October. She had been Assistant Director for 18 months and prior to that the Children’s Librarian for 8 years.

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The newsletter congratulates Paul Roberts (’10) on being appointed as Vice President for Information Integration and Chief Information Officer at Oklahoma Baptist University.

In July, Zack Upton (’10) accepted an offer from Louisville Free Public Library to be Assistant Supervisor of Computer Services. He had been IT Coordinator at Boyle County Public Library, Danville, KY. The newsletter asked Zack to describe his background in technology, and he replied: My background in technology mostly comes from my undergraduate work. I graduated from Centre College with a double major in Computer Science and History. I have also had an appreciation for technology, but got my first job at a library and was soon promoted to the Information Technology Coordinator there. After a couple of years I began work on the Library Science Master's with a focus on the Information Science/Technology aspect of the discipline.

The newsletter thanks Adam Southern (’12) for letting us know that he was appointed Director of the Maury County Public Library, TN, effective August 7 of this year. Adam has been on the library staff for 12 years.

Among Recent Graduates Robert Theakston is Associate Director, University of Kentucky Student Center.

Erica Bethel is Library Media Specialist, Clays Mill Elementary School, Lexington.

Seth Sisler is on the staff at Maysville Community & Technical College Library, KY. Andrea Lawler is an English teacher at Campbellsville Elementary School, KY. Sheila Gordon is College Counselor, Southeast Kentucky Community & Technical College, Cumberland, KY. * * * Please send information for the newsletter to carrigan@uky.edu

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