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Information Commoner February 2011 Volume 5, Issue 6 Keeping Library Staff on Common Ground In This Issue Announcements 2 Department News 2 Mike’s Message Because only a percentage of enrollment increases are built into the base budget (to avoid any future cuts if enrollment should drop), each year the university has one-time money to spend. This February, we received $127,000 in one-time money. I foresee this as a regular budget possibility in the future, so any projects that can be accomplished using one-time money should be made known. So what will we do with the money this year? We will purchase laptop computers, printer/copiers, scanners, a new microfilm reader, eight infopod PCs, and podcasting equipment. A transcribing turntable, equipment, and archival shelving along with an unlimited image CONTENTdm license are slated for Archives. We will also be moving the second bay of current periodical shelving in May to make room for additional tall shelving for the legal collection. The current periodical shelving will be moved forward to the space between the newspapers and the first bay of periodicals. The legal collection needs to be moved to regular shelving in order for legal students to use them efficiently. Finally, we allocated money to electronic reference materials (a definite trend to the future), added money to individual librarian’s accounts for collection development, and funded Aimee’s position in Archives to full-time through June 30. All in all, quite a number of projects accomplished. What’s Our Policy? Gun Policy By Lesli Baker For the protection of students and staff, any employee who witnesses someone in the building with a gun should call University Police immediately. University Police will investigate the situation and determine if the person has a valid concealed weapons permit or other reason to carry the weapon. Please do not confront the person directly. To contact the University Police, dial x911 or x5555 from a campus phone. 2 INFORMATION COMMONER Announcements Library Awards The Library Awards reception will be held March 3, at 1:00 PM in the Timpanogos Room. Recipients for the Library Aide of the Year, Special Projects, and Library Employee of the year will at last be announced. Who Would Win? Who Would Win returns this spring with a Battle of the Bands. Using polls, students will be able to vote on their favorite acts from bands and musicians in our collection. The contest begins March 21, after Spring Break, and continue until the end of the semester. ULA Annual Conference If you would like to attend Utah Library Association’s annual conference in Layton, contact your immediate supervisor as soon as possible to make arrangements. The conference will be held in Layton and runs from May 11 to 13. A list of programs can be found online at http://conference.ula.org/, along with additional information about speakers, registration, and exhibits. News from Systems The Great Migration: From Novell to Outlook By Casey Cotita As you all may have heard, our campus is leaving Novell behind and making the move to Microsoft's Exchange/ Outlook platform for email service (www.uvu.edu/oit/migration). The migration will take place over the summer. The Library is currently slated to have all accounts moved the week of August 15, but this date could change. The campus IT office has a Outlook training schedule (www.uvu.edu/oit/migration/training/ outlook.html) for the rest of campus, but I plan on conducting a couple of our own in-house training sessions to help us move smoothly as a team. Dates for Library staff training sessions are not yet known. But keep your eyes on your mailbox, we will let you know as soon as dates are firmed up. Coming from a campus where I used and supported Outlook for over six years, some of the things I look forward to most are the better address book, calendar sharing, and delegation tools that we'll have available. I am excited to be a part of this move and will do everything I can to make it go as smoothly as possible and help us get the most out of the new resources we will have. INFORMATION COMMONER 3 Streaming Video on ERES By Alan Stephens Mark likes to use the phrase “If we build it they will come” when talking about ERES and this semester is proof of that. In the three prior semesters, about 30 videos were posted for streaming, and we filled the available space on the ERES server. The Library increased the amount of storage on the server to 1 Terabyte last fall. This spring we’ve already posted more than 40 new videos, and the number is still growing. We are still receiving reports of students being unable to stream the videos off campus. To help alleviate this problem, we have posted lower resolution copies of the videos that will download more quickly than the other copies. All of the low resolution files can be identified by the words “lo-res” in the filename. Media Equipment Collection By Tony Jaskowick The library’s equipment collection continues to grow! Over the last few weeks we’ve acquired card readers, new headphones, several more LCD projectors, digital audio recorders, and even upgraded the SRS kits. Our previously ordered items have arrived as well. We now have a lighting kit, new shotgun microphones, a Cannon T2i (with a fisheye lens for those fun shots), a new HD camera and several other goodies including MacBook Pros. We are always looking for ways to better improve our services and your voices are heard. So, don’t be shy. Come on down to check out some of our gear and, if there’s something that you’d like to see us have, share your thoughts. News from Access Services By Keith Rowley Acquisitions is really busy placing orders for all of the requests that have come in, as well as receiving items as they come from the vendors. Of course all items that are received have to be cataloged, and Cataloging is being kept busy not only with new items, but with donations. The big art donation from the Utah Museum of Fine Art is now going through the acquisitions and cataloging processes. We recently received a very large donation of theater books and play scripts from the UVU Theater Department. These will be processed once the art books are on the shelves. The first updates for Safari and eBrary eBooks for this year were completed without any glitches. At this time we have 2,442 Safari and 2,693 eBrary online books in our library catalog. News from Technical Services 4 INFORMATION COMMONER News from Media By Christy Donaldson The beginning of the year is always fabulous for film buffs. In mid-January, there is the Sundance Film Festival right here in Utah, followed by the announcement of the films nominated for Oscars. Then the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour comes to campus for two nights, showing the best films of the previous year on mountain culture and sports. I took in a record (for me) 17 film screenings at the Sundance Film Festival this year over the course of seven days. Highlights from the festival include the sure to be controversial film Hot Coffee, which received a standing ovation during the screening I attended. Hot Coffee documents the famous McDonald’s coffee case and shows us the other side of the story (the side of the story that big corporations like McDonald’s don’t want you to know), such as the fact that this was not a frivolous lawsuit and the woman actually had to have several reconstructive surgeries to replace burnt areas. It follows this up with other cases to show just how our impressions of the American legal system have been shaped by what corporate America wants us to think. There were many standout documentaries, including Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey, winner of the Special Jury Prize for the U.S. Documentary Competition, about the life of Kevin Clash and how he went from an average kid growing up in Baltimore to the man behind the iconic Sesame Street puppet Elmo. Buck, winner of the U.S. Documentary Competition Audience Award, is the wonderful life story of Buck Brannaman, the cowboy who was the inspiration for the movie The Horse Whisperer. During his acceptance of the award (which happened to be his birthday), he said, “This is for all of you who have a passion for what you do.” If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front, winner of the U.S. Documentary Editing Award, poses the question of whether all dissenters should be branded with the label terrorist. Beats, Rhymes, & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest follows the legendary hip hop band A Tribe Called Quest. And finally, I saw Senna, a lovely tribute to the legendary Formula One race car driver Ayrton Senna, which was the winner of the World Cinema Audience Award for Documentary Film at this year’s festival. Among the few dramatic films I saw was the winner of the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize, presented to a director with an outstanding film focusing on science or technology as a theme. Another Earth is the story of “the sudden appearance of an alternate earth.” Also impressive was Benavides Born about a young woman who wants to use her talent in powerlifting to get a shot at a college Continued on next page. News from Serials By Sarah Suazo In honor of February—“the month of love” (even though Valentine’s Day is over)— here is a list of things the Serial’s Department loves: • We love when items are shelved correctly. Orange and green tagged periodicals shelved in their boxes on the compact shelves make us very happy. • We love when damaged periodicals are brought to us promptly so that we may repair them. Many times damaged items must be repaired with special mending tape or procedures, due to binding restrictions. • We love when staff and student workers contact us if they have a question regarding an issue or volume. Often we will have additional information about the item and its location that can help the patron. Contact us anytime you have a question. Bindery Shipments We received our first shipment back from Houchen Bindery, and it looks great. We are planning on sending another batch near the beginning of March. As always, if you cannot locate an item, please check with us as it may be in the process of being prepared for the bindery. INFORMATION COMMONER 5 Continued from previous page. scholarship and opportunities away from the small Hispanic Texas town where she grew up. Margin Call—which is certain to hit major movie theaters— is about the cutthroat world of investment banking with major actors in it, including Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Irons, Stanley Tucci, and Demi Moore. I also saw the Japanese film Abraxas about a punk rock musician turned Buddhist monk who has a crisis of faith when he comes to realize that he can’t live without music. I will definitely be adding as many of these films to the UVU Library's media collection as they become available. For all you film buffs out there, I hope you don’t miss the Oscar Award ceremony on TV on Sunday, February 27. Until then, try to catch as many as you can that are still in the theater or have come out on DVD. News from Reference/Instruction By Annie Smith Thanks to one-time funding, the Library was able to add an important resource to its offerings: the online edition of The Oxford English Dictionary. The Oxford English Dictionary (affectionately known as the OED) is a unique resource that not only defines every word in the English language, but also the histories of each word. The OED contains etymologies (where words came from), illustrative quotations, and chronological definitions that show how word meanings have changed over time. The OED can be found in the catalog and on the electronic dictionaries and encyclopedias page (www.uvu.edu/library/ researchtools/electronic_encyclopedias.html). The print edition of the OED takes decades for the organization to finish. (The first edition was printed in installments between 1888 and 1928. The second edition was published in 1989.) The online edition offers faster access to new words and changing meanings in our constantly evolving language. Not only is the online edition more up-to-date, it is also much easier to use than its 23 volume print counterpart. The quick search features allow users to search across the entire dictionary by word, by definition, and by category. Advance searching allows users to search by language of origin, regional dialect words, usage (colloquial and slang, archaic, etc.), parts of speech, dates of entry, letter ranges, and much more. Users can even improve their vocabularies by signing up for a Word of the Day. A My OED feature allows students and faculty to create an account and save searches and entries, as well as set session preferences. For a fascinating history of this extraordinary dictionary, check out Simon Winchester’s The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (PE 1617. O 94 W 56 1998). 6 INFORMATION COMMONER ED I TO R I A L IN FORMA T I ON The Information Commoner is an internal communication tool published once a month by and for the Utah Valley University Library staff. Input from all library staff is encouraged. The deadline for information submittal is the third Friday of each month. Send information to Lesli via email. INFORMATION COMMONER 7 By Catherine McIntyre We’re making steady progress on our various projects. Aimee has processed and created finding aids for twelve (!) collections since she started in January. Many of these are materials donated from retired faculty and administrators, but also include the donations from each of the previous school presidents. Each collection has a record in Symphony with a linked finding aid for more complete information. The next step for each finding aid is to add them to our digital collection and thus also to the Mountain West Digital Library. Brent is scanning and digitizing the World War II Veterans oral histories that were done by Dr. Kathren Brown’s history students several years ago. We are asked fairly often for copies, and it can take quite a while to make a copy of the audio interview. So Brent is getting a jump on requests by scanning the transcripts and digitizing the audiotapes, so that retrieval will be almost immediate. He is also improving the audio quality of the interviews as he goes along. We might add the interviews to our online collections in the near future. The other oral history projects—the History of Utah Peace Activists, the Vietnam Era, and the Utah Women’s Walk, continue. Brent went to the Walden Liberal Arts School in Provo to record Dr. Bill Cobb and several other Vietnam War veterans speak to the students as part of a panel. Upcoming interviews in March for the Utah Women’s Walk will include Dr. Reba Keele of UVU’s Public and Community Health Department, and Mrs. Anne Leavitt, the mother of former Utah governor Mike Leavitt, who also served as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and Secretary of Health and Human Services. We “re-discovered” a part of a previous collection, the E. Mark Bezzant Collection, which consists of a number of Asian artifacts. There are Chinese, Korean, and Japanese coins; opium and incense containers and burners; decorative boxes; toothpick holders; and Buddha shrines, made of porcelain, ivory, wood, and bronze. Aimee has written a Continued on next page. Porcelain toothpick box (c. 1737-1795, Qiánlóng Reign, Qing Dynasty). From the Bezzant Collection. Wood and ivory opium box (ca. 1662-1723, Kangxi Reign, Qing Dynasty). From the Bezzant Collection. News from the Sutherland Archives descriptive container list, with assistance from Shuyi, who helped translate many of the Chinese characters and put the objects in historical context. Brent is photographing the objects from all angles, with the goal of creating an online exhibit of the materials, as well as an upcoming exhibit in the Archives. To see a detailed description of the artifacts, visit www.uvu.edu/library/docs/ BezzantArtifactsAR355Bez.pdf. We’ve received a small donation of papers, trophies, and plaques from the Utah Athletic Club of the Deaf. Aimee is working with Dr. Bryan Eldredge’s intern, Timber Anderson, to process it. We expect to start receiving documents soon from the United States of America Deaf Basketball Association. UVU’s Deaf Studies program is growing and, according to Dr. Eldredge, having these types of collections will help put UVU on the national map in terms of deaf culture materials. Brent and I went to Orem Public Library earlier this month to help train several of their employees to use CONTENTdm. Orem Public Library already has a digital collection of historic photographs, which we are hosting for them, but they are ready to add more images to this collection and have new people doing it now. One of the people is Nicole Sharp, who used to work here at UVU Library quite some time ago. We’re looking forward to assisting them in adding new content. And finally, we added our first art collection to our digital collections. “Infinite Beauty: Art Inspired by Mathematics” was created to showcase an art exhibit curated in 2009 by Kathryn Van Wagoner, manager of the Math Lab (http:// contentdm.uvu.edu/cdm4/browse.php? CISOROOT=/Infinite). A report of the exhibit will be published in the Journal of Mathematics and Art, and there will be a reference to the online archive in it. INFORMATION COMMONER 8
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Full Text | Information Commoner February 2011 Volume 5, Issue 6 Keeping Library Staff on Common Ground In This Issue Announcements 2 Department News 2 Mike’s Message Because only a percentage of enrollment increases are built into the base budget (to avoid any future cuts if enrollment should drop), each year the university has one-time money to spend. This February, we received $127,000 in one-time money. I foresee this as a regular budget possibility in the future, so any projects that can be accomplished using one-time money should be made known. So what will we do with the money this year? We will purchase laptop computers, printer/copiers, scanners, a new microfilm reader, eight infopod PCs, and podcasting equipment. A transcribing turntable, equipment, and archival shelving along with an unlimited image CONTENTdm license are slated for Archives. We will also be moving the second bay of current periodical shelving in May to make room for additional tall shelving for the legal collection. The current periodical shelving will be moved forward to the space between the newspapers and the first bay of periodicals. The legal collection needs to be moved to regular shelving in order for legal students to use them efficiently. Finally, we allocated money to electronic reference materials (a definite trend to the future), added money to individual librarian’s accounts for collection development, and funded Aimee’s position in Archives to full-time through June 30. All in all, quite a number of projects accomplished. What’s Our Policy? Gun Policy By Lesli Baker For the protection of students and staff, any employee who witnesses someone in the building with a gun should call University Police immediately. University Police will investigate the situation and determine if the person has a valid concealed weapons permit or other reason to carry the weapon. Please do not confront the person directly. To contact the University Police, dial x911 or x5555 from a campus phone. 2 INFORMATION COMMONER Announcements Library Awards The Library Awards reception will be held March 3, at 1:00 PM in the Timpanogos Room. Recipients for the Library Aide of the Year, Special Projects, and Library Employee of the year will at last be announced. Who Would Win? Who Would Win returns this spring with a Battle of the Bands. Using polls, students will be able to vote on their favorite acts from bands and musicians in our collection. The contest begins March 21, after Spring Break, and continue until the end of the semester. ULA Annual Conference If you would like to attend Utah Library Association’s annual conference in Layton, contact your immediate supervisor as soon as possible to make arrangements. The conference will be held in Layton and runs from May 11 to 13. A list of programs can be found online at http://conference.ula.org/, along with additional information about speakers, registration, and exhibits. News from Systems The Great Migration: From Novell to Outlook By Casey Cotita As you all may have heard, our campus is leaving Novell behind and making the move to Microsoft's Exchange/ Outlook platform for email service (www.uvu.edu/oit/migration). The migration will take place over the summer. The Library is currently slated to have all accounts moved the week of August 15, but this date could change. The campus IT office has a Outlook training schedule (www.uvu.edu/oit/migration/training/ outlook.html) for the rest of campus, but I plan on conducting a couple of our own in-house training sessions to help us move smoothly as a team. Dates for Library staff training sessions are not yet known. But keep your eyes on your mailbox, we will let you know as soon as dates are firmed up. Coming from a campus where I used and supported Outlook for over six years, some of the things I look forward to most are the better address book, calendar sharing, and delegation tools that we'll have available. I am excited to be a part of this move and will do everything I can to make it go as smoothly as possible and help us get the most out of the new resources we will have. INFORMATION COMMONER 3 Streaming Video on ERES By Alan Stephens Mark likes to use the phrase “If we build it they will come” when talking about ERES and this semester is proof of that. In the three prior semesters, about 30 videos were posted for streaming, and we filled the available space on the ERES server. The Library increased the amount of storage on the server to 1 Terabyte last fall. This spring we’ve already posted more than 40 new videos, and the number is still growing. We are still receiving reports of students being unable to stream the videos off campus. To help alleviate this problem, we have posted lower resolution copies of the videos that will download more quickly than the other copies. All of the low resolution files can be identified by the words “lo-res” in the filename. Media Equipment Collection By Tony Jaskowick The library’s equipment collection continues to grow! Over the last few weeks we’ve acquired card readers, new headphones, several more LCD projectors, digital audio recorders, and even upgraded the SRS kits. Our previously ordered items have arrived as well. We now have a lighting kit, new shotgun microphones, a Cannon T2i (with a fisheye lens for those fun shots), a new HD camera and several other goodies including MacBook Pros. We are always looking for ways to better improve our services and your voices are heard. So, don’t be shy. Come on down to check out some of our gear and, if there’s something that you’d like to see us have, share your thoughts. News from Access Services By Keith Rowley Acquisitions is really busy placing orders for all of the requests that have come in, as well as receiving items as they come from the vendors. Of course all items that are received have to be cataloged, and Cataloging is being kept busy not only with new items, but with donations. The big art donation from the Utah Museum of Fine Art is now going through the acquisitions and cataloging processes. We recently received a very large donation of theater books and play scripts from the UVU Theater Department. These will be processed once the art books are on the shelves. The first updates for Safari and eBrary eBooks for this year were completed without any glitches. At this time we have 2,442 Safari and 2,693 eBrary online books in our library catalog. News from Technical Services 4 INFORMATION COMMONER News from Media By Christy Donaldson The beginning of the year is always fabulous for film buffs. In mid-January, there is the Sundance Film Festival right here in Utah, followed by the announcement of the films nominated for Oscars. Then the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour comes to campus for two nights, showing the best films of the previous year on mountain culture and sports. I took in a record (for me) 17 film screenings at the Sundance Film Festival this year over the course of seven days. Highlights from the festival include the sure to be controversial film Hot Coffee, which received a standing ovation during the screening I attended. Hot Coffee documents the famous McDonald’s coffee case and shows us the other side of the story (the side of the story that big corporations like McDonald’s don’t want you to know), such as the fact that this was not a frivolous lawsuit and the woman actually had to have several reconstructive surgeries to replace burnt areas. It follows this up with other cases to show just how our impressions of the American legal system have been shaped by what corporate America wants us to think. There were many standout documentaries, including Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey, winner of the Special Jury Prize for the U.S. Documentary Competition, about the life of Kevin Clash and how he went from an average kid growing up in Baltimore to the man behind the iconic Sesame Street puppet Elmo. Buck, winner of the U.S. Documentary Competition Audience Award, is the wonderful life story of Buck Brannaman, the cowboy who was the inspiration for the movie The Horse Whisperer. During his acceptance of the award (which happened to be his birthday), he said, “This is for all of you who have a passion for what you do.” If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front, winner of the U.S. Documentary Editing Award, poses the question of whether all dissenters should be branded with the label terrorist. Beats, Rhymes, & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest follows the legendary hip hop band A Tribe Called Quest. And finally, I saw Senna, a lovely tribute to the legendary Formula One race car driver Ayrton Senna, which was the winner of the World Cinema Audience Award for Documentary Film at this year’s festival. Among the few dramatic films I saw was the winner of the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize, presented to a director with an outstanding film focusing on science or technology as a theme. Another Earth is the story of “the sudden appearance of an alternate earth.” Also impressive was Benavides Born about a young woman who wants to use her talent in powerlifting to get a shot at a college Continued on next page. News from Serials By Sarah Suazo In honor of February—“the month of love” (even though Valentine’s Day is over)— here is a list of things the Serial’s Department loves: • We love when items are shelved correctly. Orange and green tagged periodicals shelved in their boxes on the compact shelves make us very happy. • We love when damaged periodicals are brought to us promptly so that we may repair them. Many times damaged items must be repaired with special mending tape or procedures, due to binding restrictions. • We love when staff and student workers contact us if they have a question regarding an issue or volume. Often we will have additional information about the item and its location that can help the patron. Contact us anytime you have a question. Bindery Shipments We received our first shipment back from Houchen Bindery, and it looks great. We are planning on sending another batch near the beginning of March. As always, if you cannot locate an item, please check with us as it may be in the process of being prepared for the bindery. INFORMATION COMMONER 5 Continued from previous page. scholarship and opportunities away from the small Hispanic Texas town where she grew up. Margin Call—which is certain to hit major movie theaters— is about the cutthroat world of investment banking with major actors in it, including Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Irons, Stanley Tucci, and Demi Moore. I also saw the Japanese film Abraxas about a punk rock musician turned Buddhist monk who has a crisis of faith when he comes to realize that he can’t live without music. I will definitely be adding as many of these films to the UVU Library's media collection as they become available. For all you film buffs out there, I hope you don’t miss the Oscar Award ceremony on TV on Sunday, February 27. Until then, try to catch as many as you can that are still in the theater or have come out on DVD. News from Reference/Instruction By Annie Smith Thanks to one-time funding, the Library was able to add an important resource to its offerings: the online edition of The Oxford English Dictionary. The Oxford English Dictionary (affectionately known as the OED) is a unique resource that not only defines every word in the English language, but also the histories of each word. The OED contains etymologies (where words came from), illustrative quotations, and chronological definitions that show how word meanings have changed over time. The OED can be found in the catalog and on the electronic dictionaries and encyclopedias page (www.uvu.edu/library/ researchtools/electronic_encyclopedias.html). The print edition of the OED takes decades for the organization to finish. (The first edition was printed in installments between 1888 and 1928. The second edition was published in 1989.) The online edition offers faster access to new words and changing meanings in our constantly evolving language. Not only is the online edition more up-to-date, it is also much easier to use than its 23 volume print counterpart. The quick search features allow users to search across the entire dictionary by word, by definition, and by category. Advance searching allows users to search by language of origin, regional dialect words, usage (colloquial and slang, archaic, etc.), parts of speech, dates of entry, letter ranges, and much more. Users can even improve their vocabularies by signing up for a Word of the Day. A My OED feature allows students and faculty to create an account and save searches and entries, as well as set session preferences. For a fascinating history of this extraordinary dictionary, check out Simon Winchester’s The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (PE 1617. O 94 W 56 1998). 6 INFORMATION COMMONER ED I TO R I A L IN FORMA T I ON The Information Commoner is an internal communication tool published once a month by and for the Utah Valley University Library staff. Input from all library staff is encouraged. The deadline for information submittal is the third Friday of each month. Send information to Lesli via email. INFORMATION COMMONER 7 By Catherine McIntyre We’re making steady progress on our various projects. Aimee has processed and created finding aids for twelve (!) collections since she started in January. Many of these are materials donated from retired faculty and administrators, but also include the donations from each of the previous school presidents. Each collection has a record in Symphony with a linked finding aid for more complete information. The next step for each finding aid is to add them to our digital collection and thus also to the Mountain West Digital Library. Brent is scanning and digitizing the World War II Veterans oral histories that were done by Dr. Kathren Brown’s history students several years ago. We are asked fairly often for copies, and it can take quite a while to make a copy of the audio interview. So Brent is getting a jump on requests by scanning the transcripts and digitizing the audiotapes, so that retrieval will be almost immediate. He is also improving the audio quality of the interviews as he goes along. We might add the interviews to our online collections in the near future. The other oral history projects—the History of Utah Peace Activists, the Vietnam Era, and the Utah Women’s Walk, continue. Brent went to the Walden Liberal Arts School in Provo to record Dr. Bill Cobb and several other Vietnam War veterans speak to the students as part of a panel. Upcoming interviews in March for the Utah Women’s Walk will include Dr. Reba Keele of UVU’s Public and Community Health Department, and Mrs. Anne Leavitt, the mother of former Utah governor Mike Leavitt, who also served as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and Secretary of Health and Human Services. We “re-discovered” a part of a previous collection, the E. Mark Bezzant Collection, which consists of a number of Asian artifacts. There are Chinese, Korean, and Japanese coins; opium and incense containers and burners; decorative boxes; toothpick holders; and Buddha shrines, made of porcelain, ivory, wood, and bronze. Aimee has written a Continued on next page. Porcelain toothpick box (c. 1737-1795, Qiánlóng Reign, Qing Dynasty). From the Bezzant Collection. Wood and ivory opium box (ca. 1662-1723, Kangxi Reign, Qing Dynasty). From the Bezzant Collection. News from the Sutherland Archives descriptive container list, with assistance from Shuyi, who helped translate many of the Chinese characters and put the objects in historical context. Brent is photographing the objects from all angles, with the goal of creating an online exhibit of the materials, as well as an upcoming exhibit in the Archives. To see a detailed description of the artifacts, visit www.uvu.edu/library/docs/ BezzantArtifactsAR355Bez.pdf. We’ve received a small donation of papers, trophies, and plaques from the Utah Athletic Club of the Deaf. Aimee is working with Dr. Bryan Eldredge’s intern, Timber Anderson, to process it. We expect to start receiving documents soon from the United States of America Deaf Basketball Association. UVU’s Deaf Studies program is growing and, according to Dr. Eldredge, having these types of collections will help put UVU on the national map in terms of deaf culture materials. Brent and I went to Orem Public Library earlier this month to help train several of their employees to use CONTENTdm. Orem Public Library already has a digital collection of historic photographs, which we are hosting for them, but they are ready to add more images to this collection and have new people doing it now. One of the people is Nicole Sharp, who used to work here at UVU Library quite some time ago. We’re looking forward to assisting them in adding new content. And finally, we added our first art collection to our digital collections. “Infinite Beauty: Art Inspired by Mathematics” was created to showcase an art exhibit curated in 2009 by Kathryn Van Wagoner, manager of the Math Lab (http:// contentdm.uvu.edu/cdm4/browse.php? CISOROOT=/Infinite). A report of the exhibit will be published in the Journal of Mathematics and Art, and there will be a reference to the online archive in it. INFORMATION COMMONER 8 |
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