This Week in IUL News
- Research Design Methodology Talk
- Canceled: December 4 Metadata Discussion
Group Meeting
- William Evans Jenkins Award 2013: Last Call
for Nominations
Library News and Events
InULA
Publishing and Writing Committee Event: Research
Design Methodology Talk
What: Research design methodology
talk by Rachel Applegate, SLIS IUPUI professor
& short brainstorming session on future
committee activities
Who: InULA Publishing &
Writing Committee
When: Tuesday, Dec. 11, 11:00am - 12:15pm
Where: Wells Library, 043, or
online at
http://connect.iu.edu/researchdesign/
Join the InULA Publishing & Writing
Committee for a talk on research design
methodology on December 11, 2012 at 11:00am in
Wells Library, 043. Rachel Applegate from
IUPUI SLIS will discuss research methods.
Topics include:
- Identifying a research question
- Selecting a method
- Qualitative vs. Quantitative research
- Comparisons vs. Experiments
- Gathering data
- Understanding your constraints
Dr. Rachel Applegate had an eighteen-year
career as a small college librarian and library
director. She is now at Indiana University,
Indianapolis, teaching management, library
evaluation, and online searching and serving as an
institutional and professional accreditation site
visitor. Her research explores academic
library characteristics and critiques a broad
range of research techniques. She is
currently the interim Executive Associate Dean of
the library school on the Indianapolis campus, and
has been active is faculty governance.
The committee is very interested in
creating programs based on the needs/interests of
InULA members. Following the talk there will
be a short discussion on future activities for the
group, i.e. creating writing groups, providing
links to useful services, etc.
We hope you can join us!
Submitted by: Latrice Booker, Coordinator of
Library Instruction, IU Northwest
Faking the
War of 1812: A Talk by Lawrence
Hott
Faking the War
of 1812: A Talk by Lawrence Hott,
producer/director of the documentary film,
The
War of 1812 Tuesday, December 4, 2012
at 6:30pm, reception to follow
The Lilly Library
Lawrence Hott will discuss the problem of
historical truth in documentary film, particularly
in the context of the War of 1812, a period which
presents a number of challenges to a documentary
filmmaker. Hott is producer/director of the
documentary film,
The War of 1812,
broadcast on PBS in October 2011. The War of
1812 film and bonus features can be viewed online,
courtesy of PBS/WNED:
http://www.pbs.org/wned/war-of-1812/the-film/watch-film-and-bonus-features/.
Lawrence Hott and his partner Diane Garey
have been making documentary films since 1978 as
part of Florentine Films, and later Hott
Productions. Their productions are among the
most-watched broadcasts on public
television. Notable titles include
John
James Audubon: Drawn from Nature and Wild by
Law, the story of the Wilderness Act of 1964
and three men responsible for its passage, which
was nominated for an Academy Award for Best
Documentary Feature.
Hott's awards include an Emmy, two
Academy Award nominations, the duPont-Columbia
Journalism Award, the George Foster Peabody Award,
five American Film Festival Blue Ribbons, and
Fourteen CINE Golden Eagles. He received the
Humanities Achievement Award from the
Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities in
1995; A Massachusetts Cultural Council/Boston Film
and Video Foundation Fellowship in 2001; and the
Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health
Journalism in 2001. He has been on the board
of non-fiction writers at Smith College and has
served as a panelist for the National Endowment
for the Humanities, the Massachusetts Cultural
Commission, and the Massachusetts Foundation for
the Humanities. He is a member of the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Hott is a former juvenile court
investigator and a lawyer by training, who has
said that the law and documentary filmmaking have
more in common than one would think: "a lot
of legal practice has to do with the presentation
of arguments, working with people, and being clear
in your correspondence. I can't think of
a better training for a filmmaker than three years
of law school."
The talk will be followed by a
reception. Both the talk and the reception
are sponsored by the Friends of the Lilly Library
and take place in concert with the exhibition, The
War of 1812 in the Collections of the Lilly
Library, on view through December 15, 2012, in the
Main Gallery of the Lilly Library. An
expanded version of the exhibition is available
online at:
http://collections.libraries.iub.edu/warof1812/.
Submitted by: Erika Dowell, Public Services
Librarian, Lilly Library, IUB
Canceled:
December 4 Metadata Discussion Group Meeting
The December 4 Metadata Discussion Group
meeting has been canceled. The next meeting
will be on Tuesday, January 8, from 9:30am -
10:30am in the Wells Library, Room 043. The
Metadata Discussion Group meets monthly to discuss
metadata issues pertaining to libraries, archives,
and museums. The group has no formal
membership. Library staff, SLIS faculty and
students, and those on campus interested in the
topic are welcome to attend.
DATE: Tuesday, January 8
TIME: 9:30am - 10:30am
PLACE: Wells Library 043
TOPIC: Preservation Metadata
Related resources will be distributed in mid-December.
Learn more about the Metadata Discussion
Group at our blog,
blogs.libraries.edu/metadata, or join the
group email list by sending the following in the
subject line of the message (leave the body of the
message blank) to
list@list.indiana.edu:
subscribe metadata-discuss-l
Suggestions for future topics are
welcome. Please email
jaliss@indiana.edu with suggestions or questions.
Submitted by: Jennifer Liss,
Metadata/Cataloging Librarian, IUB
William
Evans Jenkins Award 2013: Final Call for
Nominations
The William Evans Jenkins Award 2013
Committee hereby invites you to identify and
nominate potential candidates for the 2013 award.
Named for William Evans Jenkins, former
Chief Librarian of Indiana University, this award
may be presented annually to
a current
or former librarian on the Bloomington
campus, in recognition of their
outstanding contributions to the Indiana
University Libraries or to the library profession
in general. While eligibility for the award
is limited to former and current Bloomington
campus librarians,
nominations may be
made by any member of the Indiana University
community.
Outstanding Bloomington Library Faculty
colleagues deserve our recognition and
appreciation. William Evans Jenkins should
be remembered for his vision for the Indiana
University Libraries and his commitment to the
profession as a whole. By nominating a
librarian you admire and respect, you are keeping
the memory of William Evans Jenkins alive and
inspiring others to perform at the highest
level. Nominations for this award may be
submitted individually or jointly.
How to submit:
1. An "intent to nominate"
message must be sent to Betty Davis (
betdavis@indiana.edu) by
TODAY, November 30, 2012.
2. Documentation on the intranet:
3. Timetable:
-
November 30, 2012: Intent to
nominate due
-
February 1, 2013: Jenkins Award
nomination form due
-
March 1, 2013: Supporting letters
due (minimum of three)
Submitted by: Betty Davis, Administrative
Secretary, Libraries Human Resources, IUB
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