This Week in IUL News
- Upcoming Application Deadline for the InULA
Research Initiative Fund
- Indiana Celebrates Information Literacy
Week
- Lorcan Dempsey to be Invited Speaker at David
Kaser Lecture Series
- Digital Library Brown Bag: Medievalists'
Use of Digital Resources
Library News and Events
Upcoming
Application Deadline for the InULA Research
Initiative Fund The InULA
Research Incentive Fund is intended to encourage
and support research by providing funding for
research projects of any size or scope. All
applications will be considered on their
merits. In the case of equally meritorious
proposals, those of non-tenured librarians may be
given priority, because it is often difficult for
beginning researchers to obtain research grants.
The guidelines, application, and other
information may be found at:
http://www.indiana.edu/~inula/opportunities/index.html.
Applications for InULA Research Incentive
funds to support research, professional
development, or service are due on October
15. Other deadlines for the funds are
January 15 and April 15. Applications are
reviewed after the deadline by the InULA grants
and Scholarship Committee and recommendations made
to the Executive Board for approval and
funding. Notice of awards is provided to the
applicants as soon as possible.
Please don't hesitate if you have any questions.
Submitted by: Catherine Lemmer, Chair, InULA
Grants and Scholarship Committee
Indiana
Celebrates Information Literacy
Week Celebrate Indiana
Information Literacy Week!
-- October 1-7, 2012 --
On September 14, 2012. Indiana Governor
Mitch Daniels proclaimed the first week of
October, 2012, as Indiana Information Literacy
Week. Recognizing that "information
literacy provides the knowledge and skills to
find, evaluate, and use credible information from
all sources in our constantly evolving world"
and that it is a "key component to providing
an education to all students in our state... by
utilizing this constantly changing technology to
navigate and evaluate our expanding information
environment," Governor Daniels and the
Department of Teaching & Learning, Indiana
University Libraries, encourage you to embrace and
celebrate information literacy efforts across the
state. As Governor Daniels expressed in his
proclamation, we would like to remind our Hoosier
community of "the benefits information
literacy makes available socially, economically,
and culturally for the State of Indiana from the
rich resources of librarians."
Please join us in recognizing all of our
combined efforts within the Indiana University
Libraries community that serve to advance and
inform information literacy initiatives throughout
the state of Indiana.
Submitted by: Department of Teaching &
Learning, Indiana University Libraries
Lorcan
Dempsey to Be Invited Speaker at David Kaser
Lecture Series: 10/5/2012
Mark your calendar and plan to attend the 2012
SLIS David Kaser Lecture Series. The invited
speaker this year is Lorcan Dempsey, OCLC Vice
President and Chief Strategist.
The lecture will take place:
DATE: Friday, October 5
TIME: 4:00pm
PLACE: School of Informatics and
Computing (SoIC) Informatics East, Room 130.
Reception will follow lecture in Lobby of
Informatics East, IUB
TOPIC: The Research Library:
Scalable Efficiency and Scalable Learning
Profile information and abstract of lecture
can be found at:
http://www.slis.indiana.edu/news/story.php?story_id=2432
The Kaser Lecture Series is named in honor
of SLIS Distinguished Professor Emeritus David
Kaser, who studied, wrote, and taught extensively
in the areas of academic libraries, library
history, library buildings, and printing.
Professor Kaser retired in 1991 after 18 years at SLIS.
Submitted by: Michelle Dalmau, Digital
Projects & Usability Librarian, IUB
Digital
Library Brown Bag: Medievalists' Use of
Digital Resources: 10/3/2012
Please join us Wednesday, October 3 for a digital
library brown bag presentation by Dot
Porter. The presentation will be held at the
Herman B Wells Library, room E174, from 12:00pm -1:00pm.
Medievalists' Use of Digital Resources and
the Development of MESA Dot
Porter, Associate Director for Digital Content and
Services Digital Library Program
Wells
Library, Room E174
The Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance
(MESA) is a federated international community of
scholars, projects, institutions, and
organizations engaged in digital scholarship
within the field of medieval studies. Funded
by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, MESA seeks
both to provide a community for those engaged in
digital medieval studies and to meet emerging
needs of this community, including making
recommendations on technological and scholarly
standards for electronic scholarship, the
aggregation of data, and the ability to discover
and repurpose this data.
This presentation will focus on the
discovery aspect of MESA, and how it might serve
the non-digital medievalist who may nevertheless
be interested in finding and using digital
resources. Starting with a history of
medievalists and their interactions with digital
technology as told through three data sets (the
International Congress on Medieval Studies (first
held in 1962), arts-humanities.net (a digital
project database in the UK, sponsored by JISC and
the Arts & Humanities Research Council), and
two surveys, from 2002 and 2011, that looked
specifically at medievalists' use of digital
resources), I will draw out some potential issues
that this history has for the current developers
of digital resources for medievalists, and
investigate how MESA might serve to address these issues.
Presentation slides and audio will be
available via the Connect Meeting Service
(formerly known as "Breeze"). Go
to
http://breeze.iu.edu/diglib to view and
listen to the presentation. If you are not a
registered user for Connect Meeting/Breeze, select
the "Enter as a Guest" option.
The Digital Library Brown Bag series is
held most Wednesdays this Fall 2012
semester. All presentations are in the
Herman B Wells Library, room E174, from 12:00pm -
1:00pm unless otherwise noted. The complete
schedule, including abstracts, is available on the
Digital Library Program web site:
http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/education/brownbags/.
To receive a reminder and an abstract of
each presentation, send an email to
listserv@indiana.edu with the message
body:
sub dl-brownbag-l Your Full Name
Submitted by: Michelle Dalmau,
Digital Projects & Usability Librarian,
IUB
Staff News
Kori Newboles has accepted the
position of Retrospective Conversion Cataloger in
the Lilly Library effective October 1, 2012.
Kori has worked at the Thomas J. Watson Library
within the Metropolitan Museum of Art and has a
great deal of library experience. She holds
a Bachelor of Arts in English with Art History and
Philosophy minors from Barnard College, Columbia
University, and a Master of Library Science from
Indiana University. Please join me in
welcoming Kori to the libraries!
Submitted by: Jen Geary, Human
Resources and Staff Development Coordinator,
IUB
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