Dr. Jeffrey Huber to start as Director of SLIS
March 6, 2008− The University of Kentucky School of Library and Information Science has a new director; Jeffrey T. Huber will assume the position Aug. 15 of this year.
College of Communications and Information Studies Dean J. David Johnson commented: “Dr. Huber was the unanimous choice of a blue ribbon selection committee that recognized his roots in the tradition of library and information science and appreciation of the school’s contribution to librarianship in the Commonwealth, as well as his potential contributions to health informatics initiatives critical to University of Kentucky’s Top 20 mandate.”
Huber, who completed the SLIS master's program in 1987 and earned a doctorate at the University of Pittsburgh in 1991, has been on the faculty in the School of Library and Information Studies at Texas Woman’s University since 1998. He has a concurrent appointment as associate director for research at the Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center (HAM-TMC) Library, a position he has held since 2001. In that year he also was appointed adjunct associate professor in the School of Health Information Sciences at the Health Science Center at Houston, University of Texas. In 2000-2001 he was research information scientist, HAM-TMC Library, Information Technology Research Group. More on this story...
Martin Dillon to present Annual Lazerow Lecture at noon on Monday, April 7, 2008
December 6, 2007 -- Dr. Martin Dillon was the founding Executive Director of the OCLC Institute. From 1970 to 1985, Martin Dillon served on the faculty of the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where his research and teaching focused on topics in library automation and information retrieval. He came to OCLC as Visiting Distinguished Scholar in 1985. In 1986, he assumed the position of Director of the Office of Research, where he guided a staff of 30 in research supporting OCLC's mission of improving access to information. From June 1993 until he became executive director of the Institute in January 1997, he served as director of OCLC’s Library Resources Management Division, which is responsible for managing OCLC's Cataloging and Resource Sharing services. More on this story...
Lecture topic: "The Web was created in 1989 and has been rapidly evolving ever since. We are well into Web 2.0 and breaking ground for Web 3.0. The information industries are dominated by the growth of the Web – its technologies, capacities, extent and reach throughout the world. This talk will provide a glimpse of the Web trends that track this growth and are central to information and its dissemination. It will also look closely at Web features, focusing on the social 'activities' of Web 2.0, but also looking ahead to what many are calling the semantic Web of Web 3.0. The purpose throughout will be to suggest ways that information providers and libraries in particular might leverage their intellectual capital and habits of collaboration into a more prominent Web presence."
Part-time faculty member Rebecca Ryder Wins National Preservation Award
Becky Ryder, head of the Preservation Services at the University of Kentucky Libraries, as well as both a SLIS alumna and part-time faculty member, has been named the winner of the inaugural LBI (Library Binding Institute) George Cunha and Susan Swartzburg Preservation Award in recognition of her service to the field of preservation. More on this story...
SLIS Offices Move to New Facilities
November 1, 2007 -- All SLIS administrative and faculty offices have now moved to our new location on the third floor of the Lucille Little Fine Arts Library Building. For now, the CAIT computer lab and the McConnell Center for the Study of Children's Literature will remain in their original location on the fifth floor of King Library, room 504.
2008 McConnell Conference is announced
October 15, 2007 -- The 2008 McConnell Literature Conference will be held February 29-March 1 at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Lexington. Featured speakers will be author Pam Munoz Ryan, author/illustrator Denise Fleming, and author George Ella Lyon. Fees will be $95 for full conference, $55 Friday only, $70 Saturday only. Additional program details and complete registration information will be posted later in the fall. Please email immediate questions to either Lousetta Carlson, carlson@uky.edu, or Mary Landrum, landmar1973@yahoo.com.
Registration form is now available at :http://www.uky.edu/CIS/SLIS/mcconnell/08registration.pdf
Rebecca Miller Banner Joins SLIS Faculty to Fill Information Services Position
August 15, 2007--- Nebraska native Rebecca Miller Banner joined the faculty this fall in the information services position that had been vacant for a year. After completing a BA in French at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Rebecca earned a Maîtrise, Linguistics, at the Université Stendahl (Grenoble III), Grenoble, France. She subsequently earned an MLS at the School of Library & Information Management, Emporia State University, where she is wrapping up her PhD. Rebecca’s dissertation is titled The Diffusion of Professional Knowledge in International Partnerships: A Case Study of the American Bulgarian Library Exchange.
Stephanie Reynolds Joins School Faculty in Children’s Services Position
August 15, 2007--- Stephanie Reynolds joined the School’s faculty this fall in the children’s services position, filling the opening created when Sharon McQueen returned to the University of Wisconsin Madison to work exclusively on completing her doctoral dissertation.
Until moving to Kentucky this past summer, Stephanie had spent nearly all of her life in Texas. She earned a BA in English at Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, and an MS in Library Science at the University of North Texas, Denton, where she also received a Graduate Academic Certificate in Youth Services in Library and Information Settings. She completed the PhD at the University of North Texas in Interdisciplinary Information Science. Her dissertation has the title, Reading Selection as Information Seeking Behavior: A Case Study with Adolescent Girls.
Diane Owens Receives SLA Award
May 15, 2007 --SLIS student Diane Owens was recently notified that she was awarded a stipend award from SLA Business and Finance Division to attend the 2007 SLA Conference in Denver, CO June 3-6. Congratulations Diane!