Libraries

NEWS

Congratulations to Margaret Mellinger, head of Emerging Technologies.  She and her co-PI, Franny Gaede of the University of Oregon Libraries, were notified this week that they are the successful recipients of a $203,508 IMLS National Leadership Grant. This grant will support the development of a suite of analytics and reporting tools for Hyrax.  Hyrax is the open source, Samvera-powered repository front end for Oregon Digital, our well-established collaborative project to co-develop and maintain a digital asset management system.  No task happens in a vacumn, and Margaret and Franny have been helped by the entirety of the Oregon Digital team: Steve Van Tuyl, Josh Gum, Ryan Wick, Kenna Warsinske, Ray Henry, Linda Sato, and Jeremy Echols.

Uta organized a panel on Carbon offsets at ALA, and now the ALA Executive Board is talking about including carbon offsets purchases as being added to ALA registration.

TAKE NOTE

Conference Services has some new training for Zoom next Wednesday, July 10^th from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m..  This is a live session presented via Zoom where you can learn the basics of this new web conferencing system as well as tips and trucks to make your video and web conference meetings a hit.  No registration required, just click on the link to join the meeting when it happens. 

Are you artistically inclined?  The Giustina Gallery at the LaSells Stewart Center is hosting a Community Art Exhibit that will run from July 17 to August 22^nd.  The submission deadline is July 15^th, with a limit of one piece per artist.

PERSONNEL NEWS

Acquisitions/Monograph LT3 – The committee is waiting for the position to be posted.

Serials LT3 – The position has been posted and closes in the middle of July.

Resource Sharing LT2 – This position is still on hold.

The ETS Unit Manager – Beth Shields was hired to fill this position and will begin on July 29^th.

Cataloguing Gov Docs – There’s a dual hiring opportunity that the library is trying to take advantage of to fill this position.

LT3 Metadata Technician – The committee is performing phone interviews for this position.

Public Services Unit Supervisor – This position has been posted, and full consideration ends at the end of the month.

Online Learning Librarian – There’s an offer out for this position, but hasn’t been finalized yet.

LEAD Evening Supervisor – Sagan Wallace will start on July 22^nd with a summer work schedule of 12:30 to 9:30 p.m..

Operating Systems/ Network Administrator I – The offer is with HR right now.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“When the atmosphere encourages learning, the learning is inevitable.”

― Elizabeth Foss