The latest episode of Saving Stories shines a light on a 1985 Nunn Center interview with educator and activist Audrey Grevious, in which she describes her involvement in demonstrations and lunch counter sit-ins in downtown Lexington in the early 1960s.
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The University of Kentucky’s open access institutional repository, UKnowledge, makes scholarship, research data, and creative work from the UK community freely available to a global audience. Join in the fun with free birthday cake, ice cream, and coffee during the UKnowledge Birthday Celebration in The Stacks on Friday, February 14 from 2pm to 3:30pm.
Positioned at the doorway to the exponentially expanding universe of information, UK Libraries can help you discover the data you need – and make sense of what it means. Join us for more data fun, including workshops, a movie screening, and crafts during Love Data Week, Feb. 10-14.
The grant program supports the adoption and creation of open educational resources (OER) for use in UK courses. OER are class materials – including textbooks, assignments, podcasts, slides, videos, and more – that are free for anyone to use, share, or revise.
Saving Stories remembers former Keeneland president and trustee Ted Bassett who passed away last week at the age of 103. In the summer of 2019, the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History partnered with Keeneland to conduct an oral history series called Life's Work. This episode highlights Bassett's interview for that project.
Cataloging & Metadata Librarian Adrian Williams, together with the other convening members of the Trans Metadata Collective (TMDC), has been honored with the Visual Resources Association's 2024 Nancy DeLaurier Award in recognition of their role in the research and development of the "Metadata Best Practices for Trans and Gender Diverse Resources."
The Medical Center Library will begin its Spring 2025 Research Workshop Series on Jan. 22. Held on Zoom, the virtual seminars help students, faculty, and staff improve and expand their research skills and make more efficient use of library resources. The Spring 2025 series will cover topics that range from search biases, gray literature, and bibliometrics to animal and drug research.
Feeling feeble with your single human-sized brain? Want to tap into computational powers hitherto unknown to scribbling mankind? You’re in luck: UK Libraries is introducing a new AI-powered “research assistant” into the search experience.
A new open educational resource (OER) has been published through UK Libraries' OER Grant Program! The Handbook for the Recently Admitted, written by Priscila Llamosa, is a practical guide for students in the Doctor of Social Work program. Like all OER, this book is freely available to all readers and can be adapted to suit other programs.
