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UK Libraries has assembled a new curated collection that highlights the work and research of the university’s many industrious scribblers and keen-eyed editors.
The University of Kentucky Authors Collection makes available in one place all the monographs whose authors or editors are affiliated with UK: a whopping 893 titles published since 2006, including 272 e-books and 621 print titles.
“Institutional affiliation can be difficult to ascertain for monographs,” said Mitchell Scott, Coordinator of Collections Strategies Librarian. “In journal publishing, institutional affiliation is prominent in the metadata, but for monographs the data often has to be tagged by hand.”
To uncover all the Wildcat-forged titles in their collections, UK Libraries worked closely with data compiled by bibliographers at GOBI Library Solutions.
“Affiliation data can often be spotty, so while it’s not comprehensive, this collection represents our very best effort to identify owned and accessible UK-affiliated works from the past 20 years,” said Scott.
UK Libraries hopes to eventually find a physical space in a high-traffic area of William T. Young Library to house the print titles and make the collection more visible to users and visitors.
“Historically, we’ve relied on authors to reach out to us and let us know that work of theirs is being published, but that’s a really hit-or-miss collection development philosophy. More recently, we’ve been able to use this affiliation information to buy at a more comprehensive level,” said Scott.
“We’re always glad when we can add works that our authors are creating to our collections. Just like our theses and dissertation collections, we believe it’s important for the Libraries to be a home for the work and research produced by members of the UK community. The UK Authors Collection is a way to show our faculty authors and editors that we see them, we support them, and we’re excited to showcase the work they’re producing.”
A History of American Higher Education, by John Thelin
A History of American Higher Education has long been regarded as the gold standard account of how colleges and universities shaped, and were shaped by, American society. UK Libraries owns two editions of the book, and will soon purchase the latest edition.
Music Theory Remixed: A Blended Approach for the Practicing Musician, by Kevin Holm-Hudson
Designed for today's undergraduate music students, Music Theory Remixed presents tonal music theory through a dual lens of works from the Western canon and examples from popular music, including rock, jazz, techno, film soundtracks, and world music.
The Changing World Religion Map: Sacred Places, Identities, Practices and Politics, by Stan Brunn
An extensive work that explores the changing world of religions, faiths, and practices, The Changing World Religion Map discusses a broad range of related issues and phenomena – including nature, ethics, and identity – and the interrelation between religion and other fields.
You Are All Free: The Haitian Revolution and the Abolition of Slavery, by Jeremy Popkin
Based on extensive archival research, You Are All Free provides the first complete account of the dramatic events that led to the abolition of slavery in the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue in 1793 and in revolutionary France in 1794.
Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers: Poems, by Frank X. Walker
With their deep links to African American poetic traditions of social commentary and historical excavation, the poems in Turn Me Loose probe the psychological roots of white supremacy while speaking around the void left by the assassination of Medgar Evers in 1963.
American Enchantment: Rituals of the People in the Post-Revolutionary World, by Michelle Sizemore
By evaluating a wide range of social and political rituals and literary and cultural discourses, American Enchantment argues that early Americans dealt with the post-monarchical crisis by engaging in "civil mysticism," not systematic discussion and debate.
