While the horses are galloping around the track at Keeneland, take a dive into the story of one of the first – and one of the most successful – Black horse trainers in the modern era.
UK Libraries is excited to partner with the University Press of Kentucky (KY Press) to highlight scholarship from Kentucky and the Appalachian region and ensure that it is widely discoverable and freely accessible worldwide. UK Libraries will sponsor the publication of two books per year from the KY Press that will become open access titles.
Last month, UK Libraries welcomed campus faculty to its Breakfast on the Balcony event at William T. Young Library. The annual event provides an opportunity for new and returning faculty to meet their librarians and archivists and learn about the resources, services, and expertise that UK Libraries offers to support teaching and research across the university.
185 digitized issues of La Voz de Kentucky are now freely available through the Kentucky Digital Newspaper Program and the Internet Archive. The digital preservation project drew on unique partnerships and the efforts of experts, specialists, and technicians from across UK Libraries.
All faculty, staff, and students are invited to join us in the Medical Center Library for coffee, donuts, and fun games on Tuesday, October 15 from 12pm to 2pm. Our team of medical librarians will be on hand to lead tours, showcase the many ways we can support your teaching, learning, and research, and demonstrate two of our newest resources, BioDigital Human and JoVE.
On Wednesday, October 9, UK Libraries will welcome art historian and curator Josh Porter, Assistant Executive Director for the Faulkner Morgan Archive (FMA). Porter will highlight the FMA’s diligent work preserving the documents, artifacts, and oral histories that tell the story of Kentucky’s LGBTQ* community. The event will also showcase the many resources and collections at UK Libraries that support research in the field of gender and sexuality studies.
On Wednesday, October 9, Judge Wilkins will share how an entry in UK Libraries’ Notable Kentucky African Americans database led him to find his family's stories in court records at the Kentucky Department of Libraries and Archives.
From Monday, Oct. 7 to Friday, Oct. 11, join us every day in The Stacks: Digital Scholarship Center for an illuminating slate of guest speakers, seminars, and a human vs AI showdown.
UK Libraries is one of several institutions joining the Association of Research Libraries' Realities of Academic Data Sharing (RADS) Initiative. Research Data Librarian Isaac Wink will serve as the research lead for the UK team in the project, which addresses the complexities and costs associated with managing and sharing data from funded research.
Beware the pit! Flawed research becomes particularly pernicious during spooky season. Luckily for UK researchers, the Medical Center Library has a whole host of skills and tools to keep researchers protected – and they’re all available on Zoom.
