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.
When the winter winds howl and polar vortices loom with all their icy mayhem, there’s nothing quite like a quilt to bring a bit of brightness to the gloom. We hope you can find warm solace in UK Libraries’ many quilting resources, from our charming physical collection to our voluminous series of oral histories, with some delightful scraps in between.
To celebrate Dr. Birdwhistell’s life work and build upon his remarkable contributions to the University of Kentucky and beyond, UK Libraries has established the Dr. Terry L. Birdwhistell Endowment and aims to raise an additional $500,000 by the time he is officially inducted in September 2025.
Lexington will turn 250 years old in 2025, and Saving Stories will celebrate the milestone by featuring a number of familiar voices from our community. The first episode in our retrospective draws on a 1996 interview with Isabel Yates, the first woman to serve as Lexington's Vice Mayor.
Paul A. Willis, former Libraries director who helped create the Information Alliance consortium, planned the construction of the William T. Young Library, and expanded library collections and services, passes away at 83.
UK Libraries is thrilled to announce the opening of the American Archive of Marina and Anastasia Tsvetaeva, one of the largest collections on the authors in the world outside of Russia and the most comprehensive in North America. The opening was celebrated with a public lecture by Tsvetaeva scholar Dr. Molly Blasing on Dec. 3.
