SPECIAL COLLECTIONS AND DIGITAL PROGRAMS
QUARTERLY HIGHLIGHTS, JULY - SEPTEMBER, 2009
ARCHIVES
· New accessions = 52
· Collections processed = 15
· New acquisitions include the Odyssey photographs
· The blog http://www.ukyarchives.blogspot.com/ received 1,044 visits from 45 states and 36 different countries during this quarter
· Explore UK http://exploreuk.uky.edu received 3,122 visits from 47 states and 20 different countries during this quarter
· The Big Blue Sports Archives Tip-Off Gala was a huge success and reference on athletics material has skyrocketed.
· All electronic accession records have been transferred to Archivists’ Toolkit putting all archival accessions into one database for the first time.
· All African American photograph collections have been processed.
LOUIE B. NUNN CENTER FOR ORAL HISTORY
· Completed Adolph Rupp Project—Uploaded to the KDL
· Completed Stanley Reed Oral History Project—Uploaded to KDL
· Completed AT Migration of Oral Histories at the Collection and Series Level
· Continued on development of online oral history database.
· Final phase of Kentucky Legislature Project
· Completed Jim Hardymon interviewing
· Athletics Archive initiative
PRESERVATION AND DIGITAL PROGRAMS
· Conservation of the Kentucke Gazette (approximately 20 of the 40 volumes) are complete
· Completed conservation treatment of 31 volumes from Special Collections and Digital Programs
· The DRF online archive website was created with over 72,000 pages live on the DRF database
· A final version of the proposal to acquire Digital Commons from Berkeley Electronic Press was completed and will be shared with stakeholders on campus.
· Total Digitized Items: 6,882
o Coleman Bibliography of Kentucky History Rare Books: 3,158
o Lexington Herald-Leader Collection: 1,648
o National Digital Newspaper Program: 1,471
o Lafayette Studios: 605
· Web Statistics for KDL
o Site visitors: 154,409 (22,282 April-June), pages accessed: 2,378,107
· Roughly 101,784 images digitized for NDNP Phase 2. 28,664 are at iArchives being processedTotal page images at iArchives in process: 41,124.
· The Kyleidoscope project was featured at Kentucky Library Association and Kentucky Council on Social Studies conferences
· Hosted (funded by NEH) the meta|morphosis: film to digital institute for 16 participants including representatives from NEH and the Library of Congress.
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LIBRARY
· In September four exemplary Books of Hours from our collection were selected to be featured on loan to the Speed Museum in an exhibition entitled A Book of Prayers: The Medieval Bestseller, which will run from October 11, 2009 to February 14, 2010
· New procedures for receiving and tracking reference queries by email continue to improve our turnaround time in providing patrons’ answers.
· “Tombstone Tales and Historic Preservation” exhibit moved from the Great Hall in September to appear in an expanded form at the Lexington Public Library’s Central Gallery Sept 18 – Nov. 1, 2009.
· In anticipation of the World Equestrian Games coming to Lexington, the King Library Press is investigating re-printing its earlier successful release of what is believed to be the first horse-training manual—the ancient Babylonian Kikkuli text.
· Research activity this quarter in the Breckinridge Room, particularly during the months of July and August was much heavier that usual. Our finding aids available through the Kentuckiana Digital Library (KDL) are key to access and the electronic interface with KUSI continues to contribute to our increasingly efficient and timely research support.
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