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January 1996
May 1996
- Governor Paul Patton appoints the Commission on Higher Education Institutional
Efficiency and Cooperation to " A. Improve efficiency of program delivery;
Improve efficiency of institutional administration; C. Apply technology
in accomplishing Goals A & B; D. Develop evaluation system and financial
incentives to enhance accomplishments of Goals A, B, and C and evaluate
progress."
June 1996
- Governor Paul Patton appoints the Task Force on Postsecondary Education
"to assure that Kentucky's postsecondary education and technical education
system is positioned to provide the human capital needed to allow the Commonwealth
to be a leader in the global economy of the twenty-first century."
- SAALCK directors meet with Jim Ramsey, Budget Director, and Jody Richards,
House Majority Speaker, in Bowling Green, on the need for a statewide digital
library to leverage resources and expand access to information in the Commonwealth.
July 1996
- "A Vision of a Digital Library Network for the State-Assisted Academic
Libraries of Kentucky" is developed by SAALCK directors during a retreat
in Shakertown.
August 1996
- SAALCK directors meet with Dr. Kern Alexander, Chair, the Commission's
Committee on New Technology, in Murray, on the need of a virtual library
to support a virtual university.
October 1996
- The Commission submits the final report to the Task Force. The report
contains a recommendation to establish the Commonwealth Virtual University.
"Establish a Statewide Electronic Library" is included as one of the recommendations.
March 1997
- The Task Force on Postsecondary Education releases the report on a postsecondary
blueprint for the 21st century and proposes legislation.
May 1997
- Kentucky General Assembly approves and Governor Paul Patton signs into
legislation the Kentucky Postsecondary Education Improvement Act of 1997,
which mandates the creation of the Commonwealth Virtual University (CVU)
by the Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE).
October 1997
- " A Conceptual Framework for the Commonwealth Virtual University " is
proposed by the Kentucky institutions of higher education for the CPE. The
SAALCK Digital Library Project is officially appended to the report as one
of the key components of the CVU.
- CPE Chair Leonard Hardin names Distance Learning Advisory Committee (DLAC)
to advise the CPE on CVU development. Jim Nelson, Commissioner and State
Librarian, is appointed to the DLAC.
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March 1998
- DLAC Chair Lee Todd appoints the CVU Work Group on CVL which serves as
the CVL Steering Committee. Jim Nelson is appointed to be the Chair. The
Steering Committee is composed of representatives from all types of libraries.
6 subcommittees are formed.
- Miko Pattie is appointed to be the CVL Coordinator.
April 1998
- William Gray Potter, Director of University of Georgia Libraries and a
key person in the development of GALILEO, the Georgia statewide virtual
library, is contracted to be the consultant to advise the Steering Committee
on the CVL implementation.
June 1998
- Dr. Potter presents his final report and recommendations to the DLAC.
The Committee approves the report and forwards it to the CVL Steering Committee
for implementation of the 14-point work plan recommended by Dr. Potter.
July 1998
- Mission and goals for the CVL are established by the Steering Committee.
August 1998
- NCLIVE, the North Carolina virtual library, makes a presentation to the
CVL Steering Committee and subcommittees.
September 1998
- 7 electronic database vendors are invited to make presentations to the
CVL on how they can cost-effectively offer us databases we desire for statewide
access.
October 1998
- DLAC Approves the 1998-99 CVU/CVL budget. The CVL budget includes one
common library management system.
- The CVL Collections Subcommittee begins working on a Request for Proposal
(RFP) upon the advice of the Purchasing Division.
- The CVL Steering Committee approves the draft RFP for the ground courier
service submitted by the CVL Document Delivery Subcommittee.
November 1998
- The CPE approves the 1998-99 CVU/CVL budget.
- Gordon K. Davies, the CPE President, speaks to the Steering Committee
on his commitment for CVL and pledges to take anecdotes and hard data to
the legislators for increased funding.
December 1998
- Gordon K. Davies invites William Hansen, President of the Kentucky Library
Network (KLN) Board of Directors, to join the CVL Steering Committee. This
is to plan to integrate KLN services into the CVL.
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January 1999
- Ling-yuh W. (Miko) Pattie is selected to be the CVL Director.
- The CVL Information Literacy Subcommittee members begin the Collegis training,
along with the 9 CVU pilot projects, to design the interactive Web-based
tutorial to help CVU students on doing database search and research.
February 1999
- The UofL's Endeavor/Voyager contract is used by other 8 institutions to
begin the implementation of a common library management system.
- The specifications and distribution for CVU/CVL workstations are approved
by the CVL Steering Committee and the CVU Technology Work Group.
- The Request for Proposal for electronic databases and the Invitation to
Bid for ground courier service are finalized by the Collections and Document
Delivery subcommittees.
March 1999
- The position of KCVL Assistant Director is posted.
- The UK and UofL hub sites for the Endeavor/Voyager system start requisition
of servers. The process to define the Service Level Agreement among the
CPE, DIS, hub sites, and client libraries begins.
- UK is contracted to manage the Kentuckiana Digital Library Project.
- The KCVU Technology Work Group approves the specifications for library
workstations that are to be used for KCVU/KCVL access and Ariel Internet
faxing system.
April 1999
- The KCVL domain name is established as "kcvl.org".
- The KCVL logo is designed based on the recommendations from the KCVL Marketing
Subcommittee.
- The KCTCS Office of Information Technology processes the Ariel systems
purchase order on behalf of the CPE for all KCTCS libraries, LCC, KDLA,
and 6 public libraries.
- The Finance Administration issues the Invitation to Bid for the ground
courier service.
- The Finance Administration issues the Request for Proposal for the electronic
databases.
- Endeavor/Voyager implementation/training begins for 8 public institutions.
- The Request for Proposal for consultants for the Kentuckiana Digital Library
is issued.
May 1999
- Evaluation of vendor responses for the electronic databases begins by
the Evaluation Team, KCVL Collections Subcommittee, working with the Division
of Purchases.
- The bids for the ground courier service are rejected by the Finance Administration.
- The plan for the Kentuckiana Digital Library is drafted.
- The KCVU and KCVL Virtual Groundbreaking in Louisville shows the kcvl.org
website. Five public, academic and school libraries participate all over
the state.
- The OCLC WebZ software is configured to provide a "common look and feel"
for trial databases and library catalogs.
June 1999
- The Executive Secretary for KCVL and one Virtual Reference Librarian join
the staff.
- Evaluation of electronic databases continues.
- Enhancement for the online tutorial for information literacy program continues.
July 1999
- KCVL Orientation Sessions are conducted for 200 librarians all over the
state to familiarize them with KCVL services.
- The Kentucky Dept. of Education (KDE) and the Association of Independent
Kentucky Colleges and Universities (AIKCU) join in the database evaluation
process. Both groups of libraries decide to be full KCVL participants by
contributing significant funds to databases.
- The evaluation of electronic databases is completed.
- The 2nd Virtual Reference Librarian joins the staff.
- The proposal for consultants for the Kentuckiana Digital Library is rejected
by the CPE.
August 1999
- Negotiations for electronic databases begin.
- The Invitation to Bid for the ground courier service is reissued.
- The KCVL Assistant Director joins the staff.
- The kcvl.org website undergoes redesign. Staff begins weekly meetings
to select and organize web resources for the website in preparation for
the KCVL Rollout.
- Three Requests for Proposal for consultants for the Kentuckiana Digital
Library are issued.
September 1999
- Five libraries become production sites for the Endeavor/Voyager system:
EKU, KCTCS, KSU, Morehead, and WKU. Phases 1 and 2 of the Endeavor project
are completed.
- A statewide database contract is signed with EBSCO for 15 databases: Academic
Search Elite, Books in Print with Reviews, Business Source Premier, CINAHL,
Health Source Plus, MAS FullTEXT Ultra, MasterFILE Premier, Medline with
fullTEXT, Middle Search Plus Online, Newspaper Source, NoveList, Primary
Search Online, PsycINFO, Professional Development Collection, and Vocational
Search.
- KCVL staff initiates planning for KCVL training with representatives of
K-12, KCTCS, KDLA, and the Information Literacy Subcommittee.
- David Seaman, Director, Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia,
begins his consulting work with the KCVL on scanning and imaging standards,
best practices, and outsourcing.
- Presentations on KCVL services are given to:
- Kentucky School Media Association, Covington, KY
- Theological Education Association of Mid-America, Asbury, KY
October 1999
- A letter of intent is sent to OCLC for licensing 16 databases: WorldCat,
ArticleFirst, ContentsFirst, Electronic Collections Online, NetFirst, Union
List of Periodicals, PapersFirst, ProceedingsFirst, ERIC, GPO, MEDLINE,
World Almanac, World Book, Applied Science and Technology Abstracts, Biological
and Agricultural Index, and PAIS.
- Training for the Ariel system is conducted for KCTCS and public libraries.
A total of 58 sites throughout the state are equipped and trained to share
collections via the Internet and 53 people attended these trainings.
- CPE, KCVL, and Finance Administration invite 5 vendors for ground courier
service for a meeting to discuss our requirements and their services in
preparation for an Invitation to Bid.
- Stephen Miller, Duke University, consults with KCVL on the use of Encoded
Archival Description for finding aids.
- Presentations on KCVL services are given to:
- Kentucky Library Association, Louisville, KY
- Association of Independent Kentucky Colleges and Universities, Georgetown,
KY
- Health Occupations Students of America, Louisville, KY
- Jefferson Community College, Louisville, KY
November 1999
- The KCVL is officially launched on November 1. A press conference is held
at 9:00 at CPE with TV and newspaper media present along with public librarians.
A launch party is held at the Kentucky History Center, presided by Lee Todd,
Chair of the Governor-appointed Distance Learning Advisory Committee, and
attended by more than 150 people. Take
a look at pictures from the launch taken by Haiwang.
- Six 2-day KCVL training sessions are conducted by the staff: Prestonsburg,
Bowling Green, Paducah, Somerset, and Lexington (2).
- Roy Tennant, Digital Library Project Manager, University of California,
Berkeley, consults with KCVL on design principles for the Kentuckiana Digital
Library database.
- Usage Statistics:
- Gateway Server hits: 201,369 for 29,277 web pages
- SiteSearch/WebZ Server hits: 401,058 for 13,325 pages
- Help Desk (including phone/email references and referrals): 204
December 1999
- KCVL staff and Technology Subcommittee meet with Endeavor staff on improvements
in communication and coordination for the hubs system in preparation for
the phase 3 implementation. Plans to add private institutions into the system
are being developed.
- KCVL staff, Document Delivery Subcommittee, and coordinators for K-12,
KCTCS, KDLA, and private institutions meet with OCLC staff in exploring
the KCVL vision for resource sharing among KCVL participants using SiteSearch.
- Presentations on KCVL services are given to:
- Kentucky SOLINET Users Group Meeting, Berea, KY
- Kentucky Education Television Staff Meeting, Lexington, KY
- Lexington Public Library Staff Meeting, Lexington, KY
- Usage Statistics:
- Gateway Server hits: 154,789 for 24,729 web pages
- SiteSearch/WebZ Server hits: 179,970 for 5,191 pages
- Help Desk (including phone/email references and referrals): 124
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January 2000
- The National Library of Australia staff came to visit KCVL. We share common
goals and issues in delivering information to citizens using the OCLC SiteSearch
platform.
- Training: Five 2-day KCVL basic training sessions are conducted by the
SOLINET and KCVL staff: Owensboro, Columbia, Hazard, Louisville, and Highland
Heights. A total of 69 librarians are trained.
- Presentations on KCVL services are given to:
- American Library Association Mid-Winter Conference, San Antonio, Texas
- Elizabethtown Technical College Faculty Orientation, Elizabethtown,
KY
- Usage Statistics:
- Gateway Server hits: 257,963
- SiteSearch/WebZ Server hits: 365,962
- Help Desk (including phone/email references and referrals): 144
February 2000
- Susan Brown participates in the Southeastern Institute on Collaborative
Library Leadership sponsored by SOLINET. 30 participants from 10 states
in the Southeast are selected for the week long institute that aims "to
develop and enhance leadership among staff of statewide and multi-type library
consortia." Miko gives a table talk for the Institute.
- Miko and Mary Beth Susman appear in the Jack Pattie radio show at WVLK
in Lexington to talk about KCVL and KCVU. This is one of the KCVU marketing
efforts.
- The Steering Committee initiates committee restructuring in order to achieve
more equitable representation of all KCVL user communities.
- The staff conduct 2 brown-bag KCVL orientation sessions for the CPE staff
members.
- Training:
- One 2-day basic training session is conducted by the KCVL staff in
Lexington. A total of 22 librarians are trained.
- Five 1-day advanced training sessions are conducted by the SOLINET
staff: Highland Heights, Paducah, Louisville, Hazard, and Lexington.
A total of 69 librarians are trained.
- Usage Statistics:
- Gateway Server hits: 386,193
- SiteSearch/WebZ Server hits: 487,888
- Help Desk (including phone/email references and referrals): 138
March 2000
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| The KCVL Office distributes 2,350 copies of the monograph
titled "Gateway: Dr. Thomas Walker and the Opening of Kentucky" to
KCVL participants, including all public libraries and branches, school
libraries, university and college libraries, and special libraries.
This book is authored by David Burns and published by the Bell County
Historical Society in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the
opening of Kentucky by Dr. Thomas Walker. |
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- Miko is invited by the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education to be a
member of the Visiting Team to review the Harcourt Higher Education's petition
to offer 5 web-based degree programs in Massachusetts.
- KCVU, KCVL, and KVHS share a booth at the Kentucky Teaching & Learning
Conference in Louisville. This is part of the marketing plan to present
these 3 entities for a seamless virtual education in Kentucky.
- The KCVL staff visit the Anchorage Independent School and the Elkhorn
Middle School to see how they use KCVL services and what the staff can do
to enhance them.
- Training:
- A one-day session on OCLC SiteSearch software is held to help KCVL
participants understand what the capabilities and limitations of the
platform we use for the "Catalogs and Databases" service.
- A half-day session on EBSCO administrative module is held to help
KCVL participants customize their native interfaces for accessing EBSCO
databases.
- The KCVL staff conducts a one-day training session for 9 library staff
members from Rowan, Bath, Robertson, and Menifee county public libraries
in Morehead.
- Usage Statistics:
- Gateway Server hits: 458,396
- SiteSearch/WebZ Server hits: 422,505
- Help Desk (including phone/email references and referrals): 111
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April 2000
- KCVU organize a two-day summit where leaders of virtual education systems
from across the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Mexico assemble
for the first time. The group signs a Memorandum of Agreement to form a
strategic alliance for collaboration in e-learning.
- KCVL conducts a focus group with Creative Alliance, a marketing firm under
contract with KCVU for a proposal on names and logos for KCVU and KCVL.
All types of libraries are represented. They offer the firm their vision
for KCVL. Their perspectives will be integrated into this process.
- KCVL meets with KDE and school districts on how best to enhance the delivery
of information resources to K-12 community. As KCVL is currently being used
as the major gateway by teachers and students, we decide to collaborate
in building a portal for teachers and a portal for kids (K-5). Two work
groups are being established to implement these 2 projects.
- Presentations on KCVL services are given to:
- Kentucky Library Association Public Library Section's Spring Meeting,
Lexington, KY
- Usage Statistics:
- Gateway Server hits: 400,901
- SiteSearch/WebZ Server hits: 344,944
- Help Desk (including phone/email references and referrals): 116
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May 2000
- Mary Beth and Miko went to Bradfordsville to meet with the town council
on setting up a community center site for virtual learning.
- Susan and Jackie attend the week-long OCLC SiteSearch training sessions
in Dublin, Ohio. They will help with the Gateway interface redesign and
the phase 2 ILL project.
- CPE sponsors the Kentucky Conference on the Scholarship of Teaching and
Learning for faculty and administrators in postsecondary institutions. Hannelore
Rader and Haiwang Yuan have presentations. Miko moderates sessions on intellectual
properties.
- Presentations on KCVL services are given to:
- Kentucky Conference on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Cincinnati,
Ohio
- Lexington Public Library Board of Directors, Lexington, KY
- OCLC SiteSearch Users Group Meeting, Dublin, OH
- Kentucky Health Science Librarians Consortium, Midway, KY
- After 4 bidding processes, we finally select Lanter Delivery Systems for
our ground courier service. We plan to start the service among 186 libraries
in July.
- Usage Statistics:
- Gateway Server hits: 338,794
- SiteSearch/WebZ Server hits: 218,955
- Help Desk (including phone/email references and referrals): 116
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June 2000
- Presentations on KCVL services are given to:
- Kentucky SOLINET Users Group Meeting, Frankfort, KY
- In partnership with KDE, KCVL staff starts planning for the portals for
teachers and for kids.
- The Information Literacy Subcommittee selects Paula Doherty, Vice-President
of Instructional Resources & Telelearning, Peninsula College, WA., as a
consultant to evaluate and make recommendations to enhance our tutorial.
- Usage Statistics:
- Gateway Server hits: 293,996
- SiteSearch/WebZ Server hits: 228,902
- Help Desk (including phone/email references and referrals): 74
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July 2000
- The Information Literacy Work Group meets with the consultant, Paula Doherty,
to initiate the tutorial evaluation process.
- Presentations on KCVL services are given to:
- OCLC SiteSearch Session, American Library Association Annual Conference,
Chicago
- Kentucky Library Trustees Association Meeting, Nicholasville
- Instructional Technology Leadership University, KDE, Louisville
- Training:
- 2 sessions for Library Media Specialists Refresher, Louisville --
110 in total
- Rowan Technical College, Morehead -- 3 in total
- Usage Statistics:
- Gateway Server hits: 304,280
- SiteSearch/WebZ Server hits: 161,009
- Help Desk (including phone/email references and referrals): 64
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August 2000
- New names, logos, and URLs for Kentucky Virtual University (KYVU) and
Kentucky Virtual Library (KYVL) are officially announced on Monday, August
14.
- Along with the new URL (www.kyvl.org), a new top page and a new page for
"Catalogs and Databases" using the WebZ interface are also released. The
WebZ Work Group designs a more user-friendly subject-grouping interface
for databases.
- KYVL's office moves to Suite 210 of the same building to make room for
the expansion of KYVU staff.
- The statewide ground courier service is finally inaugurated on Thursday,
August 3 after 4 bid processes and months of planning by the Resource Sharing
Work Group. There are 183 libraries participating, including all the public
institutions, public libraries, and 15 private institutions.
- Presentations on KCVL services are given to:
- KCTCS Faculty Training, Elizabethtown
- Association of Independent Kentucky Colleges and Universities Meeting,
Frankfort
- Jefferson County Library Media Specialists Meeting, Louisville
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September 2000
- OCLC visits the KYVL office and 3 KYVL libraries for a feature in their
annual report. These 3 libraries
are: Jefferson Community College, Paul Dunbar High School, and Mercer County
Public Library.
- Presentations on KCVL services are given to:
- KCTCS library directors meeting, Lexington
- Center for Rural Development ITV conference, Frankfort
- Kentucky Geological Survey, Lexington
- Rowan County Genealogical Society
- Lexington Ideafest, Lexington
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October 2000
- KYVL has an early 1st birthday celebration October 2 at the Virtual Library
Advisory Committee meeting. Gordon, Mary Beth, VLAC members, and CPE staff
help us mark this occasion.
- KYVL's staff, along with our new neighbor, the Governor's Scholars Program,
have an open house for the CPE staff to mark our official move to the new
office.
- The Kentucky Voyager Users Group (KVUG) is officially established for
all Voyager users in the state. The group meets in UofL to elect officers.
Endeavor's Jane Burke and Linda Voyles join us for the inaugural meeting.
- Presentations on KYVL services are given to:
- Texas Library Association's Conference (TCSUL, TICUL, TCCJCL), Austin,
TX
- EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, Nashville, TN
- Kentucky Library Association Annual Conference, Louisville, KY (3
sessions)
- Department for Adult Education and Literacy Staff Meeting, Frankfort,
KY
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November 2000
- A new section on "Public Relations" is released on the KYVL Web site.
This is to collaborate with libraries on marketing KYVL services.
- Presentations on KYVL services are given to:
- Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications 12th Annual
Conference, Albuquerque, NM
- English as a Second Language Conference, Lexington, KY
- Eastern Kentucky Media Specialists District Meeting, Pikeville, KY
- Daviess County High School, Owensboro, KY
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December 2000
- KYVL initiates the work on building a resource database for adult education
instructors and students with the Department of Adult Education and Literacy.
- CPE and KYVL sponsor the teleconference on the Uniform Computer Information
Transactions Act (UCITA) to be delivered to Kentucky State University. It
has to be cancelled due to weather. We intend to continue with the effort
to better inform libraries and postsecondary institutions about this critical
issue.
- KYVL meets with the representatives from private K-12 community in Jefferson
and Fayette counties on their participation in KYVL.
- A new section on "Facts and Stats" is released on the KYVL Web site. This
is to inform libraries and others about KYVL and its usage.
- KYVL meets with the Governor's Scholars Program on providing KYVL training
for their teachers and students.
- Presentations on KYVL services are given to:
- KYVU Coordinators Meeting, Frankfort, KY
- Kentucky SOLINET Users Group Fall Meeting, Elizabethtown, KY
- Laurel Tech College, London, KY
January 2001
- Annual report for Nov. 1999 - Oct. 2000 is completed. It contains information
on background, benefits, funding, and usage reports for all KYVL services.
A copy of this annual report along with books by Kentucky author, James
D. Ausenbaugh, notepads, bookmarks, fact sheets are sent to each participating
library.
- KYVU/KYVL signed a contract with the University of Kentucky for Beth Kraemer
to work on the adult education resource database using OCLC SiteSearch platform.
- Presentations on KYVL services are given to:
- Adult Education Work Group, Richmond, KY
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February 2001
- KYVL undergoes staff change. Teri Weil leaves to pursue other opportunities.
Tammie Clements accepts a position with the CPE Vice president for Finance.
We also search for a programmer who can assist KYVU and KYVL in meeting
programming needs.
- Miko is invited to be a guest speaker for the grand opening of the Paducah
Community College Library.
- Presentations on KYVL services are given to:
- K-12 Media Specialists, Owensboro, KY
- K-12 Media Specialists, Princeton, KY
March 2001
- The work on the kids information skills tutorial begins. This is to be
a feature in the kids portal to be released late summer.
- Linda McCoy takes over Tammie's position.
- The staff from the Office of Geographic Information in Governor's Office
of Technology meet with us on statewide license of ESRI software and the
Z39.50-compliant database they are building. We will include their database
in our offering as soon as it is built.
- Presentations on KYVL services are given to:
- Special Libraries Association, Kentucky Chapter, Lexington, KY
April 2001
- The database RFP is finally released. The aim is to qualify vendors and
renegotiate for a set of databases for statewide use.
- The Adult Education Resource Database Work Group establishes Subject Matter
Experts (SMEs) group and workflow to start building the content of the database.
Beth works with the National Institute for Literacy's LINCS database to
explore the possibility of exporting their records to the AE resource database.
Miko is involved in the evaluation of AE curriculum products to be delivered
online via KYVU.
- We allocate the last batch of bond fund to UK and UofL to upgrade the
Gateway server, the Kentuckiana Digital Library's server and Digital Lab,
and the Endeavor/Voyager servers.
- We present a proposal for a statewide database for electronic theses and
dissertations to the Chief Academic Officers. We hope to build distributed
databases housed in institutions and have a central database for metadata
records for search and retrieval.
- Presentations on KYVL services are given to:
- American Association of Community Colleges Conference, Chicago, IL
- University of Kentucky College of Library and Information Science
class for school libraries, Lexington, KY
- Tennessee Library Association Conference, Nashville, TN
- Adult Education Strategic Planning Group, Frankfort, KY
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May 2001
- KYVL is selected as the 2001 Outstanding Library Program of the Southeast
for the Multitype Library Cooperation Award by the Southeastern Library
Network. Miko is elected as a member of the SOLINET Board of Directors.
- The Kentucky Stats, a one-stop shopping portal for Kentucky statistics
designed by the KYVL Government Information Access Work Group, is officially
released in Boone County Public Library. A press release is sent out that
garners good coverage in news media.
- The Endeavor Consortium upgrades to 2000.1.3. with a beta version of the
new client and plenty of bugs. Members will meet with Endeavor staff to
review this upgrade process and hope for better upgrade performance in the
future.
- Peter Hirtle from Cornell University's Cornell Institute for Digital Collections
comes to consult with the Kentuckiana Digital Library Work Group on copyright
issues. An open session is offered to all interested.
- Midway College will become the 14th member of the Endeavor Consortium.
They will be included in the UK hub site.
- For the 3rd CPE/KYVU Faculty Development Conference, Miko organized a
session on intellectual property issues. This has been identified as an
emerging topic to be included in these statewide annual meetings.
- Daniel Rabuzzi, Associate Vice President for Economic Initiatives at CPE,
is appointed as the interim CEO of KYVU as Mary Beth is going back to Colorado.
- Presentations on KYVL services are given to:
- Southeastern Library Network (SOLINET) Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA
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June 2001
- We have 2 new staff members: Tanzi Merritt, reference librarian, and Elaine
Maher, programmer/analyst.
- We extend the current contracts with EBSCO, OCLC, and World Book Online
for 3 months (July to Sept.) to allow the Collections Work Group more time
to evaluate the RFP responses. The new set of databases will take effect
October 1, 2001
- The Endeavor Consortium members have the quarterly meeting with Endeavor
staff. Topics include better upgrade process, better security measures,
and training.
- WebZ changes take place, which include addition of native interface links
and changes to the "Search a Single Database" page.
- Presentations on KYVL services are given to:
- Kentucky SOLINET Users' Group Meeting, Bowling Green, KY
- National Association of Community Colleges - Taming Technology Institute
2001, Denver, CO
- Kentucky Voyager Users' Group Meeting, Lexington, KY
- Governor's Scholar Program Instructors, Northern Kentucky University,
Centre College and Eastern Kentucky University
- American Library Association, San Fransisco, CA
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July 2001
- We have 6 vendor sessions for the Collections Work Group's work on evaluations
and negotiations.
- The KYVL Virtual Reference Desk Work Group has its first meeting. Its
charge and process are covered. The group is to be responsible for maintaining
the KYVL VRD based on established selection criteria.
- Presentations of KYVL services are given to:
- Kentucky Science and Technology Corporation, Lexington, KY
- Central Kentucky Computer Society, Lexington, KY
- Presentations of KYVL services given to State Agencies:
- Long-term Policy Research Center
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August 2001
- The Collections Work Group completes the evaluations and negotiations
process. Contracts for EBSCO, Grolier, ProQuest, Wilson, and OCLC are put
in place. The announcement of the new set of databases is made on August
30 as projected.
- The Kentuckiana Digital Library Work Group officially includes representatives
from the Kentucky Association of Teachers of History (KATH). They will assist
us in the selection of target collections for digitization.
- The Adult Education Resource Database Work Group conducts 3 focus groups
to test out the prototype database: Louisville, Madisonville, and Manchester.
Jane and Beth are incorporating the feedback into the enhancement.
- The KYVU senior staff meets with Representative Steve Nunn on KYVU and
KYVL.
- Miko meets with Rene True of the Cabinet for Economic Development and
Phil Rogers of Education Professional Standards Board to explore how KYVL
can provide services to their programs and their staff.
- Presentations on KYVL services are given to:
- IBM Innovations in Student Services Forum: Models Blending High Touch/High
Tech, Medford, MA
- University of Kentucky Library Faculty Meeting, Lexington, KY
- Canadian Trade Delegation Group, Frankfort, KY
- Rowan County Genealogy Club, Morehead, KY
- Presentations on KYVL services are given to state agencies:
- Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife, Frankfort, KY
- Government Office for Technology (Lunch 'n' Learn) Frankfort, KY
- Economic Development Cabinet, Frankfort, KY
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September 2001
- The KYVU senior staff meets with Representative Mark Treesh on KYVU and
KYVL.
- Representatives from Campbellsville University meet with staff from the
University of Louisville and KYVL to initiate the process of bringing Campbellsville
into the Westlib hub of the Endeavor Consortium. They will become the 15th
member of the Consortium.
- The Endeavor Consortium members have the quarterly meeting with Endeavor
staff. Topics include use of incident reports, workshops, KYVL training
account, security, and additional Endeavor Voyager products.
- The Adult Education Resource Database is officially unveiled on September
11 at the Kentucky Association of Adult Continuing Education Conference
in Owensboro.
- The VLAC Contributions Group has its first meeting. The Group will review
the current contribution scheme, the database usage statistics, and the
databases we like to add to arrive at a plan for growth. A recommendation
is to be presented to VLAC in its Nov. meeting.
- The KYVU senior staff completes the RFI process for an integrated service
provider. We have 5 vendor sessions.
- Presentations of KYVL services are given to:
- KAASE Conference, Owensboro, KY
- Kentucky Association of Teachers of History, Danville, KY
- KCTCS Directors, Lexington, KY
- Presentations on KYVL services are given to state agencies:
- Government Office for Technology - Consulting and Special Projects
Branch, Frankfort, KY
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October 2001
- Anja Smit, Deputy University Librarian, Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen,
the Netherlands, comes for a 2-day visit. She shares the status of higher
education in the Netherlands with CPE staff and visits with staff from KYVL,
UK and UofL. In addition to KYVL, Anja also visits Library of Congress,
National Library of Medicine, Johns Hopkins, UC Berkeley, etc.
- Gordon Davies, CPE President, officially requests $500,000 from the legislature
to be matched by public and private institutions for the expansion of databases.
- Department of Adult Education and Literacy (DAEL) and KYVL design a training
program for instructors integrating the new resource database and KYVL services
into professional development modules.
- Kentucky Virtual University starts the Request for Information process
for system integration services.
- We sponsor a SOLINET workshop on "Introducing John and Jane Public to
Your Online Resources".
- Presentations on KYVL services are given to:
- SLIS Class, Louisville, KY
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November 2001
- Miko is appointed as the Chief Information Officer, Kentucky Virtual University.
Read the Press Release.
She will remain as KYVL Director while Susan Brown, Associate Director,
takes over the day-to-day responsibilities.
- DAEL and KYVL work with the National Institute for Literacy (NIFL) on
creating a Z39.50-compliant version for its resource database on adult literacy.
This enables DAEL instructors and learners do a single search across LINCS
database and other relevant KYVL databases. The work is also underway to
add our new resource database to the LINCS database.
- We sponsor a SOLINET workshop on "The Invisible Reference Desk".
- With the new reorganization at KCTCS, there are 3 districts out of the
16 that do not have library services. We are working with NKU and Kenton
County Public Library (for Northern Tech), WKU (for Bowling Green Tech),
and LCC (for Central KY Tech) to provide library services to these 3 districts.
KYVL coordinates with these libraries to ensure all KCTCS students get quality
library services.
- Presentations on KYVL services are given to:
- Chinese Cultural Club, Lexington, KY
- SLIS Class, Lexington, KY
- Faculty Training, CKTC, Lexington, KY
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December 2001
- Daniel Rabuzzi is named CEO of the Kentucky Virtual University. Read
the Press Release.
- We have the annual staff retreat to review what we have accomplished in
2001 and plan for 2002. Our focus is training/marketing of KYVL services.
Target groups are adult education instructors and learners, K-12 teachers
and students, and the KCTCS community.
- Endeavor staff delivers a seminar for KYVL users on ENCompass and Inter
Library Loan components of the Voyager system. We also have the regular
quarterly meeting with Endeavor technical staff via conference call on issues
of common concern.
- The KYVU/VL Technical Team meets with the GOT network staff on how the
state network is configured and how that affects state agencies and public
libraries access VU/VL services. We plan to have follow-ups and regular
meetings to keep the communication going.
- Presentations on KYVL services:
- Kentucky SOLINET Users Group Meeting, Georgetown, KY
- SLIS Class, Lexington, KY
- Bluegrass Medical Assoc. meeting, Frankfort, KY
January 2002
- A Request for Proposal for "KYVL for Kids" is released. It seeks
the services of a Web designer to create the artwork, Web pages, and aid
with some content for a portal and for a kids' information literacy tutorial.
- The Kentucky History Center holds a premier of the Kentucky Civil Rights
Era, a video created by Betsy Brinson and produced by KET. KYVL staff work
closely with Ms. Brinson, KET and KDE in bringing Web resources together.
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February 2002
- DLAC approves performance goals for 2001-02 and 2002-03:
- Database searches: 5,500,000; 6,200,000
- Training (number of individuals): 1,500; 1,800
- Reference queries responded: 1,600; 2,000
- Library items via the courier service: 77,000; 85,000
- University of Kentucky, partnered with KYVL, submits a proposal to the
Institute of Museum and Library Services National Leadership Grants to "create
a digital collection focused on the published legacy of Kentucky's history
by converting preservation microfilm to image and text formats."
- Transylvania University's online catalog becomes the 24th catalog on the
KYVL Gateway.
- Presentations:
- Kentucky Board of Education, Frankfort, KY (app. 30)
- Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, Frankfort, KY (5)
- International E-Commerce Meeting, Frankfort, KY (5)
- A new KYVU IT Team is established with 3 programmers and 3 Web developers
from both KYVU and KYVL.
- KYVU releases a Request For Proposal for course management system.
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March 2002
- CPE arranges to include an online library science program from Florida
State University in the SREB Common Academic Market. This enables Kentuckians
to pay Florida in-state tuition to enroll in this much-needed program.
- Official procedures for the Endeavor training account are established.
This account is to support training needs of public institutions in the
Endeavor Consortium.
- Mid-Continent College's catalog added to KYVL common interface (WebZ)
as the 25th catalog
April 2002
- Virtual Reference Desk and Government Information areas of the website
combined under Virtual Reference Desk.
- Kentucky Stats moved to the main website page.
- Press
release on Kentuckiana released . Brief announcements also sent to Web4lib,
H-Net, DigLib, EAD, and SiteSearch national discussion lists.
- Presentations
- KYVL Update for WT Young Library Reference
- KYVL Update/KY Stats for LFPL staff
- KLA Public Library Section Conference
- Vietnamese delegation via the Department of State
- Florida Panhandle Library Access Network Spring Conference
May 2002
- Elaine Maher and Susan Brown attend SiteSearch Open Source meeting in
Dublin, OH.
- Linda McCoy leaves KYVL to start her own business.
- Link to information literacy tutorial (How to Do Research) switched from
the site at Eduprise to the new HTML version on May 15.
- Presentations
- SiteSearch Open Source Users meeting
- High School Students at UK
- At KSUG -- update on KYVL
June 2002
- Marcy Parker becomes the Executive Secretary.
- Tanzi Merritt attends ALA on NMRT/3M grant given to only three ALA members.
- Article on Kentuckiana appears in June
issue of D-Lib Magazine.
- Kentucky Stats given update in navigation.
- "Information Skills Tutorial" renamed "How to Do Research."
- "For Kentuckians" area of the web renamed "How to Use KYVL."
- "Catalogs and Databases" renamed "Find Books, Articles
and More."
- Planning for Fall 2002 training begins.
- Bill Hansen meets with committee to begin a KYVL Users Group.
- Presentations
- At ALA on the Sitesearch interfaces
- To the Department of Children and Families Leadership Group
- International Conference on Distance Education for Information society,
Krakow, Poland (via ITV)
July 2002
- An Assessment Group formed from the Collections Work Group begins developing
a qualitative assessment process for KYVL databases.
- Presentations
- Kentucky Virtual High School Faculty in Murray, KY
August 2002
- KYVL designs and introduces the third generation of its home page.
- KYVL hosts SOLINET Copyright Law workshop featuring copyright expert Laura
Gassaway.
- The Online Pickup Record Form for courier shipments becomes available.
- KYVL hosts EBSCO representative Tommy Smith, who trains librarians on
using the EBSCO Admin interface.
- Presentations
- Cabinet for Families and Children's Division of Professional Development
and Training
- Knox County Public School Teachers
September 2002
- Jackie Kinder leaves KYVL to join the staff of the Marymount University
Library System in Arlington, Virginia.
- Presentations
- KYVL Training in Madisonville, KY
- KYVL Training in Owensboro, KY
October 2002
- Historic African American materials are added to the Kentuckiana Digital
Library. The materials, from the library at Kentucky State University, address
the history of African Americans in Kentucky and include, among other materials,
the Kentucky Negro Education Association Journal from 1916-1952. Read
the press release.
- Susan Brown leaves KYVL to become the Director of the Transylvania University
Library in Lexington, KY.
- KYVL for Kids, a new interactive portal for children that includes a tutorial
on developing research skills and access to specially chosen information
resources, is officially launched by Governor Paul Patton. Read
the press release.
- Presentations
- KYVL Training in Lexington, KY
- KYVL Training in Louisville, KY
- KYVL Training in Ashland, KY
- KYVL Update for AICKU library directors at the Kentucky Higher Education
Computing Conference at Georgetown College.
November 2002
- Tanzi Merritt is promoted to Senior Reference Librarian.
- The search for a new KYVL Director begins.
- Presentations
- Virtual Learning in Kentucky along with KVHS and KYVU to a Russian
Education Delegation at the Kentucky Department of Education
- Transylvania University Career Fair
- Miko Pattie is the Keynote Speaker at the Tampa Bay Library Consortium
conference where she speaks about KYVL.
December 2002
- Enid Wohlstein joins KYVL as Library Director. Read the press
release.
- Dr. Thomas Layzell is appointed the new President of the Kentucky Council
on Postsecondary Education. Dr. Layzell currently serves as Commissioner
of Higher Education for the Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning
- Negotiations begin with our courier vendor to reduce the pickup schedule
for the 2003-2004 fiscal year.
- Presentations
- KYVL Update for the Kentucky SOLINET Users' Group
January 2003
- Presentations
- KYVL, KYVU, CPE, DAEL, KCTCS and NKU participate in an Exploration
and Sharing Session with Ohio representatives [Board of Regents, Department
of Education, University of Cincinnati, Ohio Learning Network] at Northern
Kentucky University.
- KYVL attends and presents with KYVU/KVHS at launch for Kentucky Supplemental
Educational Services for Title I Improvement Schools [No Child Left
Behind initiative] in Frankfort, Kentucky.
- Lexington Professional Linux Users’ Group, Lexington, Kentucky.
- Training for Ft. Knox School System Media Specialists, Ft. Knox,
Kentucky.
February 2003
- Presentations
- KYVL update and partnership discussion at SAALCK meeting, University
of Louisville.
March 2003
- The Assessment Group concluded its web and paper-based survey. Results
and findings will be presented to the Collections Work Group.
- Presentations
- “The Versatility of an MLS Degree” brownbag discussion
at the Special Library Association – Student Chapter at the School
of Library and Information Science, University of Kentucky.
- Virtual Learning Partners reception at the Kentucky Teaching and Learning
Conference, Louisville, Kentucky.
- Lecture to students of Dr. Chan’s cataloging class of the School
of Library and Information Science, University of Kentucky.
- KYVL presentation to deskside software engineers for DAEL sites.
- KYVL update for KCTCS Library Directors, Lexington, Kentucky.
- KYVU/KYVL receives guests from the International Visitor Program,
Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Dept. of State. The
visitors represents institutions and agencies in Cambodia, Democratic
Republic of the Congo, FYRO Macedonia, and Swaziland.
April 2003
- VLAC reviews the Courier Subcommittee's report for a revised courier
schedule and contract amount and passes implementation responsibility to
the Resource Sharing Work Group.
- Presentations
- KYVL attends the American Legacies grant launch in Harlan, Kentucky.
- KYVL visits public libraries in Jackson, Clay, Harlan and Leslie
counties to tour the libraries and meet the library staff and directors.
May 2003
- Planning for Fall 2003 training begins.
- Anja Smit, University Librarian, Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands makes a second visit to KYVL. Accompanying Anja is former Director of the Library at the University of Nijmegen, Hubert Laeven. Anja and Hubert spend a day with representatives our workgroups and VLAC. Both Anja and Hubert give a presentation addressing initiatives and milestones at the University of Nijmegen.
- Enid and Tanzi attend the Reception and dinner in honor of the 2003 New Horizons Exemplary Faculty/Staff Awardees of KCTCS.
- Sociological Abstracts will no longer be available from EBSCOhost after September. The Collections Workgroup has been investigating other databases offered by the KYVL vendors and will provide recommendations to VLAC.
- Presentations
- McNet Conference: Paducah/McCracken County Information Network at
West Kentucky Community and Technical College in Paducah, Kentucky
- Kentucky SOLINET Users Group at Union College, Barbourville, Kentucky.
- KYVL update at the Kentucky SOLINET Users’ Group/Virtual Library Users’ Group combined meeting at Union College, in Barbourville.
June 2003
- Enid and Tanzi attend the KDLA celebration for Dr. Thomas D. Clark’s 100th birthday.
- VLAC the charges and creations of three new workgroups. KYVL creates ADA, Outreach and Portal Workgroups.
July 2003
- The new ground courier service schedule goes into effect.
- Database Searches: From July 1, 2002 to June 30, 2003, the Kentucky Virtual Library's collection of databases was searched 6.5 million times! This equals, on average, 545,872 searches per month, 17,956 searches per day, and 747 searches per hour, every hour!
September 2003
- Daniel Rabuzzi leaves his position as CEO of KYVU to join the Leader to Leader Institute (formerly the Peter Drucker Foundation).
- Presentations:
- “Using Technology to Promote Critical Thinking” at the Kentucky Association of Teachers of History conference, Georgetown College, Georgetown, KY. Enid co-presents with Doug Cantrell, Elizabethtown Community College; Anne Kearney, Jefferson Community College; and Allison McAdams, duPont Manual High School.
- KYVL Provides One Day Training Sessions in:
- Bowling Green, KY
- Highland Heights, KY
- Murray, KY
October 2003
- Sociological Abstracts access via EBSCO ceases. The Collections Workgroup had recommended Alt-Press Watch and International Index to Music Periodicals Full-text from Proquest. Buttons for access to the native interfaces of these two products have been added to KYVL’s SiteSearch.
- New Book of Knowledge from Grolier replaces Nueva encyclopedia Cumbre en linea.
- The ADA, Outreach and Portal Workgroups have their first meetings.
- KYVL announces of the “Create a KYVL Public Service Announcement Video” contest. KYVL, with the approval and assistance of Elaine Harrison, the STLP Coordinator at KDE, invites Kentucky’s STLP students to submit 15-second public service announcement videos. Entries are due February 2004 and will be judged by the Outreach Workgroup.
- VLUG Soiree at Fall KLA conference.
- Presentations:
- KYVL Update at AIKCU Library Directors’ meeting at Spalding University, Louisville, KY.
- KYVL Provides One Day Training Sessions in:
- Columbia, KY
- Lexington, KY
- Louisville, KY
December 2003
- Presentations:
- Kentucky SOLINET Users’ Group meeting at the Kentucky History Center, Frankfort, KY.
January 2004
- The eLearning Steering Team (eLST) subcommittee of the Distance Learning Advisory Committee (DLAC) holds meetings with various workgroup. Enid is appointed to the Support Services Workgroup and attends the first meeting of the SSW of eLST.
February 2004
- The Portal Workgroup issues a Request for Information (RFI) to gain knowledge concerning current capabilities of vendors to provide software for development and maintenance of a new library federated search portal. The information gained from this process will be used to aid in development of a Request for Proposal to select one or more partners to provide services to KYVL in a statewide contract. Responses are due by the end of March.
March 2004
- Enid and Norma Northern, interim CEO of KYVU, attend the Student Technology Leadership Program (STLP) Awards Ceremony at the Kentucky Teaching and Learning Conference. Enid presents plaques to the winning elementary, middle and high schools for the first “Create a KYVL Public Service Announcement Video” contest.
- Enid and Tanzi attend the Multicultural Internships and Major Fair at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. KYVL materials are distributed.
- Enid attends the Fayette County Schools Technology Fair at Henry Clay High School in Lexington, Kentucky. KYVL materials are distributed.
- Enid attends the International Coalition of Library Consortia meeting in New Orleans, LA.
- Presentations:
- KYVL Update at the KCTCS Library Directors’ meeting in Lexington, KY.
- KYVL Provides One Day Training Sessions in:
- Lexington, KY
- Louisville, KY
- Morehead, KY
April 2004
- KYVL launches a new version of the Kids’ Portal, based on an accessibility standards determined by the KYVL ADA Workgroup. The new version is in HTML and is the default version. The pages look like the Flash version but are built with accessibility foremost in mind.
- Presentations:
- “KYVL @ your library” presentation at KLA Spring Conference at Barren River State Resort Park in Lucas, KY.
- KYVL Update at the AIKCU Library Directors’ meeting at Lindsey Wilson in Columbia, KY.
- KYVL Provides One Day Training Sessions in:
- Barbourville, KY
- Hazard, KY
- Pikeville, KY
- Enid, and Dr. Rana Johnson of CPE, visit Fayette County High Schools to promote the Academically Proficient African American High School Junior and Senior Conference to be held at Western Kentucky University in June.
May 2004
- Enid attends the National Diversity in Libraries Conference and the SOLINET Annual Members’ Meeting in Atlanta, GA.
- Enid attends the reception and staffs a KYVU/KYVL booth at the 2004 Faculty Development Conference “Student Success for Kentucky’s Future.”
- Presentations:
- KYVL update at the Kentucky SOLINET Users’ Group/Virtual Library Users’ Group combined meeting at Kenton County Public Library in Erlanger, KY.
- “What’s New at KYVL?” presentation at the McNet Conference held at West Kentucky Community and Technical College in Paducah, KY
June 2004
- Presentations:
- Lexington Lions’ Club meeting, Lexington, KY.
July 2004
- Enid and Tanzi attend the Kentucky School Media Association Summer Refresher at Jenny Wiley State Park in Prestonsburg, KY. An booth display, KYVL handouts and materials from the KYVL vendors are made available.
- Tanzi Merritt leaves KYVL. She joins Gateway Community and Technical College as the Associate Director.
- Presentations:
- “A Mountain of Information @ Your Library, KYVL Databases in the Middle and High School Media Center” at the Kentucky School Media Association Summer Refresser at Jenny Wiley State Part in Prestonsburg, KY. Presenter: Tanzi Merritt.
September 2004
- Presentations:
- “KYVU and KYVL: Eh, What's Up, Doc?” at the Breaking Down Barriers conference held at the METS Center in Erlanger, KY. Presenters: Dr. Randolph Hollingsworth and Enid Wohlstein.
- “KYVL @ your library: A View from the Inside” at the KLA/KSMA Fall Conference at the Galt House in Louisville, KY.
October 2004
- KYVL announces the 2nd Annual “Create a KYVL Public Service Announcement Video” contest. KYVL invites Kentucky’s STLP students to submit 30-second public service announcement videos. Entries are due February 2005 and will be judged by the Outreach Workgroup.
- Presentations:
- KYVL Update at the AIKCU Library Directors’ meeting at Asbury College in Wilmore, KY.
- “Kentucky Virtual Library in Your Classroom” at the Making a Difference in the Middle, a conference co-sponsored by the Kentucky Middle School Association and GEAR UP at the Executive Inn, in Owensboro, KY.
November 2004
- KYVL has been online and serving Kentucky five years this month! Happy 5th Birthday to us!
- “Finding Free GOLD: Government OnLine Documents” workshop at the KYVL offices in Frankfort, KY. A workshop created by KYVL and its Government Information Access Workgroup. The workshop had 70 attendees total and 15 presenters covering 17 different topics.
- Presentations:
- “Online Resources for Kentucky's Adult Educators via Kentucky Virtual Library” at the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE) Conference held at the Galt House in Louisville, KY.
January 2005
- KDLA’s SelectioNotes publication features an article on KYVL resources by Allen Ashman of the Outreach Workgroup.
February 2005
- Tim Chase joins KYVL as the new Senior Reference Librarian.
- The KYVL Collections Workgroup launches the KYVL Online Resources Customer Satisfaction Surveys on the current KYVL databases in anticipation of the contract process. Based on the results of past surveys, the Workgroup has created a number of surveys geared toward specific audiences. The surveys are posted on KYVL website, distributed via email and listservs.
March 2005
- Enid and Tim attend the Student Technology Leadership Program (STLP) Awards Ceremony at the Kentucky Teaching and Learning Conference. Enid presents plaques to the winning elementary, middle and high schools for the 2nd Annual “Create a KYVL Public Service Announcement Video” contest.
- The Information Literacy Workgroup launches a “KYVU Instructor Survey on Information Literacy.” An invitation and a link to the survey is sent to the Spring 2005 KYVU academic instructors. The Workgroup will use the responses to evaluate the use of the “How to Do Research” tutorial on KYVL’s website.
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