LIBRARY Randy Christensen and Dr. Alan Ford presented “When Work Is a Pain: Ergonomics for School Librarians” at the Utah Educational Library Media Association (UELMA) Annual Conference, Mountain View HS, Orem, UT (2010).
Plains Library Association Leadership Institute in Estes Park, CO (2010).
Friends of the Library The Friends of the Library sponsored three Library workshops for the Friends and other interested people. “Preservation Techniques for Book, Print and Digital Photos” was taught by Paula Mitchell and Jill Stucki in January. Janet Seegmiller presented “Family History Research @ the Library” in February and in April Scott Lanning demonstrated “Free Software: The Open Source Software and What it Means to You.”
Richard Eissinger presented “A Teacher’s Guide to Plagiarism Detection Tools” and Randy Christensen and Richard Eissinger presented “Animation, Bingo, PPT Games, Clickers, and more: Technology Tips to Enhance Student Interaction” at the Utah Coalition for Educational Technology (UCET) 2010 Annual Conference, Murray HS, Murray, UT. Dr. Ralph Turner and Scott Lanning published “Trends in Print vs. Electronic Use in School Libraries” in The Reference Librarian (July 2010). Scott Lanning presented “Interviewing from Both Sides of the Table”, at the UALC Professional Development retreat (2010). Dr. John Eye presented a workshop “Copyright in the Classroom” to the SUU faculty, and he attended the Mountain
later approved by the Student Fee Committee. The $5 fee per student per semester goes into effect Fall Semester 2010 and will help off-set the cuts the Library experienced this year.
Library has a new Dean After serving as Interim Dean for two years, John Eye was appointed Dean of Library Services in March. Student Library Fee In response to the financial difficulties faced by the Library, the administration decided to ask students to fund a Library Fee for library technologies and databases. SUU Senators Tina Swadley and Tyler McAllister sponsored a resolution supporting the proposed fee which was approved unanimously by the Senate. The proposal was
SUU Press The Press prepared manuscripts of two books The Democratic Discourse of Liberal Education and Technology, Science and Democracy. These books are compiled from papers delivered at the symposiums on democracy that are sponsored each year by the Grace A. Tanner Center and edited by former professor Lee Trepanier. The Tanner Center also provides funding for publication and there are now three volumes in this series.
Howard R. Driggs Memorial Lecture Pulitzer Prize winning historian Dr. Daniel Walker Howe delivered the Howard R. Driggs Memorial Lecture on March 24th, 2010 in the Great Hall at Southern Utah University. The lecture, part of SUU Founders’ Week activities, is entitled “The Communications Revolution in 19th-century America and Its Consequences”, and is sponsored in part by a generous donation from the Howard R. Driggs Memorial Foundation. Dr. Howe received the Pulitzer Prize for History in 2008 for What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815 – 1848, his most famous book. The Series, sponsored in part by the Howard R. Driggs Endowment, was established by Driggs’ step-daughter, Camille Bradford, to support the annual Driggs Lecture and highlight the Driggs Collection which is housed in Special Collections.
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