SLA Kentucky Chapter

Join the UK SLIS Alumni Listserv!

Would you like to stay up to date on events going on with the School of Library & Information Science? We are starting a listserv for graduates of our program to stay in touch with what's going on at UK SLIS. With our program recently joining the iSchools consortium, a new website under development, and four new faculty starting with our program in the fall, there will be much going on in the program. To join, simply send an email to:listserv@lsv.uky.edu

Leave the subject line blank. In the body of the email, delete any signature you may have and insert the text below using your name in place of FirstName/LastName.

subscribe SLIS-ALUMS-L FirstName LastName

Be sure to pass this along to any graduates of the program you may know as well. If you have any questions, let me know.

Will Buntin
will.buntin@uky.edu

May Social

Please join your SLA Kentucky Chapter colleagues on Tuesday, May 31 at the Alltech Lexington Brewing and Distilling Company for a free private tour and beer tasting followed by cocktails and dinner. Alltech is located at 401 Cross Street, Lexington, KY 40508. The following is the schedule of events:

1:30-3:00 Private tour and tasting at Alltech Lexington Brewing and Distilling Company
3:30-5:00 Cocktails at Chase Tap Room
5:30-? Dutch treat dinner at deSha's

The private tour and tasting is free to attendees. Parking for the tour is available in the gravel lot on the Cross St. side of the complex (see map).

Click here to register. Registration for the Kentucky Chapter's May 31, 2011 social event ends at 12 noon Wednesday, May 25, 2011. Guests and prospective chapter members are also welcome to attend this event.

Vertical finding: Abstracts, Indexing and Vertical Files in the Age of Online

This was an interesting read for librarians and information professionals familiar with abstract services.  It just goes to show that  the theories and principles of good information are still relevant.

When you can take a topic and provide summaries and publish them in a blog form.   Looking at Backnotch, the summaries are precise and key elements from the original source are included. It is interesting to note that:

The Backnotch service is similar to a traditional abstracting service.

The beginnings of vertical files.

It seems that those who wish to provide information about a topic can truly make the vertical blog the new vertical file in our online world.  It will be interesting to see if Backnotch continues the service.  So often information professionals can find a great resource and then suddenly the producer backs off and a gap returns.

For now, the Backnotch blog seems to be the perfect abstracter for all things crooked in Angola.  Interesting reading.

Constance Ard
Answer Maven
May 2, 2011

Note: This post was originally published at http://answermaven.com