Update, March 7: All Kenan Science Library services and spaces have been restored. Thank you for your patience.

A weekend leak in Venable Hall has closed some areas of the Kenan Science Library.

Until further notice, Kenan Science Library is operating with reduced seating. Study room G301K is also unavailable.

The leak did not damage any library materials.

For questions about access to the Kenan Science Library, contact the staff there at (919) 962-1188 or Ask a Librarian.

“Carol leaves a legacy of leadership and innovation,” said University Librarian and Associate Provost for University Libraries Sarah Michalak. “Her outstanding career and tireless passion have advanced the provision of health information on campus, across the state, around the country, and throughout the world.”

Only the third professional librarian to lead the Health Sciences Library (HSL), Jenkins oversaw numerous developments. Under her leadership, the HSL became one of the first libraries to provide access to MEDLINE and other key databases to users anywhere on campus. During her tenure, the HSL instituted the AHEC Digital Library, providing online books, journals, and databases to health professionals across the state, and NC Health Info, a unique consumer database of authoritative health sources and local resources.

At UNC, Jenkins also oversaw and extensive renovation of the Health Sciences Library in 2005, adding spaces and technology to meet changing needs and expectations of library users.

In 2010 the HSL was administratively joined with the University Library. Jenkins has co-chaired a new joint strategic planning process that focuses on a new vision for twenty-first-century library services.

Jenkins’s awards and accomplishments include serving as president of the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (2001) and the Medical Library Association (2002), and leading two programs to identify and mentor future library leaders. She was a founding member of BRIDGES, a program begun at UNC to prepare women for academic administrative leadership.

In recognition of her career contributions, Jenkins recently received two prestigious professional awards: the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries’ Cornerstone Award in 2010 and the Medical Library Association’s Marcia C. Noyes Award in 2011. She is a Distinguished Member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals and a Lifetime Fellow of the Medical Library Association.

In an email to HSL librarians and staff Jenkins wrote, “One of the accomplishments of which I am most proud is being able to recruit and work with such a wonderful staff.”

Jim Curtis, deputy director of the HSL, will serve as interim director until a replacement is named.

Related Links

About the Director (Health Sciences Library website)

Meg Tuomala

Meg Tuomala, Electronic Records Archivist

Meg began Dec. 1, 2012, as Electronic Records Archivist in the University Archives and Records Management Services.

Meg will lead efforts within the Archives to manage and preserve born-digital materials, and will assist other special collections units at UNC in doing so. She will also support UNC faculty, students, and staff in depositing digital materials into the Carolina Digital Repository (CDR), and will work with other library staff to define and implement repository policies, workflows, and capabilities.

Meg was most recently Digital Archivist at the University Archives of Washington University in St. Louis. She worked previously at UNC as the Records Service Archivist.

She holds an M.S.L.S. and a B.A. in Comparative Literature and Romance Languages from UNC.

Contact Meg: (919) 962-6402 or mtuomala@email.unc.edu.

Kirill Tolpygo

Kirill Tolpygo, Librarian for Slavic and East European Resources

Kirill began Jan. 1 as Librarian for Slavic and East European Resources.

He will build collections of Slavic and East European resources and will develop and deliver reference, outreach, and instructional services to faculty and students. He will also serve as Curator of the André Savine Collection.

Kirill most recently held this position in an interim capacity, before which he was a cataloger for the Savine Collection.

He holds an M.L.S. and a M.A. in linguistics from the University at Buffalo and a B.A. in linguistics from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

Contact Kirill: (919) 962-3740 or ktolpygo@email.unc.edu.

Danianne Mizzy

Danianne Mizzy, Head of Kenan Science Information Services

Danianne began Jan. 7 as the Library’s first head of Kenan Science Information Services.

Leading a team of librarians, she will provide coordination of information services for faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates in the sciences and vision for the development of innovative approaches to e-science and data management. She will also collaborate with staff at the UNC Health Sciences Library to build strong interdisciplinary science collections and services.

Danianne’s prior positions include Engineering Librarian at the Monell Engineering Library at Columbia University and  Director of the Ewell Sale Stewart Library and Archives at The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University in Philadelphia.

She holds an M.L.I.S. from the University of Pittsburgh, an M.F.A. in design from the Yale School of Drama, and an A.B. in International Relations from Brown University.

Contact Danianne: (919) 962-1188 or mizzy@email.unc.edu.

Every time BioMed Central publishes an article by a UNC affiliate, the article loads automatically to the Library’s Carolina Digital Repository (CDR). The CDR compiles, safeguards, and provides access to the research of UNC faculty and students.

Republishing in the CDR provides an extra layer of security, according to project manager Jill Sexton. It also allows the CDR to capture and share a more extensive picture of research activities at UNC, and to capitalize on the Library’s investments in open access publishing.

In addition to full text of the articles, BioMed Central shares documents related to the articles, such as surveys, pamphlets, and data sets. The CDR preserves these items along with the articles in a growing collection that already contains more than 2,000 items.

The automatic transfer takes place behind the scenes using a technology called Simple Web-Service Offering Repository Deposit (SWORD).

BioMed Central publishes 242 peer-reviewed open access journals, meaning that they are freely available world-wide to researchers and the public. UNC authors enjoy discounted publication fees with BioMed Central, thanks to the Library’s institutional membership in the organization.

The UNC Library is eager to work with additional publishers interested in piloting the SWORD protocol, says Sexton.

To learn more about how the CDR can help manage research outputs or about the transfer of articles from BioMed Central, contact Sexton at jill@email.unc.edu.

Related Links

• BioMed Central collection at UNC
• Carolina Digital Repository
• BioMed Central

Lecture by Adrian Johns
Tuesday, Apr. 10, 2012
Wilson Special Collections Library
5:30 p.m. Program | Pleasants Family Assembly Room
Free and open to the public
Information: Liza Terll, Friends of the Library, (919) 548-1203

An expert in the field of the history of the book and intellectual property and piracy will give a lecture on the topic of scientific reading Tuesday, Apr. 10.

The 5:30 p.m. lecture is free and open to the public. It will take place in the Wilson Special Collections Library.

Adrian Johns will also discuss the transition in the seventeenth century between natural philosophy and experimental philosophy, with a focus on the works of Newton, Hooke, Descartes, and others. He will also examine efforts to automate discovery by having computers “read”’ millions of scientific papers in order to find patterns, gaps, and laws.

Johns is the Allan Grant Maclear Professor of History at the University of Chicago, where he chairs the Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science.

His books include Death of a Pirate: British Radio and the Making of the Information Age (W.W. Norton, 2010), Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates (University of Chicago Press, 2009), and The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making (University of Chicago Press, 1998).

The Nature of the Book was the recipient of numerous awards, including the American Historical Association’s Leo Gershoy Award, the Association of American Publishers: PROSE Award, and the George A. and Jean S. DeLong Book History Prize from the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing (SHARP).

The event is sponsored by the Rare Book Collection, the UNC English and Comparative Literature department, and the Friends of the Library. It is part of the English and Comparative Literature department’s Critical Speakers Series.

Related Links

• Adrian Johns’s faculty page

The collections and services of the Brauer Math/Physics Library and the Geological Sciences Library will close in their current locations at the end of the day on Friday, July 15, 2011, in preparation for moves to new campus locations. Collections from these libraries will be unavailable to the public until July 25.

The Biology Library will also be closed July 18-22.

Beginning July 18, all research and instruction assistance for the sciences will be offered from the Kenan Science Library in Venable Hall. Contact science librarians there at (919) 962-1188 or kenan-library@listserv.unc.edu.

On July 25, the Science Library Annex, comprising math/physics, geological sciences, biology, and chemistry materials, will open to the public. Stacks will be browsable. The Science Annex is located at the South Road entrance to Wilson Library, opposite the Bell Tower.

During the week of July 18, reserve materials formerly available in the Brauer Math/Physics,  Geological Sciences, and Biology Libraries will be available at the Kenan Science Library.

Borrowed materials from the affected libraries may be returned to any campus library.

The UNC Health Sciences Library is unaffected by this move.

For additional information, contact David Romito, Biology Librarian, (919) 969-7853, or kenan-library@listserv.unc.edu.

Related Links

• Science Libraries Relocations in Summer 2011
• Kenan Science Library

The moves are a response to the serious budget situation confronting the Library and the campus. They also reflect efforts to economize while still preserving priorities conveyed by faculty and students through surveys, focus groups, interviews, and discussions during the spring semester.

“We heard repeatedly about the need to acquire digital content, while also ensuring that print collections would be as available as possible for in-person browsing,” said University Librarian Sarah Michalak. “Also, that if we needed to move collections, we should do our best to keep science materials together.”

As a result of these conversations, the Library has planned the following:

• The collections of the Brauer Math/Physics Library and the Geological Sciences Library will relocate to expanded browseable stacks in Wilson Library. Materials will be consolidated with the biology and chemistry collections already in Wilson Library, providing the opportunity for interdisciplinary browsing. The science collections are accessible from the South Road entrance to Wilson Library, opposite the Bell Tower.

• Hours for the science collections in Wilson Library will be: Mon.-Thurs., 8 a.m. – 8 p.m.; Fri., 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.; Sat. 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.; Sun. 1 -6 p.m.  This represents an increase in staffed hours over any of the current science libraries, gained from efficiencies in staffing only a single browsing point.

• The campus delivery (Carolina BLU) program will deliver books to faculty campus boxes, and to the library of choice for students. High-impact undergraduate science collections will remain in the Undergraduate Library, which also provides reserves services in all disciplines.

• The science librarians will have home offices in the newly opened Kenan Science Library in Venable Hall.  They will continue to serve the departments in their areas of expertise with consultations, instruction, collection development, and customized services for the departments they work with.

• The Library has purchased expanded backfiles of 42 e-journals in physics and the physical sciences from  the American Institute of Physics (AIP), the Institute of Physics (IOP), National Research Council (Canada), and Elsevier.

Relocation of and access to science collections in Wilson Library will not be affected by the recently announced installation of sprinklers in the Wilson Library special collections stacks during 2011-12.

For more information about science libraries on the UNC campus, contact Carol Hunter, Associate University Librarian for Collections and Services: (919) 962-1301, cfhunter@email.unc.edu.

The UNC Libraries’ Data Management Committee has created a Research Data Toolkit that explains the new requirements and provides guidance to UNC researchers on drafting a plan.

The Toolkit includes:

• Information and FAQ about NSF Data Management Plan requirement

• Sample plans from UNC’s Odum Institute for Research in Social Science

• A decision-making checklist to assess storage needs

• A directory of data repositories

• A listing of metadata standards by discipline

• A directory of campus units and resources to assist researchers

• Basic principles of confidential data protection

• Listings of upcoming courses and recordings of previous data management workshops

The site will eventually include boilerplate language and additional sample plans. Directory listings will also be expanded and updated.

The committee has also established dataplan@listserv.unc.edu to answer researcher questions in partnership with the Odum Institute and the UNC Office of Sponsored Research.

For questions about the Research Data Toolkit, contact Barrie Hayes, Health Sciences Library (bhayes@email.unc.edu) or Michele Hayslett, Davis Library (michele_hayslett@unc.edu).

Zahra Kamarei is the new head of science libraries. In this position, she will oversee the recently opened Kenan Science Library and will work closely with the science research community to develop strategies for the preservation of and access to research data, with a special focus on chemical informatics. Kamarei will lead a team of UNC subject librarians in the sciences and will also serve as the librarian for chemistry.

Kamarei has served as math/physics librarian at UNC since 1999, and has been interim head of science libraries since August 2009. She has also held professional librarian positions at the Isfahan University of Technology in Isfahan, Iran; the University of Notre Dame in Indiana; and the Petrolite Corporation in St. Louis, Mo.

Kamarei holds a B.S. in physics and an M.L.S. with a specialty in chemical information from Indiana University.

Reach Kamarei at (919) 962-2323 or zkamarei@email.unc.edu.

Sara Levinson began as original cataloger, with a primary focus on monographs in Spanish, Portuguese, other languages of the Iberian peninsula, and native Indian languages of Latin America. She will also share responsibility for cataloging of English language monographs. Levinson was most recently a temporary cataloger at UNC and has also served as serials cataloger at the Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University.

Levinson holds an M.L.S. from the Palmer School of Library and Information Science at Long Island University in Brookville, N.Y. She has a B.A. in Spanish and Anthropology from Middlebury College in Middlebury, VT.

Contact Levinson at (919) 962-0153 ext. 354 or saralev@email.unc.edu.

Kristina Spurgin is now electronic resources cataloger. In this position, she will catalog e-resources including e-books, databases, and Web sites. She will also oversee and manage loads of vendor records for e-resources and contribute to national authority files. Prior to her appointment, Spurgin worked in a temporary capacity as e-resources cataloger at UNC. She is an adjunct instructor and teaching fellow at UNC’s School of Information and Library Science.

Spurgin holds a B.A. in commercial art from Brenau Women’s College in Gainesville, Ga., and an M.L.S. from the State University of New York at Albany. She is also completing a Ph.D. in information and library science at UNC.

Reach Spurgin at (919) 962-2050 or kspurgin@email.unc.edu.

Science Library Open House

The staff of the William R. Kenan Jr. Science Library invite you to an open house on Tuesday, Oct. 12, from 4 to 5 p.m., to celebrate the library’s new home and new name.

Library staff will be on hand to greet visitors and to highlight features of the new facility, including:

• Seventy-seven seats for study and research;
• Five group study rooms, with a total capacity of twenty people;
• A 40-inch display screen for molecule visualization in one of the study rooms;
• A collaboratory with seven computers equipped with scientific software;
• An “intelligent classroom” for library and departmental instruction.

The Kenan Science Library is part of the rebuilt Venable Hall, which will be dedicated on Oct. 12, University Day. The library open house will immediately follow the dedication ceremony.

The library was formerly the Kenan Chemistry Library. It has been renamed to better represent the purpose of the library and its services, and to emphasize the growing multidisciplinary nature of the sciences at Carolina. The Kenan Science Library will also be the home for development of e-science collections and services at UNC. E-science refers to computationally intensive investigations using extremely large data sets.

For information about the Kenan Science Library or the open house, contact the library by email or at (919) 962-1188.