FY13 Planning Task Force Documents: University Library System, University of Pittsburgh, August 2011-June 2012

These documents provide a record of the work of the ULS FY13 Planning Task Force, which initiated and deployed a highly inclusive strategic planning process to analyze the library's strategic options, prioritize them, and identify key actions for implementation in FY13. The ULS FY13 Planning and Budget Report, submitted to the provost's office on 28 February 2012, incorporates the task force's recommended strategic priorities for FY13. Additional task force documents (e.g., meeting agendas, presentations by task force members, and materials related to the group's environmental scan) may be accessed via the library's internal site, Behind the Scenes, at http://bts.library.pitt.edu, under "General Planning.

Here Comes the Sunburst: Measuring and Visualizing Scholarly Impact

Our ARL institution partnered with a new service (PlumX) to track, measure, and visualize faculty scholarly impact. In a pilot project, both traditional and emerging measures of scholarly impact were collected for 32 researchers. The presenters will chronicle the data management and enhancements applied, including utilizing content from our institutional repository, importing and enriching metadata, and using an intranet to organize work and collaborate with colleagues. Results will assist faculty and those who work with them to identify strengths and weaknesses of scholarly impact and where to focus efforts to increase research visibility

John D. Jackie Gaughan Clubhouse

“Alleviating urban poverty depends significantly on economic growth and the nation’s ability to provide more, and better-paying, jobs” (Lemons, 2015).https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/educ_sys_202/1009/thumbnail.jp

L\u27Apres Midi d\u27une...

A picnic was spread on the bank and they surrounded it in positions of spiritual abandon. One, a long and somewhat undulant girl, lay among them gazing into the river that rolled peacefully yet dense with clay after the spring flood. The opposite bank, mysterious as an arabesque, hid in its shadow-work of trees the lives that like theirs, had moved back from afternoon; lives bound to the waterway by probing beak and wading leg, by a diet of fish or of insects Whose larval time is passed in mud and water. Look closely! implied the arabesque: a leaf may become a bird

Herbert Brownwell to John D. Feerick

Letter from Attorney General of the United States Herbert Brownwell (1953-1957) to Dean John D. Feerick, regarding his scholarly article on presidential inability.https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/twentyfifth_amendment_correspondence/1010/thumbnail.jp

University Scholar Series: Marc d\u27Alarcao

Synthetic Organic Chemistry to Shed Light on Type II Diabetes and Cancer On March 16, 2011 Marc d\u27Alarcao spoke in the University Scholar Series hosted by Provost Gerry Selter at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library. Marc d\u27Alarcao is a Professor in the Chemistry Department at SJSU. In this seminar, he gives a progress report on his work aimed at developing and synthesizing new compounds that are designed to take advantage of this metabolic difference. His hope is that these compounds will be selectively toxic to cancer cells and may provide a new strategy for treating this major threat to human health.https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/uss/1007/thumbnail.jp