New digitized items added to ExploreUK and are included in the Sounding Spirit Digital Library Project.
Voice of praise : a collection of new songs for gospel meetings and Sunday schools
Hymnal of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Hymns for the use of the Methodist Church
The Book of American Negro spirituals,
New Sanborn Maps available through ExploreUK!
Sanborn Maps - Adairville 1925
Sanborn Maps - Barbourville 1926
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| Barbourville, 1926 |
Sanborn Maps - Beaver Dam 1923
Sanborn Maps - Bowling Green 1925
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| Bowling Green, 1925 |
Sanborn Maps - Brooksville 1926
Sanborn Maps - Central City 1923
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| Clinton, 1923 |
Sanborn Maps - Cloverport 1925
Sanborn Maps - Dawson Spring 1925
Sanborn Maps - Earlington 1923
Sanborn Maps - Flemingsburg 1926Digital images of the following collections and items are now available on ExploreUK!
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| Page from the Bourbon Furnace ledger (87w1) |
48m44 John Cockey Owings records
2009ms132.0879 Wade Hall Collection of American Letters: John Louis Martin sketchbook
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| Page from the John Louis Martin sketchbook (2009ms132.0879) |
2009ms132.0850 Wade Hall Collection of American Letters: Emma Blanche Buffington diary
2009ms132.0415 Wade Hall Collection of American Letters: D.T. Smith family letters
59m28 Joseph M. Tanner typescript
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| Map from the Tourist's Pocket Map (1930) |
PQ6284.N58 La Gran comedia, No ay Burlas con el Amor
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| Title page of La Gran comedia |
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| Bug-Jargal (1791) |
843 H874b Bug-Jargal; or, A tale of the massacre in St. Domingo, 1791
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| Italian Ms. 1 Disputazione |
Title: UK Faculty Leadership, then and now
Davy writes: “The arrival of newly elected faculty members to the Senate Council in January has provided an occasion to make historical note of an earlier and the present faculty leadership.”
Current membership of the Senate Council is posted at https://www.uky.edu/universitysenate/senate-council-roster
This is the sixth post in an occasional series, “Davy Jones’ Locker.” Follow along with Davy Jones, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Toxicology and Cancer Biology in the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, as he explores various aspects of University of Kentucky history through the University Archives and online at ExploreUK.uky.edu. The “locker” in the accompanying photograph is one of the cubicles in the Special Collections Research Center’s Breckinridge Research Room where researchers can put their personal items.
Title: The farm and the neighborhood across Rose Street, 1904-1906
On ExploreUK, Davy came across the following campus photographs from 1904 and 1906. The photos show some of the houses on Rose Street at that time, as well as the farm across the street where the Parking Structure #2 and the Don and Cathy Jacobs Science Building are today. Davy marked the photographs with arrows, dots, and lines to help us understand the campus landscape. The homes Davy marks with a dotted line were built between 1902-1904 and were a part of the Clifton Heights neighborhood
The photographer in the photograph from 1904, below, is looking west from the east side of Rose Street:
The photographer in this photograph from 1906, below, is standing on the top of the Administration Building looking southeast:
The yellow arrows, red dot, and dashed red line are marked on the current university campus map:
This is the fifth post in an occasional series, “Davy Jones’ Locker.” Follow along with Davy Jones, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Toxicology and Cancer Biology in the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, as he explores various aspects of University of Kentucky history through the University Archives and online at ExploreUK.uky.edu. The “locker” in the accompanying photograph is one of the cubicles in the Special Collections Research Center’s Breckinridge Research Room where researchers can put their personal items.
Title: For UK Board of Trustees History Buffs
Davy Jones comments: “The UK Library Archives has kindly provided me scanned images of color slides of the January 20, 1967, UK Board meeting from the University of Kentucky Department of Public Relations Photographs collection (accession 2003ua030). To my knowledge, these are the earliest color photos of the UK Board of Trustees ‘in action’ at a Board meeting. The meeting is set in ‘the old Board room’ of 103 Main Building. Here are four photographs of the original slides in their archival boxes when I looked at them in the Breckinridge Research Room:”
"The first image below is a ‘panorama’ of the full Board, with yellow arrows pointing to Lucille Blazer (second woman Board member) and the two Faculty Trustees (Paul Oberst, College of Law; Stephen Diachun, then-College of Agriculture/Department of Plant Pathology)."
"The second image below is a close-up showing President John Oswald, Governor and Board Chair Ned Breathitt, and the President’s Liaison to the Board, Anne Wilson."
This is the fourth post in an occasional series, “Davy Jones’ Locker.” Follow along with Davy Jones, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Toxicology and Cancer Biology in the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, as he explores various aspects of University of Kentucky history through the University Archives and online at ExploreUK.uky.edu. The “locker” in the accompanying photograph is one of the cubicles in the Special Collections Research Center’s Breckinridge Research Room where researchers can put their personal items.
Title: Brief Highlights of History of the UK Senate (Student) Retroactive Withdrawal Appeals Committee
Davy Jones comments: “Prior to 1997, there was no specific policy on student retroactive withdrawal after the end of a semester, and so “outside of the rules” ad hoc requests would come to the office of the Senate Council Chair. The original committee considering the substance of appeals was not a Senate committee –“it was organized through the Disability Resource Center and was intended to hear cases of students with disabilities. As more and more students applied for retroactive withdrawals, and there were increasing numbers of students who came with non‐disability issues, the committee was moved under the purview of the Senate so that it would be more of a faculty‐ and academic‐based committee.” (University Senate: 10/13/2008).”
“In 1997, the University Senate then replaced this process with a Senate Retroactive Withdrawal Appeals Committee (University Senate: 12/08/1997):
‘[Senate Council Chair] Roy Moore said that there were several problems that the Task Force saw. First, different colleges were using different standards, different forms, and doing it in different ways. If they are happy with that, fine. If there is going to be consistency and fairness then there should be a uniform process. … The problem is that as a Senate Council Chair you have one College bringing complete documentation, the next has zero. As far as consistency it is impossible. There are serious legal ramifications as far as ADA is concerned. You have Senate Council Chairs who have no legal background whatsoever. Hopefully the composition of the committee will have individuals of that type of background. There will be better decisions and less potential for lawsuits.’”
“Over subsequent years, various tweaks to the codified process have been made, such standardizing a single University-wide application form (University Senate: 04/12/1999), or another tweak to not allowing retroactive withdrawal to be used to remove an E grade that had been imposed as a result of academic offense (University Senate Council: 04/03/2006). Another tweak was providing for the opportunity, but not requirement, for the course instructor to provide information in the student’s application for retroactive withdrawal (University Senate Council: 04/30/2007):
‘She [Committee Chair Katherine McCormick] said that there were colleges who operated in different ways, specifically with regard to the proposed Instructor Feedback Form (IFF). The SRWAC also wanted colleges to be more uniform in the processing of RWAs regarding stops.’”
“The 2019-2020 Annual Report of the Senate Retroactive Withdrawals Committee provides some information on the nature and number of the cases recently heard by the committee, including:
‘[Committee Chair] Donovan (LA) went over the report and noted that requests are still high, but lower than the previous year. The number of applications is still high enough to justify moving forward with the planned changes to procedures to streamline the workflow. He pointed out that there are ongoing difficulties for applicants because of administrative reasons. These are often due to students who think they have withdrawn online for a semester but have not because the system will not drop a student’s last course online. They must do it in person, but they aren’t always aware of this. SRWAC recommends that there should be better communication with students about this issue.’”
This is the third post in an occasional series, “Davy Jones’ Locker.” Follow along with Davy Jones, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Toxicology and Cancer Biology in the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, as he explores various aspects of University of Kentucky history through the University Archives and online at ExploreUK.uky.edu. The “locker” in the accompanying photograph is one of the cubicles in the Special Collections Research Center’s Breckinridge Research Room where researchers can put their personal items.
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