Information Technology, the State Assisted Academic Library Council of Kentucky Library Directors and the Kentucky Virtual Library.

The Library is currently developing student learning outcomes and assessment that support all academic units. The Library has added all of the general education textbooks to the ExLibris Voyager system through Course Reserves. Students have the ability to check out the textbooks for a two-hour loan period. The Library participated in the Welcome Week Extravaganza for students on August 26. Brochures and goodies were passed out to the students and they were encouraged to visit the library. A proposal for a sub-grant through the HBCU Library Alliance sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the expanding of faculty research through funding technical support in grant writing has been prepared and submitted by the Library.

The Library continues to participate in meetings, conferences and webinars, and to serve in the consortiums and organizations in which it holds membership including: the State Assisted Academic Library Council of Kentucky, the Federal Depository Library Program, the Federation of KY Academic Libraries, the Collections Committee and Voyager Consortium, the Kentucky Library Association, the 1890 Library Deans and Directors, the African-American Male Librarians Association, the Government Documents Round Table, and the State Records Advisory Committee.

This year’s summer component proved to be both successful and beneficial to the Upward Bound staff and participants. The program served a total of 37 students with most students residing on campus in Hunter and Combs Halls. Students were impacted academically, socially, and culturally as a result of the program. They engaged in classes in their core subject areas, received American College Test (ACT) test preparation, and mentoring from KSU students and staff. College tours to Thomas More, the University of Louisville, and the University of Cincinnati were also provided. The participants visited Chicago, Illinois for their end of the year cultural and educational enrichment trip. Students toured Northwestern University, the Du Sable Museum, the John Hancock Observatory, and the Museum of Science and Industry. They also visited the Shedd Aquarium and Millennium Park.

The month of August marked the beginning of the academic component for the Upward Bound program. The program hosted its first parent and student orientation. At the orientation, the staff discussed the importance of everyone working together to achieve the program objectives, bullying and its consequences, and the importance of parent and student involvement.

GO College provided school and learning community college enrichment activities to participants at Fern Creek High School in Louisville. The GO College program served 80 students this summer with some visiting the campus of Kentucky State University for the first time.

Students received instruction in the core classes, toured the campus of KSU and visited Asbury College, the University of Kentucky's Pharmacy School, Eastern Kentucky University and Georgetown College. Students also met with the video production crew at KSU to discuss careers in video production/journalism. The participants and staff traveled to Atlanta, Georgia for their end of the year cultural and educational trip.

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