Library News

Join Mariana Lebron, Director of SU's Orientation and Transition Services, and Professor Jerry Evensky, SU's Faculty Assistant for the First- Year Experience, for a Peer to Peer discussion entitled:

Shared Reading Programs for First-Year Students: A Role for Libraries

Peer to Peer Library Dialog
Wednesday May 5
Noon - 1pm
1916 Room - E.S. Bird Library

In recent years, colleges and universities have begun to give special attention to first-year students, often introducing summer reading projects tied to the first-year experience. For example, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill chooses a book to be read by all incoming freshman, the goals being "to enhance students' participation in the intellectual life of the campus through stimulating discussion and critical thinking around a current topic, to enhance a sense of community between students, faculty and staff, and to provide a common experience for incoming students" (See UNC-CH Website listed below.).

In 2003, Syracuse University, too, established a summer reading program for entering freshmen. We will focus on ways in which libraries can contribute to initiatives for enriching students' first-year experiences.

You may wish to consider the following articles and Web sites (Articles are available via SUMMIT Catalog-online course reserve-"LBR 100."):

Rodney, Mae L. "Building Community Partnerships: The 'One Book, One Community' Experience." College and Research Libraries News. (March 2004), 65 (3), p. 130-132, 155. http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crlnews/backissues2004/march04/communitypartnerships.htm

O'Connor, Erin. "Misreading What Reading Is For." Chronicle of Higher Education. (September 5, 2003), p. 20.

Cornell University Library's Web site, "Antigone: 2003 New Student Reading Project: Library Resources": http://www.library.cornell.edu/iris/antigone/

University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill's Web site, "Carolina Summer Reading Program" (already featuring the selection for 2004): http://www.unc.edu/srp/

Web site of the Policy Center on the First Year of College: http://www.brevard.edu/fyc/

Hope to see you there. Light refreshments provided. Bring a lunch. All are welcome!

Peer to Peer Library Dialog is a staff initiated program of monthly discussion about trends and current topics of interest in librarianship. Send comments or questions to Lydia Wasylenko lwwasyle@syr.edu

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The weekly schedule will be:

April 11-23
Open from 10 a.m. on Sunday until 10 p.m. on Friday; Saturday 10
a.m. to 10 p.m.

April 24-30, May 1-5
Open from 10 a.m. on Sunday until midnight on Friday; Saturday
10 a.m. to midnight

May 6
Close at 10 p.m. on Thursday.

A valid SU and ESF I.D. Card will be required after midnight.

Additional information about hours can be found on the Library
web page:

http://libwww.syr.edu

QUESTIONS? CONTACT:
- Thomas House
- Syracuse University Library
- 125 E.S. Bird Library

Phone: 443-1896
Email: tdhouse@syr.edu

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A web page of Brown v. Board of Education-related resources for educators is now available on the Education Subject Guide page. This page (http://libwww.syr.edu/research/internet/education/readings.html) was created in anticipation of the Brown v. Board of Education anniversary celebration (please see the Hendricks Chapel page for additional information: http://hendricks.syr.edu/brownvboard/)

This page of resources for educators was prepared by Jacquie Kowalczyk and Tasha Cooper, in collaboration with the School of Education. Jacquie and Tasha welcome additional suggestions for the page.

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Have you registered to vote? Forms are available at the Maps & Government Information Reference Desk, 3rd floor Bird Library - or, via the web <http://www.fec.gov/votregis/pdf/nvra.pdf>

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Elsevier Engineering Information, Inc. is in the process of digitizing all volumes of Engineering Index back to 1884. The library has purchased this backfile containing references of major engineering innovations pioneered throughout the 19th and 20th centuries to provide you with access to citations on topics such as the first internal combustion engine, the foundations of aviation, telecommunications and computing. As of the week of April 5, the database goes back to 1910 and contains 1,272,794 records. Over 100,000 records are being added per week. When completed later this Spring, the fully digitized backfile will comprise close to 2 million records.

Engineering Index forms the foundation of Compendex, a bibliographic database covering over 175 disciplines and major specialties within engineering. The 1970 to present-day file contains over 7,000,000 references and abstracts taken from over 5,000 engineering journals, conferences and technical reports. Updated with new material on a weekly basis, approximately 250,000 new records are added to the database annually.

When digitization is complete, the Compendex database will provide one stop search access to 120 years of engineering literature. The Backfile is available for searching at Syracuse University as fast as Engineering Information can load the data. Take a look!

Contact: Maryjane Poulin, mdpoulin@syr.edu

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"On the Spot" with Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Marguerite Higgins, 1920-1966. The exhibition features correspondence, writings, photographs, and other memorabilia from the Marguerite Higgins Papers housed in the Special Collections Research Center.

The exhibition is on display from April 6 through August 13, 2004, Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the 6th floor gallery of E.S. Bird Library.

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Peter D. Verheyen
Preservation & Access Librarian / Conservation Librarian
Special Collections Research Center
pdverhey@syr.edu

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