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George Abbott
Head, Media Services Department
E.S. Bird Library
Beginning March 8, a passport security surcharge of $12 will be
collected on ALL passport applications, according to the U.S. State Department.
This surcharge will fund multiple security enhancements in the U.S.
Passport.
The $12 surcharge will be collected along with the regular passport
application fee of $55 for those 16 and older (total fee $67) and $40
for those under age 16 (total fee $52) for routine service. The $30
execution fee (payable to the processing agent) and $60 expedite fee
will remain the same.
The surcharge will also support the cost of upgrading passport delivery
from First Class Mail to Priority Mail. Customers will still have the
option to purchase two-way overnight delivery at an additional cost.
Also effective March 8, the fee to search Department of State records
to verify an applicant's U.S. citizenship is being increased from $45 to
$60.
More on passports:
http://travel.state.gov/passport/passport_1738.html
Lesley Pease
Maps & Government Information Department
3rd floor, E.S. Bird Library
315.443.4176
mapdocs@syr.edu
http://library.syr.edu/research/internet/government/index.html
The Library's information bulletins are now on the web in PDF format
at: http://library.syr.edu/instruction/handouts/index.html.
Links to this resource are also available from pages within the
library.syr.edu/instruction directory and from the
publications/index.html page.
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Abby Kasowitz-Scheer
Head of Instructional Programs
Syracuse University Library
Syracuse, NY 13244-2010
(315) 443-1943
askasowi@syr.edu
In support of the “If All of Central New York Read The Grapes of Wrath” initiative and the Syracuse Stage production of The Grapes of Wrath, the Library’s Special Collections Research Center is now displaying holdings related to radicalism in literature and art. The exhibition, titled “Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath: Bitter Fruit of the Depression,” will be available Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., in the sixth floor exhibit gallery of E.S. Bird Library until May 27, 2005.
Along with examples of contemporary critical response to publication of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, the exhibition includes other, if less well-known, Depression-era novels by Robert Cantwell, Edward Dahlberg, and Grace Lumpkin; an assortment of 1930s cartoons by A. Redfield, Otto Soglow, and Art Young; and a retrospective look at the uses of art, particularly drama, in the service of revolutionary ideology.
The exhibition is supported by the Peter Graham Fund for Radicalism in Literature and Art. Graham was University Librarian at Syracuse University from 1998 until his death in August 2004. During the 1960s, Graham was an active member of the Young People’s Socialist League in Chicago and New York City. In 1963 he worked as an assistant to Bayard Rustin, executive director of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, managing the national office in Harlem for four months. Graham continued to be active in social organizations; in 2002, he and his wife, Lewraine Graham, were awarded the NAACP President’s Award for service to the Syracuse/Onondaga County branch. The Graham Fund was established in Peter Graham’s honor by his father, Harold Graham, and Harold’s wife, Alaine Krim, of New York City.
The Special Collections Research Center at Syracuse University Library has a rich array of materials pertaining to the expression of radical thought in literature and art. In addition to printed works, the Center holds the papers of Arna Bontemps, Granville Hicks, Lillian Gilkes, John Spivak, Horace Gregory, and Harry Roskolenko, and the records of Grove Press, to name a few of the more important collections.
Syracuse University Library recently purchased LOCUS, the SIAM electronic archive. SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) publishes journals in applied mathematics and computational sciences. The SIAM archive makes all articles published from 1952 to 1996 available in full text electronic format. Each article is available as a searchable PDF. The SIAM archive may be viewed at http://locus.siam.org/
The library currently receives both the print and electronic editions of all SIAM journals. Current electronic holdings are linked from SUMMIT.
The full text articles and references are linked from the MathSciNet (Mathematical Reviews) database. SIAM journals are also indexed by Compendex (Engineering Index, Inspec & NTIS, combined).
Contact Mary DeCarlo
mmdecarl@syr.edu
