Library News

"Welcome to Syracuse University Library 2006-2007: Your Guide to Library Services" will be of particular interest to new students. It outlines the Library's services and collections and includes tips for using the Library. Find out how to check out books, get course reserve materials, borrow laptops for in-library use, scan items, print and copy materials, use audio and video resources, and much more. Information on getting research help and advice is also included.

The guide is available online at: http://library.syr.edu/publications/WelcometoLibrary_10mb.pdf . (Please note that the file is 10 MB and may take some time to load.)

Contact:
Abby Kasowitz-Scheer
Head of Instructional Services
Syracuse University Library
Syracuse, NY 13244-2010
(315) 443-1943
askasowi@syr.edu

Posted by Mary Beth Hinton at 2:12 PM | Permalink

Syracuse University Library has developed a research guide to help students explore themes in The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, the book chosen by the Syracuse University Shared Reading Program for 2006-2007 (and by Central New York Reads). The guide includes book reviews, author biographies and interviews, and resources on topics such as Afghanistan history, art and culture; discrimination; immigrants and refugees; religion; human rights; and more. The guide refers students to books, articles, audio files, films and videos, images, music, photography, and web sites. Tips on finding materials are provided.

See the web guide at:
http://library.syr.edu/instruction/class/sharreadKite/index.html

Posted by Mary Beth Hinton at 12:22 PM | Permalink

The University Library’s Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) current exhibition is entitled Imagine! Painters and Poets of the New York School. The exhibition is part of the Syracuse Symposium, which for 2006/2007 has chosen imagination as its theme.

On display is material from the recently processed Grace Hartigan Papers, as well as from the University Art Collection, the Grove Press Archives, and SCRC’s extensive holdings of art and literary magazines from the 1950s. Grace Hartigan (1922–) was a major participant in the explosion of creative energy that was the New York artistic and literary scene of the early 1950s. An important abstract expressionist painter, Hartigan was included in the famous show Twelve Americans at the Museum of Modern Art in 1956. Her friends and correspondents included Frank O’Hara, Larry Rivers, Barbara Guest, and Joan Mitchell.

The exhibition is available weekdays, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (excepting holidays) until December 15, 2006, after which time it will travel to the Palitz Gallery at the Joseph I. Lubin House in New York City.

The exhibition opening is free and open to the public. Pay parking is available in the Marion visitor lot.

CONTACT
Mary Beth Hinton
Syracuse University Library
315-443-2130
mbhinton@syr.edu

Posted by Mary Beth Hinton at 9:00 AM | Permalink

Last academic semester, E. S. Bird Library began a computing and printing pilot program for SU students. During the trial 10 General Reference Area computers were installed with Microsoft Office software (including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, and PhotoEditor), networked campus printing, and student directory files, in addition to access to the Internet and library online resources.

This fall the Library will expand this program to bring students additional computing software on these machines (similar to that of other labs around campus), as well as several more throughout the third and fourth floors of E. S. Bird Library and in the Science and Technology Library. A NetID login and password are needed to access the machines.

Posted by Mary Beth Hinton at 2:01 PM | Permalink

Starting on August 21, you can chat live with a librarian using instant messaging service and get reference and research help in realtime.

From your IM account, type in the screen name: SULibraryHelp.

Visit the SU Library web site (library.syr.edu) and click on Ask Us for IM hours.

Posted by Mary Beth Hinton at 1:59 PM | Permalink