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Watch the live broadcasts of the Presidential and Vice Presidential debates in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, Room 114, E.S. Bird Library. The debate schedule is:
Friday, September 26th, 9 -10:30 p.m. (Obama/McCain #1)
Thursday, October 2nd, 9 -10:30 p.m. (Biden/Palin)
Tuesday October 7th, 9 -10:30 p.m. (Obama/McCain #2)
Wednesday, October 15th, 9 -10:30 p.m. (Obama/McCain #3)
A team of SU students is promoting the use of the GoodSearch.com search engine as a way to support the John Dau Sudan Foundation. Goodsearch is a Yahoo-powered search engine that donates a penny to the charity of your choice for every search you make. A corollary service, GoodShop.com, also donates a percentage of purchases made through the website to charity. By concentrating its efforts on the John Dau Sudan Foundation, the team hopes to raise awareness and funding for the charity. Goodsearch also allows users to track the amount of money raised. John Dau, one of the Lost Boys of the Sudan, is an SU student who started the foundation to build and sustain healthcare clinics in South Sudan.
The Library will offer a number of RefWorks training sessions in September and October.
RefWorks is an online citation management tool available to all SU students and faculty. Students and faculty are encouraged to attend a session and learn how RefWorks can simplify and enhance the process of organizing research materials.
These are hands-on sessions and will include demonstrations of how to import and save citations, generate bibliographies, insert in-text references, and more. Sessions will be held in Room 046 on the lower level of E.S. Bird Library. No registration is required - drop-ins are welcome!
Sessions will be held on:
Tuesday, September 16, 11:00 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.
Monday, September 22, 12:45 p.m. - 2:05 p.m.
Thursday, October 2, 12:30 p.m. - 1:50 p.m.
Wednesday. October 8, 12:45 p.m. - 2:05 p.m.
Tuesday, October 14, 11:00 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.
Tuesday, October 21, 2:00 p.m. - 3:20 p.m.
Monday, October 27, 2:15 p.m. – 3:25 p.m.
For more details about RefWorks and a copy of the class schedule, please visit the library’s RefWorks webpage: http://library.syr.edu/cite/refworks.html
Charlotte Hess has been appointed associate university librarian for collections and scholarly communication at Syracuse University Library. She is responsible for guiding new initiatives to evaluate, strengthen and promote the collections of the SU libraries. She will also provide leadership in developing goals, and determining policies and directions to meet the challenges of the changing modes of scholarly communication.
Hess was director of library and information services at the Research Library of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University since 1989. She is founder of the Digital Library of the Commons at Indiana University and served as the director from 2000-08. She previously served in several librarian positions at Indiana University.
Hess has an extensive publication record and has been a presenter or planner for numerous national and international professional conferences. She co-edited “Understanding Knowledge as a Commons: From Theory to Practice” (MIT, 2007). She has also been a key contributor to website development and has been a consultant in the research areas of the commons and knowledge management for several African universities. She has been the information officer and served on the executive council of the International Association for the Study of the Commons since 1997.
Hess received a bachelor’s degree with honors in Germanic languages and a master’s degree in library science from Indiana University. She has also done graduate work in comparative literature.
She can be reached at 443-5528 or hess@syr.edu.
K. Matthew Dames (G ’01) has been appointed Copyright & Information Policy Adviser at Syracuse University Library, effective August 2008. In this newly created position, Dames provides strategy, advice, guidance, and education to the Library on copyright and information policy issues so the Library can effectively deliver information, scholarship, and related services to the University and its constituents. Mr. Dames also will work upon request with members of the University community, including faculty, who are seeking guidance on copyright or policy issues that affect scholarship and research.
Reporting to the University Librarian and Dean of the Library, Mr. Dames serves as the Library’s primary resource for copyright, fair use, and information policy, Mr. Dames also will develop a variety of educational initiatives to inform the Library and broader University community about best practices for using copyrighted information in teaching and research. He will manage the Library’s copyright website and its copyright permissions initiatives, and will continue serving as a member of the University Committee on Copyright, established by the Provost in 2007.
Mr. Dames is an alumnus of the School of Information Studies, where he was awarded the Lemke Book Award in 2001, and currently is enrolled in the School’s doctoral program, where he is researching rhetoric and framing in information policy. Dames has also served in academic positions at the Syracuse University New Technology Law Center at the College of Law, and the iSchool’s Center for Research on Collaboratories and Technology Enhanced Learning Communities and Wireless Grids Laboratory.
Mr. Dames has written extensively on copyright and information policy matters, both as the Executive Editor of Copycense and for several publications. His awards and honors include being named a University Fellow; serving as a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics, and the Media; receiving an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Future Professoriate fellowship; and completing a post-graduate fellowship at the Georgetown University Law Center. He received the 21st Century New Librarian award from the iSchool in 2003 and is a member of the Beta Phi Mu honor society.
In addition to his iSchool graduate degree, Mr. Dames has earned a bachelor’s degree in business from Bernard M. Baruch College, and a law degree from Northeastern University School of Law.
He can be reached at 443-8508 or kmdames@syr.edu.
Scott Warren has been appointed bibliographer for science and technology at Syracuse University Library. He is responsible for evaluating, strengthening and promoting the science and technology collections of the Syracuse University Library in alignment with the teaching and research needs of the University.
Warren was associate director of the Burlington Textiles Library and Engineering Services at North Carolina State University. He served in several librarian positions while at NCSU, including librarian for the physical and mathematical sciences. Warren began his career as an NCSU Libraries Fellow, working with the Textiles Library and the Reserves Department of the NCSU libraries. He was a frequent guest lecturer in classes in the textiles, engineering, and humanities and social sciences colleges at NCSU.
Warren has published in The Journal of Interlibrary Loan; Document Delivery & Information Supply; Technical Services Quarterly; and Libri, among other journals, and has presented at numerous national conferences. He has an extensive record of library service while working at NCSU, serving on and leading numerous committees, including the North Carolina State University Librarians Association. He is also a member of the American Society for Engineering Education’s Scholarly Communication Committee (Engineering Libraries Division).
Warren received bachelor’s degrees in astronomy, mathematics and physics, as well as a bachelor’s degree in history from the Pennsylvania State University. He also received a master’s degree in library and information studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was nominated for membership in the Beta Phi Mu library honor society.
Simmons Choices III (Experian Consumer Research) is a CD containing extensive survey data for a large sampling of American consumers and households. Available at leading business libraries across the U.S., Choices III allows cross tabulation of hundreds of consumer product categories, with usage data for over 8,000 brands, inclusive of consumer media habits, diverse demographic categories, and psychographic (attitudinal and lifestyle) profiles. Data is from the most recent CD release (Spring 2006) and includes Simmons’:
· Integrated National Consumer Study/Hispanic Consumer Study
· National Consumer Study - Teens (ages 12-17)
· National Consumer Study - Kids (ages 6-11)
Although only located at one offline location, the CHOICES III CD provides invaluable information to researchers and students investigating consumer product and media preferences. This highly sought after competitive business data is not otherwise readily obtainable by most academic communities. Interested researchers will find CHOICES III available at E.S. Bird Library’s 3rd Floor, Geographic & Statistical Information Center - Workstation A. The document, A Guide to Choices 3 Software, is also available at the Center.
Science Reference Center from EBSCO is a comprehensive research database that provides access to a wide range of full text science-oriented content. It contains more than 630 full text titles, including leading science encyclopedias, reference books, and periodicals, as well biographies and images. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife. Science Reference Center is especially strong in meeting general or introductory science research needs. In addition, over 70 science-oriented educational benchmarks are aligned with relevant articles to help ensure that curriculum and/or science-specific educational standards are being met.
For more information or to arrange for a demonstration, please contact Janet Pease at 443-9768 or jlpease@syr.edu.
Syracuse University Library now subscribes to China Data Online, the product of a collaboration between the University of Michigan's China Data Center and All China Market Research Co., Ltd.
China Data Online provides comprehensive information on China’s economic and social development at national, provincial, county, city, and industrial levels. Its core databases include:
• Monthly Statistics - provides the monthly macroeconomic statistics at national, provincial and city levels from 1998 to the present;
• National Statistics - provides statistical data at the national level from 1949 to the present;
• Provincial Statistics - provides statistical data at the provincial level from 1949 to the present;
• City Statistics - provides annual statistics of prefecture and county level cities from 1996;
• County Statistics - provides the annual county statistics from 1997;
• Industrial Statistics - provides monthly and yearly statistics by industries from 1999; and
• Statistical Yearbooks - includes a series of China national, provincial, city and professional statistical yearbooks, which will be expanded to cover all statistical yearbooks published by the National Bureau of Statistics of China.
In addition, its China Census Databases contain approximately 3,000 electronic census data books that provide a unique collection of various census data for all provinces, cities, counties and townships of mainland China. The databases include: Industrial Census Data; Basic Unit Census Data; Economic Census Data; Agricultural Census Data; and Population Census and Survey Data.
For more information about China Data Online, please contact Marty Hanson, mjhanson@syr.edu, 443-1947. For assistance in using the database, please contact Paul Bern, phbern@syr.edu, 443-1352.
