Library News

Elaine Coppola, Librarian for Government Information, Political Science and International Relations in the Social Sciences and Area Studies Department at Syracuse University Library has received the 2008 Syracuse University Library Distinguished Service Award.

Elaine’s letters of support were strong and eloquent in outlining her many contributions to Syracuse University Library. One colleague wrote:

“Because human relationships are central to effective academic librarianship, employees like Elaine are priceless. Her collegial nature, sense of humor, analytical ability, and overall sense of advocacy for individual librarians and the broad field of librarianship more generally, is demonstrated on a daily basis.”

Elaine is widely known for her skill in user support, faculty liaison work, reference, and government documents. She began her career at Syracuse University Library in 1979 as a Catalog Librarian Technical Services, a position she held for the next 10 years. In a portent of things to come, Elaine volunteered at the reference desk from 1984 until 1989, when she transferred to public services and joined the Reference Department.

Elaine served in a number of key roles in the ensuing period, including Social Sciences Reference Bibliographer, Reference Desk Manager, and Head of Reference from 1999 through 2003. Elaine assumed her present position in Social Sciences and Area Studies in 2005.

Concurrently, Elaine amassed an impressive array of publications, including her most recent article, “May Day, May 1” in the Spring 2007 issue of Documents to the People, reviews for Choice magazine, and the Political Science section of The Guide to Reference Books, 10th edition supplement.

Elaine’s commitment to SU Library is also evident in her extensive record of service, serving on or chairing library committees ranging from the current MetaLib Committee, to the Electronic Resources Advisory Group, the Library Cabinet, the Collection Development Committee, various search committees, SULA, and many others.

Elaine was previously honored by the Eastern NY Chapter of ACRL with its Librarian of the Year award in 1996 for her contributions to that organization. She has also been involved in a number of ALA committees and activities over the years.

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The Book of Origins: A Survey of American Fine Binding, an exhibition, will be on display in the Special Collections Research Center, 6th Floor, E.S. Bird Library, from 5 January to 14 March 2007, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The Book of Origins: A Survey of American Fine Binding has its genesis in an international set binding exhibition organized by Les Amis de la Reliure d’Art du Canada. The letterpress text tells the creation story of the Huron people in English and French through expressive typography and five original lithographs. Le Livre des Origines opened at the Bibliothèque Gabrielle-Roy in Quebec City in September of 2005 and traveled to the Grande Bibliothèque of Montreal and the National Museum of Natural History in Paris.

The exhibition will feature contemporary fine bindings by ten American binders. The group includes established masters as well as gifted emerging artists. Two works will be presented by each binder; their binding in response to the set Book of Origins text, and an additional exemplary example of their work.

Other venues for this exhibition include Michigan State University, the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, the University of Alaska at Anchorage, and the Minnesota Center for Book Arts.

The complete exhibit can be seen on the Library's website at http://library.syr.edu/digital/exhibits/b/bookoforigins

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The new display on the fourth floor of E. S. Bird Library is titled Manhattan Culture. It features SU Library items representing the rich and varied artisitic atmosphere of this great cultural center. The display includes items related to Broadway, local museums, literary figures, the Harlem Renaissance, architecture, famous television and movie locations, and more. The show will remain up through the holiday break.

CONTACT
Edward Gokey
443-4160
eagokey@syr.edu

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At 4 p.m. on Friday, December 1, 2006, Nicholas Birns will give a talk entitled “When Neglected Books Are Revived: The Cases of William Godwin and Dawn Powell.” Birns is on the faculty of Eugene Lang College, The New School. The talk, sponsored by the Syracuse University Seminar in the History of the Book, will take place in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons on the first floor of E. S. Bird Library.

Using William Godwin’s 1793 novel Caleb Williams and the novels of the 20th-century American novelist Dawn Powell as test cases, this talk will explore what it means for a book to be lost and to be revived, the different ways that revived books are received in academia and in the general literary culture, and the nature of revivals themselves as cultural phenomena. The talk will close by drawing lessons from these cases for considering “revivals of neglected books.”

Nicholas Birns, who has taught literature at The New School since 1996, is the author of Understanding Anthony Powell, the editor of Antipodes, and the co-editor of Companion to 20th-Century Australian Literature. He has written for European Romantic Review, Southern Quarterly, Arizona Quarterly, Religion and the Arts, and Review of Contemporary Fiction. He has lectured in Sweden, the UK, and Australia. Birns has a Ph.D. in English from New York University.

The History of the Book Seminar Series at Syracuse University is sponsored by the University Library, the School of Information Studies, and the College of Arts and Sciences: the Dean’s Office and the departments of Anthropology; English; History; Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics; Philosophy; and Religion.

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

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For one day, November 30, patrons with overdue library book fees can pay their fines with donated food items. All locations of SU Library, SU Law Library, and SUNY/ESF Moon Library will be accepting canned goods and other non-perishable food items at the rate of $1 per donated item.

Please bring your donation to the circulation desk at any of the participating libraries between 8 a.m. and 7 p.m.

All food collected will be donated to the Syracuse Downtown Emergency Services for distribution to those in need all over Onondaga County.

Students, faculty, and staff without current fines may also contribute to this worthwhile effort.

CONTACT
Gerri McCarthy
Syracuse University Library
gcmccart@syr.edu
443-3855

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On Thursday, November 16, 2006, at 4 p.m. in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons (first floor of Syracuse University’s E. S. Bird Library), Robert Mattison will give a lecture entitled “Grace Hartigan: Painting the Past and the Present.” This event, sponsored by Syracuse University Library Associates, is free and open to the public. A reception will follow the lecture.

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. This lecture will focus on Hartigan’s distinctive inventions during her long career and place her in the cultural context of the modern era, with particular emphasis on her relationships with such writers and artists as Frank O’Hara, Larry Rivers, Barbara Guest, and Joan Mitchell.

Robert S. Mattison is Marshall R. Metzgar Professor at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. He received his PhD from Princeton University. Mattison is the author of four books and more than sixty articles and exhibition catalogs on modern art. In addition to Hartigan, he has written on such artists as Robert Motherwell, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, and Frank Stella. His particular fascination is working with living artists.

PLEASE NOTE: This lecture is being held in conjunction with a Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) exhibition entitled Imagine! Painters and Poets of the New York School on the sixth floor of E. S. Bird Library. The exhibit 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 Syracuse University Art Galleries, the Grove Press Archives, and SCRC’s extensive holdings of art and literary magazines from the 1950s.

The exhibition is free and open to the public. It will be 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.

Pay parking for the lecture and the exhibition is available in the Marion visitor lot on Waverly Avenue.

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

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Library staff are conducting a series of hands-on workshop for RefWorks, an online citation and bibliography management system. RefWorks allows you to import bibliographic information from a number of sources, including the SUMMIT online catalog and many of our online databases. With the Write-N-Cite program, you can automatically enter citations and generate a bibliography directly into your paper.

For times and location, click on http://library.syr.edu/cite/index.html

CONTACT
Maryjane Poulin
Email: mdpoulin@syr.edu
Phone: 3-9771

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At 4 p.m. on Friday, November 3, 2006, Gary Frost will present a lecture entitled “The Aesthetics of Conservation,” in which he will discuss the “subtle art and quiet passions of the book conservator.” This lecture, sponsored by the Brodsky Endowment for the Advancement of Library Conservation, will occur in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons on the first floor of E. S. Bird Library at Syracuse University.

Gary Frost is an educator in book art and book conservation. He has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia University in New York, and the University of Texas at Austin. He is currently the conservator for the Libraries at the University of Iowa. Frost has been awarded the 2006 Banks/Harris Preservation Award by the ALCTS Division of the American Library Association. (Visit his web site, futureofthebook.com, for further information.)

The Brodsky Endowment for the Advancement of Library Conservation sponsors programs that promote and advance knowledge of library conservation theory and practice at Syracuse University and throughout the Central New York region.

CONTACT: Peter Verheyen
Syracuse University Library
315-443-9756
pdverhey@syr.edu

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Science and Engineering Information Fair: A Showcase of Online Research Tools

Date: Thursday, October 12, 11 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Location: Schine Student Center, Room 304

http://library.syr.edu/information/scitechlib/info_fair_2006.html

Find a better way to meet your information needs. Discover desktop access to the latest in online research tools and services brought to you by SU Library and SUNY-ESF Moon Library.

Vendors will demonstrate products at their individual tables and will offer group presentations of our online books, journals, databases, handbooks, and encyclopedias per the following schedule:

11:00 – 11:20, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
11:30 – 11:50, ScienceDirect
Noon – 12:20, Engineering Village II
12:30 – 12:50, IEEE
1:00 – 1:20, ISI Web of Knowledge
1:30 – 1:50, Knovel Library
2:00 – 2:20, CAB Direct

Handouts, user guides, and brochures from:

· American Chemical Society

· BioOne

· Computing Reviews

· Institute of Physics Publishing

· JSTOR

· Nature Online

· RefWorks

· Safari Tech Books Online

· Science Online

· SciFinder Scholar

· Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

· Springer

Science and Engineering librarians will be available to answer your questions.

Raffle prizes include an iPod, USB flash drives, leather portfolio, laptop carry cases, and Starbuck’s gift certificate, plus giveaways galore from our sponsoring vendors.

Cookies! Cider! Coffee and tea!

For more information call the Science and Technology Library at 443-2160 or email scitech@syr.edu

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In recognition of the Syracuse Symposium 2006-2007 theme of imagination, the Arts and Humanities Services of Bird Library presents "Imagination and Fantasy in the Arts," a display featuring SU Library materials related to distinctive and innovative treatments of non-realist themes in literature and the visual and performing arts. The display is located on the fourth floor of Bird Library and will remain up through early November.

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SU Library will be conducting demonstrations and hands-on workshops for RefWorks, an online citation and bibliography management system. RefWorks allows you to import bibliographic information from a number of sources, including the SUMMIT online catalog and many of our online databases such as those from CSA and EBSCO. With the Write-N-Cite program, you can automatically enter citations and generate a bibliography directly into your paper. Go to http://library.syr.edu/cite/index.html for more information on RefWorks and Write-N-Cite.

To see the Demonstration and Workshop schedule, click on http://library.syr.edu/cite/RefWorksTraining.html .

For more information contact:
Paul H. Bern, Ph.D.
Numeric Data Services Librarian
352 Bird Library
222 Waverly Ave.
Syracuse, NY 13244
315-443-1352

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Paul Bern joined the Syracuse University Library staff in the newly created position of Numeric Data Services Librarian on March 16. Prior to his appointment at Syracuse, Bern was Senior Statistical Programmer/Data Archivist for the Office of Population Research at Princeton University. In his new role, Bern will lead the planning and development of a Numeric Data Services Center in the Library and serve as a resource specialist for numeric data, quantitative research methods, survey research, and data analysis. Bern will also serve as SU liaison to the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), providing subject expertise and access management for ICPSR data sets and codebooks. He will represent the SU Library in campus, regional, and national efforts to provide new data services to users.

Paul brings many years of experience providing statistical, computing, and research support in an academic environment. In 1996 he was appointed to the position of Data and Statistical Services Consultant at the Firestone Library at Princeton University, where he provided advanced support to faculty, students, and staff in statistical computing, research methods, and data analysis in the social sciences. Prior to that, he was a Research Support Specialist for the Office of Human Resources at Cornell University. He is a frequent presenter at International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology (IASSIST) conferences.

Bern is a graduate of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications (1992), earning a Ph.D. in Mass Communications, with a specialization in research methodology and statistics.

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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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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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See the display of tax forms and instruction booklets in the hallway near the elevators. If you do not see the form or instruction you need, ask at our desk. We have every form available for photocopying.

In addition, forms are available at the following web sites:

Federal
http://www.irs.gov/formspubs/index.html

New York State
http://www.tax.state.ny.us/forms/default.htm

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