Library News

Syracuse University Library's Biblio Gallery on the 4th floor of Bird Library is now featuring artwork by Maire Kennedy, a graduate student studying Fiber Arts and Material Studies in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. In her artwork, Maire creates and documents installations of highly exaggerated repetitions. The show will run through June 30, 2009.

For more information, contact Melinda Dermody at 443-5332 or mderm01@syr.edu. To learn more about the Biblio Gallery, visit http://library.syr.edu/information/finearts/bibliogallery.html.

Posted by Kathleen White at 11:56 AM | Permalink

Jonathan Singleton, a doctoral student in the English Department in Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences, received the Mary Hatch Marshall Essay Award at the Syracuse University Library Associates annual Spring Luncheon held on May 1. His winning essay is titled “Religion, Radicalism, and Sympathetic Reading in Gaskell's Mary Barton.”

Mary Hatch Marshall joined the faculty of Syracuse University in 1948 and became the first woman at Syracuse to achieve the rank of full professor in the College of Liberal Arts. During her tenure, she was one of the founding members of the Library Associates. She also helped establish the Honors Program, serving as its first director. Professor Marshall retired from full-time teaching in 1970 and was awarded emeritus status. She promptly began a second career in adult education, offering courses through the Humanistic Studies Center at University College until 1993.

To honor and help perpetuate Mary Hatch Marshall's scholarly standards and generous spirit, Library Associates in 2004 established this annual award for the best essay written by a graduate student in the humanities at the University. Members of Library Associates, Marshall's friends and family, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, and the Central New York Community Foundation all contributed to the endowment that funds this annual award.

Full- and part-time students from African American Studies; English; Fine Arts; Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics; Latino-Latin American Studies; Religion; Philosophy; the Writing Program; and the Women's and Gender Studies Program are eligible for the $500 award. Nominations are coordinated by the respective department and program chairs. Faculty members who reviewed essays submitted for this year's awards were Eileen E. Schell (chair), Kenneth Baynes, and Ernest Wallwork.

Library Associates is a society devoted to the enrichment of the University Library and the greater Syracuse community. Members share an interest in books, learning, and the preservation of knowledge. To learn more, visit http://library.syr.edu/libraryassociates.

Posted by Kathleen White at 2:24 PM | Permalink

Syracuse University Library, in partnership with Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts and the Syracuse City School District, is now presenting “An Alphabet in Your Own Backyard”, an exhibition of handmade accordion books.

The exhibition is currently located in the new display case on the first floor of Bird Library until the end of the February. It will then move to the sixth floor exhibition space where it will remain until the end of spring semester. The exhibit is free and open to the public.

The exhibit showcases books created by students from Henninger High School and Syracuse University. In the fall semester, VPA professor Gail Hoffman's freshman ‘Foundation 2-D Creative Processes' class worked with Henninger High School art teacher Lori Schneider's class of advanced design students. SU students were paired up with Henninger students and the teams used cameras to capture natural images resembling letters, such as a ladder resembling an “A”, to create the alphabet in images. Students used the images to create an accordion book.

“An Alphabet in Your Own Backyard” exhibition is the first stage of a two-year collaborative community project. Funded by SU's Enitiative with funds from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the project will connect Syracuse University with the broader Syracuse community, educate both Syracuse University and Syracuse City School District students about the book arts, and teach Syracuse University students entrepreneurial skills related to creating, marketing, and managing a new product. From this exhibition of handmade books, a jury of design faculty will select twenty six letters to create a final alphabet accordion book that will be professionally printed.

For more information on this exhibit, please contact Peter Verheyen, pdverhey@syr.edu or 443-9756

Posted by Kathleen White at 4:24 PM | Permalink

In a partnership with the Bird Library Learning Commons, the Tutoring and Study Center is now offering students the opportunity to sign up for tutoring services right in the library. The TSC provides academic tutors for Syracuse University students seeking to do better in their courses. To sign up for these services, students are invited to visit the Tutoring and Study Center desk located on the first floor of Bird Library (near the stand-up workstations) on Mondays and Tuesdays from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., and on Wednesdays from 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.

For more information, please contact the Tutoring and Study Center Office at 443-2005 or tutorctr@syr.edu. The Center is located on 111 Waverly Avenue, Suite 220 and is open daily from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Posted by Kathleen White at 12:03 PM | Permalink

The Library has activated access to the web version of SciFinder. Unlike the desktop program, SciFinder Web can be used from off-campus via the EZproxy authentication server
SciFinder Web Edition offers many of the features of the desktop version of SciFinder Scholar. In addition, in this new browser-based version, you are able to save answer sets against your account on the server; navigate to stages of your search using breadcrumbs; generate and view keep me posted results about updated searches; analyze answer set automatically; analyze substances by substance role, elements, reaction availability, or commercial availability; limit substance refine by the absence of commercially available substances; and more.
Before using SciFinder Web Edition for the first time, you need to register for an account.
There will be a representative from Chemical Abstracts at our Information Fair on Tuesday, October 7 (see http://libweb.syr.edu/librarynews/archives/001066.html ) demonstrating the web product and helping people register.

The Library has currently switched over 1 of the 6 simultaneous access seats that we have available as part of our SciFinder subscription to the web version - i.e., 1 person at a time can use the web version and the remaining 5 seats are allotted to users of the desktop program. We'll be monitoring the usage statistics to see how many people are using the web version vs. the desktop version and will make changes as necessary.

Contact Tom Keays if you have any problems or concerns.

URL: http://library.syr.edu/research/database/scifinder/
Contact: Tom Keays htkeays@syr.edu

Posted by Kathleen White at 9:42 AM | Permalink

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

Posted by Mary Beth Hinton at 4:42 PM | Permalink

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

Posted by Mary Beth Hinton at 3:34 PM | Permalink

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

Posted by Mary Beth Hinton at 10:59 AM | Permalink

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

Posted by Mary Beth Hinton at 11:29 AM | Permalink

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

Posted by Mary Beth Hinton at 2:16 PM | Permalink

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

Posted by Mary Beth Hinton at 2:44 PM | Permalink

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

Posted by Mary Beth Hinton at 9:31 AM | Permalink

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.

Posted by Mary Beth Hinton at 2:24 PM | Permalink

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

Posted by Mary Beth Hinton at 8:58 AM | Permalink

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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