Expect a stimulating and informative day with R. David Lankes as keynote speaker and presentations about Penn Tags, WorldCat Local, eXtensible Catalog, Encore and Grokker.

For full conference details, please visit the ENY/ACRL web site at http://www.enyacrl.org/conf_Spring08.php .

Registration deadline for SU Library staff is Wednesday, May 14.

Physics materials will be relocated to the Science and Technology Library at Carnegie, beginning on May 16. The move is expected to take several days. Users with an urgent need for specific material from the physics collection during the move should convey their requests directly to Science and Technology Library staff. Otherwise, the physics collection will be unavailable for use during the move. Physics materials that are currently charged out may be returned to any of the other SU Libraries.

For Science and Technology hours, please see: http://library.syr.edu/information/hours/summer2008.html

For additional information, please contact Janet Pease, head of the Science and Technology Library at 315-443-9768 or email jlpease@syr.edu.

To access the database, point your browser to: RIPM - Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals

RIPM - Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals is an international annotated bibliography of writings on musical history and culture, found in music periodicals published in seventeen countries between approximately 1800 and 1950. Treating primary source material, RIPM indexes the content of complete runs of journals, including articles, reviews, news columns, miscellaneous items, surveys of the press, bibliographies, iconography and advertising. In addition, this database offers access to an immense bibliography of music and to thousands of English-language translations of foreign documents. Approximately 20,000 records are added annually. Plans are currently underway to expand RIPM's coverage to include Latin America. RIPM is produced under the auspices of the International Musicological Society (IMS) and the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML).

Note: Due to the nature of the sources in RIPM it is highly recommended that customers use the display format "Detailed" as the default setting for display of records in the result list

For more information or comments, please contact Carole Vidali.

“Syracuse University Library is honored to become one of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute’s partners. The Visual History Archive is a welcome addition to our collection of multidisciplinary research tools,” says University Librarian and Dean of Libraries Suzanne Thorin. “The firsthand perspective provided by these interviews will be invaluable to students and scholars of history, religion, anthropology and many other disciplines.”

The USC Shoah Foundation Institute grew out of Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, established by film director Steven Spielberg following the release of “Schindler’s List.” The purpose of the project was to document the experiences of survivors and other witnesses to the Holocaust. The majority of the interviews—about 90 percent—are with Jewish survivors of Nazi persecution; also represented in the archive are political prisoners, Roma and Sinti (Gypsy) survivors, homosexuals and Jehovah’s Witnesses, along with liberators, witnesses, rescuers and aid providers.

Users can search more than 50,000 geographic and experiential keywords, the names of every person mentioned in the testimonies, and biographical information for each interviewee. A selection of testimonies will be immediately available at SU; users can request that other testimonies be delivered to SU’s local server. The Shoah system makes use of Internet2, a relatively new network that is ideally suited to transferring large files like the Shoah videos. Users must be physically present on the SU campus to access the Visual History Archive, which is located at http://vha.usc.edu/.

“The Visual History Archive is an extraordinarily useful tool for addressing the issues of the Holocaust and making it relevant to the theme of being a bystander in today’s world,” says Alan Goldberg, professor emeritus in SU’s School of Education and coordinator of the institute’s “The Holocaust, Lessons for the Classroom,” a collaboration of Syracuse University, the Holocaust Museum, Houston, and the Warren Fellowship for Future Educators.

The mission of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute is to “overcome prejudice, intolerance and bigotry—and the suffering they cause—through the educational use of the institute's visual history testimonies.” The institute relies upon partnerships in the United States and around the world to provide public access to the archive and advance scholarship in many fields of inquiry. The institute and its partners also utilize the archive to develop educational products and programs for use in many countries and languages.

For more information about Shoah or to arrange for a demonstration, contact Lydia Wasylenko at 443-4692 or lwwasyle@syr.edu.

During the Spring 2008 semester, students from the Renée Crown University Honors Program taking the course American Fear, taught by Sean Quimby, director of the Special Collections Research Center, explored the history of fear in American life by immersing themselves in the Library’s primary resource collections.

The students worked diligently to produce an exhibition that accurately illustrates the concept of fear in the United States. They felt that the theme of “invasion” underlies many of our historical anxieties relating to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation and a host of other issues. The idea that different people, aliens or even epidemics, like the AIDS virus during the 1980s, might infiltrate society and bring about sweeping change has been cause for extreme fear in the American experience. Fundamentally, the exhibition raises questions of identity, and the class hopes that visitors will “understand their differences and be less discriminating in their actions.”

Among the exhibited works that illuminate the roots of our culture of fear are a 1651 edition of Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan, Cotton Mather’s 1693 account of the Salem Witch trials, the literature of the Red Scare, a variety of pulp science fiction magazines and Werner Pfeiffer’s sculptural tribute to the victims of 9/11, Out of the Sky.

To access the database, point your browser to: Global Road Warrior

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For more information or comments, please contact Natasha Cooper.

During the Spring 2008 semester, students from the Renée Crown University Honors Program taking the course “American Fear” taught by Sean Quimby, Director of the Special Collections Research Center, explored the history of fear in American life by immersing themselves in the library's primary resource collections.

The students worked diligently to produce an exhibition that accurately illustrates the concept of fear in the United States. They felt that the theme of “invasion” underlies many of our historical anxieties relating to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, and a host of other issues. The idea that different people, aliens, or even epidemics, like the AIDS virus during the 1980s, might infiltrate society and bring about sweeping change has been cause for extreme fear in the American experience. Fundamentally, the exhibition raises questions of identity, and the class hopes that visitors will “understand their differences and be less discriminating in their actions.”

Among the exhibited works that illuminate the roots of our culture of fear are: a 1651 edition of Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, Cotton Mather's 1693 account of the Salem Witch trials, the literature of the Red Scare, a variety of pulp science fiction magazines, and Werner Pfeiffer's sculptural tribute to the victims of 9/11 Out of the Sky.

To access the database, point your browser to: SimplyMap

SimplyMap is an Internet-based mapping application that enables users to develop interactive thematic maps and reports using thousands of demographic, business, and marketing data variables. Professional mapping applications take over 20 hours of training to use, but we have designed SimplyMap to be incredibly user friendly - most users are up and running with less than 10 minutes of training.

This Trial entitles you to access the EASI ® Standard Package, which includes data from the year 2000, Current Estimates and Five Year Projections, the Historical Package, and the EASI MRI & Life Stages Package.

For more information or comments, please contact Natasha Cooper.

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