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3rd Annual Library Lock-In Proves Successful

By Scott Juskiewicz

Between the late hours of February 29th and the early morning hours of March 1st the Library and the Office of Residence Life offered the third annual Library Lock-In.

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SU Library Celebrates Grand Opening
of New Cafe

By Pamela McLaughlin

Syracuse University Library hosted the grand opening of its new café and launch of the new learning commons on Thursday, Feb. 21. Since its opening in mid-January, the café has quickly become a popular spot on campus for beverages, sandwiches and snacks, and is the only campus café that serves the locally renowned Freedom of Espresso brand of coffee.

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SU Library Announces New Café Name

By Pamela McLaughlin

SU Library unveiled the contest-winning name Pages for the new Bird Library café at its grand opening celebration on February 21st. The selection panel for the naming contest included University Librarian and Dean of Libraries Suzanne Thorin, Library Communications Director Pamela McLaughlin, undergraduate student Dana Varin, History Professor Chris Kyle, and Director of SU Food Services Dave George.

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Changing to Meet the Need

By Gerri McCarthy

As the Library, technology, and the needs of the University community continue to evolve, change becomes the norm. Recently LITS has made changes to some of our computing systems to better serve the needs of faculty and students.

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Changes on the Horizon
By Gerri McCarthy

Between now and the end of June, LITS will be migrating all Library staff PCs to the new Active Directory (AD) environment. Members of the LITS department have already made this change on their own machines prior to rolling out the implementation to the rest of us.

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GSIC Lab New Software & Easy Printing Options Debut in GSIC Lab

By Lesley Pease

All three printers in GSIC are now connected to the campus Print Quota Management system. This means that users will no longer have to buy printer punch cards from the Business Service Office in order to print in our lab!

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PanAfrican Pan African Studies Program Looks to Library

By Lesley Pease

When the Pan African studies program surveyed graduates of their master’s program, they asked, “what didn’t you get that you needed?” What they found was that students could have used more preparation in how to conduct original research.

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Other News	The Green Scene
Syracuse University Library awarded $250,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded $250,000 to Syracuse University Library for the creation of detailed descriptive catalog records for historical 78-rpm sound recordings held by the Belfer Audio Laboratory and Archive. Click here for complete story. First Floor Project Thank You By Lisa E. Moeckel I’d like to take a moment to recognize the staff members who played key roles in implementing the changes to the service center and other first floor areas, and implementing the new workstation security procedures during the winter break. Click here for complete story.	Tips To Keep You and the World a Little Healthier As part of the Syracuse University's effort to save our environment, we offer some tips to help you help the world. Tip of the Month: Use cold water for hand washing. Every 10-degree drop in H2O temperature saves 3%-5% on water heating costs. Most faucets spit out 2 gal per min while you're waiting for the water to warm up. With hand washing, the friction and the soap are what really get your hands clean. As far as water temp goes, you'd have to rinse your paws in boiling water to actually kill germs. (from Ideal Bite Nov 26, 2007) For more information and tips see The Green Universe City or University Sustainable Effort Coalition web sites.
	Ergonomics at Work Part of making our workplace, and more increasingly our homes, a safer, more user-friendly environment involves establishing good habits as far as utilizing our bodies correctly and using furniture and equipment that facilitates us to do so. Click here for information on how to make your office safer.

Interesting Links	Library Community
For ACRL Pod Casts: http://blogs.ala.org/acrlpodcast.php 15 Products for Organizing Photos: http://www.techlicious.tv/2007/12/16-great-media-managers-to-organize.html Salute to reference librarians for National Library Week: http://alfocus.ala.org/videos/national-library-week-reference-desk	iSchool Professor Receives Grant to Bring Gaming to Libraries If Professor Scott Nicholson, an associate professor in the School of Information Studies, has his way, the library would no longer be a place just for studying - students could also play video games. Click here for complete story from The Daily Orange. A copy of Professor Nicholson talk at the Library on March 25th "Exploring the Intersection Between Libraries and Gaming" is available in Media Services.

Upcoming Events		Coming Soon
		Antje Bultmann Lemke Seminar Room Nears Completion With the completion of the Antje Bultmann Lemke Seminar Room, the SCRC's reading room will soon move out of its temporary quarters in the Tolley Room and back to its original, but newly renovated space in room 600. A May 2, 2008 dedication of the new seminar room is being planned. Click here for before and after photos.
The CAFC Third Annual Gala Celebration: AfriCOBRA: Liberated Image Now - Saturday, April 5th The Community Folk Art Center Tuesday-Friday, 10 am-5 pm; Saturday, 11am-5pm For more information go to: http://aas.syr.edu/CommunityFolkArtCenter/ExhibitionsPage.htm Mary Marshall Lecture: “Shakespeare’s Bodies” Thursday, April 24, 2008, 4 p.m. Dympna Callaghan, Professor of English and Textual Studies Department of English, Syracuse University Library Associates Spring Luncheon Speaker: David Rubin, Dean, S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications “Freedom of the Press Post-9/11: Seven Years of George Bush” Friday, May 2, 2008, Noon Goldstein Student Center, Rooms 201 A, B, and C
Personnel News
Ricky Podsiadlo, a Media Services computer consultant, featured this month in a Post-Standard article about his Web-based Winter Hat Shoppe. Click here to read text and a link to the article. David Stokoe was recently awarded Professional Associate status of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC.) The only national organization in the United States dedicated to the preservation of cultural material, the AIC plays a crucial role in establishing and upholding professional standards, promoting research and publications, providing educational opportunities, and fostering the exchange of knowledge among conservators, allied professionals, and the public. For information on the AIC visit: http://aic.stanford.edu/. David has also been recently published in the UK Society of Archivist’s ARC monthly (Archives, Records Management & Conservation) February 2008, ISSN 1745-2120, Number 222. The article is entitled “An Englishman in New York”. Sean Quimby has had an article entitiled, " Developing a Tool to Manage Manuscript Collections at Syracuse University" published in the Spring 2008 Manuscript Repositories Newsletter of the Society of American Archivists. Angela Cho, a work study student in the Social Sciences and Area Studies’ GSIC Lab, received an Individual Chancellor's Citation at the 2008 Chancellor's Award for Public Engagement and Scholarship at a March 31 celebration dinner in the Schine Goldstein Auditorium. Angie is a senior Magazine Journalism Major at Newhouse and an Entrepreneurship Major in the Whitman School of Management. She is the first youth representative on the Onondaga-Oswego Chapter of the American Red Cross, formed the first Campus Red Cross Club at Syracuse University, wrote the club's constitution, developed the executive board and recruited members. The SU Chapter now offers Lay Responders (First Aid/CPR) instructor's training course to club members, who will then offer the training in community classes. Kathleen White has been hired as the Advancement and Communications Specialist in the Development Department and can be found in room 219. Jenna Mayotte has accepted the position as Senior Assistant Librarian in the User Support Department. Robert Denton has joined our staff as Library Technician IV in the Media Services Department. Our sincere condolences to Peter Verheyen whose father, Egon Verheyen, passed away February 25.