Library Online
A publication for the employees, associates, and friends of the Syracuse University Library
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Library Online A publication for the employees, associates, and friends of the Syracuse University Library |
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 Staff News
Events
Library Community
Personnel Announcements
Training & Development
Meetings & Minutes
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Kathleen Manwaring Named 2006
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Putting Our Collective Brain into
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Many thanks all of the Library staff, interns, and student workers who gave up their Friday night (until 2am!) to assist and cheer on the students: |
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Thanks also to Julie Belle, Charlene Martin, Uma Sharma, and Nancy Turner, who assisted in the preparations preceding the event, and to all other staff who submitted questions for the contest. Abby Kasowitz-Sheer |
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Peter S. Graham Scholarly Commons Dedication Click here for the complete story and photos.
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Alan Filreis Speaks at
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Food for Fines a Win-Win Situation
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What is a Dialogue Circle Anyway?by Charlie Russo Over the past several months, we’ve heard a lot about Dialogue Circles. There have been emails, brochures, workshops and numerous attempts by Human Resources to attract participants. But what exactly is a Dialogue Circle? And how does it work? This spring, four Library-connected staff—Bonnie Ryan, Bevan Angier, Tish Price (Custodial) and I—participated in a pair of Dialogue Circles. Bevan and Tish were in one group, Bonnie and I in another. To help you consider whether or not you would like to participate in upcoming Dialogue Circles, we would like to briefly share some of our experiences. Click here for complete story
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Upcoming Events of InterestMay 1 - August 18 Guild of Book Worker’s 100th Anniversary Exhibition Special Collections Research Center See the best in contemporary book work, including fine binding and artists books. The complete exhibition will open on September 19 at the Grolier Club in New York City before traveling to venues in Chicago, Salt Lake City, Portland, Dallas, and Boston. The Guild of Book Workers was founded in 1906 to “establish and maintain a feeling of kinship and mutual interest among workers in the several hand book crafts.” Today the Guild carries on that mission through the activities of its regional chapters, exhibitions, publications, and annual Standards of Excellence seminars. For many of its 100 years the Guild’s activities were based in New York, but beginning in the 1970s, interest in the Guild began to grow nationally. With approximately 1,000 members, the Guild has evolved from being primarily focused on the art of traditional “fine” binding in leather with ornate gold tooling to embracing the book arts movement with its sculptural books and innovative structures. For more information, please contact Peter Verheyen in the Special Collections Research Center at x9756. May 12, Noon Library Associates Spring Luncheon
Keynote Speaker: Nancy Pearl, Librarian, Author, and Former Executive Director Washington Center for the Book. For more information see the current edition of Library Connection. Schine Student Center, Room 304 Call Terry Belzak at ext: 9763 to register
May - September Archive Grab-Bag! An exhibit highlighting some of the many interesting individual items held by the University Archives. Goldstein Alumni and Faculty Center May 17, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. WorkLife Series Letting Go: Helping Parents Cope As Children Go to College Room 369 Link Hall http://humanresources.syr.edu/fsap/programs to register May 3, 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Open Door Hour with Dean Thorin Dean’s office, room 219 Meeting is open to all Library staff to discuss ideas, issues, and concerns relative to the Library. Staff are invited to meet with the Dean on a first come/first served basis. There is no need to make an appointment ahead of time. |
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SU's School of Information Studies Ranked #3
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New Faces Please join us in welcoming David Stokoe to the Syracuse University Library as Conservation Librarian in the Special Collections Research Center. David will be responsible for the conservation treatment of materials from the Library's special collections, supervising students working in the lab, and managing the day-to-day operations of the lab. David will begin on, or about, May 1. Position Changes We are pleased to announce that Roberta ("Bobbi") Gwilt has been appointed as the interim Associate University Librarian for Information Management and Systems Services effective immediately. For the mean time, Bobbi will continue to be located in her current office space in room 550 of Bird Library. Staff Recognition The staff of IMSS and SCRC hosted a party on April 5th to celebrate Janet Shahan's many contributions to the library and to wish her well in her retirement. A Middlebury College graduate, Janet began her SU career in the Physic Library before moving to the then George Arents Research Library first as reading room overseer then as rare book cataloger of the Ranke Collection. Beginning in 2001, Janet began to work on making printed material removed from our manuscript holdings available to the public, allowing them to serve as portals to the manuscript collections. Janet also served as the SCRS's resident art historian, stack-space monitor and was a skilled book conservationist. Janet will be sorely missed and we wish her our very best. Many thanks to Bevan Angier, Wendy Bousfield, and Sean Hogan for organizing the "Food for Fines" event on April 20th. Through their efforts needy families in the Syracuse area will receive a little extra help. Kudos to Pamela Thomas and Peter Verhayen for two great presentations on March 6th and 7th to introduce staff to Contentdm our new digital asset management system. We'll surely be hearing more about this product in the future.
Congratulations to the very hard working team of Susan Miller and Michael Pasqualoni for organizing and producing the Library Lock-In "It Was a Dark and Brainy Night @ Bird Library" on March 3rd. It was an outstanding effort to promote library literacy and Bird Library to the student population.
Stephanie Reynolds
Stephanie Reynolds has been hired in Acquisitions effective 2/16/06 as a Library Technician IV. A life-long resident of Syracuse, she received her associate's degree in humanities from OCC and her BA in human development from Empire State College. Following graduation, Stephanie worked for the Onondaga Public Library for 3 years at the Hazard Branch Library in circulation. After that she moved to cataloging in tech services at the Central Library. Stephanie plans to go on to earn her MLS with a concentration in school media specialization. She says she is very happy to be working at SUL.
Michael Herrick
Michael received his B. A. in Russian Regional Studies from Columbia University. He holds a Masters degree in Russian literature from Yale University and a Masters in Library and Information Science from Simmons College in Boston. Most recently, Michael was the Library manager and Slavic librarian at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary in Jordanville, NY which is an educational institution of the Russian Orthodox Church outside of Russia. Before relocating to Central New York, Michael was a Slavic librarian at Harvard University where he helped build Widener Library's collection of Slavic materials focusing especially on contemporary publishing activity in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Russia and Belarus. In the early 1990s Michael worked on a Cyrillic catalog project at the Center for Research Libraries in Chicago. Personnel Announcements Our condolences are extended to Michael Herrick, supervisor in Social Sciences and Area studies and Cataloging. Michael Herrick's brother passed away last month. Our sincere condolences are extended to John Olson whose father passed away last month. A heart-felt "Welcome Back" to Susan Beitz on her return to Administrative Services on May 1. Susan has spent the last 8 months enjoying motherhood with twins Marissa and Dominick. She will be working mornings and her extension is 5531. Coming Next Month.. Get out your cameras! In celebration of Mother's/Father's day, the June newsletter will feature photos of all of your little (or not so little) children and grandchildren. Send digital photos via email at gcmccart@syr.edu or drop off non-digital photos in my office in suite 219. Please include whatever pertinent information you would like to share (names, age, etc.). Deadline is May 24th. |
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Trends in Technology in Academic Libraries Webcast May 10 - 2:00 - 3:00 Peter Graham Scholarly Commons In this one-hour Webcast, Roy Tennant, user services architect for the California Digital Library (CDL), will highlight key technological trends, demonstrate working examples of these technologies, and discuss how libraries are beginning to use them to provide useful collections and compelling user services. New Employee Orientation Sessions Each session is designed to introduce new employees to the personnel and functions of one of the Libraries departments. All staff who have joined the Library within the last year are strongly encouraged to attend. More veteran employees may attend if there is room. May 17 - Facilities and Security Services May 25 - Administrative Services Click here for more information on each of the sessions and to register. You will be required to log in using your netid and password. Need help with netid? ACRL e-Learning ACRL offers a number of online learning opportunities to meet the demands of your schedule and budget. For a listing of upcoming online seminars go to: http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlproftools/elearning.htm |
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The following groups and committees have posted minutes of their meetings on the Library's shared F: drive. If you would like your groups information to appear here please email gcmccart@syr.edu with the location of minutes.
Assessment Team F:\Committees\Standing Committees\Assessment Team\Minutes LMG F:\Committees\Library Management Group\Summaries\2006 Reports from consultants: F:\Committees\Library Management Group\Consultants' Reports SULA Business F:\Committees\SULA\Minutes\Business Meetings SULA Executive F:\Committees\SULA\Minutes\Exec. Com. Meetings\2005-2006 Supervisor's Forum F:\Committees\Supervisors' Forum Web Development F:\Committees\Standing Committees\Web Development\Agendas_Minutes |
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On April 20 Syracuse University and SUNY ESF Libraries participated in a "Food for Fines" amnesty day. For that day only, overdue borrowers received a $1 credit off their fines for every non-perishable food item they donated. Over 1000 items were dropped off at the SU Libraries circulation desks in Bird, Sci Tech, Math, Geology, and Physics and Architecture with an additional 224 donations made at Moon Library. The only stipulation was 
Michael Herrick has been hired as the Office Supervisor in SS&AS effective 3/1/06.