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Staff News Events Community Announcements Training & Development Meetings & Minutes
Cafe Is First Step Toward "New Library"
Studies on the research habits of students show conclusively that they have changed! The image of the solitary student, quietly working in a study carrel, reference books piled high, seems to have gone the way of the beehive hairdo and poodle skirts. Today's student expects technology, comfortable spaces for both individual and collaborative work, online reference, and good coffee. Over the summer, SU's Office of Campus Planning, Design and Construction will be working on the first of what will be many construction projects to renew Bird, Belfer, and Carnegie Libraries and transform them into hubs of learning and socialization. Complete story |
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Group Effort Prepares Reference Corner for New CafeOur thanks and appreciation go to the staff in Acquisitions, Cataloging, Professional Programs and General Reference Services, and Collection Maintenance, who attacked the enormous task of reviewing, weeding, processing, and moving the reference collection from the southeast corner of the first floor. The move was coordinated by Charlene Martin, Donna Sullivan, and Eileen DeRycke. Complete story |
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Self Checkout Debuts
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Did You Know... Laptops can now access netid print quotas? |
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Inaugural Exhibit Opens New Library Art Gallery
Congratulations and thanks go to the committee of Prof. Stephen Zaima, Ann Skiold, Peter Verheyen, and Melinda Dermody for tenaciously moving this project forward and to Tom House for facilitating the room improvements.
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Diana is a popular model for VPA students, especially when the warmth of the Library contrasts sharply with the outdoor temperatures. |
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SU Library Celebrates National Library Worker's Day Although there is truth in the idea that we shouldn't wait for a special occasion to tell people how much we appreciate them, every so often it's nice to be reminded. So April 17th was something of a Hallmark moment at SU Library as dozens of staff members took time to say "thank you" to co-workers on National Library Worker's Day. Formerly known as National Library Assistant's Day, the event has now been renamed to recognize all library employees everywhere. In addition to the nearly 100 cards that were delivered on that day, a reception was held in the Hillyer room throughout much of the afternoon. Cake, hot and cold appetizers, and beverages provided a wonderful break for the large number of staff who stopped by. Speaking of thanks, a special thanks to Paul Barfoot for snapping photos, which you can see here. |
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The University Archives and the Special Collections Research Center reading room in |
AskUs can now be found at:
http://library.syr.edu/askus |
Brodsky Series Update Lectures from the Brodsky Series for the Advancement of Library Conservation have now been made available online. Since 2005 the Brodsky Series has brought to Syracuse University Library some of the leading proponents of the library conservation and preservation field. Speakers to date have been John Dean who inaugurated the series, Heidi Kyle, and Gary Frost. The format of the series includes a public lecture, and where applicable a hands-on weekend workshop. While the focus of the series is on conservation and preservation, speakers and workshop topics have appealed to a broad audience that embraces many other facets of the book arts, as reflected by the level of attendance and participation the series has attained. Complete story |
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Wendy Bousfield Retires After 23 Years at SUL
Wendy joined Syracuse University Libraries in October 1983. as the English and American language and literature librarian. When the subject departments were made part of a unified Reference Department, she took on other subject disciplines. Complete story |
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Another Successful Library Lock-In Abby Kasowitz-Scheer
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Digital Collection Expands: 1926 Aerial Photos and Boar's Head Collection Now Available
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Lemke Seminar Room DedicatedMary Beth Hinton Syracuse University Library and the Syracuse University Library Associates dedicated the Antje Bultmann Lemke Seminar Room on February 16, 2007. A year ago the Syracuse University Library Associates Board of Trustees undertook a major project: raising funds to build this room in the Special Collections Research Center to honor Antje Bultmann Lemke, Information Studies professor emerita, who has been a member since 1960 of Library Associates. To date, almost $150,000 has been raised for the project. Complete Story |
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"Open Door Hour" Dates All staff are invited to meet with Dean Thorin on a first come/first served basis on any of the following dates: June 6, 2007 July 11, 2007 August 1, 2007 No appointment is required. |
Looking for a Good Book? Nancy Pearl, author of "Book Lust" (and perhaps the most famous librarian in the world) has created a Book Lust Wiki subtitled A Community for People Who Love Books. This is an excellent opportunity not only to find some new titles but to try out some of the "social software" we hear so much about. Nancy makes it easy to become part of the community; just click and type and you're contributing to a wiki. Find her wiki here. |
Harriet Tubman Home Recipient of SUL Books Leslie Pease Bonnie Ryan has found a wonderful home for duplicate titles she recently weeded from African American history ranges on the 3rd floor. The Harriet Tubman Home in Auburn is starting a library and curators Reverend Paul Carter and Christine Carter are thrilled to have these donations. |
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Justice Center Literacy Project Begins Pamela McLaughlin A new program developed by the Syracuse University Library—in collaboration with SU’s Mary Ann Shaw Center for Public and Community Service, SU’s School of Information Studies, the Onondaga County Public Library (OCPL), the Syracuse City School District (SCSD) and ProLiteracy Worldwide—is enhancing the quality of the libraries and reading programs in the Onondaga County Justice Center in an effort to improve inmate literacy, encourage literacy-related activities, and upgrade the library facilities. Complete Story |
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New Database Added to the Collection Bonnie Ryan SU Library has acquired a new database, Black Studies Center, by ProQuest. The Black Studies Center database is a compilation of essays, dissertations, reports, articles, primary documents including newspaper articles, and more on the African American historical experience. Elements of the database include: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience , which includes essays by leading scholars on African American History; International Index to Black Periodicals and Black Literature Index for journal articles; full text backfile of the Chicago Defender. To get access to the database, go to the Library's web site, and click on "Find Articles" to get to the Library's Database Main Menu. You can choose the database Black Studies Center by searching alphabetically by title on the left-hand column on the Database Main Menu page; or by choosing a subject area from the column on the right hand side — either History under the Arts & Humanities section or African American Studies in the Social Sciences section. For a more complete explanation of the database's elements, see the
Information Center tab which also includes a tutorial of the database:
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Student Work Featured in SCRC Exhibit Peter Verheyen The Art of the Book, the Book as Art features book works created by students of Printmaking 552 in the School of Art and Design, College of Visual and Performing Arts. The exhibition is on display from March 26 – May 18, 2007 on the 6th floor of the Syracuse University Library.
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SU Library Expands Warehouse Delivery Service Syracuse University Library now offers a Monday-Friday delivery and retrieval service for materials housed in the Architecture Reading Room and/or 2nd-Floor library storage area of the Warehouse. Users may request that materials housed in the Warehouse be brought to the circulation desk of E.S. Bird Library or the Science and Technology Library for pickup or brought from campus libraries to the Architecture Reading Room for pickup.
Items requested Monday through Thursday will be delivered within 24 hours. Items requested on Friday or during the weekend will be delivered/retrieved the following Monday. |
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SU Library Launches Updating Service Using RSS Feeds Individuals interested in receiving regular updates from the Library can now subscribe to Library RSS feeds. In response to user requests to be alerted to new resources and services, the Library developed a series of RSS feeds, listed at http://library.syr.edu/feeds/. These feeds include resources newly added to the SUMMIT library catalog, library news and events, web site updates, and Subject Guide updates. RSS (Really Simple Syndication) technology facilitates the delivery of information via a news reader or aggregator. Both MyYahoo and Google portals include feed readers; other examples include Bloglines, NewsGator, and Snarfer. The process of subscribing to an RSS feed is specific to the type of feed reader application chosen; detailed instructions can be found on the web site.
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Lights, Camera, Music!
Special Collections Rare Artifacts on Display
On My Own Time
Networked Nature
Central New York Book Arts
Networking @ Noon
Two day training class/workshop on ArcGIS 9.2
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| Three IST Faculty honored at ALISE Conference IST Professor Barbara Kwasnik, and adjunct professors Jennifer Hendzlikand Robert Emborski were honored for excellence in online teaching at the
Association of Library and Information Science Educators (ALISE) annual conference in Seattle. |
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We Welcome... DeAnn Buss, the new associate university librarian for Digital Programs and Systems. Her office is located in room 219 and she can be reached at extension 2573. Angela Ramnarine-Rieks, new web administrator. Her office is located in room 550 and her extension is x8709. Yumiko Saito, in the Cataloging department as a temporary Librarian.
Fond Farewells to... Dawn Havill who left the Library on March 1 to take a position in Information Technology and Services (ITS) . Greg Griffin, Sr. Development Officer for the Library, who accepted a new position as the associate vice president for Development and Alumni Relations at the State University of New York at Oswego. Our Congratulations to... Russell Silverstein, who has been appointed to the position of information technology manager. Betty Johnson-Adair, who has been appointed office supervisor in the Business Services Office. Bobbi Gwilt, who has been appointed as the associate university librarian for academic resources. Janet Pease, who is the new head of the Science and Technology Libraries. Lesley Pease and John Olson, who have been promoted to the rank of librarian; to William LaMoy, who has received continuing status and remains in his current rank of associate librarian; and Suzanne Warren, who has been promoted to associate librarian with continuing status. Pamela McLaughlin, who has been named the director of library communications and external relations. Pam's new office is 607B and her extension remains x9788. Mary Beth Hinton, who has assumed the role of assistant to the director of the Special Collections Research Center. She is located in room 604 and has a new extension x9763. Terry Belzak, who has returned to Library Administration to provide support for the associate university librarians. Her new number is 8782. Jackie Allred, who is the new office supervisor in the Business Services Office overseeing the mailroom and supply room. She can be reached at x8754. Congratulations to one and all. Staff Recognition and News Barbara Opar, librarian in the Arts and Humanities Services Department of Syracuse University Library and liaison to the School of Architecture, contributed the chapter “Architectural Engineering” to Using the Engineering Literature, published by Routledge in 2006. The title was recently chosen as the 2007 recipient of the Best Reference Work Award by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), Engineering Libraries Division. In December 2006, Kathleen Manwaring's article "Radicalism Collections in Syracuse University Library" appeared in American Communist History, Volume 5, Number 2. The article can be accessed at http://www.informaworld.com/10.1080/14743890600997313. Participatory networks and libraries,a technology brief about
the growing use of social networks and new web technologies for the
library community, was released at the ALA
Midwinter Meeting in January.
The ALA Office for Information Technology Policy commissioned the
Information Institute of Syracuse to write the brief. The final version (PDF file), was prepared by R. David Lankes, SUL conservation librarian; Joanne Silverstein, Information Institute of Syracuse research assistant professor; and Scott Nicholson, IST assistant professor. An interview with Janet Pease appears in the Institute of Physics Online Journal at http://journals.iop.org/sixty/106. Bobbi Gwilt, associate university librarian for academic resources, has been accepted into the Frye Leadership Institute for 2007. The Frye Leadership Institute is an intensive, two-week residential program for leaders in information services for higher education. This year's institute will be held June 3-14 at Emory University. For more information on The Frye Leadership Institute, visit them online at http://www.fryeinstitute.org/
Merritt and Kalpana Lennox are the proud new parents of twin daughters, adopted at Christmas time. The girls, now about nine months of age, are named Priya Mai (PREE-uh MY) and Jaya Linh (JAY-uh LING). Merritt explains that their first names are Indian and their middle names are Vietnamese so Priya Mai means roughly "beloved" "cherry blossom," and Jaya Linh "victorious" "gentle spirit." The girls are pictured here with their big sister, 12 year-old Anu (ah-NOO). Click here to see more photos from Eli's Flickr site.
Michael Pasqualoni has had a book review accepted, and published in the March, 2007 issue of LIBRES: Library and Information Science Research Electronic Journal (an open access libsci ejournal affiliated with the Department of Media and Information at Curtin University., Perth, Western Australia). His review of Woodward, Jeanette. (2005). Creating the Customer-Driven Library: Building on the Bookstore Model. American Library Association: Chicago can be found at: http://libres.curtin.edu.au/libres17n1/ Sue Miller, instructional services specialist, was inducted into the Phi Beta Delta honor society on April 9. Phi Beta Delta "honors those who serve internationalism — the idea of a world connected, of respect for different traditions, of the need for education to enhance knowledge of the many cultures that are part of a globe that we all must share." Sue was nominated in recognition for her recent work in organizing and leading the Library's International Students Working Group, a team of librarians and library staff committed to assisting SU's international students in making effective use of library facilities, resources, and services, and in developing information literacy and research skills. On January 24 Peter Verheyen spoke at the Copyright Law and Digitization: Guidelines for a Successful Project Workshop sponsored by CLRC's Documentary Heritage Program at the Fayetteville Free Library. Peter's presentation focused on planning for digitization projects and included an overview of projects here at SUL with other sections on selection, workflow, working with vendors, metadata, delivery and the impact on public services. Natasha Cooper and Douglas Cook edited and wrote the introduction to the recently released book Teaching information Literacy Skills to Social Sciences Students and Practitioners : A Casebook of Applications. Chicago : Association of College and Research Libraries, 2006. Getting to Know You Elise Calvi
Before coming to Syracuse this summer, Elise lived in Swarthmore, PA and was head of the preservation department in the University of Delaware Library where she managed both the preservation and digitization programs. In 2006 she co-authored The Preservation Manager’s Guide to Cost Analysis.
While living in Baltimore Elise was assistant preservation department head in the University of Maryland Libraries, and before that was head librarian at the Walters Art Museum. Prior to that she lived in Cambridge, MA and worked in the Harvard University Library, where she managed large-scale grant-funded preservation projects. In 1993 she co-authored “Guidelines for Use of MARC Field 533 Subfield m in Bibliographic Records for Preservation Microform Masters,” which was adopted as a CONSER standard. In addition to her academic and museum library experience, Elise has also worked with archival collections. She worked in the Manuscripts and Archives Department of the Harvard Business School Library, and her first job after library school was curator of photographs for the Mark Twain and Harriet Beecher Stowe Houses in Hartford, CT. Elise Calvi has a B.A. in art history from the University of Connecticut, and an MLS. from the University of Rhode Island. Before becoming a librarian Elise had a number of unusual jobs, including making hang gliders and working as a seamstress for a furrier. Sewing and watercolor painting are two life long interests. Elise’s husband, Brian Calvi, is associate professor of Biology here at SU. They both love hiking, camping, and canoeing, and are happy to be surrounded by all the natural wonders of central New York. Catherine Johnson Temporary Librarian, Professional Programs and General Reference
Catherine is also currently a member of the faculty at Bryant & Stratton College where she teaches Information Literacy, a required class for freshman. She says that that keeps her busy all morning and then she comes over to Bird to work in the afternoons and evenings. When asked what she likes to do outside of work she replied, "WIth all that going on, I have little time for hobbies! When I do get time I enjoy cycling, listening to music, struggling to play the banjo and painting." Scott Juskiewicz Temporary Librarian, Professional Programs and General Reference
He received a BA in History from Ithaca College in 1993. After college, in order to pursue his first love — skiing — he became a concrete finisher since that left him with a lot of free time in the winter. Eventually he moved to Bozeman, Montana, in 1998 to become a professional ski bum. While in Montana he decided to return to school, and this decision brought him back to Albany, New York, where he graduated with his MSIS in December 2005. He spent two years working in the acquisitions and serials unit at the NYSL, and was also a reference intern at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Scott's main focuses of librarianship are information literacy and reference work. He's interested in these areas because they allow him to focus on customer service and to be an educator. He also enjoys conducting historical research on Butte, Montana. Scott says that Butte was one of the most influential cities in our country's history, yet few people are aware of this amazing city. He is also interested in the history of labor and technology. When not working, he continues to ski, as well as hunt and fish. Scott is extremely happy to be part of the Syracuse University Library and looks forward to making himself a better librarian and educator. Finally he offers, "If anyone is interested in Butte, please contact me at sdjuskie@syr.edu." |
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New Training and Development Listings If you are looking for a seminar, webcast, online course, article, book, or whatever to enhance an existing knowledge or skill, or to learn a new one, visit : https://libtrain.syr.edu/trainingresources.php You can also access these same listings by going to the SUL training web site and clicking on Training Resources on the left and selecting a topic under Development Opportunities. Additions to the list are always welcome. |
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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 group's information to appear here, please e-mail gcmccart@syr.edu with the location of the minutes. Library Management Group F:\Committees\Library Management Group\Summaries\2006 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 |
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There's a new checkout desk on the first floor of Bird Library. It's very small, nicely designed, and there's no staff person standing behind it. It's the 3M SelfCheck™ System that enables customers to check out books in a matter of seconds, all by themselves. It presents an easy-to-use touch screen with step-by-step instructions and sports a V-shaped book tray so it's nearly impossible to place the book incorrectly. 
Syracuse University Library inaugurated its new Biblio Gallery on the 4th floor of Bird Library with a showing of the artwork of Elena Peteva, MFA candidate in Painting in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. Approximately 40 guests attended the gallery's opening reception, May 1. The show will run through June 30. 
A standing-room-only crowd of family, friends, and colleagues gathered in the Hillyer Room on January 31st to say "farewell and good luck" to Wendy Bousfield who retired on February 1. To see more photos of the event 
The second annual Lock-In took
place Friday, February 23, from 10:00 PM to 2:00 AM in Bird Library. Forty-two
undergraduate students participated, and about 20 Library staff and 12
Office of Residence Life staff assisted with the event. Everyone enjoyed
this fun evening, as students learned about Library resources and
services in a competitive game-like atmosphere. 
Two of Syracuse University Library’s newest digital collections consist of a set of six mosaic aerial photographs of the Syracuse area taken in 1926 and the Boar’s Head Collection, a collaborative project with University Archives, which makes available the playbills and other memorabilia from the Boar’s Head Society, active at Syracuse University from 1904 to the late 1960s. 
Eli Liquori and his wife Bryony Grealish welcomed their first child — a boy, Aidan Charles Grealish Liquori, on February 9. Congratulations!
Elise also worked at the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts (CCAHA) in Philadelphia, where she organized educational programs, conducted preservation surveys, and wrote grant proposals. One of her projects in 2000 was organizing a three-day conference on architectural records and editing the conference proceedings, Architectural Records: Preserving and Managing the Documentation of Our Built Environment.
Catherine Johnson is a graduate of Miami University (Oxford, OH) with a bachelor of philosophy. She was a major in interdisciplinary studies and a minor in women's studies. After completing her undergraduate education she came to Syracuse University and received her MSLIS from the School of Information Studies in May of '06. During the last year of her education, she worked as an intern in the Social Science and Area Studies Department in Bird. 
Scott Juskiewicz grew up in Cambridge, Vermont, a small, rural town about 35 miles north east of Burlington. He reports that "One of the only things to do in Cambridge is to ski, so, by the time I was 7 I had become quite the skiing fanatic."