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Due to a network hardware upgrade, Internet connectivity for the entire University campus, including ResNet, will be briefly interrupted between 7 and 8 a.m. Saturday, May 1.
Contact Information
Information Center
Computing and Media Services 443-2677
consult@syr.edu
Join Mariana Lebron, Director of SU's Orientation and Transition Services, and Professor Jerry Evensky, SU's Faculty Assistant for the First- Year Experience, for a Peer to Peer discussion entitled:
Shared Reading Programs for First-Year Students: A Role for Libraries
Peer to Peer Library Dialog
Wednesday May 5
Noon - 1pm
1916 Room - E.S. Bird Library
In recent years, colleges and universities have begun to give special attention to first-year students, often introducing summer reading projects tied to the first-year experience. For example, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill chooses a book to be read by all incoming freshman, the goals being "to enhance students' participation in the intellectual life of the campus through stimulating discussion and critical thinking around a current topic, to enhance a sense of community between students, faculty and staff, and to provide a common experience for incoming students" (See UNC-CH Website listed below.).
In 2003, Syracuse University, too, established a summer reading program for entering freshmen. We will focus on ways in which libraries can contribute to initiatives for enriching students' first-year experiences.
You may wish to consider the following articles and Web sites (Articles are available via SUMMIT Catalog-online course reserve-"LBR 100."):
Rodney, Mae L. "Building Community Partnerships: The 'One Book, One Community' Experience." College and Research Libraries News. (March 2004), 65 (3), p. 130-132, 155. http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crlnews/backissues2004/march04/communitypartnerships.htm
O'Connor, Erin. "Misreading What Reading Is For." Chronicle of Higher Education. (September 5, 2003), p. 20.
Cornell University Library's Web site, "Antigone: 2003 New Student Reading Project: Library Resources": http://www.library.cornell.edu/iris/antigone/
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill's Web site, "Carolina Summer Reading Program" (already featuring the selection for 2004): http://www.unc.edu/srp/
Web site of the Policy Center on the First Year of College: http://www.brevard.edu/fyc/
Hope to see you there. Light refreshments provided. Bring a lunch. All are welcome!
Peer to Peer Library Dialog is a staff initiated program of monthly discussion about trends and current topics of interest in librarianship. Send comments or questions to Lydia Wasylenko lwwasyle@syr.edu
Fine Arts Librarian: Ann Shincovich who started April 5, 2004. She has an MLIS (University of Pittsburgh, 2003), MA in the History of Art (Ohio State University, 1998) and a BA in anthropology (Penn State University, 1993). At the annual conference of the Art Libraries Society of North America in New York, April 15-22, 2004, she was awarded the Gerd Muehsam Award in recognition of her graduate paper "An Examination of Copyright Issues Related to the Creation of a Digital Resource for the Artists' Books Collection at the Frick Fine Arts Library, University of Pittsburgh to be published in ART DOCUMENTATION in the fall 2004. She has previous experience working at the Frick Fine Arts Library at the University of Pittsburgh and the Fine Arts Library at the Ohio State University.
Visual Resource Specialist: John Puckett (known as Mike) started on April 12, 2004. He comes with extensive cataloging experience on a wide range of projects most recently at the University of Colorado. He has a wealth of expertise in digitization as well - in his spare time he is an artist producing digital works which were recently on exhibit at the Delavan Gallery in Syracuse, NY. With background degrees in the arts, we are pleased to welcome him to SUL. Mike will be working closely with Glen Wiley on the new digital projects in the Slide Collection.
Trial access to Empire Online from Adam Matthew Publications is available until May 19 at:
http://www.datagold.com/empire
Username: Emp149
Password: NCDXAW4E
This ongoing project currently offers over 60,000 images of original documents linked to essays by leading scholars in the field. The sections are arranged by theme and to date include:
Section I: Cultural Contacts, 1492-1969 (March 2003);
Section II: Empire Writing and the Literature of Empire (March 2004);
Biographies, timelines, and instructional tips for incorporating the images into class materials are included.
Trial Contact:
Wendy Bousfiled
wbbousfi@syr.edu
Microsoft has released some critical security patches. These patches close security holes that could be exploited by a worm similar to the blaster worm that hit campus last Summer. To close the hole, LISD will be rolling out the Microsoft patches beginning at 8:30 am on Tuesday, April 20th.
During the patch rollout, you may see a dialog box that shows files being copied. Please do not cancel the operation -- these files need to be copied to complete the patch installation. When the installation is completed, you will receive a message that tells you the patch installed successfully. Your PC will reboot automatically once you click on OK.If you receive an error message, please contact LISD at x4300 or LISD@syr.edu.
We also encourage everyone to patch any of their home computers that are running Windows NT, Windows 2000, or Windows XP (and are used on the Internet) with the lastest critical security patches . For more information on the patches, you can visit Microsoft's web site at
http://www.microsoft.com/security/security_bulletins/200404_windows.asp
On Thursday, April 15 starting at 8:00 am, LISD will be upgrading the server that hosts the Staff website. All web services from http://libweb.syr.edu will be unavailable for the remainder of the work day. They include: MoveableType, Web Events, and the Staff FTP Application. Any changes to libwww, MoveableType, and Web Events should be completed by 8am tomorrow morning, or they will be processed when the system has been upgraded.
A snapshot of the Web Events calendar will be located at http://libwww.syr.edu/webevent.pdf while the server is down.
Webmail can still be accessed by going to http://webmail.syr.edu.
We are sorry for the inconvenience and thank everyone for your cooperation.
The network servers will be restarted to apply configuration changes Saturday, 4/3/04 at 8:30 am. All network services (workstation login, files, and printing) will be unavailable for approximately 1 hour.
We are sorry for the inconvenience and thank everyone for your cooperation.
