Save the Date:
Learning Commons Brown Bag
Dec. 16th
noon - 1 p.m.
Peter Graham
Scholarly Commons
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Staff Newsletter |
Library employees honored
Donna Sullivan, Unit Coordinator in Research, Collections and Scholarly Communication was awarded the Library Distinguished Service Award at a ceremony held during the holiday luncheon at the Goldstein Alumni and Faculty Center on December 4th. Donna's husband, two children, and mother and father-in-law were also in attendance to share this special occasion with her.
Also honored were recipients of Dean's Commendations: TC Carrier, Tom Keays, Richard Ortiz, Stephen Singer, Sarah Theimer, and Patrick Williams.
The following employees were recognized for years of service milestones:
Five years: Paul Bern, Nicolette Dobrowolski, Elias Liquori, Jeremy Morgan, Penelope Singer, and Stephen Singer
Ten years: Peter Verheyen
Fifteen years: Nancy Cohen
Twenty years: Brian Byrns, Diane McKenney
Twenty-five years: Mary DeCarlo, Sharon Lamirande, Lisa Stubing, Lydia Wasylenko, Colleen Woodward
Thirty years: Isabella Arezzo, Carol Atkins, Diane Cooter, Elaine Coppola
Thirty-five years: Laura Levin, Urmila Sharma, Charles Tremper
Congratulations to all on your many accomplishments!
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Scott and Anna welcome a baby girl
Scott Warren, Bibliographer for the Sciences and Technology and Anna Dahlstein, Belfer (Mellon grant) 78s project cataloger, welcomed their second daughter, Eleanor Louise Warren, on Wednesday, November 18 at
9:48 p.m. Eleanor weighed 6 lb. 14 oz., and was 20 1/2" long. She joins Scott and sister Linnea, who will be 3 in January, in this photo commemorating St. Lucia's Day (December 13), a Swedish holiday on which
girls dress in white, carry or wear candles in their hair, and sing carols.
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The Journals of Grace Hartigan: 1951-1955 one of Big Ten University Press Picks in ForeWard Reviews
The Journals of Grace Hartigan: 1951-1955, edited by William T. La Moy and Joseph P. McCaffrey and published by Syracuse University Press will be included in the Big Ten University Press Picks in the January-February 2010 issue of ForeWord Reviews.
The review states, "Grace Hartigan (1922-2008), praised by Clement Greenberg and Meyer Schapiro, possessed a potent creative vision. Though they often deal with fears, anxieties, and emotions ("the minute aspects of oneself as oneself"), her Journals launch us into the fast-evolving abstract-expressionist world in which de Kooning, Rivers, Pollock, and their colleagues shaped the artistic vision of their day."
ForeWord Reviews is a print magazine and an online review service for readers, booksellers, and librarians. ForeWord Reviews in print appears six times a year, beginning with a January/February issue. ForeWord Reviews employs professional freelance reviewers from all over the United States and Canada.
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AP cites SU in Kindle story
Amazon.com Inc. announced this past Monday that they will add features to the Kindle e-book reader to make the device more accessible to the blind and visually impaired.
In the story by the Associated Press about this announcement, the author cites SU as an influencing factor: "Monday's announcement comes a month after Syracuse University in Syracuse, N.Y., and the University of Wisconsin-Madison said they would not consider widely deploying the device as an alternative to paper textbooks until Amazon makes it easier for blind students to use. Both universities bought some Kindles to test this fall."(AP)
The Library had purchased two Kindles as a part of a pilot program. After being approached by the Burton Blatt Institute and the National Federation of the Blind about the Kindle's accessibility issues, the Library agreed not to purchase additional Kindles until Amazon addressed the issue.
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Library Open Forum attracts a crowd
An open forum entitled "What is a Library?...a continuing conversation on the future of Syracuse University Library" was held on December 9th in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons. The forum, hosted by the Library's Department of Research, Collections, & Scholarly Communication, provided an opportunity for over 100 faculty, students, and staff from across campus to continue the conversations started recently regarding the offsite shelving plan. Members of the planning group for the forum included Charlotte Hess, Jenna Mayotte, Gerri McCarthy, Michael
Pasqualoni, Janet Pease, Bonnie Ryan, and Nancy Turner
After introductory remarks by Bonnie and Charlotte, moderator Gerri McCarthy led the group in a discussion of the following questions: What is the role of the SU Library within the University? How can the Library support the University's mission? Does the Library adequately support the faculty and student scholarship at SU? Why does SU Library need a storage facility?
The conversation was lively, allowing all those interested the opportunity to comment. Throughout the session, Nancy Turner posted notes on PowerPoint slides for the attendees to view in real time. The questions and comments will provide a backdrop for the next forum, planned for early next semester. The notes will be made available on the library website in the next few days.
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Dean Thorin quoted in Kyodo News
Dean Suzanne Thorin was recently quoted in an article by Kyodo News regarding Hathi Trust. Kyodo News is a nonprofit cooperative organization whose Japanese-language news service is distributed to almost all newspapers and radio-TV networks in Japan.
Dean Thorin commented on the launch of the virtual library by Hathi Trust this past November. The trust is a collaborative of 24 research libraries whose mission is to contribute to the common good by collecting, organizing, preserving, communicating, and sharing the record of human knowledge. To date, 4.5 million digitized volumes are now available online, with an estimated 10-11 million volumes available by 2011. Currently, fulltext viewing is limited to items in the public domain; however as soon as copyright issues are cleared, the number of volumes is expected to dramatically increase.
The article juxtaposes the work of libraries versus the Google Books initiative to build a global digital library. Google has teamed with major research universities in a massive digitization project, a plan they unveiled in 2004. The author argues that although Google may have launched the concept, libraries are leading the charge.
Dean Thorin spoke about the changing modes of information dissemination and those participating in this change. "There is no longer a single answer to the question 'what is a library?'. 'Library' used to mean printed books, but there are so many online libraries for scholarly communities now... Digitization is beginning to change scholarship. The work of Hathi Trust is potentially very important because it's the work of colleagues and not a commercial interest. Google has been teaming up with very large libraries so far but Hathi opens the door for smaller libraries." (Kyodo)
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