Reminder:
Chancellor's
Sustainable Benefits Open Forum
Monday, February 1st
Hendricks Chapel
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Save the date!
Open Forum
Part II:
An Ongoing Conversation with Syracuse University Library
Friday, February 12th
PGSC
11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. |
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New Column -- Staff Profile
Want to learn more about your colleagues? Nominate one of them for our new Staff Profile column. Each issue will feature an up close and personal view of one of our most interesting staff members. To nominate someone, send an email to libcom@syr.edu.
Donna Sullivan 
Donna was a natural choice for our first profile since she recently won the Distinguished Service Award -- recognition from her peers for a job well done.
Donna Sullivan is known in the Library as "someone who gets the job done". She has worked in the Library for eight and half years in various capacities. Initially, she worked in Reference as an Office Supervisor, managing student workers and bargaining unit staff. She loved working with students and interacting with patrons in Reference. Her current position is Unit Coordinator for Research, Collection and Scholarly Communication. In this role, she manages the department infrastructure and works closely with librarians and bibliographers on various projects. She particularly enjoys working on anything having to do with collections.
Not only is Donna a hard worker who gets things done, she is a person that believes the Library can, and will, do better. To this end, she helped form a committee to assist in the planning for the Research Support Center, a part of the Library's master plan proposed for the third floor of the Library. She and other committee members are consulting with faculty members, librarians, staff, and other stakeholders to ensure this new research floor is a success. She believes everyone will benefit by engaging these individuals in the planning process.
Outside of work, Donna says she spends "an amazing amount of her spare time" at high school sporting events cheering on her son and daughter who play soccer, football, basketball, and lacrosse for Jordan Elbridge High School. She also enjoys gardening, cross stitching, and renovating her 160 old year house. |
Welcome Jim O'Connor
Jim O'Connor has joined the Library as the Assistant Producer of "Sound Beat," a ninety-second radio show featuring sound recordings from Belfer collections. "Sound Beat" will be distributed free to public radio stations worldwide in an effort to promote both Belfer's holdings and the University in general.
Welcome Jim! |
Karl Baden exhibit opens
 Syracuse University Library's spring 2010 exhibition entitled "Covering Photography: Imitation, Influence, and Coincidence" by guest curator Karl Baden is now open on the sixth floor of Bird Library. The exhibition compares the cover art of selected books with the iconic photographs from which they may have been derived.
Baden is a Boston-based photographer and member of Boston College's Fine Arts Department, as well as a 1974 alumnus of Syracuse University. He will return to the University on March 2nd to give a gallery talk at 5 p.m. on the sixth floor of Bird Library. Click here for more information on the exhibit. |
Green Library Team's tip of the month
Thanks to the Green Library Team, who offered to provide advice on how to work in an more environmentally conscious way. These "green tips" will now be a regular feature here to help us all be more green. Tip #1: Reduce Email Bloat Remove non-essential replies & forwards If you've ever printed an email only to have an extra 12 pages of replies or forwards spew out along with the one page you really did want, you know the frustration of "email bloat." Sometimes the trail of conversation is important for the context of the message, but oftentimes it's not. This email bloat not only wastes paper, but it also wastes energy. The larger the email sent, the more energy is expended in sending it. It's not just on your end that there's an energy savings, but also on all the computers the message has to travel through to reach its final destination. So before you hit "Send," delete anything non-essential. The person you send the message to will thank you and so will the Earth. For more tips and resources, visit the Green Library Team's page at researchguides.library.syr.edu/greenlibrary. |
5th Annual Library Lock-in
Mark your calendars! The Library's annual library lock-in will take place Friday, February 26th, from 10 p.m.to 1 a.m. This is the fifth time the Library has collaborated with Residence Life on this event that invites students to participate in a night of fun in the Library. Last year's event attracted fifty undergraduate students who participated in competitions using Library resources and enjoyed refreshments, raffle prizes, music, and games.
Tina Chan and Abby Kasowitz-Scheer are looking for Library staff to join the fun this year, including volunteers to help prepare for the event, as well as people to help the night of the event. If you are interested, please email Tina Chan or Abby Kasowitz-Scheer. |
H1N1 Vaccine Available at Jan. 29 Clinic at Drumlins
SU will host a public H1N1 flu vaccination clinic, conducted by Onondaga County Health Department, this Friday, January 29th, from 2-6 p.m. at Drumlins Country Club.
All SU faculty and staff (as well as the general public) are invited to take advantage of the opportunity to receive the H1N1 vaccination, if they have not already. There is no charge for the vaccine, but pre-registration is required. To register, and for more information, visit: http://www.onflu.net or call 435-5752.
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Student shares her wedding day with Library staff
The bride was radiant in her gown as she marched down the aisle...to the Map Room!
MGI workstudy student Jennifer "Jenny" Keller married William "Will" Arndt in a private ceremony at the Syracuse Court House on Friday, December 18, 2009. Soon afterward, the happy couple, the bride's mother, and the groom's parents made their way to the third floor of the Library, to share their happiness with her MGI family.
Current and former MGI staffers were anxiously awaiting their arrival, having prepared an informal celebration for the  newlyweds. Jenny, a Junior Geography Major from Mohrsville, PA, works as a maps assistant. Therefore, it was only natural that she pose for some wedding photos with members of her Library family among our Map Collection.
Somehow between classes, final projects, exams, and work study obligations, Jenny, an accomplished seamstress, found time not only to make her own wedding gown, but Will's tux, too! |
Congratulations Nick Nosko! 
Nick Nosko and his girlfriend, Brynne Rudmann, recently got engaged. They are planning an August 7, 2010 wedding at the bride's parents' home on Oneida Lake in Bridgeport. Click here to view the wedding announcement online.
Congratulations Nick and Brynne! |
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Staff News
Got news? Please feel free to send us any news items that you would like to share with colleagues -- graduations, weddings, new babies, travels, and such. As always, we welcome your feedback, comments, questions, or story ideas. Send your contributions to libcom@syr.edu.
Many thanks for your interest!
The Editors
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