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Save the Date
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All Staff Meeting
Tuesday, June 14,
10 - 11:30 a.m.
Peter Graham Scholarly Commons
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New Staff We welcome the following new staff members, all of whom started in May.
Barbara Brooker, Assistant to the SCRC Director, was previously with the all-university Center for Health and Behavior, located on Washington Street.
Yuan Li, Scholarly Communication Librarian, comes to SUL from the University of Rhode Island, where she was Digital Initiatives Librarian. 
In addition, previous Library employee Barbara Melton Jackson has been rehired as a Library Technician IV in the Learning Commons.
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South Campus Library Facility a Go!
The Syracuse University Board of Trustees recently approved the Library's plan to construct the South Campus Library Facility (SCLF), a high density storage facility to be located adjacent to the Hawkins Building on Jamesville Avenue. The design-development phase of the project will begin immediately, with construction expected to be completed in 2012.
The 20,000 square foot building will house approximately 1.6 million volumes and will include a processing area and conference room. The facility will house low-use materials, including books, microforms, special collections, and older volumes of journals. Deliveries of materials to the campus will take place daily. A constantly maintained ideal environment of controlled heat/humidity (50 degrees and 35% relative humidity) will significantly extend the life of materials in the facility. Most important, this facility will enable the library to support the long-term research needs of the faculty by providing space for collections growth.
There are more than 50 facilities of this type throughout the nation, including those in operation at Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Harvard, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Princeton, University of California, Wake Forest, and Yale.
"We are all thrilled that the campus will move ahead to build this critical facility. Special thanks to the faculty and students who advocated for additional library shelving capacity and to the Chancellor and Provost for supporting the Library," said Suzanne Thorin, Dean of the Library and University Librarian.
The Library reached full capacity for housing collections several years ago and has already moved some materials to the Hawkins Building and to the Warehouse downtown. Stacks in Bird Library are 98% full and ancillary shelving space in Hawkins and the Warehouse has reached full capacity. Collections housed in these locations will be consolidated in the new facility upon its completion.
For more information on this project, contact TC Carrier at 443-8456 or tecarrie@syr.edu.
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Belfer's Sound Beat Awarded NEA Grant
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Sound Beat, a public radio program originating in the Belfer Audio Archive, was awarded a $15,000 Arts on Radio and Television grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).
Sound Beat is a daily 90-second public radio show and companion website that uses historic sound recordings from the 1890s through the 1960s, along with entertaining back-stories, to educate listeners about the arts and history. Jim O'Connor, who serves as Sound Beat's producer, works closely with Bob Hodge and others to select recordings, research and write scripts, and interact with Creative PR, a marketing firm based in Los Angeles that was hired to promote the show, which is now being carried by 63 stations nationwide.
The raw material for Sound Beat is Belfer's approximately 500,000 historic audio recordings. Classical music performances, operatic works, film scores, and spoken-word recordings are well-represented, as are those from distinctly American musical forms like jazz, bebop, country, and bluegrass. In addition, Sound Beat features recordings of political leaders, poets, philosophers, and actors, as well as early radio broadcasts and unreleased tracks from major recording companies.
The latest round of NEA funding for fiscal year 2011 totaled more than $88 million awarded through 1,145 grants to not-for-profit national, regional, state, and local organizations nationwide. Arts on Radio and Television grants support the development, production, and national distribution of radio and television programs on the arts. In this category, 64 grants out of 145 eligible applications were recommended for funding, for a total of $4 million. For the full listing of awardees, see http://arts.endow.gov/grants/recent/11grants/11artv.php.
To hear Sound Beat episodes, visit soundbeat.org. For more information, contact Sound Beat project manager Pamela McLaughlin at 315.443.9788 or pwmclaug@syr.edu.
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Tips from the Green Team This month, the Green Team would like to share a few best practices for using the new copier/scanners. Delivery and Retrieval Services is using the new machines to send requests to Science electronically. In the past, when requesting a book for Campus Delivery or a scan for Articles to Go, a staff member would have to enter the information into an email and send it to someone in Science. In addition, they would then send a print copy of the email with the student picking up the items for Campus Delivery. Now, they simply scan the cover sheets, email them to their own account, then forward to Science. Much faster, more accurate-and less paper! Access Services and User Support are using the new machines to scan student time sheets instead of making copies to refer to if a payroll question arises. Keeping the scanned time sheets in a computer file for future reference also results in less wasted paper. Keep those ideas and suggestions coming!
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Library Student Employee Wins Award
The Maps and Government Information Dept. is proud to announce that Jonathan Chan, a valuable workstudy student in the department for all four of his years at SU, won the Individual Associate Vice President Award for Positive Advocacy at the "44 Stars of Excellence Gala & Celebration" on Tuesday, April 19.
Awarded by the Office of Student Activities and sponsored by Macy's and Bloomingdale's, the event featured dinner, awards and performances by First Year Players and Groovestand.
Eighteen awards were presented throughout the evening to either individual students or recognized student organization(s).
Way to go, Jonathan!
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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!
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