Here is the latest information on the previously-announced changes regarding ESF access to SU Library e-resources.

• After May 15, 2012, SUNY ESF users will no longer be able to access SUL-licensed Library e-­resources (databases, e-journals, etc.) from the ESF campus or from off-­campus locations.
• Likewise, SUL users will not be able access ESF-licensed resources except from Moon Library.
• This move was necessitated by 1) changes in the terms of e-resources licenses with respect to SUNY ESF's status as a separate institution, and 2) to bring us into legal compliance with these licenses.
• The process will take place over the course of the summer, but in the next couple of weeks, ESF users will be removed from the SU proxy server.
• SUNY ESF-affiliated users can still use the full range of resources from an SU Library.
• Moon Library director Steve Weiter sent a message to ESF students and faculty on Tuesday, May 8 outlining these changes. 

Library employees who get questions from the public, including from members of the ESF community, should refer all questions to the ESF Moon reference desk at 470-6711, Moon's Reference Question Form, or the "Changes at Moon Library" LibGuide.

Lucy Mulroney, curator in SCRC, has been invited to present her paper, entitled "Andy Warhol and the American Photobook" during the 2012-2013 Newberry Library Seminar in American Art and Visual Culture next March in Chicago, Ill.  

This seminar provides a forum for presenting current research, as well as a venue that brings together a diverse community of local and regional Americanists for intellectual exchange, collegial conversation, and debate. Seminar participants give papers that cross and challenge borders both within and outside the discipline, that engage questions of methodology and ideology, probe the categories of race, ethnicity, class, and gender, and reflect critically on the state and outlook of the field.  

The seminar is co-sponsored by the School of Fine and Performing Arts at Columbia College Chicago, the Department of History and Political Science at Purdue University Calumet, The Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture at the University of Chicago, and the Department of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

A conversation among a few of Michael's friends and colleagues recently centered around the desire to do something "closer to home" to remember him, separate from/in addition to the American Cancer Society donation suggested by the family.  

For a donation of $500, a plaque can be added to one the benches located under the trees just across from the Library (on the corner of Campus Drive and University near the bus stop). Michael was an avid gardener, loved the outdoors and took the bus to and from work so we thought this would be a great way to remember him in an ongoing way.  

We invite you to join us in contributing money for this effort. Money is being collected through the Library Business Office through the end of May. Checks can be made out to Syracuse University and cash is accepted.  

For those of you who have already given, thank you so much for your generosity. To date, we have collected about $800 -- almost enough to purchase two bench plaques! Stay tuned for an announcement regarding the installation. 

Will you be away from your campus office for an extended period this summer? If so, before leaving, please do the following:

• Turn off and unplug all office and personal electronics such as computers, monitors, printers, paper shredders, televisions, chargers, etc.
• Take home plants or have a co-worker take care of them.
• Close and lock all windows.
• Turn off all office lights on your way out.

All of these efforts save energy and contribute to SU's Climate Action Plan, the institutional blueprint for becoming carbon neutral.