• Annie Rauh and Sam Gruber showed the students items from the Plastics Collection. With the students, they discussed why a library collects plastics, the history of plastics, and how the collection relates to science and technology studies.   
• Janet Pease and Mary DeCarlo facilitated a photograph scavenger hunt, allowing the students the opportunity to locate science-related materials in Bird Library.   
• Linda Galloway worked with the students to learn how to identify authoritative websites. They discussed how to evaluate websites based on specific criteria and how to determine usefulness of a site. The students also had fun looking at some scientific hoax websites! 
• Fantasia Thorne and Lucy Mulroney led the students in an exciting game of Wits and Wagers Family, allowing the students to get to know each other on their first day of the Science Horizons program.   
• Richard Ortiz created another fantastic worksheet, which guided the students to the various locations they visited during their two-hour stay in the Library.

Thank you to everyone on the staff who interacted with the students, giving them a warm welcome to Bird Library! Sandra Barrett felt the event went well and was happy the students were able to move around the library. Hopefully this is a connection that will continue as these students visit the University each year!

Have you or a co-worker ever thought about how you would plan the State of the Library meetings, the Holiday Party, the Summer Picnic, or other Library programs? Now is your chance to be a part of the action!  

SULA is seeking nominees for the upcoming Election of Officers. Positions open for nomination include:

• Chair-elect
• Secretary
• Member-at-large

Nominations or self-nominations will be accepted through Friday, July 6. Please send your nominations to Elizabeth Breslin.  

Let your voice be heard!  

SULA Nominating Committee: Elizabeth Breslin, Charlene Martin, Matthew Reschke

The Library is piloting a change in settings for all networked staff printers, which has enabled the default to EconoMode (HP)/Toner Save (Canon). The Green Team asks staff to use this default for as many print jobs as possible, and of course, think twice before printing at all. If you wish to print a higher quality copy, you will need to deselect EconoMode/Toner Save in "print properties" for each job.  

For staff with local desktop printers that wish to have EconoMode/Toner Saveenabled by default, we ask that you email lisd@syr.edu and submit a request. We'll stop by or connect remotely to make the change for you. Unfortunately administrator access is required to change default printer settings for these types of printers so we'll need to make this change.  

If you have questions about this pilot feel free to contact Bevan Angier, Tasha Cooper, or Russell Silverstein.  

We thank you in advance for your cooperation and support as we strive to green the Library!

Leda Gibbs, the daughter of Carol Hamilton (Access & Resource Sharing), was selected to receive a French Government English Teaching Assistantship for the upcoming academic year. Administered by the French Ministry of Education and Cultural Services, these competitive assistantships give students a chance to gain experience in their field and improve their language skills as well as foster cross-cultural understanding. Gibbs, a French and adolescent education double major who graduated this May from Nazareth College, will be teaching English to high school students in the city of Grenoble while pursuing a master's degree.  

On May 3, Marty Hanson (RCSC) took her Ph.D. oral comprehensive exam in History and passed with Distinction. This "nerve-wracking" exam covered her major field of Medieval History and minor fields of Late Antiquity and Foundations in Rhetoric -- collectively spanning a time period from approximately the 5th BCE (before the Common Era) through the 16th CE (Common Era).  

Charlotte Hess (RCSC) was invited to become a member of the Communication Policy Research Network -- a national consortium of non-partisan and multidisciplinary social scientists, legal scholars, journalists, and communication experts -- convened by the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism. Hess was also one of the contributors to the Federal Communications Commission project on Critical Information Needs of Communities and Diversity this past May.  

Yuan Li (RCSC) has received a travel scholarship for the Cooperative Curation Symposium and Workshop, to be held August 8-9, at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, GA.