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Science and Technology Library name to change
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Science and Technology Library name to change
Effective with the re-opening of Carnegie this fall (scheduled for August 28th), the official name of the merged Science and Technology and Mathematics libraries will be Carnegie Library. The Carnegie Library will house collections with call numbers Q-Z.
All library services will be provided from the service point on the first floor until the reading room renovation is complete and a new service area is created on the second floor. The library hours brochure will list a single set of hours for Carnegie Library.
LIT is in the process of updating all references to the names on the Library website. Text for locations in the library catalog will also be updated.
For more information, please contact Bobbi Gwilt, Associate Dean for Access and Resource Management.
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Carnegie Library renovation
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Carnegie Library renovation
 Carnegie has been the site of a wide range of activities this summer, both relating to the renovation and in preparation for the opening of Library Facility on south campus. The following list summarizes progress to date. For images of work in progress, see the new blog. Space - Reading room renovation:
- Tables have been removed for refinishing
- Floor tiles removed [photo]
- Glass walls removed on the second floor [photo]
- Offices and classrooms removed from entrance area
- The reading room renovation won't be completed until later in the year. A temporary reading room will be located on the first floor.
- When the library reopens for fall semester, library services will continue to be provided on the first floor.
- Design of the second floor service desk area is in progress.
- The Math Library will be incorporated into the main library and renamed Carnegie Library.
- The floor of the pit will be raised. Furniture from the pit has been moved to Bird during construction. It was dispersed around on the lower level, 1st floor, and the 4th floor until it is ready to go back to Carnegie.
- Stack level 7 will not be accessible to users; staff will retrieve materials shelved there.
Collections - Damaged items have been pulled from levels 4, 6, and 7 and conveyed to Preservation for review and treatment.
- Bound journals have been pulled, boxed, and sent to interim storage in pre-processing (PPS) area of Hawkins. These will among the first group transferred to the SU Library Facility.
- Levels 6 and 7 have been cleared and materials transferred to Hawkins until the Facility is ready. West Zone is cleaning and resetting the shelving as needed.
- Shelving layout by LC class has been revised to provide space for oversized, reference, and periodicals.
- Reconfigured Carnegie stacks will hold a larger number of books than originally estimated.
- TR, TT, U, V, and Z call numbers will be transferred from Bird to Carnegie in upcoming weeks.
- Carnegie Library collections will encompass call number Q - Z.
- All government documents have been consolidated in Bird Library.
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Syracuse University Library Facility
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Syracuse University Library Facility
 See the new blog with images of the construction and associated announcements. Construction - Building is almost finished - 75% of the interior framing is complete.
- Construction is scheduled to be completed on August 31st.
- HVAC will arrive August 10th. It will take six hours to assemble and will be put to use immediately.
- Electrical inspection was scheduled for Wednesday 7/25, after which workers can start putting up the interior walls.
Preparation - The four new staff positions for the facility, joining Anthony Carbone, warehouse operations supervisor, and Charles Russo, warehouse facilities manager, will be filled by David de Anguera, Daniel Matthews, Philip Movsovich, and Mark Svereika.
- Working on scheduling the implementation of the GFA software that tracks materials in the facility.
- Work Assist vehicle (provides transport and access to stored materials), first set of carts, and furniture all ordered; tables and smartboard have arrived. Working on details for purchase of a new book scanner and determining the mix of tray sizes that need to be ordered.
- Developing service request processes and associated online forms.
- SCRC materials for initial ingest are ready to go -- processed and barcoded.
- Materials processed from Carnegie (books and journals) are stored at Hawkins and ready to be transferred to the facility.
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Introducing Summon
 Summon, the Library's new web-scale discovery service, will go live on August 2. Summon provides a familiar, Google-like searching experience that simplifies the process of finding information in the Library. Summon combines searching the SU library catalog, SU digital collections, and the SUrface repository, plus nearly 80,000 electronic journals, over 500 research databases, newspapers, images, government documents, digital audio and video, and digital repositories from colleges, universities, and other open-access archives on the web. This massive index is a work in progress and new resources are being added continuously. Because Summon combines many types of resources in a single search, it's a great place to start a general or multi-disciplinary search. Lists of resources covered are located here:
Summon Key Databases and Packages
Summon Participating Publishers
Also debuting with Summon is a new library homepage design that highlights the new resource, which will replace Discover. Researchers can enter terms in the simple, library-branded search box or use the advanced search option to specify words in a title, publication title, author names(s), dates, and more.
Summon search results are delivered in a relevancy-ranked list. To target more specific results, searches can be limited to items available online, items from scholarly, peer-reviewed journals, items from the library catalog, or items from outside the library. Users can narrow searches further by using the content type, subject, date, library location, or language facets to the left of the results list.
Saved results can be formatted in a specific citation style (APA, MLA, etc.) and emailed, printed, or exported to citation management software including RefWorks, EndNote, or BibTex.
Nancy Turner conducted usability testing of the system this summer and a number of changes were made as a result of her findings. Please encourage users to send comments or questions using the Feedback link in the upper right corner of the search results page. For more information, see the "About Summon" pages or email libcom@syr.edu.
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The Syracuse University Library Staff Newsletter
Editors:
Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin, Julie Sharkey
Contributors: DeAnn Buss, TC Carrier, Bobbi Gwilt
Click here to view past issues of the Library Staff Newsletter
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