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Exhibit featuring Grove Press archive opens
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Exhibit featuring Grove Press archive opens
Syracuse University Library's spring exhibition Strange Victories: Grove Press, 1951-1985 opened with a reception on Thursday, January 17, at 6 p.m. in the Special Collections gallery on Bird Library's sixth floor. Curated by Susan M. Kline, Grove Press project archivist, and Lucy Mulroney, curator of rare books and manuscripts, it is the first major exhibition on the notorious American publisher Grove Press.
Taking its cue from the 1948 film Strange Victory, which Rosset produced in collaboration with left-wing documentary filmmaker Leo Hurwitz after WWII, the exhibition traces the history and evolution of Grove Press, from its role at the center of national censorship trials over the first American editions of Lady Chatterley's Lover and Tropic of Cancer, to its publication of politically-engaged works including The Wretched of the Earth, Red Star over China, and The Autobiography of Malcolm X, to its scandalous and very profitable, "Victorian Library."
The exhibition will run until June 22, 2013.
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SUL Mentoring Group Brown Bag
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SUL Mentoring Group Brown Bag
If Only They Knew...
What Authors and Editors Want You to Know About Publishing
Wednesday, February 13
Noon to 1:30 p.m., Peter Graham Scholarly Commons
Melinda Dermody will be presenting an informal discussion based on the panel she organized at the 2012 ALA annual meeting (Anaheim) to which publishers, authors, and editors brought their different perspectives on the academic publishing process. Melinda will be leading the discussion with insights from that session on practical strategies from research to writing.
The SUL Mentoring Group Brown Bags are open to all library staff and iSchool students. Cookies are always provided! As always, please contact one of the mentoring group members if you have questions: Nancy Turner (coordinator), Marty Hanson, Susan Kline, Yuan Li, Peter Verheyen.Visit the new SUL Mentoring Program blog.
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Carnegie Reading Room table restoration project
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Carnegie Reading Room table restoration project
On January 23rd, Dean Thorin visited the woodworking shop where the tables from Carnegie are being refinished. They have been completely transformed, with years of grime, graffiti, and floor wax removed. Other participants included Jim Blum, senior project manager and Stan Nowakowski, senior project engineer from the Office of Campus Planning, Design, and Construction.
To help support the rejuvenation of the 24 tables, we offered Library donors and schools and colleges at the University the opportunity to name a Carnegie Library Reading Room table. It's very exciting to report that 12 donors and each of the schools and colleges have named tables. All 24 tables will be returning to the Carnegie Library affixed with special dedication plaques.
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Networking in Bird Library continues to improve
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Networking in Bird continues to improve
 Wireless networking is improving quickly at Bird Library. Since the end of the spring semester, ITS Networking staffers have added more than a dozen new access points, bringing the total to 44. This adds capacity for several hundred more clients across several floors of the library, generally SU's most concentrated area of wireless networking demand on campus. Since 2003, when the Library was one of ITS' first wireless locations and lucky to see 75 wireless clients at a time, ITS staff have worked to address an explosion of demand. While the building has been completely covered with signal for some time, upgrades were required to cover the increasing number of users and their multiple devices -- a total now regularly peaking at more than 1,700!
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Carnegie renovation to restore legacy
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Carnegie renovation to restore legacy
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Sarah Loguidice/TheNewsHouse.com
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The ongoing Carnegie Library renovation was the subject of a feature-length news article -- written by Sarah Loguidice, a senior studying Newspaper Journalism at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications -- that was published on the NewsHouse website on January 14.
Last November, Loguidice interviewed Pamela McLaughlin, Eric Beattie of CPDC, and others in researching the story, which was a class project. Loguidice also created a short video, entitled " SU's Local Legend: Diana of the Hunt" where Domenic Iacono, director of Syracuse University Art Galleries, discusses the history of the Statue of Diana the Huntress. Mary O'Brien, reference archivist for Syracuse University Archives, also talks about "The Legend of the Lucky Paw" -- the reason why the hound's left front paw is bright brass, and not patina, like the rest of the statue.
Read the full article and watch the video.
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February is webinar month at SUL
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February is webinar month at SUL
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SU Press news
The Spring/Summer 2013 Catalog is Now Available!
 Attention all readers! The Syracuse University Press Spring/Summer 2013 book catalog is now available on our website. This season we offer a wide array of new titles in series such as Sports History, Middle East Literature and Irish Studies, among others. There is sure to be a book of interest for all!
If you're a baseball fanatic, we have the perfect read for you. Beyond Home Plate: Jackie Robinson on Life after Baseball, edited by Michael G. Long, is an anthology of the baseball legend's columns in the New York Post and the New York Amsterdam News discussing his insights on his professional career and the years following. Most of you remember Jackie as the star athlete who crossed baseball's color line, but what you don't know is what happened after those historic years. For a look inside the full story of the Hall of Famer's life, be sure to pick up Jackie Robinson's story, Beyond Home Plate, this April.
Another interesting title coming out this March is Steel's: A Forgotten Stock Market Scandal From the 1920's by Dave Dyer. This historic story takes you back into the rise and fall of the retail empire, created by Leonard Rambler Steel. After finding thousands of original documents and photos from the L.R. Steel Company, Dave Dyer provides a first-hand account on the uncovering of a massive stock market scandal that had been forgotten by history. With no other published accounts of this scandal, you must get your hands on Steel's to learn the truth about the fascinating story of Buffalo-based Steel's department store.
View the full Spring/Summer 2013 book catalog for more information on these two books and any of the other new SU Press books coming this spring!
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In early December, the Library Green Team coordinated a tour of one of the most energy efficient buildings in the nation -- the Syracuse Center of Excellence (SyracuseCoE) Headquarters building, located at 727 East Washington St. in Syracuse. The LEEDŽ Platinum-rated building, designed by the world renowned architect, Toshiko Mori, is meant to showcase and create a test bed for innovations in environmental and energy systems. The 17-member group, led by SyracuseCoE staff member Stacy Bunce, toured the innovation test beds at the center, the ICUBE "living laboratory" where current research focuses on measuring productivity in varying types of work environments, and was also educated about the myriad energy-saving features that Mori employed into the building's design, including:
- A green roof that provides rainwater retention and a visible connection to nature, while also reducing the heat island effect.
- Radiant ceilings embedded with copper piping that efficiently carry water to heat or cool the rooms in the building.
- A demand-controlled ventilation system where the amount of fresh air delivered to a room varies depending on the number of people who are present, saving energy when rooms are partially occupied.
- Manual windows with natural ventilation indicator lights (red and green) that alert occupants when it is best to open windows based on measurements of outdoor temperature, humidity, air quality, and wind speeds.
- A storm water retention tank used to flush toilets, reducing both the consumption of drinkable water and the amount of water that is discharged to the sewer.
- A regenerative Otis elevator that generates electricity on the way down, which can then be used for going back up, used elsewhere in the building, or fed back into the grid.
The group asked lots of questions during the tour, and in true "green spirit" walked to and from the center!
To register for a tour of the SyracuseCoE Headquarters building and find available tour dates, visit their "Friday at Three" tour registration page. The Library Green Team is planning two tours during the spring semester -- one at the Green Data Center on South Campus and one at the new Gateway Center at SUNY-ESF. Watch for an upcoming announcement with all of the details!
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Comments and complaints from the Interwebs
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Comments and complaints from the Interwebs
 Almost every day, SU students comment and complain about the Library using Twitter or through the Library's Suggestion Box. Many of their musings receive a reply from the Library's official Twitter handle, @SyracuseULib or the Learning Commons (@sulibrarylc). Here are some of the things that have been on their minds:
- Why am I in the library still studying for finals from LAST SEMESTER?
- At Bird Library. It's been awhile SU!
- An empty Bird Library - a beautiful thing I tell ya.
- Am I at the Dome or at Bird Library? It's so quiet in here I could study for finals
- Bird Library on the first Sunday of the semester is quiet and empty. Great for grad students who need to study already.
- Why does Bird Library have an Instagram?
- Automatic flushers instead of automatic faucets? You chose WRONG Bird Library!
- Bird Library needs to be redecorated... ASAP... the carpet, window, seats, etc.
- One of my greatest fears is leaving Bird Library because those doors are tricky.
- What you don't know is, Club Bird is what I call, the library.
- There was like 3 pep rallies walking through Bird Library just now in hype of the basketball game today .. I swear, #OnlyAtSU Lol
- Bird Library: realistically all your foot traffic is from students escaping the cold.
- It's rush season at SU, which is making for an interesting view from the windows of Bird Library.
- Going to start studying [at Panasci Lounge] from now on cause Bird Library is either a total distraction or has no seats.
- Bird Library would be a lot cooler if it was an actual bird library. Like a library of birds. Instead of books. That would be pretty cool.
- I'm sitting at a desk in @SyracuseULib and pretending that I work here. Please hire me!
- Thank you for keeping the bathrooms clean. My experience at Bird is qualitatively better when the women's 1st floor bathroom smells good, and not like... well, a bathroom. If this could continue, it would be great! Thank you.
- In the Bird Library stacks with my vocal literature class. Who knew the library was so FABULOUS (and helpful)? Thanks, librarian Rachel!
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New Library baby
Congratulations to Nick Nosko (Information & Technology Services) and his wife Brynne on the birth of their daughter, Leah Kathleen Nosko, born on January 16 at 1:16 a.m. Leah weighed 6 lbs., 5 oz. and measured 20 inches long.
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Otto spotters
Congratulations to Cathy Mulford (Access & Resource Sharing) for spotting Otto in Niki Gilman's office. Enjoy your new 'Cuse ball cap!
Entering isn't hard -- if you spot our plush Otto in the Library, snap a picture and send it, along with details of where you saw him, to libcom@syr.edu for a chance to win a prize!
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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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The Syracuse University Library Staff Newsletter
Editors:
Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin, Julie Sharkey
Contributors: Bevan Angier, George Clarke, Dale King, Sarah Loguidice, Gerri C. McCarthy,
Cathy Mulford, Nick Nosko, Erica Sheftic, Suzanne E. Thorin, Nancy Turner
Click here to view past issues of the Library Staff Newsletter
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