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Dames named Interim Dean-Designate
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Dames named Interim Dean-Designate
 Vice Chancellor and Provost Eric F. Spina has named K. Matthew Dames interim dean-designate of the Syracuse University Libraries. Dames will assume the interim deanship on July 1, 2013.
Dames, who was appointed interim associate dean for Research, Collections and Scholarly Communication (RCSC) in January, was the University's first Copyright and Information Policy Adviser and has been on the senior leadership team of the library since August 2008. In December, Thorin named him director of the library's Copyright and Information Policy Office. In that role, Dames was responsible for educating the University community about copyright, licensing and policy issues that affect teaching, scholarship and research.
"I am honored Provost Spina has selected me to lead the library during this important transitional period, and I thank him for the opportunity," says Dames. "I also thank Dean Thorin and the library staff for the collegiality and support they have provided me in the past. The library faces immediate challenges in various areas, and I look forward to resolving those for the benefit of the entire University community."
Read the full article.
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Personnel announcements
Charlotte Hess, Associate Dean for Research, Collections, and Scholarly Communication (RCSC), has announced that she will retire from Syracuse University on August 1, 2013.
The following interim appointments in RCSC will take effect on July 1, 2013:
Scott Warren, current Head of Collections, will become the Interim Associate Dean for RCSC.
Janet Pease, unit manager in RCSC, will become Interim Head of Collections.
Linda Galloway, Librarian for Biology, Chemistry, and Forensic Science, will become Interim Science Bibliographer.
Mary DeCarlo will expand her hours to three-quarter time during the interim period to assist with science-related services as needed.
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Video of most recent Open Forum
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 Video of most recent Open Forum
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A Billion Thanks!
Marketing and Communications has recently launched a new website (campaign.syr.edu) to wrap up The Campaign for Syracuse University.
The Library was a site for filming the "A Billion Thanks!" video linked to below and also on the campaign.syr.edu/thanks page.
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Installations of student work
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Installations of student work
We have a new array of installations in place for two sections of this semester's Textile Synthesis class (TXT 324/624) taught by Anne Cofer in the College of Visual and Performing Arts.
The course introduces students to the processes by which textiles are made and encompasses many techniques, from traditional methods of fiber construction and surface treatments, to experimental structures and materials designed for space exploration.
For the "Coloring Surface, Pattern and Place" assignment displayed on the first floor of Bird Library, students investigated dyed and printed cloth in relationship to architectural space. They learned how to use fiber-reactive dye to color cloth and experimented with resist techniques, dye painting and methods of printmaking. In addition students considered the relationship of surface, pattern and place for application within their major.
These works will be up until the week of April 8.
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Book Library videos online through MediaNet
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Book Library videos online through MediaNet
The Library has upgraded the MediaNet system, enabling faculty and graduate students to reserve videos and schedule them for specific class dates. MediaNet now includes the added feature of Online Web Booking. This feature allows users to check the up-to-date availability of videos and automatically place the reservation online. Login for the new MediaNet web booking form uses your NetID and password. For detailed information, see the webpage Instructions for Ordering a Video in MediaNet. As always, we welcome your feedback as we implement the new web booking system. If you have questions, please contact multimed@syr.edu or 443-2438. |
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SU Press Author David Lloyd to host upcoming talks
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SU Press Author David Lloyd to host upcoming talks
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Thursday, April 25, 5:00 p.m.
Bird Library, Sixth Floor
RSVP by April 15 to Julie at jsharkey@syr.edu
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Friday, April 26, 7:00 p.m.
The Downtown Writer's Center
340 Montgomery Street, Syracuse
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Set in 1966, these stories re-create the world of lower-middle-class adolescent boys coming of age in upstate New York. The twelve stories in On Monday proceed chronologically from a Monday to a Tuesday morning. Each story highlights a different character's experiences with parents, friends, teachers, the expectations of others and the expectations of a culture and an era. Characters and settings present in one story reappear in other stories, building upon and heightening the experiences of all of them. The narrator of the novella, Boys Only, is thirteen-year-old Chris, a member of a small gang that includes his two friends, Frank and Joey. The novella poignantly charts Chris's involvement with a girl named Lisa, his fascination with a pornographic magazine, the building of a "boys only" tree house, his traumatized relationships with Frank and Joey, and the disappearance of his sister Jenny. David Lloyd is professor of English and director of the Creative Writing Program at Le Moyne College, Syracuse, New York. He is the author of "Boys: Stories and a Novella" and three books of poetry, "The Everyday Apocalypse", "The Gospel According to Frank", and "Warriors".
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Green Team visits SUNY-ESF's Gateway Center
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Green Team visits SUNY-ESF's Gateway Center
 In mid-February, the Library Green Team coordinated a tour of SUNY-ESF's Gateway Center, a new hub for the campus that gives visitors a snapshot of what ESF represents.
The building provides space for students to gather and socialize, including the recently-opened Trailhead Café and green roof with seating areas. It also features a bookstore, exhibition space for specimens from the College's Roosevelt Wildlife Collection, and areas for conferences, academic gatherings and public events.
One of the hallmarks of the building is a combined heat-and-power (CHP) system that provides the Gateway Center and four other buildings on campus with both steam and electricity while reducing the campus-wide carbon footprint by 22 percent.
The CHP system is made up of two complimentary components. The first is a biomass-fueled boiler connected to a steam turbine that will operate eight to nine months per year to meet campus heating needs. Complementing the biomass system is a biodiesel microturbine system that will operate three to five months per year to help meet peak electrical needs, as well as three natural gas-fired microturbines that will be used to generate the balance of electricity and steam for heating on a year-round basis.
The green roof atop the Gateway Center uses native plant species planted in depths of 6 to 18 inches which will support larger plants and provide extra insulation for the building. The roof will be highly visible and demonstrate to visitors the unique qualities of the institution and serve as a symbol that ESF implements what it teaches.
Designed to achieve LEED Platinum certification the Gateway Center building was designed to use 36 percent of the energy consumed by a typical, comparable building.
Please join the Library Green Team for a tour of the Green Data Center (adjacent to 621 Skytop Road on South Campus) on Wednesday, April 17 from 11:30 to 12:30 p.m.
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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. 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:
- What are libraries like most famous for? Being silent. Why can't anybody in Club Bird ever understand that?
- This is the library, shut up OMG.
- If you ever need to get work done, don't come to the first floor of Bird on a weeknight.
- 1st floor of Bird Library is the worst to do work primarily because it's loud, but being in my room in silence annoys me more.
- I guess I didn't get the memo that the quiet sign on floor 3 is not an actual thing at Club Bird.
- Club Bird is a book storage facility, most certainly NOT a library.
- @SyracuseULib can't believe you shut down an entire floor at midnight. What's the point? It's midterms week...
- Just over heard this lady talking about eating a brain in the library. #getmeoutofhere #clubbird #cannibalismclubbird
- WOW get some power outlets #Bird Library. 18% battery supposed to last me 10 hours?
- Found an outlet in Bird Library #blessed
- Thinking about checking out every book on the third floor of Club Bird and putting study cubbies in their place.
- Accidentally stumbled across Bird Library's Stephen King shelf #NeverLeaving
- Sixth floor of Bird Library is honestly the coolest place on campus.
- Since both ITS and Bird Library seem to keep a close eye on my Twitter lately, it might be fun to start posting concerning tweets. #CryWolf
- Hide yo laptops. Hide yo iPads. Hide yo iPhones. There's a thief in Club Bird.
- I like how stealing two laptops from Bird Library constitutes as "grand larceny" in the Syracuse area.
- Things I want to do: make out with someone in Bird Library... #bucketlist #goals
- Redesign Bird Library, sounds like a great idea!
- Gonna buy Bird Library one day and rename it Larry Bird Library.
- Club Bird just tweeted at me... how do I respond to this!? There are people in there?
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Staff accomplishments
Barb Brooker (SCRC) has been the invited speaker at several undergraduate classes on campus this semester, including:
- Introduction to Gerontology
- Psychology of Adult Life: Maturity and Old Age
- Health Promotion Across the Life Span
- Sociology of Families
- Aging and Society
She has been presenting on the topic of Alzheimer's and the many difficult choices and decisions that families face.
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Otto spotters
Congratulations to Bill Lee (Access & Resource Sharing) and Gerry M. McCarthy (Learning Commons) for spotting Otto on the desks of Cathy Mulford and Barbara Jackson. Enjoy your new SU baseball cap and plush Otto!
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, Barb Brooker, Melinda Dermody, Bill Lee, Gerri M. McCarthy,
Lesley Pease, Suzanne E. Thorin, Lynn Wilcox
Click here to view past issues of the Library Staff Newsletter
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