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SU Library ranked one of the most social media friendly college and university libraries for 2013
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 SU Library ranked in top 10In LibraryScienceList.com's list of "100 Most Social Media Friendly College & University Libraries for 2013," which ranks libraries by their level of activity on various social media platforms, the SU Library placed eighth out of 442.
The SU Library is also ranked tenth in Google Plus activity, and none of its other accounts are ranked below the top 25%.
From LibraryScienceList.com's website, here is information on the selection process:
The staff at LibraryScienceList.com searched the most popular social media platforms looking for libraries that are actively using their accounts to promote library events, notify students of new materials, or interact with patrons in other ways. We ended up with a list of 442 college and university libraries, which were evaluated based on their level of activity on various platforms. The highest possible score was 100, with 32 points for Facebook, 25 for Twitter, 18 for YouTube, 7 for Pinterest, 4 for Google Plus, and 14 for Flickr.
Folks in almost all areas of the Library are involved in social media activities and have contributed to this effort, so thanks to all of you!
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RCSC renamed DRS
As of April 11, the Unit for Research, Collections, and Scholarly Communication has been renamed the department of Research and Scholarship. The new name is shorter, and eliminates confusion with Special Collections when reduced to an acronym. As for the new acronym, the staff settled on "DRS" as suggested by Rachel Fox von Swearingen, indicating department of Research and Scholarship.)
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Carnegie Library closed for the summer; items available by request
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Carnegie Library closed for the summer; items available by request
 The Carnegie Library will be closed this summer from May 11 through August 20, 2013. During this time, there will be renovation work in the Carnegie building that may pose safety hazards, as well as create noise, dust, and general disruption for users of the Library.
Items needed from the library may be requested through an online request form, by calling (315) 443-5727 or by stopping at the Circulation Desk on the 1st floor of Bird Library; material will be retrieved and available for pickup at the Bird circulation desk or delivered to faculty offices. All summer Reserve items, including those normally held in Carnegie, will be available at Bird Library.
The librarians who have offices in Carnegie will be available by appointment and can be contacted by phone or email. For contact information see: http://library.syr.edu/about/departments/rcsc/team.php. For portions of the summer, they may be based in Bird Library, so contacting them ahead of time is crucial.
For additional information, please contact Melinda Dermody, at 443-5332 or mdermo01@syr.edu.
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Library Staff Campaign 2013
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Library Staff Campaign 2013
The second annual SU Library "Staff Gift Campaign" will begin this May 2013! Thank you to all who gave so generously last year. I hope that you will choose to participate again this year and designate your gift to the SU Library.
As a staff, we are 183 strong and have a huge stake in making sure the Library continues to serve the over one million visitors a year. Every day each of us is dedicated to the highest-quality service and support possible.
Everything raised in the "Staff Gift Campaign" is reinvested in the Library. By putting our gifts to SU to work in the Library, we can help define the Library's future. Each of us can help by giving and each of us can choose how to make a difference at the SU Library.
I would not ask for your support without making my own gift first. Please consider giving a gift that works for you -- no gift is too small or too large. 22 current staff members and 11 former staff members have already given over $11,000 to the Library this year. Won't you please join them?
Each and every gift is deeply appreciated and every gift counts.
Thank you for your consideration.
Ron Thiele
Assistant Dean for Advancement
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SUL awarded $280,000 NEH grant for phase two of Breuer digital project
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SUL awarded $280,000 NEH grant for phase two of Breuer digital project
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded the Syracuse University Library a $280,000 grant for phase two of a project that created a digital scholarly edition of the works of Bauhaus architect Marcel Breuer. The new project, entitled "Marcel Breuer, Architect: Life and Work, 1953-1981" will unite source materials from the latter half of Breuer's career, during which his services were sought by powerful business, governmental, and religious institutions. These new source materials will be integrated in the Marcel Breuer Digital Archive web portal created in the first phase of the project, which was funded by an NEH grant in 2009.
Read the full news story.
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LC social media contest - #sulccontest
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LC social media contest #sulccontest
This semester saw the launch of the Learning Commons' premiere social media contest. Held during the weeks immediately following Spring Break, the contest tasked students to answer quick questions, ranging from naming their favorite places in the Library to identifying their superheroes/villains of choice.
Tim Huynh, a senior psychology major and Asian/Asian American studies minor, was the lucky grand prize winner, and has since been enjoying his coveted prize!
Over the course of the contest, the LC saw a rise in Facebook "Likes" and Twitter followers, as well as interaction with some of their other social media accounts. Below are examples of some of questions and responses from the contest:
What's your favorite spot in Bird Library? - Two faves - the basement for socializing & the 5th floor on Sunday... it's SO quiet b/c everyone has work to do.
- The quiet study area in the basement.
- Second floor - I need some noise to work, but not too much.
- I love the couch in the middle of the fourth floor, it's a great place to read for class!
- The table at the SW corner of the basement main area, next to the emergency exit.
- Second floor - third table on the left. My #luckyspot - pullin' all A's this semester!
- Quiet room 339.
- Second floor, third table on left. #luckyspot #AllA's
This next contest question could be subtitled "Extreme Makeover: Bird Edition"! If you were suddenly gifted money to enhance the interior space of Bird, how would you spend it?
- Create more individual quiet study rooms/spaces with more soundproof walls.
- Add more outlets!
- Either an aesthetic overhaul that shifts to a more contemporary architectural style (the contrast with the brutalist outside would be awesome!) or more study spaces with outlets that aren't used as recreational areas.
- Create group quiet areas that are actually very quiet, maybe by building some soundproof walls or having quiet areas in isolated parts of the library, far from conference rooms and other sources of noise.
A question for you library pros: If you could give the class of '17 tips on college-level research, what would you say?
- Use in house research assistants, they are paid to help you!
- Definitely that Interlibrary Loan is an amazing and underused resource. You can find so much at your fingertips!
Many thanks go out to the LC's Social Media Squad -- Sarah Allis, Tarida Anantachai, Camille Chesley, Eli Liquori, Gerry M. McCarthy, Lesley Pease, and Joe Sweeney -- who all had a hand in planning and facilitating the contest and following table arrangements.
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Food for Fines
 On Thursday, April 18, the libraries of SU and SUNY-ESF participated in a "Food for Fines" amnesty day by collecting food for the needy and offering patrons the opportunity to reduce their overdue fines. A total of 590 non-perishable items were collected and donated to the Cathedral Emergency Services food pantry in downtown Syracuse.
Participating libraries include Bird, the Carnegie Library, the Geology Library, the Barclay Law Library, the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, the Architecture Reading Room, and ESF's Moon Library.
The program will be held again in the fall.
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Video of most recent Open Forum
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 Video of most recent Open Forum
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"Suspended by a Thread" student artwork
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"Suspended by a Thread" student artwork
Our last art installations for this semester are four pieces from this semester's Environmental Textiles class (TXT 326) taught by Caitlin Foley in the College of Visual and Performing Arts.
The course focuses on processing and manipulation of pliable fibers into three-dimensional forms for wearable or site-specific applications by having students use various structural supports to create mass and volume.
You'll find one piece on the lower level of Bird (near the stairwell); two pieces near the upper floors staircase (one below and the other between floors 3 and 4) and another piece in a quiet nook of the 4th floor near the oversize books.
The artists are: Julianna DiMarco, Mary Martimucci, Christina Rene Riggio, and Kari Smiraglia. Check out the Learning Commons' pictures of the pieces on flickr.
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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 social media outlets, such as 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:
- Per construction worker, Carnegie Library will be open for study use "mid-May". @SyracuseULib lets get it open for finals week!
- I think I contracted the bird flu from being in Bird Library for so long #strugglesoflife
- Tonight I shall make a cave in the library and call it home #clubbird
- Bird Library: where group project members go to die.
- Bird Library now > Bird Library during Finals week #nobrainer
- U know it's finals when every space possible is taken in the library #clubbird
- The quiet room in Bird Library is where iPhones go to sing. #endlessbzzing
- Playing music in the library? Well... I guess that's why they call it #ClubBird ... lol
- I don't think I'll ever understand why people watch videos in Bird Library... It's like people are trying to study, it's finals. #stop
- Please continue to vacuum at 11am on a Wednesday of one of the busiest weeks of the semester.
- I feel so out of place when I'm in Bird Library... I feel like everyone is watching me.
- @SyracuseULib doesn't carry @HarvardBiz case studies? Sorry, I thought you were a library for education.
- Just renewed my @NewYorkTimes subscription after battling it out in my mind for 10 mins. I really wish it were available on @SyracuseULib.
- @SyracuseULib Why do you not have more available Mac chargers?
- Only in Bird Library would children's books and fairytales be right next to Kafka.
- The 6th floor of Bird Library is another planet.
- "The higher you go, the smarter you are." #birdlibrary
- [Food for Fines] is an awesome way to give back to society if you have fines pending at @SyracuseULib.
- It's like cool that we're number 8 but Bird Library sucks.
- The coffee at Bird Library is on point... but I still hate Bird Library.
- The automatic stapler in Bird Library hates me so much. It never staples for me :(
- Moon Library has comfier chairs.
- Shout out to the couple going at it in the elevator at Bird Library. You did not make me feel uncomfortable at all.
- There's a dead bird outside Bird Library... ironic?
- I just bit into a piece of a broken plate in my muffin from Pages Cafe in @SyracuseULib. Thoroughly grossed out.
- Bird Library is the place to pee.
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Kudos!
Jenny Doctor (Belfer Audio Archive) and her husband, composer Stephen Ferre were featured live on the Society for New Music's (SNM) Fresh Ink program, a weekly radio program dedicated to airing contemporary compositions, on April 7 at 2 p.m. in the WCNY-FM studios.
Annie Rauh (RCSC) was elected to the officer track of the Engineering Libraries Division of the American Society for Engineering Education. ASEE is an organization made up of engineering faculty, librarians, and other academics interested in engineering education. The Engineering Libraries Division of the organization is the primary professional organization of librarians supporting academic engineering programs.The officer track is a four year commitment beginning at this summer's conference in Atlanta. Annie will serve as secretary/treasurer for a year, then as the program chair for the year leading up to the annual conference in Seattle WA, then as president for a year, and finally as past president.
Penelope Singer (Communication & External Relations) was inducted into the Alpha Sigma Lambda National Honor Society on March 1.
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Otto spotters
Congratulations to Bonnie Ryan (RCSC) and Matt Rescke (Learning Commons) for spotting Otto on the desks of Bevan Angier and Donna Sullivan. Enjoy your new SU umbrella and license plate frame!
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: Tarida Anantachai, Bevan Angier, K. Matthew Dames, Melinda Dermody,
Jenny Doctor, Lesley Pease, Annie Rauh, Matt Reschke, Bonnie Ryan,
Penelope Singer, Donna Sullivan, Joe Sweeney, Ron Thiele
Click here to view past issues of the Library Staff Newsletter
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