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New Library graduate assistants
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New graduate assistants
Two graduate assistants will be joining the Libraries in the fall. These assistantships are offered in collaboration with the School of Information Studies. Assistantships are for one year, with the possibility of renewal for a second year.
Dina Meky will be working in the Acquisitions and Cataloging department under Brian Dobreski's supervision. Dina, who is fluent in Arabic, will be cataloging Arabic language materials.
Brandon Fess will be working in the Belfer Audio Archive under Patrick Midtlyng's supervision to assist with sound archiving.
Both Dina and Brandon will begin their assistantships in mid-August.
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Upcoming changes to SU Library and ESF interactions
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Upcoming changes to SU Library and ESF interactions
 As the culmination of an extensive planning process, ESF will implement a new online system (Aleph) in mid-May and migrate its holdings from SU Library's Voyager catalog. Aleph is the library management system used by many other SUNY libraries.
On or about June 15th, all ESF holdings will be deleted from the SU Library catalog and all current Voyager circulation transactions involving ESF-owned items will be discharged. All fines, fees, holds, and blocks attached to ESF owned items will also be deleted.
ESF patrons will be maintained in the Voyager patron database and continue to have borrowing privileges at SU Library, as well as the ability to renew and recall items from SUL, view and manage their account, save searches, etc. SU Library patrons will also keep their current circulation privileges at ESF.
The following changes will result from this migration:
- ESF users have no off-campus access to SU Library e-resources;
- ESF users will not be able to reserve Long Term Study Rooms in Bird Library;
- Users will not be able to return SU Library materials to Moon Library, nor will SU libraries accept ESF Library materials for return.
For details on ESF's transition process, see the article in the April issue of the SUNYergy newsletter.
For more information on these changes, contact Melinda Dermody at mdermo01@syr.edu.
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Plastics wins 2013 ALADN Marketplace Awards
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Plastics wins 2013 ALADN Marketplace Awards
As part of the annual Academic Library Advancement and Development Network (ALADN) national conference in Pittsburgh in May, attendees were encouraged to share and learn by participating in Marketplace, a designated space for conference goers to see, touch, and collect examples of print and multimedia materials provided by other conferen ce goers.
Attendance at this year's conference was the largest in several years and included 177 attendees, 54 whom are library deans or directors. One conference attended came from as far away as the University of Hawaii!
Each institution submitted examples of materials used to advance the library's mission and donor relationships in no more than three of the following categories:
- Annual Reports
- Capital Campaign Materials
- Case Statements
- Collections Materials
- Friends of the Libraries
- Library Public Relations Materials
- Newsletters
- Special Events (invitations, programs, Holiday, cards, etc.)
- Stewardship Materials
A panel of conference judges selected Syracuse University Library's Plastics exhibition guide to receive the "Best Collections Materials" award. In addition, the Guide was also selected to receive the "Best in Show" award representing the single best item from among all of the categories in the program!
Congratulations to Lynn Wilcox of SU Press who designed the Plastics exhibition guide and everyone else who had a hand in putting it together.
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Access & Resource Sharing news
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 Access & Resource Sharing news
On May 28, we will be hosting a group of visitors from Cornell University's Library. Charlie Russo and others will provide them with a tour of our new Library Facility as they prepare to outfit their next storage facility module. This group is especially interested in our use of the innovative architecture tube storage model created by our very own Peter Verheyen. We are very pleased to be building connections with Cornell and other university library facilities now that we have our state-of-the-art facility.
Interlibrary Loan Department pilots new interlibrary loan automation tool
Beginning in January of 2013, SU Library's Interlibrary Loan Department has been an alpha tester for the "Circulation Availability Service," (CAS) a tool that automates a large portion of the Interlibrary Loan process for SU lending books to other libraries. The CAS was developed by the Information Delivery Services Projects Technology Development Team (TDT), of which Access & Resource Sharing Librarian Shannon Pritting is a member.
The TDT presented results from the CAS development at the ILLiad National Conference in Virginia Beach in February 2013. After SU's alpha test of this service, several other libraries are now testing the LAS, including Nazareth College, Binghamton University, NY Public Library, St. John's Fisher College, SUNY Brockport, SUNY Geneseo, and Yale University. To date, the CAS has automated much of the process for over 4,000 ILL lending requests. Further development and a wider release of the CAS are planned for Summer 2013.
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Green Team hosts Brown Bag
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Green Team hosts Brown Bag
 On Wednesday, May 22, about 20 people attended the Library Green Team's green brown bag discussion regarding SU's green initiatives with Coordinator of Sustainability Education at SU, Rachel May and SU Sustainability Marketing Manager, Melissa Cadwell.
Rachel is working to help make sustainability a part of the curriculum for all students, connecting students and faculty from different divisions and engaging them in common sustainability issues. She's been meeting with faculty to create a definition of sustainability on campus, to identify local and global challenges, and to encourage faculty to teach and research sustainable issues in a cross-disciplinary manner. Their fall schedule for one-credit courses can be found on the Sustainability Division's webpage. Rachel has also developed a hands-on showcase of green issues, campus events, and tours to local green initiatives such as community gardens, waste reduction facilities, watershed tours, and the Onondaga Lake clean up facility.
Rachel's future goals include: creation of one website for all campus sustainability efforts; possibly a book that could be used in teaching; creation of sustainability minor; creation of an institute on sustainability science; and developing the idea of the campus as a lab for investigating new initiatives. For more information, contact Rachel at sumay@syr.edu.
Melissa is working on guidelines for sustainable purchasing and creating policies for getting LEED points. She discussed the concept of green purchasing and encouraged attendees to ask for supplies made in the USA of recycled materials that have sustainable packaging. In addition, Melissa talked about SU's dual stream waste management program that separates recyclables for sale to different vendors, as well as SU's composting program, which has seen an increase to almost 399 tons in the past year. She mentioned the continuing effort to reduce the amount of food waste in the dining halls. Melissa also showed the group new recycling posters focusing on the most common types of recyclables/trash on campus in an effort to make recycling easier for students and staff.
Melissa also described the solar thermal project on South Campus that's part of the University Climate Action Plan. Upon completion The project will help provide hot water for South Campus residents. The goal is to have the savings from this project and others on campus pay for the costs associated with future projects.
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The Daily Orange features two ARR student assistants
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The Daily Orange features two ARR student assistants
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Chase Gaewski | Photo Editor
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Tanner and Weston Halkyard swear it was sheer coincidence that they ended up at the same university. They both applied to a number of other colleges, and their parents never pushed them to be a part of the same program or school.
"We were actually separated into two different rooms when we were deciding on the schools that we were going to," Weston said.
Tanner agreed and said, "It was really just random happenstance that we ended up picking the same one, and the same major."
The program of choice was the School of Architecture's five-year undergraduate program at Syracuse University. Now, after five years of enduring all-nighters, making dozens of models and fretting about reviews, twins Tanner and Weston graduated with SU's Class of 2013, and are headed off to different cities to begin new jobs and live apart from each other.
Read the full article.
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SU Press news
 The Fall 2013 Catalog is Now Available! This season we offer a number of wonderful trade and scholarly titles. Be sure to take some time to browse the online catalog on the Syracuse University Press website. Save 30% on ALL SU Press online orders during the month of May -- enter the code 05spring13 at checkout. Don't miss out on the savings. You can never have enough books!
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Unknown Museums of Upstate New York: A Guide to 50 Treasures
By Chuck D'Imperio
Unknown Museums of Upstate New York is an informative and entertaining guide to the rich resources available at 50 small, often overlooked, regional museums. Even those familiar with the upstate area will likely have never visited and perhaps never heard of some of the treasures this guide unearths, such as the Catskill Fly Fishing Museum, the Kazoo Museum, and the Robert Louis Stevenson Cottage and Museum.
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Poets Translate Poets: A Hudson Review Anthology
Edited by Paula Deitz, with an Introduction by Mark Jarman
Poets Translate Poets features 83 poems in 24 languages, translated by 60 writers; it represents the best of more than 500 translated works originally published in the Hudson Review over the last seven decades. Among its translations are Ezra Pound's remarkable re-creation of Sophocles's Women of Trachis and Richard Wilbur's transformation of Pierre Corneille's alexandrines into English heroic couplets in Le Cid.
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The Photographed Cat: Picturing Close Human-Feline Ties, 1900-1940
By Arnold Arluke and Lauren Rolfe
With more than 130 illustrations, The Photographed Cat: Picturing Close Human-Feline Ties, 1900-1940 is both an archive and an analytical exploration of the close relationships between Americans and their cats during a period that is significant for photography and for modern understandings of animals as pets.
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SULA seeks Election of Officers nominations
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SULA seeks Election of Officers nominations
Have you or a fellow co-worker ever thought about how you would plan the State of the Library meetings, the Holiday Party, the Summer Picnic, or any other interesting Library programs? Now is your chance to be a part of the action!
SULA is seeking nominees for the upcoming SULA officer elections. Below is a list of the three positions up for nominations, including their respective duties:
- Chair-elect: The Chair-elect shall be the presiding officer in the absence of the Chair. The Chair-elect will advise and assist in SULA program development, and perform other duties as directed by the Chair. This position is a 3-year term (with the 1st year as Chair-elect, the 2nd year as Chair, and the 3rd year as Past-Chair).
- Secretary: Record or arrange to record the minutes of the Executive Board meetings and the SULA business meetings. The Secretary shall make available the SULA business meetings' minutes and perform other duties as appropriate.
- Member-at-large: The Member-at-large will perform duties as assigned by the Chair.
Nominations and self-nominations will be accepted from May 31 to June 14. To submit a nomination, or if you have any questions, please contact Tarida Anantachai at tanantac@syr.edu.
SULA Nominating Committee, Tarida Anantachai, Steven Hoover, Uma Sharma
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New University Wellness Initiative website
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New University Wellness Initiative website
Brittany Buffum's (Access & Resource Sharing) two-year-old son, Miles and her husband, Dave are featured on the homepage of the new University Wellness Initiative website. Miles was the youngest skater out of the 140+ faculty, staff, and families who participated in the Tennity Ice Skating event on March 30.
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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:
- @ClubBird is the unofficial name of students who spend their time studying at Bird Library. Are you a member?
- To everyone who normally doesn't use the library: Leave you are not welcome.
- Dear library goers... the 4th floor is a quiet floor. Thanks.
- Overheard in SU Library... "There are stairs! OMG so trendy"
- I somehow managed to get on the 5th floor of the Library... #IThinkImLost
- This isn't 1827. More outlets please.
- Get more outlets, eh?
- Need an outlet? Pack a power strip. You'll always have both outlets and friends.
- The only way to survive Club Bird is spontaneous dance parties and 90s music.
- Definition of hell: taking an exam on the first floor of Bird Library.
- Bird Library needs some interior redecorating. No windows and so stuffy.
- On the phone with the Mark's Pizzeria guy describing Bird Library "Ummm... it looks like a jail."
- Well, now I know where the good-looking guys at Syracuse have been hiding out... Bird Library.
- Best DPS officers ever for bringing the serious studiers in Club Bird late night Dunkin' Donuts.
- Shout out to Pages Cafe dude who gave me two pickles with my wrap. A generous addition sir.
- Just applied for a job in the Preservation Dept. at the SU Library! Fingers crossed.
- I got an email from the Syracuse Univ. Library that (paraphrased) sounds like this: "Dear ABD, your 181 books are due. What's your plan?"
- Wait. The SU Library has a Vine? #ohlord
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Wedding bells: Gerri and Jim
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Wedding bells: Gerri and Jim
Gerri McCarthy (Information & Technology Services) married Jim Sullivan on May 11th in an outdoor ceremony in Rockport, Mass. Congratulations on your nuptials!
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Kudos!
Melinda Dermody (Access & Resource Sharing) began her appointment as Column Editor for College & Undergraduate Libraries, a peer-reviewed journal by Taylor & Francis, in May. In this role, she will be responsible for writing and/or soliciting two columns a year.
Penelope Singer (Communication & External Relations) had her necklace, "Linked In," selected by SU judges for an award in this year's On My Own Time (OMOT) exhibition. It was also chosen by a panel of professional artists from CNY Arts (formerly Cultural Resources Council) to be included in the fall OMOT exhibition at the Everson Museum of Art, and one of two from Syracuse University chosen to be photographed for the Everson exhibition catalog.
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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, Brittany Buffum, Melinda Dermody,
Roberta Gwilt, Gerri C. McCarthy, Barbara Opar,
Kelley Parker, Erica Sheftic, Penelope Singer, Lara Sorokanich,
Ron Thiele, Suzanne E. Thorin
Click here to view past issues of the Library Staff Newsletter
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