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Up all night at Carnegie Library
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Up all night at Carnegie Library
Keith Kobland, of SU News Services, set up a video camera in Carnegie Library on Friday, May 2 and created a time lapse video of the 12-hour period from 4 p.m. to 4 a.m. We have some dedicated students, especially for a Friday night!
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New staff
Laura Nemitz will be joining the Libraries on June 16 as Office Supervisor in Access & Resource Sharing. Laura holds a Master of Library Science from University at Buffalo and has held library positions at SUNY ESF, St. Joseph's School of Nursing, Canisius College, and Erie County Community College.
Please welcome Laura to the Syracuse University Libraries!
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Promotions
Michael Dermody, Marianne Hanley, and Patrick Midtlyng have been promoted to Senior Assistant Librarian.
Brian Dobreski, Rachel Fox von Swearingen, Kelley Lasher, and Anne Rauh have all been promoted to Associate Librarian w/permanent status.
Linda Galloway has been granted permanent status at the rank of Associate Librarian and Barbara Opar has been granted promotion to Librarian status.
Thanks to the members of the Promotion Committee for their dedication and work on this very important step in the careers of these dedicated librarians.
Please congratulate our colleagues in their success!
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Human Library
 On April 9, the Libraries, in partnership with the iSchool and the Office of Multicultural Affairs, hosted its first Human Library. The event was a celebration of diversity, connection, and communication, as people of different cultures and backgrounds talked with and learned from each other. While some of our human books discussed difficult life experiences, the mood was one of positive energy, hope, and empowerment.
About 35 people from the SU campus and neighboring community "checked out" our 15 human books, and a total of 50 people (including the 35 "readers") visited our information table. When human books were not circulating, they sat together in the "book room" (PGSC) and talked to each other. Feedback from our human books and readers was extremely positive, and many people requested that we offer this event again.
LivingSU (a student-run campaign from the Division of Student Affairs), along with ITS Fireflies, developed a short video highlighting the event. You'll recognize some familiar faces.
View the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niGRwWFEF4s.
Thank you to everyone who helped plan and staff this event and to those who helped support the Human Library by spreading the word or participating as human books or readers.
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Earth Day new books display
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Earth Day new books display
 Books related to Earth Day and environmental issues were featured in the Bird Library new books area during the week of April 22-28. Earth Day newspaper coverage from a variety of news sources and years was shown on the eNews reader during this time.
Thank you to Bevan Angier, Charu Chawan, Tasha Cooper, Barbara Jackson, Eli Liquori, Gerry McCarthy, Deanna McCay, Lesley Pease, Uma Sharma, and Russell Silverstein for making these displays possible.
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Food for Fines
 On Thursday, April 24, the libraries of SU and SUNY-ESF participated in a "Food for Fines" amnesty day, offering patrons the opportunity to reduce their overdue fines by donating food for the needy. A total of 329 items were collected and donated to the Cathedral Emergency Services food pantry in downtown Syracuse. Participating libraries include Bird Library, Carnegie Library, the Geology Library, 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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SU Press news
 Fall 2014 Catalog is Now Available!
Attention all readers! We are excited to share our new Fall 2014 catalog. We have a great lineup of books including biographies, short stories, literary translations, and many others.
Michael Long (author of Beyond Home Plate: Jackie Robinson on Life After Baseball) returns with another inspiring biography. In Gay is Good, Long collects the letters of gay rights pioneer Frank Kameny. These letters are lively and colorful because they are in Kameny's inimitable voice--a voice that was consistently loud, echoing through such places as the Oval Office, the Pentagon, and the British Parliament.
Our Director's Choice book for this season is a fascinating exploration of sacred wampum belts. These belts depict significant moments in the lives of the people in Eastern Woodlands tribes, portraying everything from weddings to treaties. Reading the Wampum conveys the vitality and continuance of wampum traditions in Iroquois art, literature, and community.
We are thrilled to be publishing Monarch of the Square, the first anthology of Muhammad Zafzāf's work to be translated into English. Regarded as "Morocco's Tolstoy," Zafzāf creates stories that bring to life the flavors and sites of Casablanca, and the daily struggle to survive in remote rural villages. Filled with irony, sarcasm, and sympathy, these tales offer profound reflections on the human condition.
View the full fall catalog to read about all of our upcoming books.
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SULA bylaws change proposal & voting
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SULA bylaws change proposal & voting
The SULA Executive Committee has reviewed the SULA Bylaws for currency and proposes changes as detailed in the SULA Bylaws change proposal 2014 document. Changes have been highlighted and the original text has been left in the document for your easy reference. Amendments were made to incorporate the change from Library to Libraries as well as to reflect current SULA Executive Committee practice.
Please review the change proposal and vote on whether or not to approve the changes at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HWV5M96. Voting will be open through Friday, June 13, 2014. All survey responses are anonymous.
Thank you for your input!
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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 and Facebook. 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:
- Bird Library is really starting to fill up. #FinalCountdown
- First time I've ever spent more than 5 minutes in Bird Library. #COM107CramSession
- Experiencing some sort of nightmare where we've been in Bird Library for almost 24 hours straight except it's real.
- Spent more time in Bird Library today than I've spent in my apartment all week #finalsweek #makeitend
- Will someone please bring Chipotle to Bird Library for me? Please please please.
- I want to be out in the sun but alas I am writing a paper in the basement of Bird Library.
- Shout out to Bird Library being open 24/7. I will most definitely be sleeping on the ground here tonight.
- I think it's pretty fair to say that finals in London are worse than finals in Syracuse. I miss my Bird Library.
- Over the last three days I have learned the social order of Bird Library.
- So lucky today... fourth floor of Bird Library during finals week and I find a lone table with a working electrical outlet.
- Bird Library, I just can't quit you.
- Bird Library is a miserable place.
- Bird Library -- where fun and happy things go to die.
- Bird Library: the mecca for the "studious" members of Greek life.
- Bird Library is the ugliest place ever... but it's my home.
- Bird Library is a ghost town. #cusesummer
- I heard @SyracuseU wants to take away seats in Bird Library in the basement have you seen how packed it is today? SMH @Syverdude
- Anyone who ever claims they can study efficiently in Bird Library during finals week is wrong. #needcrowdcontrol
- Rules no one will ever follow at Bird Library. http://t.co/8fBosbK8ee
- Being in Bird Library right now is for the birds... ha ha... get it? Birds.
- I thought you knew? Knew what? Ba ba ba ba ba bird bird bird. Bird is the word.
- Done with finals but am somehow chilling in Bird Library.
- This is my last time leaving the SU Library, such a bittersweet moment... mostly sweet.
- Gonna appreciate this long day at the library, only a day or two more ever being in Bird Library.
- As I sit in Bird Library basement crying to myself cause it finally hit me I'm graduating and leaving this place
- It's awkward that my parents are here but I'm still at Bird Library. #lonely
- I recognize people who regularly hang out in the Library café... then I realized that I am one.
- Tuna and tuna salad should never be an option in a vending machine. Bird Library, come on.
- There is no end to what you can learn. At Carnegie Library. http://t.co/aebGnYEcnd
- I'll be in that Carnegie Library tomorrow 'til they throw me out.
- Carnegie Library: New and improved and willing to starve you to death because they wanna keep their tables clean.
- If anyone wants to bring a few PB&J's to Carnegie Library that would be great.
- Class of 1907 poses in front of Carnegie Library, then under construction. From SU Archives https://t.co/UyiZN23J4M
- I love the mobile website--it is so easy to use! Great job! I was extremely impressed by the ease of access to everything I need.
- I just want to tell you that the employees at Bird Library are amazing. Everyone from Ron and Barry in the custodian department to the supervisors of ILL and Circulation are just wonderful, caring, kind people. Thank you for keeping these great people around to help aid the students into their future.
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Otto spotters
Congratulations to Matt Reschke (Learning Commons) for spotting Otto on the lower level of Bird Library in the custodial staff area AND at the Maps & Government Information service desk on the third floor. Enjoy your new plush Otto!
Entering isn't hard -- if you spot our plush Otto in the Libraries, 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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Kudos!
Brittany Buffum (Access & Resource Sharing) graduated this May with an associate degree in Liberal Arts from the College of Arts and Sciences. She was also named to the Fall 2013 Dean's List by earning at least a 3.4 grade point average. Brittany will now be working toward her bachelor's degree in Communication and Rhetorical Studies through the College of Visual and Performing Arts with a minor in sociology.
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Amanda Perrine's (Access & Resource Sharing) son Julian is on this month's cover of Syracuse Parent magazine. Julian will celebrate his first birthday on May 30. Flip through the May Baby Edition online.
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At May's commencement ceremonies, Penelope Singer (Communications and External Relations) was named an Alumni Scholar for outstanding academic performance while earning her recent BFA. Additionally, the College of Visual and Performing Arts awarded her the Sylvia Wyckoff Award for outstanding academic achievement. For these honors, Penelope was presented with a few certificates to hang on the wall, plus a golden yellow cord to wear along with her honor society stole and cords at her convocation. She felt a little like drapery, but her mom was very proud.
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Peter Verheyen (Program Management Center) had one of his bindings included in the Designer Bookbinders UK invitational InsideOUT traveling exhibition that opened May 15 in London. The exhibition celebrates the art and craft of contemporary bookbinding and private press printing and is a collaboration between 34 binders based in the United Kingdom and 25 based in North America. Verheyen's book binding can be viewed at http://goo.gl/ueEs8B. InsideOUT will be coming to US in the fall to visit Harvard, Minnesota Centre for Book Arts, Bonhams, New York, and San Francisco Centre for the Book.
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New Library baby
Congratulations to Jim O'Connor (Producer, Sound Beat) and his wife Kelly on the birth of their son, Rory Patrick O'Connor, born on May 16. Rory weighed 9 lbs., 3 oz. Big brother Jed is adjusting to life with his "litta bub-bub".
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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 Libraries Staff Newsletter
Editors:
Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin, Julie Sharkey
Contributors: Bevan Angier, Brittany Buffum, Tasha Cooper, K. Matthew Dames,
Nicole Dittrich, Roberta Gwilt, Abby Kasowitz-Scheer, Keith Kobland, Lisa Kuerbis,
Jim O'Connor, Amanda Perrine, Matt Reschke, Penelope Singer, Peter Verheyen
Click here to view past issues of the Staff Newsletter
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