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Libraries' Holiday Party & Recognition Event recap
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Libraries' Holiday Party & Recognition Event recap
 Marianne Hanley, preservation librarian, was the recipient of this year's Dean's commendation at the Libraries staff holiday party and recognition event on December 15. This award recognizes staff who have gone the extra mile this year and have made an extraordinary and noticeable contribution.
 Bevan Angier, a supervisor in Access and Resource Sharing, was presented with the Libraries' Distinguished Service Award, which recognizes Libraries staff who have made a significant contribution to the user community. See more pictures from the event » Congratulations to this year's award winners!
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Personnel news
Caitlin Brandle has joined the Libraries as our newest Library Technician in the Learning Commons. Caitlin comes to us from Penn State where she worked as a staff assistant in several units, including Commons Services/Circulation, the Reference Hub, the Knowledge Commons, and the Maps, Education, and Behavioral Sciences units. Please welcome Caitlin to the Syracuse University Libraries.
Linda Galloway has been appointed a collection development and analysis librarian (formerly termed bibliographer) within the Department of Research and Scholarship, replacing her interim position with a permanent one. Linda has been in this role for more than two years and has excelled in managing the Libraries' STEM collections and co-managing its interdisciplinary principal collections and online resources. Prior to this position Linda was the Chemistry, Biology and Forensic Science subject librarian for Syracuse University Libraries. She holds an Master of Library Science from the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University and Bachelor of Science in chemistry from Long Island University.
Janet Pease has been appointed Head of Collections in Syracuse University Libraries, a position she has held in an interim capacity for more than two years. Her prior positions include Unit Manager within the Department of Research and Scholarship and head of the Science and Technology Library. She began her career at the University in the High Energy Theory Group in the Physics Department; her duties there included managing the preprint library. She holds a Master of Library Science from the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University and Bachelor of Arts in both Anthropology and History from Syracuse University.
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Scott Warren selected for ARL Leadership Fellows program
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Scott Warren selected for ARL Leadership Fellows program
 Scott Warren has been selected to participate in the 2016-2017 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Leadership Fellows Program. Warren, associate dean for research and scholarship at Syracuse University Libraries, will join 27 other professionals in this executive leadership program that fosters the development of senior-level leaders in large research libraries and archives. During the course of the program, each fellow will construct a learning plan; engage in a customized, immersive experience to shadow a library director; participate in three weeklong institutes hosted by sponsoring ARL institutions; participate in online synchronous sessions; and attend semiannual Association meetings. This is the sixth offering of the program, designed by ARL staff in collaboration with the Leadership Fellows Advisory Group and the directors of the three sponsor libraries: University of Alberta, Colorado State University, and Duke University. The program begins in January 2016 and runs through April 2017. The 2016-2017 ARL Leadership Fellows applicant pool was highly competitive. The selection committee, composed of the directors of the sponsoring libraries, chose 28 fellows from multiple ARL and non-ARL institutions representing a broad array of backgrounds and experience. Read more »
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New cubicle on trial
There's is a new piece of furniture that we're testing out on the first floor of Bird. It has replaced one orange chair on the east side of the building. The vendor is loaning it to us to see how our students react. Check it out!
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SU Press: What the new year brings
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SU Press: What the new year brings
Our Spring 2016 catalog is filled with dozens of good reads to match your interests.  The Rev. J. W. Loguen, as a Slave and as a Freemanby J. W. Loguen and edited by Jennifer A. Williamson Originally published in 1859, The Rev. J. W. Loguen chronicles the remarkable life of a tireless young man and a passionate activist. The narrative recounts Loguen's early life in slavery, his escape to the North, and his successful career as a minister and abolitionist in New York and Canada. The Rev. J. W. Loguen represents a fascinating literary hybrid, an experiment in voice and style that enlarges our understanding of the slave narrative.  Travels in Translation: Sea Tales at the Source of Jewish Fictionby Ken Frieden As Frieden explains through deft linguistic analysis, by 1818, a radically new travel literature in Hebrew had arisen. Authors such as Moses Mendelsohn-Frankfurt and Mendel Lefin published books that charted a new literary path through the world and in European history. Taking a fresh look at the origins of modern Jewish literature, Frieden launches a new approach to literary studies, one that lies at the intersection of translation studies and travel writing.  Who Are These People Anyway?by Chief Irving Powless Jr. of the Onondaga Nation and edited by Lesley Forrester Chief Irving Powless Jr. of the Beaver Clan of the Onondaga Nation shares intimate stories of growing up close to the earth, of his work as Wampum Keeper for the Haudenosaunee people, of his heritage as a lacrosse player, and of the treaties his ancestors made with the newcomers. Powless illustrates for all of us the importance of respect, peace, and, most importantly, living by the unwritten laws that preserve the natural world for future generations.
View the full Spring 2016 catalog.
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AIAS/ARR fall book club event
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AIAS/ARR fall book club event
On December 3, the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) and the Architecture Reading Room presented its fall book club event, Learning from Colin Rowe: The Syracuse Connection in the Slocum Hall Auditorium. Professors Art McDonald and Bruce Abbey shared their thoughts on the teachings of Colin Rowe, the author of highly-regarded works like The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Collage City. Other faculty participants included Randall Korman, Liz Kamell, and Lawrence Chua. The event was moderated by assistant professor and graduate of the Syracuse Architecture program, Joseph Godlewski '00.
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Holiday Sharing 2015
This year, as part of SU's Holiday Sharing Program, a generous group of staff from across the Libraries put together a flat-bed and several book trucks full of gifts, groceries, toiletries, laundry detergent, paper products, and gift cards for our our adopted family of four children and one adult. The University elves will be distributing our collections to the community organizations who provide us with the family information. The Libraries' Holiday Sharing Committee would like to thank you all for helping to make this event a success by taking time from your busy schedules to shop and provide donations to our family.
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Make your Green Days sustainable
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Make your Green Days sustainable
 Will you be away from your campus office for an extended period during the upcoming Winter Break/Green Days period? If so, before leaving, please do the following:
- Turn off and unplug all office and personal electronics such as computers, monitors, printers, paper shredders, coffee makers, bottled water coolers, televisions, chargers, staplers, etc.
- Put your copier and fax machine in "sleep" mode.
- Water or take home plants.
- Close and lock all windows.
- Turn off all office lights on your way out, including decorative and task fixtures.
One easy way to make sure you're not wasting energy is to plug your computer, monitor, printer, and any other peripherals you use into a single power strip. Once your computer is shut down, you can effectively unplug it and all the other pieces by turning off the power strip. That's a lot easier than unplugging everything individually and plugging them back when you return. Just turn the power strip back on and restart the computer.
All of these efforts save energy and contribute to SU's Climate Action Plan, the institutional blueprint for becoming carbon neutral.
For questions about campus sustainability, contact sustain@syr.edu.
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Comments from the Interwebs
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Comments from the Interwebs
SU students continue to comment about the Libraries using social media outlets, such as Twitter and Facebook. Many of their musings receive a reply from the Library's official Twitter handle, @SyracuseULib. Here are some of the things that have been on their minds:- Regretsgiving is celebrated around a table in Bird Library with your project partners and a bottle of Dasani water: https://t.co/nGcaliFkDi
- How does the WiFi in #clubbird suck so badly?! Get your acttogether @SyracuseU. #stillneedmoreoutlets
- Hey 'Cuse, why don't you take that $63,132/year that I pay to go here and actually put a decent amount of outlets in Bird Library?
- If only there was a gym below Bird Library. #CuseWouldBeLit
- Did you know that Bird Library doesn't open until 10 am on Saturday? Nope, me neither.
- Crunch time!!! (@ Bird Library - @syracuseu in Syracuse, NY)
- Love this place. I'm a nerd. (@ Bird Library - @syracuseu in Syracuse, NY)
- Never been in Bird Library until now. It's so cute.
- I miss @SyracuseULib Bird Library.
- I used to lovvve Bird Library, especially when they renovated it my last year at @SyracuseU.
- Someone with a car please get me from Bird Library, please.
- Update: It's 3 a.m. in Bird Library. Janitor bumped into my table with trash can. Thought it was an earthquake. Remembered I am in New York.
- I would really appreciate if my friends brought food to me at Bird Library within the next 7 hours.
- 12.5 hours of writing at the Bird Library. #thuglife
- Nothing like spending your day in Bird Library.
- If you hear distant crying from Bird Library, no worries it's just me studying for finals.
- Getting a table in the basement of Bird Library during finals week is like winning the lottery... twice.
- #ClubBird is literally THE worst the closer it gets to Finals week. It's as if some students finally realize it exists.
- Today is my 84th day at Syracuse and my 1st day ever stepping foot in Bird Library.
- Too bad I'm at @SyracuseULib stressing over finals instead of watching #TheWizLive (although I don't have TV anyway).
- Crying in corner of Bird Library--not because of stress, but because of sad Buzzfeed videos.
- SyracuseDPS (SU Public Safety): Studying late for #finals? We're handing out #snacks in exchange for feedback at Bird Library 12/11, 12/13 and 12/15 from 9 - 11 p.m.
- Club Bird going up on a Tuesday. To those going hard in Bird right now, keep up the good work.
- You know it's finals week when the library is giving out earplugs so you can "create a cone of silence". #clubbird
- Walking into Bird Library immediately gives me a headache.
- Bird Library bathrooms : not sound proof.
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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
Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin, Julie Sharkey
Contributors: Caitlin Brandle, TC Carrier, Linda Galloway, Marianne Hanley,
Tom House, Lisa Kuerbis, Barbara Opar, Janet Pease, Lesley Pease,
Steve Sartori, David Seaman, Scott Warren, Lynn Wilcox
Click here to view past issues of the Staff Newsletter
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