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Personnel news
Linda Dickerson Hartsock has been appointed executive director of Syracuse University's Blackstone LaunchPad project. She was previously director of Syracuse University's Connective Corridor in the Office of Community Engagement and Economic Development. Linda has held leadership positions in a number of regional organizations, including vice president for Innovation and Technology at CenterState Corporation for Economic Opportunity (CEO), and executive director of The Clean Tech Center, with a joint appointment with the SyracuseCoE, a New York State Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems. She was Central New York Regional Director for the Empire State Development Corporation, and president and CEO of the Cortland County Industrial Development Agency. A native of the Hudson Valley, Linda was on the faculty of Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY. She serves on a number of nonprofit boards, and is past chair of the Central New York Community Foundation. Linda's office is the LaunchPad "cube" on the first floor of Bird Library.
Sebastian Modrow has been appointed assistant archivist in the Special Collections Research Center. He began working in Special Collections in 2013 as a graduate student and was appointed coordinator of the Marcel Breuer Digital Archive project in January 2015, which he has shepherded to completion this spring. Dr. Modrow holds a Ph.D in ancient history from the University of Rostock (Germany) and an M.L.I.S. and certificate of advanced study in cultural heritage preservation from the Syracuse University School of Information Studies.
Alison Shay has joined Syracuse University Press as an acquisitions editor acquiring in the areas of geography, Middle Eastern studies, Native American studies, and regional trade. Before coming to SU, she spent five years at the University of North Carolina Press, most recently as Assistant Editor. Alison holds a B.A. in Journalism from UNC-Chapel Hill and, before transitioning to acquisitions, worked on the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded Publishing the Long Civil Rights Movement project.
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Sound Beat celebrates fifth anniversary: now reaches 5 million listeners
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Sound Beat celebrates fifth anniversary: now reaches 5 million listeners
Sound Beat, a 90-second public radio module that highlights recordings from the Belfer Audio Archive, celebrated its fifth anniversary in March. The first episode was broadcast on Tuesday, March 1, 2011 at 3:30 p.m. on campus FM station WAER.
Coverage of the show has grown steadily over the years and Sound Beat can now be heard on over 358 stations from coast to coast, including Canada, and as far away as the Philippines, reaching almost 5 million listeners. Stations carrying the show include WAMC/Northeast Public Radio and Jefferson Public Radio, (Pacific Northwest), each with over 1 million listeners, Texas Public Radio, and AMI, a Canadian reader service delivered via cable to five million households. Sound Beat is a quick trip through the history of recorded sound. Each episode focuses on one particular recording from the Archive and provides a back story detailing its place in recording history. Featured recordings come from a wide range of periods and genres-- popular and classical music, operatic works, and film scores, as well as those distinctly American musical forms like jazz, bebop, country, and bluegrass. Sound Beat episodes also feature recordings from some of the great thinkers, political figures, and luminaries from the late 19th and early- to mid-20th centuries.
The program is produced by Jim O'Connor and hosted by Brett Barry, a two-time Newhouse alumnus and voice-over performer whose long list of credits includes national television and radio commercials, promos, and audio book narration. Theme music was written by Grammy-nominated composer David Wolfert, another SU alumnus.
Initial funding for Sound Beat was provided by SU Advancement and SU alumnus George Hamilton. The Savada family, donors of 200,000 78s to Belfer several years ago, established an endowment fund in 2015 to support Sound Beat. The show also garnered an NEA Arts on Radio and Television grant in 2012 and a Jon Ben Snow Trust grant in 2014.
Interest in the program continues to grow on campus through the Sound Beat Class Partnership program, where students in a variety of classes learn to research and write scripts for the show, gain real-world radio experience and a producing credit, as well. Tune in at Soundbeat.org.
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A note from the Mentoring Team
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A note from the Mentoring Team
On February 29th, the Mentoring Team (part of the SULA Professional Concerns and Development Committee) hosted a panel discussion on "Creating Your Own Mentoring Group." Michelle Blum (Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering), Katie Cadwell (Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering), Heather Coleman (Assistant Professor of Biology), Sarah Hall (Assistant Professor of Biology), Tara Kahan (Assistant Professor of Chemistry), Shikha Nangia (Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering), and Anne Rauh (Associate Librarian) discussed how they came together three years ago to form a peer mentoring group and recurring mentoring meetup based on Ellen Daniell's book, Every Other Thursday: Stories and Strategies from Successful Women Scientists. During the panel, the group discussed how they built their network and how they have continued to act as a valuable source of support for not only career development but also personal growth. Their success led them to want to share how this peer mentoring group has impacted their careers and their desire to support others who are interested in building a similar and sustainable peer mentoring group of their own.
The Mentoring Team also previously hosted a workshop on January 13, led by SU Advance on "Mentoring for Continuous Professional Development." This workshop gave participants the opportunity to evaluate and identify their own existing professional and personal support network, as well as any gaps that may exist and how they can strategically think about filling them.
These events highlight the various ways of thinking about and pursuing mentoring/mentorship relationships. The Mentoring Team is especially interested in supporting and facilitating all types and forms of mentorship at SUL and welcomes input from all SUL staff. If you want more information or if you have recommendations or ideas on other mentoring topics, please let us know. We can build around your ideas!
The Mentoring Team,
Stephanie Reynolds (Chair)
Tarida Anantachai
Laura Benjamin
Patrick Midtlyng
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Spring Colloquies - Research Computing at SU
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Spring Colloquies - Research Computing at SU
Register now to explore the University's robust research computing resources.
 The upcoming series of Computing Colloquies is designed to help campus researchers identify and make the most of the diverse array of campus computing resources available at Syracuse University. All faculty, students, and staff conducting, planning, or supporting research activities at Syracuse University are invited to the sessions.
These sessions will explore how computing resources help researchers take on new and greater computational tasks, enhance research productivity, increase the competitiveness of grant submissions, and advance scientific discovery across many disciplines. Participants will have opportunities to:
- Connect with other researchers on campus
- Participate in an ongoing campus dialogue centered on research computing
- Receive information on available resources and navigating the landscape
- Meet and engage SU's research computing staff
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Orange Around the World
In honor of Philanthropy Week and National Orange Day, the University sent a care package to each of the 325 alumni who are active duty military personnel. 12 Libraries employees very generously donated enough goods as part of this Orange Around The World project to fill three care packages. They mailed on National Orange Day, March 24th.
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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:- Via @Library4birds: We love the Syracuse NY Bird Library (for humans).
- Doing work in the @nypl on the UWS. Can't help but think back to the days doing work in Bird Library @SyracuseU. #Syracuse #nostalgia
- Bird Library used to be my second home during undergrad.
- You know it's midterm season when you can't find an open space in Bird Library to study.
- I can't find a book at Bird Library so I go to chat with a librarian and he's from Bellevue University... I do not see how this will work.
- I never drink coffee cause when I do I drop it on the fourth (aka quiet floor) of Bird Library.
- @SyracuseULib has the best librarians.
- Did a behind the scenes tour at @SILibraries on 3/9 with six #MSLIS @iSchoolSU students. Now yearn to see more of the @SyracuseULib collections!
- Emails with Frank Lillie Pollock facts are the best emails. Thanks to @SyracuseULib. #CanLit
- You're not really on many potential special collections users' maps, @SyracuseULib.
- It's a quiet morning on campus. Here's an early shot of our Carnegie Library before the hustle and bustle. #sulibraries http://ift.tt/1SVERno
- Shout out to the big friendly DPS officer who roams around Bird Library. Like if Baloo from jungle book was a cop. https://t.co/nuCxV9PWNC
- Stepped out of Bird Library and the streets were flooded with Orange! Have not seen this in a few years! This is the 'Cuse I remember!
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Otto spotters
Otto is in the Libraries hanging with staff who are doing great work. If you spot him, 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 Libraries Staff Newsletter
Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin, Julie Sharkey
Contributors: Tarida Anantachai, DeAnn Buss, Linda Dickerson Hartsock,
Stephanie McReynolds, Patrick Midtlyng, Sebastian Modrow, Lucy Mulroney,
Jim O'Connor, Alice Pfeiffer, Jessica Rice, David Seaman, Alison Shay, Donna Sullivan
Click here to view past issues of the Staff Newsletter
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