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Jessica Pauszek wins Mary Hatch Marshall Award
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Jessica Pauszek wins Mary Hatch Marshall Award
Jessica Pauszek, a Ph.D. candidate in composition and cultural rhetoric in the Writing Program in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been selected to receive this year's Mary Hatch Marshall Essay Award, an annual award for the best essay by a graduate student in the humanities at Syracuse University. Pauszek's essay is entitled "When Some Members Can't Write: Building Alternative Educational Spaces From the Ground Up". She is a native of Dunkirk, NY, and Deltona, Fla. The annual award honors Mary Hatch Marshall, the first woman to achieve the rank of full professor in the College of Liberal Arts. She held the Jesse Truesdell Peck Chair in English literature, served as the first director of the Honors Program and was among the founding members of Library Associates. Students from African American Studies; Art & Music Histories; English; Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics; Latino-Latin American Studies; Religion; Philosophy; the Writing Program; and the Women's and Gender Studies Program are eligible for the award. Library Associates established the annual award to honor and help perpetuate Mary Hatch Marshall's scholarly standards and generous spirit. Members of Library Associates, Marshall's friends and family, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, and the Central New York Community Foundation all contributed to the endowment established in 2004 that funds the award.
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Save the date!
Friday, July 22, 2016
Noon to 4 p.m.
Ryder Park (next to the DeWitt Town Hall)
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Personnel news
New staff
Kaitlin Carruthers-Busser has joined Syracuse University Press as an Editorial & Production Assistant. Mary Doyle has joined Syracuse University Press as a part-time Office Coordinator. Christina Huffaker has joined the SU Libraries as an Evening/Weekend Supervisor in Access & Resource Sharing. Please welcome Kaitlin, Mary, and Christina to the Libraries!
Promotions
Melinda Dermody has been promoted to the rank of Librarian Zhihui 'Sophie" Dong has been granted permanent status at the rank of Associate Librarian Stephanie McReynolds has been promoted to Associate Librarian w/ permanent 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 individuals. Please congratulate our colleagues in their success!
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Staff meetings and presentations
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Staff meetings and presentations
Were you unable to attend the State of the Libraries all-staff meeting on April 14? Check out the "Staff Meetings & Presentations" section in SharePoint to view videos of past SUL staff meetings.
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SUL Outstanding Student Employee Scholarship Awards
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SUL Outstanding Student Employee Scholarship Awards
Please congratulate our inaugural group of SU Libraries Outstanding Student Employee Scholarship Awards winners, nominated by their supervisors from across our undergraduate and graduate workforce and chosen by a committee convened by the Dean: Outstanding Student Employee Scholarship Awards ($500)
Alexandra Slavin University Archives -- Archives Assistant
Vincent Yuan
Access and Resource Sharing -- Fine Arts/Video desk (former), Maps & Gov't Info. desk, and processing assistant (current)
Lewis Paulino
Facilities & Security -- Floor monitor
Vanessa Amoah
Facilities & Security -- Floor monitor
Patricia Kutner Strait Outstanding Student Employee Scholarship Award ($500)
Jennifer Jeffery
Research and Scholarship -- STEM outreach graduate assistant; has also worked on many IVMF and VMA initiatives
Dean's Commendations ($250)
Silvana Paradiso
Access and Resource Sharing -- Preservation assistant
Zachary Schweikert
Access and Resource Sharing -- Maps & Gov't Information/GSIC
Honorable Mentions
Suhas Murthy
Access and Resource Sharing -- Preservation assistant
Rafael Taveras
Access and Resource Sharing -- Circulation student assistant
Natalie LoRusso
Access and Resource Sharing -- Graduate student assistant
We value all our library students and benefit from their enthusiasm and expertise every day. Many work for us throughout their undergraduate and graduate careers at SU and they all are part of the SU Libraries family. We are grateful to Stanley and Kathy Walters and to the family of Patricia Kutner Strait for creating endowments to make these awards possible.
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Happy anniversary, Sound Beat!
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Happy anniversary, Sound Beat!
On Friday, May 6, we celebrated the fifth anniversary of Sound Beat in Bird Library's Learning Commons... with cake! On hand for the event was the show's host Brett Barry, a two-time Newhouse alumnus and voiceover artist, and producer Jim O'Connor.
Coverage of the show has grown steadily and Sound Beat can now be heard on over 359 stations from coast to coast, including Canada, and as far away as the Philippines, reaching over 5 million listeners. Stations that carry 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.
For more information, visit soundbeat.org.
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Accessibility tips and tricks
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Accessibility tips and tricks
When creating a hyperlink on the web, in a document or in an email, be sure that the link destination is clear to the user. Screen readers like JAWS will often read available links aloud to the user, so links like "click here" or "visit this page" are not helpful, nor is a long URL string. Even sighted users will appreciate knowing the link destination before they click on it.
Instead, try to hyperlink the name of the page to which you are linking, for example:
The Insert Hyperlink dialog box in most MS Office applications will let you easily change the text that displays for a hyperlink.
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Wet book rescue
In honor of Preservation Week (April 24-30), the Preservation Department created an informational video on how to rescue a book that has been water damaged, featuring a couple of our library staff and our own work-study students.Special thanks to Sarah Kim, Preservation Technical Specialist, for all of her hard work. As a research library, we are proud to raise awareness of the importance of preserving our collections, so we are passing along a fun tutorial on what to do when your book gets wet. This video was also posted on the Syracuse University Libraries Facebook Page so please, like, comment, and share!
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Faculty and staff Outdoor Challenge Course days
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Faculty and staff Outdoor Challenge Course days
Come join the fun!
The Department of Recreation Services and the Syracuse University Wellness Initiative are sponsoring two days for Syracuse University faculty and staff and their immediate family* to experience the Outdoor Challenge Course.
The challenge course is being offered:
- Saturday, June 4 from 10 a.m. to noon (registration has closed for this date)
- Saturday, July 23 from 10 a.m. to noon
Please complete the registration form and bring the form and a check payable to Syracuse University for $10 per person to either of the following locations:
- Recreation Services, 241 Archbold Gym
- University Wellness Initiative, Suite 101 Skytop Office Building
Registration is due Monday, July 11, two weeks prior to the program.
*Participants must have a valid SU ID Card and be 7 years or older and weigh 50-300 pounds.
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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:- So apparently you can text @SyracuseULib...? I ran out of chalk and casually was then delivered some... Bird's always got my back
- Where am I gonna study in Italy 'cause I've never been, but I'm pretty sure they don't have a Panasci Lounge or Bird Library.
- Bird Library, you have become my home.
- I'm home, aka Bird Library basement.
- There are more outlets in a single classroom in @NewhouseSU than there are in all of Bird Library.
- Some of our LIS students are in Bird Library right now, showcasing their semester projects - stop by and see them! https://t.co/jnd34J9ylh
- Celebrating the last week of class with blooming magnolias. @ Bird Library-Syracuse University https://t.co/YTGSBwTnRv
- The inside of Carnegie Library, captured as a 360° photo. Photo by graduate student Vincent DeRise '16. http://goo.gl/IwDxw3
- Overheard a guy walking by the map room in Bird Library saying "Maps? They still have maps?"
- Whoa! Shout-out to @SyracuseULib's Human Library event during #LOEX2016!
- "Ahh, Brutalist," said my dad, an engineer, as he looked at Bird Library with a sigh.
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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: Susan Beitz, Nicolette Dobrowolski, Marianne Hanley,
Sarah Kim, Jim O'Connor, Jessica Rice, Steve Sartori, David Seaman,
Vanessa St. Oegger-Menn, Pam Thomas
Click here to view past issues of the Staff Newsletter
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