Braden Croy has joined the Blackstone LaunchPad team as Program Manager, supporting the expansion of the new experiential entrepreneurship program located in Bird Library. Braden will work with Executive Director Linda Dickerson Hartsock on project implementation milestones, particularly in regard to faculty and student outreach, to develop an entrepreneurial pipeline. Among his responsibilities will be to expand the number of ventures enrolled in the Blackstone LaunchPad platform, to assist with student coaching, and to develop events and activities that foster connections and team building across Syracuse University's innovation ecosystem.

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Anita Kuiken has joined the SU Libraries as the Librarian for the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics. Anita holds an MSLIS from Drexel University and a B.S. degree in history from Northeastern University. Prior to joining the SU Libraries, Anita was Instructional Services and Liaison Librarian at SUNY Cortland. Anita previously served as Access Services Librarian in the Health Sciences Library, Evening Reference Services Librarian in the main campus library, and as an adjunct Professor in the College of Nursing and Health Professions at Drexel University.

Thomas Shanahan has joined the SU Libraries as the new University Records Manager. Tom holds a Bachelor's Degree in History from the University of Buffalo and a Master's in Library Science from Buffalo also. He has several years of experience in the Records Management arena; his most recent position was with the Dairyland Power Cooperative in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Thomas is a Certified Records Manager and a member of ARMA, the International Association Of Records Managers and Administrators. He has been an active participant in various charitable and youth organizations in the La Crosse area.

Please welcome Braden, Anita, and Tom to the Libraries!

You may have seen the announcement about Orange Reads in SU Today. Kathleen Haley from News Services is the organizer and she would like to put together an accompanying story featuring Libraries' staff personal choices for a great summertime read.

Feel free to email Kathleen your suggestion/s and include a photo of yourself in your favorite reading spot, if you like.

The Blackstone LaunchPad is proud to be part of Syracuse University Libraries, and now we're inviting you to become part of the Blackstone community through a sign-up drive now underway.

The Blackstone resource network is available to Syracuse University faculty, staff, students and alumni through an on-line portal that is simple to use.

You don't need to be an entrepreneur to sign up! You simply need a willingness to be part of Syracuse University's innovation ecosystem. There is no place more central to innovation and discovery than Syracuse University Libraries!

Sign up with your syr.edu email and you'll have access to online resources and articles related to innovation, research, discovery, and entrepreneurship that will be of assistance to faculty and students that you work with - across many academic disciplines. You'll even be able to follow the stories of Syracuse University entrepreneurs.

Most important, you will help convey to the Blackstone Charitable Foundation that the spirit of innovation is alive and well on the Syracuse University campus, as we compete against other universities across the Blackstone network to build a strong and connected community. Sign-ups are an important part of our metrics, and we invite our library colleagues to play a role in meeting our goals.

When you sign up, you'll have to opportunity to identify as staff, faculty, student or an alumnus. You may want to select any of these categories that are relevant. If you work with students, encourage them to sign up as well!

Feel free to stop in and visit the LaunchPad to learn more. Send students our way. We value our partnership. Thanks for being such great colleagues, and we hope you'll sign up and become part of our Blackstone community, too!

Remember our Human Library event back in April? Well, Ithaca College journalism student Opal Bogdan and a classmate interviewed organizers before the event and then attended our Human Library to film the activity and additional interviews that day. Check out their documentary at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s78FLN76jc

Thanks to all who participated in the event and a special "thank you" to those who agreed to be filmed!

Working with Scanned PDFs

Working with scanned PDFs can be tricky, especially when you want to make sure the document is accessible. Luckily, Adobe Acrobat DC has a great tool to help identify and correct accessibility issues in scanned documents.

You will find the Enhance Scans tool under Tools on the menu bar.

Using this tool you can:

• Begin a scan (if you have a scanner at your workstation)
• Deskew a crooked scan
• Remove background noise
• Recognize text
• Sharpen text

To learn more, check out Lynda.com's tutorial Creating Accessible PDFs with Acrobat DC.

Our new Fall 2016 catalog is filled with lots of good reads to match your interests.

The Muckers
A Narrative of the Crapshooters Club
by William Osborne Dapping
Edited and with an Introduction by Woody Register

Discovered in SU Libraries' Special Collections, The Muckers is a firsthand account of the author's youth as a member of a boys' gang in 1890s New York City.

Sports Business Unplugged
Leadership Challenges from the World of Sports
by Rick Burton and Norm O'Reilly
With a Foreword by David Stern

In Sports Business Unplugged, two of the world's leading sports business scholars share their views on a variety of provocative topics in this wide-ranging collection.

The Soul of Central New York
Syracuse Stories by Sean Kirst
by Sean Kirst
With a Foreword by Eric Carle

In The Soul of Central New York, nationally celebrated columnist Sean Kirst, who retired from the Syracuse Post-Standard after nearly three decades, offers a deeply moving collection of stories about the struggles and triumphs of the everyday men and women who define Syracuse.

View the full Fall 2016 catalog.

The Wellness Initiative has created a new website devoted to developing healthy habits at work. There are so many opportunities to incorporate health and wellness into our daily lives and especially at work, where we spend a good chunk of our time. Take a look!

http://wellness.syr.edu/healthy-habits/

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:

• This makes me never want to graduate. In response to: "Congratulations class of 2016! Here's a list of Libraries' resources now available to you as alumni. bit.ly/1uyrTfQ #SUGrad16"

• Finally a librarian believed that I needed all 3 LOTR [Lord of the Rings] extended edition [DVDs] for legitimate academic research. @SyracuseULib #GradLife

• Looked at the classes I need to take for the next 3 years. Goodbye social life, hello Bird Library. https://t.co/uTQdgmfhxD 

• Among @iSchoolSU #MSLIS grads this year were students who'd worked/interned at @SyracuseULib. Thx SUL for those opportunities! #igrad2016

• I'm hearing great things about the Blackstone Launchpad to help student entrepreneurs, which is part of @SyracuseULib.

• Bare feet reading club with Ssuya. #feet #library #Syracuse #reading https://t.co/21GJAWed02 

• I saw Frank Langella once. He was walking through Bird Library at Syracuse University while I was reading a book. https://t.co/ODuycaKRXr 

• Bird Library and an @iSchoolSU alum, now at Chapman Irvine (was it the weather?) #SLA2016 https://t.co/idGMxQj74F 

• Missing @SyracuseULib / Bird Library's @uscensusbureau section today.

• We love our two sets of copper plates now in the @SyracuseULib #map collection. https://twitter.com/USGS/status/743193934961115136 

• In need of an egg and cheese on a bagel from Bird Library.

• Where are YOU looking? Educated Pokemon know to hang at the #SU Library Café! #GoOrange #PokemonGO https://t.co/liGXYZcrYp 

• Having a bit of fun and reading @Writer_DG 's Outlander series
  In response to "What are you reading this summer? @SyracuseUNews wants to hear from you! bit.ly/29UG3WR #OrangeReads"

• PEZ collection at Bird Library at SU. My mom collects PEZ and there are so any great ones from my childhood. https://t.co/Jnv22iZWFx 

• Checked out some *light* #etsSUmmerreading from @SyracuseULib to lug to Poland for #DH2016 @SyracuseEnglish https://twitter.com/activitystory/status/753949328092299264

• Dean Liddy and Dean of @SyracuseULib David Seaman welcome attendees to the Academic Librarians reception in Hinds Hall. https://twitter.com/iSchoolSU/status/753701096678273024 

Abby Kasowitz-Scheer's (Learning Commons) daughters, Rachel and Sophie Scheer, celebrated their Bat Mitzvah on Saturday, May 21.

Congratulations to DeAnn Buss (Information Systems) for spotting Otto on behind the Circulation Desk on the first floor of Bird Library. Enjoy your new water bottle!

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!

Erin Kovalsky (Access & Resource Sharing) and her husband Rich welcomed a son, Mathis Lansing Kovalsky on June 20 at 7:36 a.m. Mathis weighed 8 pounds, 4 ounces.

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!