Credo Reference will be unavailable from 11:00 p.m. Friday, February 10th to 3:00 a.m. Saturday, February 11th while the system undergoes routine maintenance.
The vendor has scheduled this work during its lowest usage period to minimize inconvenience. Users attempting to connect during the downtime will reach an explanatory notice at the Credo site.
SU Library will host a "green" brown bag discussion of academic library sustainability initiatives on Friday, February 10th from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons on the first floor of Bird Library.
Representatives from regional campuses will share information on their sustainability programs and plans. Participants include:
Syracuse University Library will host a panel discussion about supporting responsible student research and the complexities of plagiarism on Tuesday, March 6 from 2 to 3:30 p.m. in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons on the 1st floor of Bird Library.
Geared to faculty, librarians, graduate student TA's, student advisors, and university administrators, this discussion will offer local, institutional, and cultural perspectives on the issue, including the effects of plagiarism on different student populations and what faculty may do about it.
Panelists from several areas of the University will discuss University policy, report on their own experiences and concerns, present examples of current research in student writing and citing behavior, and discuss approaches to teaching that could help faculty prepare students to conduct research responsibly.
Panelists:
Contact amullike@syr.edu or x9519 if you need accommodations for a disability.
Syracuse University Library's spring exhibition "The Power and The Piety: the World of Medieval and Renaissance Europe" opens with a reception on Thursday, January 26, at 5 p.m. in the Special Collections gallery on Bird Library's sixth floor. Curated by History Professor Chris Kyle with Senior Director of Special Collections Sean Quimby, it showcases the library's collection of illuminated manuscripts and early printed works, including a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible.
The title "The Power and The Piety," refers to extraordinary influence that secular monarchies and the Church had on the lives of everyday men and women. Richly illustrated late medieval psalters and books of hours exemplify the painstaking attention that the pious paid to their spiritual well-being. But the printing revolution made it possible for new ideas to spread more rapidly. Printed works like Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" (1651) signified the increasing power wielded by kings, queens and other secular authorities. As the Protestant Reformation and Scientific Revolution took hold of Europe, the power of the Catholic Church further waned. "The Power and the Piety" includes such important works as the first King James Bible (1611) and a second printing of Copernicus' "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" (1566), which argued in favor of a heliocentric, or sun-centered, universe.
The exhibition is arranged thematically, highlighting the overarching themes of power and piety, as well as English literature, music, architecture, science and fine bindings. According to curator Kyle, "The Power and the Piety highlights the world that shaped our own--from religious martyrdom, to the politics of Machiavelli and the extraordinary prose of Shakespeare, this exhibition brings to life the rich and vibrant eras of Medieval and Renaissance Europe."
The exhibition and reception is free and open to the public. It is co-sponsored by the 2011-12 Ray Smith Symposium "Sex and Power from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment." Based in Syracuse University's College of Arts in Sciences, the symposium features seminars given by prominent visiting scholars. For more information please visit raysmithsymposium.syr.edu.
The Special Collections Research Center is a hub for primary source research at Syracuse University Library. It is devoted to collecting and preserving rare research materials in all formats and to connecting students, faculty, outside scholars and the community to its collections. For more information, visit scrc.syr.edu.
Beginning Thursday, January 19th, Library patrons will need to use their NetID and password to login to ILLiad for their interlibrary loan requests. Related to this change, ILLiad will be unavailable on Wednesday, January 18th due to a scheduled maintenance upgrade.
For more information, contact Melinda Dermody, head of Access and Resource Sharing.
In recognition of the 50th anniversary of his first album release, Access & Resource Sharing presents a display on the exemplary career of singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. The display features books, recordings, and other materials, supplemented with personal items on loan from Library staff.
Featured aspects of Dylan's career include his arrival in Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, his legendary appearance at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965, his conversion to Christianity in the late 1970s, and his creative resurgence beginning in the late 1990s.
The display is located on the 4th floor of Bird Library and will remain up until further notice.
By becoming a member of OCLC's Research Library Partnership Program, Syracuse University Library has been able to re-join the SHARES program. SHARES enables participating institutions to offer a collaborative interlibrary loan program, as well as on-site access at participating libraries.
Faculty, emeritus faculty, students, and academic and professional staff of partner institutions are able to visit and use the collections and services of SHARES member libraries. This international sharing partnership expands and enhances local collections with materials owned by partners around the world.
SHARES institutions include Brown University, Columbia, Cornell, NYU, Penn State, Princeton, University of Michigan, Yale, University of Pennsylvania, University of Toronto, and many others. For a full list of participants, see http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/shares/partners/symbols.pdf.
Visitors must present a currently valid institutional ID card. A photo identification may be requested if the ID does not include a photograph. In-library use of material is permitted, but SHARES members are not granted borrowing privileges. Visitors will receive the same degree of access accorded their peers at the host institution; for example, visiting faculty will be granted local faculty privileges. Access to special or restricted collections or materials may be possible if arranged in advance.
On-site access is available during the institution's regular business hours. To verify hours, holiday access, and access to departmental libraries and special collections, contact the SHARES liaison in advance.
For more information, see http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/shares/.
Syracuse University Library has acquired the personal papers of the flamboyant and trend-setting architect Morris Lapidus. Lapidus, who died in 2001, is perhaps best known for hotels like the Fontainebleau, Americana, and Eden Roc in Miami Beach, Fla., buildings which embodied the growth of leisure in American life during the 1950s and 1960s. The Fontainebleau has served as a backdrop for variety of iconic scenes in American film, including the James Bond thriller "Goldfinger" (1964). Most of Lapidus' buildings exhibited a mélange of historical styles--French provincial, Italian and Baroque--and anticipated the post-modernism of later architects.
Lapidus was born in Odessa, Russia, in 1902, but his family immigrated to the United States soon thereafter. As a wide-eyed youth, he marveled at the splendor of Coney Island and he would later impart a similar spirit of excess to his work as an architect. That spirit would place him at odds with his function-minded modernist peers. However, contrary to the editor's choice of title for his 1996 autobiography, "Too Much is Never Enough," Lapidus was interested less in hedonism than he was in a "quest for emotion and motion in architecture."
Frustrated by his sometimes antagonistic relationship with the architectural establishment, Lapidus destroyed many of his firm's records when he retired in 1984. However, he retained a core collection of especially valuable papers that he entrusted to his last collaborator and confidant, architect Deborah Desilets. The archive includes a large collection of photographs dating to the 1920s, conceptual drawings, manuscript drafts of his written works and correspondence with his long-time friend, mystery writer Ellery Queen.
Desilets approached Syracuse, which has held a small Lapidus collection since 1967, and a gift of the material was finalized in December. Speaking on her decision to place the archive with Syracuse, Desilets says, "The archive is an extremely important missing link in the discourse on Lapidus' influence on 20th-century architecture. I am thrilled to place it in such a distinguished research institution where it will be available for use by generations of students and scholars."
In Syracuse's Special Collections Research Center, the Lapidus archive will reside in one of the most important mid-century modern collections in the country. Among the other architects represented are Marcel Breuer, William Lescaze and Richard Neutra, as well as designers like Russel Wright and Walter Dorwin Teague.
Syracuse School of Architecture faculty member Jon Yoder offered this assessment of the Lapidus archive's value for teaching and research: "The recent proliferation of architect-designed boutique hotels, coupled with the pervasive disciplinary focus on architectural effects suggests that Lapidus was indeed one of the most influential architects of the 20th century. This acquisition of his personal archive comes as welcome news to designers and scholars who are finally beginning to reassess the lavish contributions of this much-maligned architect across a surprisingly broad spectrum of design disciplines."
For more information, contact Sean Quimby, senior director of Special Collections, at 315-443-9759 or smquimby@syr.edu.
By the end of December 2011, databases currently available through WilsonWeb will be migrated to a different vendor, EBSCO. The content should remain the same, but users will see a new and different interface.
Items saved in a WilsonWeb folder or saved searches will need to be recreated in EBSCO. Saved content and searches will not transfer automatically.
If you need assistance setting up new saved searches or folders, please contact Pamela Thomas, pthomas@syr.edu
For additional information contact Tasha Cooper at nacoop01@syr.edu or Kelley Lasher at kllasher@syr.edu.
List of affected databases:
• Applied Science Full Text
• Applied Science & Technology Index Retrospective: 1913-1983
• Art Full Text
• Art Retrospective
• Biographies Plus Illustrated
• Biography Index
• Book Review Digest Plus
• Business Full Text
• Children's Core Collection
• Education Full Text
• Essay and General Literature Full Text
• Humanities Full Text
• Library Literature & Information Science Full Text
• Middle and Junior High Core Collection
• OmniFile FT Mega
• Play Index
• Public Library Core Collection: Fiction: A Selection Guide
• Public Library Core Collection: Nonfiction: A Selection Guide
• Readers' Guide Full Text
• Readers' Guide Retrospective
• Senior High Core Collection
• Social Sciences Full-Text
• Wilson Web
As part of our ongoing efforts to provide more comfortable and functional spaces for research and study, Bird Library's Team Rooms and Technology Rooms were recently outfitted with new carpeting, tables, and chairs. They look like new spaces and are much more comfortable.
Check them out and let us know what you think!
The Library now subscribes to the following subject areas of Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO) provided by Oxford University Press:
Atlantic History
Biblical Studies
Buddhism
Classics
Communication
Hinduism
International Relations
Islamic Studies
Medieval Studies
Music
Philosophy
Public Health
Renaissance and Reformation
Sociology
Victorian Literature
OBO is a library of discipline-based subject modules created by leading scholars. Each guide includes the most important and significant sources in a specific area of study, with unique editorial commentary to show how the cited sources are interrelated. The citations promote discoverability as they link out to the sources via your library collection or through Google books and more.
All articles receive multiple peer reviews and editorial board vetting to provide reliable and balanced coverage. Articles are regularly updated by their authors so that information in this resource is always current and accurate. In addition to updating existing articles, new topic guides are added on a regular schedule to expand the scope and extent of each subject module in the library.
For more information, see aboutobo.com
The latest Biblio Gallery exhibit is Winter's Breath: from Guilty Pleasures by VPA graduate student Jay Muhlin.
The harshness of winter is best survived with comfort and humor. Jay Muhlin's photographs of the outside world are slow, chilly, and bewildering, but they show how inside, we dwell intimately in warmth and small festivities. The images on display are selected from a current body of work that will be made into a book entitled Guilty Pleasures. Images of books are a motif in Muhlin's Guilty Pleasures, and this exhibit showcases a survey of texts that talk to winter and touch on themes within the photographs.
Stay warm and enjoy.
For more information on exhibiting in the Biblio Gallery, see this form.
The Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) at Syracuse University Library invites applications for its Alexander N. Charters Adult Education Research Grants-in-Aid program, now in its fifth year. Up to $5,000 of grants-in-aid will be awarded in 2012 to researchers wishing to use the adult education collections in SCRC's Charters Library. The actual amount of each award will depend upon the scope of the research outlined in the applicant's proposal. Researchers whose projects are funded will be encouraged to submit copies of any scholarly output resulting from their work for inclusion in SUrface, SU's institutional repository.
The application deadline is December 1, 2011; grants will be announced in January 2012. Applications must include:
• Letter of intent outlining the proposed research and how the Charters collection will be used to support it
• Intended outcome of research, if any (e.g., conference paper, book, dissertation)
• Amount requested, including budget breakdown and term of stay
• Current résumé or c.v. of applicant(s)
• One professional letter of support
Application packages should be sent to:
Barbara Brooker
Charters Grants-in-Aid Program
Special Collections Research Center
Syracuse University Library
222 Waverly Ave.
Syracuse, NY 13244-2010
bbbrooke@syr.edu
The Charters Library of Resources for Educators of Adults is the world's most comprehensive collection of English-language materials in the field of adult and continuing education. Among the resources available are more than 90 discrete manuscript collections, 2,100 books, 50 professional journals, 220 newsletters, 400 sound recordings, 100 video-recordings, 10,000 photographs and some 2,800 master's theses and dissertations in the field. Online finding aids to the manuscript collections are available on SCRC's website.
SCRC, the home of the Charters Library, has more than 145,000 printed works and 2,000 manuscript and archival collections, and is home to some of SU's most valued treasures, including early printed editions of Gutenberg, Galileo, and Sir Isaac Newton, as well as the library of 19th-century German historian Leopold von Ranke. Holdings are particularly strong in the 20th century; they include the personal papers and manuscripts of such luminaries as artist Grace Hartigan, inspirational preacher Norman Vincent Peale, author Joyce Carol Oates, photojournalist Margaret Bourke White, and industrial designer Walter Dorwin Teague, as well as the records of organizations such as avant-garde publisher Grove Press. SCRC regularly hosts exhibitions, classes, and lectures, and offers fellowships/internships in library instruction and conservation. A full list of all SCRC collections is available on its website.
Dr. Jenny Doctor has been appointed Director of the Belfer Audio Archive at Syracuse University Library, effective January 2012. She will hold a concurrent appointment as a faculty member in the Newhouse School of Public Communications. A faculty member in the Department of Music at the University of York (UK) from 2005 - 2011, Doctor is a musicologist who has specialized in twentieth-century British composers and the development of sound recording technologies.
The position of Belfer Director is supported in part by a $505,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Following the grant, SU's College of Arts and Sciences, the Newhouse School of Public Communications, the College of Visual and Performing Arts, the Library, and the University will collaborate to provide ongoing funding for the position.
Doctor is the author of The BBC and Ultra-Modern Music, 1922-36: Shaping a Nation's Tastes (Cambridge University Press, 1999), based on her doctoral research. She also co-edited The Proms: A New History (Thames & Hudson, 2007), with Sir Nicholas Kenyon and David Wright, and co-edited Silence, Music, Silent Music (Ashgate, 2007), with Nicky Losseff, to which she contributed the essay, 'The Texture of Silence'. Doctor has also published articles on Elgar, Vaughan Williams, and Britten, as well as 'The Parataxis of British Musical Modernism' in Musical Quarterly in 2008. She was awarded a Fulbright grant to the UK in 1989, and remained as a resident in that country until this appointment.
Doctor's current research includes an edition of correspondence by composers Elizabeth Maconchy and Grace Williams, co-edited with Sophie Fuller (for Ashgate); an essay exploring collaborations between Vaughan Williams and Adrian Boult in BBC broadcasts (for Cambridge University Press); and an essay investigating audiovisual recordings of jazz performances televised by the BBC, 1946-66.
Suzanne Thorin, Dean of Libraries and University Librarian, spoke with enthusiasm about Doctor's appointment, saying, "Under Jenny Doctor's leadership, the Belfer Archive will again be part of national and international conversations about the preservation of historical sound recordings and their use in scholarship. Her joint faculty/library appointment is especially appropriate for the interdisciplinary work that Belfer's collections inspire." Newhouse Dean Lorraine Branham said, "The Newhouse School is pleased not only that we could attract a scholar of Jenny Doctor's stature, but also a teacher who cuts across schools and disciplines. One of the first challenges she will face in her role as Director of the Belfer is to expand access of this precious resource to students and faculty across the University."
Doctor received a BA in Mathematics (1980) from Oberlin College and a BM in Piano Performance (1981) from Oberlin Conservatory of Music. She studied viola with the Vermeer Quartet (1984-5) before working on postgraduate degrees in music history at Northwestern University (MMus 1986, PhD 1993). During her Fulbright year and afterwards, Doctor was affiliated with King's College London (1989-92), while she carried out her PhD research into the BBC's interwar programming practices, exploring as a case study the attitudes and policies of its Music Department towards Second Viennese School composers and their works. Doctor was later affiliated with St. Hilda's College, Oxford, where she organized the archives of Elizabeth Maconchy and researched aspects of her life and music.
Prior to university teaching, Doctor worked as a professional editor at Macmillan Publishers, contributing to various New Grove dictionaries, and as a senior editor responsible for twentieth-century composers on the 2nd edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2001), the basis of Grove Online. She was the Director of the Britten-Pears Library (1998-2002), and began her teaching career at Trinity College of Music in London. While at York, she was also a Research Fellow at the Borthwick Institute for Archives, with responsibility for the University of York Sound Archives.
Selections from the Photography and Literacy Project (PAL) show "Can You See Me?" are currently on display in a new gallery space on the 6th floor of Bird Library, a collaboration between the Library and the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA).
The show is the result of a collaboration between Adam Lutwin's 11th grade English class at Fowler High School and the Photography and Literacy Project. Fowler students were given digital cameras and journals to complete specific photo and writing assignments. Under the guidance of SU student mentors, students selected their best work for display.
Based on the ongoing work of SU instructor Stephen Mahan of VPA, PAL provides an opportunity for local students to explore their world through photography, video and sound to promote critical thinking skills, writing, visual literacy and self-esteem. Mahan started his work at SU a few years ago by collaborating with the Syracuse City School District (SCSD), CMAC, VPA, the Partnership for Better Education, the Creative Writing Program, Light Work, and other area institutions. At its core, the project encourages students to explore their world as they photograph, film, and capture sound recordings from their world and their lives, and then use their documents as prompts for verbal and written expression.
Mahan, who often quotes British author and education expert Sir Ken Robinson's line about schools 'filled with brilliant kids who think they are not,' says his passion for using photography as an educational tool began while he was a graduate student at the University of Buffalo in the 1990s. "Our educational system is set up to deal most effectively with one type of learner... so what I try to do is even the playing field by using a camera as a storytelling device that articulates and validates each individual's point of view, which builds self esteem. When the pictures are all laid out on the table, it is impossible to tell which kid has difficulties, and that is what motivates my passion, " says Mahan.
The PAL project has been featured in Syracuse Magazine, Jerk Magazine, and other articles. For more information, contact Mahan at scmahan@syr.edu.
In an effort to help protect your laptop from theft -- and yourself from resulting data loss and identity theft -- the SU Library now has laptop security cables available for loan at the Technology Support Desk. The cables, for use with your own laptop or one of ours, circulate for up to six hours at a time.
When using the security cables, be sure to tether your laptop to a strong, unbreakable object that won't move, such as the anchor bolts found on many tables in Bird.
Make a habit of locking your laptop, even when you're working on it, regardless of where you are. Do not leave your laptop unattended and use the cables for added security.
Security cables and locks are also available for purchase at the SU Bookstore.
Brought to you by SU Library and SU Department of Public Safety!
Knovel, one of the key engineering resources brought to you Syracuse University Library, has kicked off its 2011 University Challenge.
Solve three problems using Knovel for a chance to win an iPad 2, cash, and lots of other great prizes.
Last year, Andy Quach, a sophomore in the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science, won second prize.
How It Works -- Play Two Ways
*For entries to be valid, and to qualify for prizes, you must use Knovel to answer the questions.
The contest ends midnight on December 1.
Have a question or need help using Knovel? Contact Anne E. Rauh, Engineering and Computer Science Librarian, at aerauh@syr.edu.
Amber Moore was appointed Safire Project Archivist in the Special Collections Research Center. Amber holds an MLIS with a concentration in Archives Management from Simmons College and a bachelor of liberal arts degree in history with a concentration in African American history from Spelman College. Most recently, Amber was Project Archivist at the Amistad Research Center in New Orleans.
Amber can be reached at 443.9758 or almoor02@syr.edu.
Lucy Mulroney was recently appointed as Curator in the Special Collections Research Center. She is currently completing a PhD in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester. Her research and teaching focus on the intersection of 20th-century avant-garde art, independent publishing, and social history. This October, Lucy will present her research at the Art Book Fair Conference at the Museum of Modern Art PS1.
Lucy received a BA in Art History and Criticism from the University of California at San Diego in 2004. In addition to her academic work, Lucy has several years of experience in archives and museums, working as a research assistant at the George Eastman House Rare Book Library and as the Editor and Publicist at the historic San Francisco Art Institute, where she worked with curator and critic Okwui Enwezor.
Lucy can be reached at 443.8538 or ldmulron@syr.edu.
Anne Rauh joined the Syracuse University Library in August as Engineering and Computer Science Librarian. She previously served as Liaison Librarian at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, where she was liaison to the departments of Biomedical Engineering, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, and their related research units.
Anne holds a B.A. in International Studies and an M.A. in Library and Information Studies, both from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. She is an active member of the American Society for Engineering Education and sits on the Engineering Libraries Division's board of directors.
Anne can be reached at 443.9770 or aerauh@syr.edu
Tarida Anantachai has been appointed as Resident Librarian in SU Library's Learning Commons. Tarida received an MLIS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and a BA in English and American Literature from Brandeis University. Prior to coming to SU, she worked at the UIUC History, Philosophy, and Newspaper Library. In the past, she also worked in public library adult services and for an academic publisher. Tarida will also serve as (general & interdisciplinary) liaison to international students.
Tarida can be reached at 443.9780 or tanantac@syr.edu.
Patrick Midtlyng joined Syracuse University Library as Sound Archivist in the Belfer Audio Archive on September 1. This position was established through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to revitalize Belfer's research agenda and to ensure that the Belfer is integral and highly valued within the academic community.
Prior to joining the Library, Patrick served as Graduate Research Assistant in the Digital Media Archive and acting manager of the Language Lab and Archive at the University of Chicago. His work in the archive involved analysis of physical and digital items, developing metadata standards, evaluating and repairing fragile analog audio material, cataloging new material, and supervising graduate and undergraduate student employees. Patrick previously served as research assistant on the Washo Project, which focused on linguistic analysis of an under-documented language, and managed the University of Chicago Phonology Lab. Patrick also worked as a London-based overseas research assistant to a member of the United Kingdom Parliament, and was an intern at the State Historical Society of Iowa.
Patrick received a BA degree in Political Science from Grinnell College and a MA in Linguistics from the University of Chicago. He can be reached at pjmidtly@syr.edu.
Syracuse University Library now hosts a campus-wide subscription to the international news media monitoring database known as World News Connection (formerly known as FBIS). This news database can be accessed by S.U. affiliated students, faculty, staff by entering the title in the Databases search box on library.syr.edu. Alternatively, use this direct URL, which is also suitable for embedding by faculty into course websites, Blackboard, etc.: http://libezproxy.syr.edu/login?url=http://wnc.dialog.com/
About World News Connection®***
New information is entered into WNC hourly within 24-72 hours from the time of original publication or broadcast. World News Connection® (WNC) is an online news service, that offers an extensive array of translated and English-language news and information.
Particularly effective in its coverage of local media sources, WNC provides you with the power to identify what really is happening in a specific country or region. Compiled from thousands of non-U.S. media sources, the information in WNC covers significant socioeconomic, political, scientific, technical, and environmental issues and events.
The material in WNC is provided to the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) by the Open Source Center (OSC), a U.S. government agency. For over 60 years, analysts from OSC's domestic and overseas bureaus have monitored timely and pertinent open-source materials, including gray literature. Uniquely, WNC allows you to take advantage of the intelligence gathering experience of OSC.
The information is obtained from full text and summaries of newspaper articles, websites, conference proceedings, television and radio broadcasts, periodicals, and non-classified technical reports. New information is entered into WNC hourly every day. Generally, this information is available within 24-72 hours from the time of original publication or broadcast.
For more information about World News Connection, or other SU Library news and media databases, contact public communications and political science subject specialist librarian, Michael Pasqualoni at mjpasqua@syr.edu (315) 443-3715
***Source: World News Connection Website
Syracuse University Press staff have a new office location at 548 Bird Library. The Press Director, Acquisitions Editors, and Marketing Team will meet with faculty and students interested in exploring the publishing process and discussing opportunities for working with the Press. Press staff will also offer assistance in developing strategies for approaching publishers regarding book project proposals.
This central location in Bird Library offers a convenient space for the Press staff to meet with SU series editors, campus organizations, SU subject librarians, and others.
Current hours are Monday 1-2 p.m. (Director), Tuesday 2:30-4:30 p.m. (Acquisitions), Wednesday 2:30-4:30 p.m. (Marketing), or by appointment. For more information about Syracuse University Press, visit their website.
Education Research Complete is the most authoritative online resource for education research. It is a bibliographic and full-text database covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education. Topics include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing.
Education Research Complete also covers areas of curriculum instruction as well as administration, policy, funding, and related social issues. The database covers more than 2,300 journals and includes full text for over 1,400 of them. This database also includes full text for more than 550 books and monographs, as well as numerous education-related conference papers.
To access the database, point your browser to Education Research Complete.
For more information or to provide feedback, please contact Mary DeCarlo.
SU Library now offers FORENSICnetBASE, a new searchable database of essential forensic science and law enforcement reference texts.
Featuring works by esteemed criminologists and forensic practitioners, this e-library include essential references in crisis management and negotiation methods, arson and homicide investigation, expert witnessing, and forensic pathology.
With more than 300 volumes currently online, FORENSICnetBASE includes e-books on subject areas such as:
For Off-Campus access, please point your browser to:
http://libezproxy.syr.edu/login?url=http://www.crcnetbase.com/page/forensic_ebooks
For more information or to provide feedback, please contact Linda Galloway.
Members of the Syracuse University and Central New York communities will have an opportunity to view award-winning documentaries and feature films from around the world during "Illuminating Oppression: 9th Annual Human Rights Film Festival," Thursday, Sept. 15, through Saturday, Sept. 17.
The three-day festival is part of the 2011 Syracuse Symposium, "Identity," and is presented by the SU Humanities Center for the College of Arts and Sciences and the Newhouse School.
All of the films will be shown in the Life Sciences Complex Auditorium of Syracuse University and are free and open to the public.
Public parking will be available for $4 on Thursday, September 15, at Booth Garage (Comstock Ave); on Friday morning, September 16 at University Avenue Garage; on Friday evening and all day Saturday at Q4 (College Place)..
For more information on Illuminating Oppression, visit www.syracusehumanities.org.
Illuminating Oppression is co-sponsored by SU Library; South Asia Center; Imagining America; Office of Multicultural Affairs; Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration; and SASSE.
Bird Library will hold an open house on Thursday, September 1 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Stop by the first floor for information, tours, prizes, and refreshments.
Tours of Bird Library and the Science and Technology Library (Carnegie Library building) will also be available August 29 - September 1 between 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily.
SU Library now provides the full ASTM Standards and Engineering Digital Library , a vast new online collection of industry-leading standards and technical engineering information. The Library covers a broad range of engineering disciplines, including aerospace, biomedical, chemical, civil, environmental, geological, health and safety, industrial, materials science, mechanical, nuclear, petroleum, soil science, and solar engineering. Includes all current ASTM standards (over 12,000), all ASTM Symposia Papers and Special Technical Publications (over 29,000), all ASTM e-books and manuals, and the following ASTM journals (back to v. 1 issue 1):
Access the full ASTM Digital Library online via the library catalog or use the direct URL. It is available on or off campus (via proxy).
The Library was able to acquire this digital resource because of membership in the NorthEast Research Libraries Consortium, which successfully negotiated a lower price for ASTM for its members. Previously, the Library only had access to portions of these materials, and most of SU's ASTM collections were in print.
Rachel Fox von Swearingen is the Librarian for Music, Dance, Musical Theater in the unit for Research, Collections, and Scholarly Communication. Rachel holds a MLIS degree from Kent State University and a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Theory from Ohio University. Before joining SU Library, Rachel held two positions at the Boston Conservatory, Evening Librarian/Metadata Specialist and Public Services Librarian.
Rachel can be reached at 443-9779 or rsfoxvon@syr.edu.
In the course of organizing the Grove Press archive in the Special Collections Research Center at Syracuse University Library, a project funded by a Hidden Collections grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), archivist Susan Kline discovered the first page of a letter that Malcolm X wrote to Alex Haley during a pilgrimage to Mecca in 1964. The page, which had been missing for decades, was found in a box of miscellaneous materials related to the Evergreen Review, Grove's monthly magazine. It may have been misplaced during one of the many moves of the Grove office or otherwise separated during the book publication process.
The letter belongs in the editorial files of The Autobiography of Malcolm X. On September 22, 1965, Grove editor Dick Seaver stated that Grove Press considered the Autobiography to be "one of the most important books we have ever published." It went on to sell millions of copies worldwide and was judged by Time magazine in 1999 as one of the 10 "most important non-fiction works of the 20th century," confirming Seaver's earlier assessment.
The seven-page letter, hand written on hotel stationery, is significant in that it outlines Malcolm X's softening views on race based on his experiences in Mecca. On the newly discovered page, Malcolm writes, "this pilgrimage to the Holiest of Cities has not only been a unique experience for me, but one which has made me the recipient of numerous unexpected blessings beyond my wildest dreams."
The first page of the letter is important because it provides the precise date and time Malcolm X recorded his thoughts to Haley: Friday, April 25, 1964, 9 a.m. While the last page of the letter mentions the Autobiography and Malcolm X offers his best wishes to Haley's wife, the first page also directly indicates the letter was addressed to Alex Haley.
Library Dean Suzanne Thorin said of the find, "This discovery is a perfect example of the very real value of CLIR's Hidden Collections grants. We may never have located this historic item without the funding we received to process the Grove Press collection."
The intact letter helps complete the picture offered to scholars who wish to research the development of this book. By reuniting the pages of the letter, researchers can now study the letter in its entirety, which may enable them to shed additional light on Malcolm X's experience during his pilgrimage to Mecca and the relationship between Malcolm X and Haley.
The fact that this item was located at long last underscores the importance of devoting attention to archival materials like these. The CLIR grant project will make this letter and the other discrete materials in the Grove Press archive discoverable and available for research, contributing to a greater understanding of this period in history.
A new version of the Library's "Classic Catalog" was released on July 22nd. New features include:
The Library will be conducting usability testing to assess the new catalog and is interested in receiving feedback on the new features and functions. Send your comments to the Suggestion Box.
Ted Koppel, original anchor of the ground-breaking ABC News program Nightline, has agreed to make a donation of videotapes and other items he has prepared or received during his career in broadcast journalism to the Syracuse University Library.
Koppel began his broadcasting career at Syracuse University in 1956, ultimately serving as SU radio station WAER's Program Director in 1959-60. Now, 51 years later, the largest body of his work, including programs that ran in the late 1950's on WAER, is finding its home on the Syracuse campus.
"Ted Koppel is one of the world's most decorated journalists because throughout his career he consistently has made a real difference in the world with his work," says SU Chancellor and President Nancy Cantor. "Establishing this new repository where he launched his unprecedented career assures that this treasure trove will continue to make a difference for generations of researchers and students to come."
The donation consists primarily of videotapes and also includes certain correspondence, photographs, cartoons, awards, and notebooks chosen by Koppel, including those from Koppel's time as a Vietnam War correspondent. The principal component of the donation is a complete collection of videotapes of Nightline and The Koppel Report, news programs that were originally broadcast by ABC News. The Koppel Collection will represent a significant addition to the Library's resources on the history of broadcast journalism.
The Koppel Collection will be housed in the Library's Special Collections Research Center (SCRC), where an archivist will commence the task of processing and inventorying the collection being donated. The Nightline program videotapes will first be digitized and then will be preserved in collaboration with the University's Information Technology and Services division.
The Library will work closely with the other components of the University to ensure that the materials in the Koppel Collection are available for use by faculty, scholars, and researchers, especially in the fields of broadcast journalism, history, international relations, and speech. Digital video and other digitized materials will be made available for teaching and research to classes through the University's course management system. Access to Koppel Collection materials will also be provided through the SCRC reading room.
"We are grateful to Ted Koppel for selecting Syracuse University as the recipient of his archive of videotapes and other materials selected by him from his illustrious career. The Koppel Collection will be an extraordinarily rich resource for students and scholars in a variety of disciplines, especially the Newhouse School," said Suzanne Thorin, Dean of Libraries and University Librarian.
Edward James "Ted" Koppel, born February 8, 1940 in Lancashire, England, began his broadcasting career at WMCA Radio in New York. He joined ABC Radio News in 1963 and moved to television in 1966. During his 42 year tenure at ABC News, Koppel served as anchor of The ABC Saturday Night News, chief diplomatic correspondent, Vietnam War correspondent, and Hong Kong bureau chief. As anchor of ABC News Nightline from its debut in 1980 until late 2005, Koppel covered every major news story and presidential campaign for over 25 years. Koppel left Nightline in November 2005 and subsequently worked as managing editor for a series of news and public affairs programs that were cablecast on the Discovery Channel. He is currently a senior news analyst for National Public Radio, an author of newspaper and magazine opinion pieces, and a guest speaker.
Over his 50 year career in broadcasting, Koppel has earned every major industry honor, including 42 Emmy Awards; eight George Foster Peabody Awards; 12 Columbia-duPont Awards, including the gold award created especially to honor the week-long series that Nightline did on and from South Africa in 1985; 11 Overseas Press Club Awards, more than any other journalist; two George Polk Awards; and two Sigma Delta Chi Awards, given by the Society of Professional Journalists. Other awards include the Gabriel Personal Achievement Award from the National Catholic Association of Broadcasters and Communicators and selection as a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the Republic of France.
Koppel holds a Bachelor of Science degree (Speech) from Syracuse University and a master's degree in mass communications research and political science from Stanford University. In addition, Koppel has received more than 20 honorary degrees from universities in the United States.
For more information about this collection, contact Suzanne Thorin, Dean of Libraries and University Librarian, at sethorin@syr.edu or 315 443-5533.
Syracuse University Library now provides access to the public finance portions of Standard & Poor's Global Credit Portal. This source is invaluable for anyone conducting comprehensive research into government bond issues and other securities tied to finance of U.S. local and regional governments.
Explore S&P's ratings and reports on government sectors that include education (higher education, K-12 and charter schools), health care, transportation, utilities, housing and more. Review close to two decade's worth of S&P's analysis of municipal finance instruments in the U.S., accessing information on ratings upgrades and downgrades and other analytical commentary.
S&P's advanced search engine allows a researcher to hone in on a specific U.S. state, a bond issuer by name, or a search by CUSIP number. Additional detailed menus allow drilling down into narrower sub-categories of securities types within each sector.
ACCESS NOTE: This subscription is limited to five (5) simultaneous users at any one time.
To access Standard & Poor's Global Credit Portal (Public Finance U.S.), enter "global credit portal" into the databases search engine on the Library home page or click on the "Electronic Resource - Get It" link on this SU Library catalog page: http://summit.syr.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=3269578
For additional information or assistance, contact Public Administration Subject Specialist Librarian, Michael Pasqualoni.
Sound Beat, a public radio program originating in the Belfer Audio Archive at the Syracuse University Library, was awarded a $15,000 Arts on Radio and Television grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).
Sound Beat is a daily 90-second public radio show and companion website that uses historic sound recordings from the 1890s through the 1960s, along with entertaining back-stories, to educate listeners about the arts and history. These forgotten recordings tell us what Americans listened to and laughed at, what they enjoyed and what they valued. Sound Beat is a daily 1½-minute glimpse into the American cultural experience that is now being carried by 63 stations nationwide.
The raw material for Sound Beat is Syracuse University Library's Belfer Audio Archive, which holds approximately 500,000 historic audio recordings. Of particular note is the Savada Collection, a recent donation of 200,000 78s from the family of Morton Savada that comprised the holdings of his Manhattan retail store, Records Revisited. Classical music performances, operatic works, film scores, and spoken-word recordings are well-represented, as are those from distinctly American musical forms like jazz, bebop, country, and bluegrass. In addition, Sound Beat features recordings of political leaders, poets, philosophers, and actors, as well as early radio broadcasts and unreleased tracks from major recording companies. Nearly all are out of print and largely unavailable today.
The latest round of NEA funding for fiscal year 2011 totaled more than $88 million awarded through 1,145 grants to not-for-profit national, regional, state, and local organizations nationwide. Arts on Radio and Television grants support the development, production, and national distribution of radio and television programs on the arts. In this category, 64 grants out of 145 eligible applications were recommended for funding, for a total of $4 million. The full listing of awardees is located here.
To hear Sound Beat episodes, visit soundbeat.org. For more information, contact Sound Beat project manager Pamela McLaughlin at 315.443.9788 or pwmclaug@syr.edu.
The Syracuse University Board of Trustees recently approved the Library's plan to construct the South Campus Library Facility (SCLF), a high density storage facility to be located adjacent to the Hawkins Building on Jamesville Avenue. The design-development phase of the project will begin immediately, with construction expected to be completed in 2012.
The 20,000 square foot building will house approximately 1.6M volumes and will include a processing area and conference room. The Library will use the facility to house low-use materials, including books, microforms, special collections, and older volumes of journals. Deliveries of materials to the campus will take place daily. A constantly maintained ideal environment of controlled heat/humidity (50 degrees and 35% relative humidity) will significantly extend the life of materials in the facility. Most important, this facility will enable the library to support the long-term research needs of the faculty by providing space for collections growth.
There are more than 50 facilities of this type throughout the nation, including those in operation at Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Harvard, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Princeton, University of California, Wake Forest, and Yale.
"We are all thrilled that the campus will move ahead to build this critical facility. Special thanks to the faculty and students who advocated for additional library shelving capacity and to the Chancellor and Provost for supporting the Library," said Suzanne Thorin, Dean of the Library and University Librarian.
The Library reached full capacity for housing collections several years ago and has already moved some materials to the Hawkins Building and to the Warehouse downtown. Stacks in Bird Library are 98% full and ancillary shelving space in Hawkins and the Warehouse has reached full capacity. Materials from these locations will be consolidated into the new facility upon its completion.
For more information on this project, contact TC Carrier at 443-8456 or tecarrie@syr.edu.
The Library now subscribes to the entire Elsevier Biology series, including current issues and all previous volumes. In addition, current subscriptions were changed from print to online. Titles are:
• Advances in applied microbiology (vol. 1, 1959 -)
• Advances in cancer research (vol. 1, 1953 -)
• Advances in carbohydrate chemistry (vol. 1, 1945 - vol. 23, 1968)
• Advances in carbohydrate chemistry and biochemistry (vol. 24, 1970 -)
• Advances in microbial physiology (vol. 1, 1967 - )
• Advances in protein chemistry (vol. 1, 1948 - vol. 75, 2008)
• Advances in protein chemistry & structural biology (vol. 75, 2008 -)
• Advances in virus research (vol. 1, 1953 - )
• Current topics in membranes and transport (vol.1, 1971 - vol. 49, 1999)
• Current topics in membranes (vol. 50, 2000)
• Methods in cell biology (vol. 1, 1964 - )
In response to growing interest in the subject among departments at SU, the Library now subscribes to the online Journal of Neuroscience. Full text is available via Highwire Press Journals, with coverage back to 1981.
The Library recently subscribed to 17 additional Nature e-journal titles, made possible through a collaboration with the North East Research Libraries consortium. The Library now offers Nature's complete Physical Science collection, as well as all of Nature's Research & Reviews collection (except for clinical practice titles). These are in addition to current subscriptions to the flagship journal Nature, plus Nature Biotechnology, Nature Cell Biology, Nature Chemistry, Nature Genetics, Nature Geoscience, Nature Materials, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Physics, and Nature Structural and Molecular Biology.
New titles are:
Heredity
Nature Immunology
Nature Medicine
Nature Methods
Nature Neuroscience
Nature Protocols
Nature Reviews Cancer
Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
Nature Reviews Genetics
Nature Reviews Immunology
Nature Reviews Microbiology
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell B
Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Nature Chemical Biology
Nature Photonics
Obesity
To review the complete list of titles, search Nature as a vendor on the Locate tab of the E-Journal Locator.
The Library recently acquired two important online reference works in Chemistry.The Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology is the premier work for chemical engineering, and e-EROS, the online version of the Encyclopedia of Reagents of Organic Synthesis.
e-EROS is described as "the one source for in-depth information on reagents and catalysts at your fingertips," offering systematic and exhaustive coverage of reagents used in organic synthesis. The A to Z listing covers classical reagents, new "designer" reagents and catalysts. e-EROS has been designed and developed by chemists for chemists to enable the user to find the most suitable reagent or catalyst for performing particular reactions. A variety of searching options are available that mirror the way chemists think.
Morgan Claypool's Synthesis collection #3 - the Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science -- is an innovative information service for the research, development, and educational community in engineering, computer science, and information science.
The basic component of the Library is a 50 -100 page "Lecture", a self-contained electronic book that synthesizes an important research or development topic, authored by an expert contributor to the field. These e-books cover topics as diverse as tissue engineering, human language technologies, data mining, computer vision, and engineering and society.
For a complete list of titles in the collection, see http://www.morganclaypool.com/page/coll_three
A new grouping of 20 computers and a printer is now available in a quiet area on the 2nd floor of Bird Library. Located on the east side of the building behind the current periodicals, these workstations are available for use by SU-affiliated students, faculty, and staff. The new cluster is a joint effort between Campus ITS and the Library and provides the same software applications as other ITS computing labs on campus.
New workstations include Microsoft Visio, Project, and Visual Studio, in addition to the suite of applications available on other Library workstations. Based on the outcome of this pilot, the Library hopes to add these applications to the remaining public computers in the Library in order to provide a consistent computing experience for library users.
The push for sustainability on campus is getting a boost from a new gadget that is now available for checkout at Bird Library's Technology Support and Loan desk. The iPod-sized apparatus, known as Kill A Watt, displays power usage and cost for individual household appliances. While utility meters installed by power supply companies show overall household energy usage, the Kill A Watt allows consumers to see how much an individual appliance contributes to energy costs.
Syracuse University's Sustainability Division is promoting the Kill A Watt system as a way to spur awareness of household energy consumption and hopefully alter wasteful practices. Richard Martin, a sustainability analyst for the Sustainability Division, believes the system has real potential to increase energy awareness. "Users of the system will understand what aspects of their current behavior are using the most energy," said Martin. "Those are the aspects I hope they will rethink."
The system is easy to use, and for anyone who can set a digital kitchen timer, setting up the Kill A Watt is just as simple. Simply unplug an appliance, plug the Kill A Watt into the vacant socket and reconnect the appliance to the Kill A Watt. After entering the cost of energy, the system begins tallying usage and cost. The Kill A Watt will also project the appliances' power consumption and energy cost up to one year.
To ensure the most accurate reading and prediction, Martin suggests measuring the usage of a single appliance for seven days. "In terms of filtering out variability due to our behavioral patterns," said Martin, "a week is good representative time slice." This means that during the two-week checkout time from the Bird Library, students and faculty can accurately measure the usage and cost of two appliances.
"There are definitely a lot of people who are thinking about the future, thinking about energy use," said Ted Traver, a project coordinator for the New York Public Interest Research Group. He sees a definite intellectual market for the Kill A Watt on campus. "To gain a cost awareness and have an environmental impact - people would love that."
Even though household appliances are usually marked with power ratings, it's difficult to monitor power consumption without a meter like the Kill A Watt. Appliances like toasters, microwaves and light bulbs are typically marked with the maximum possible power consumption, although that's not always the amount being used. Gauging is also difficult for automatic appliances like air conditioners and refrigerators because the amount of daily run time is not recorded. Items like cell phone chargers and computer cords draw power even when disconnected. The Kill A Watt mediates all of these issues.
"All the stuff that you don't even realize takes energy - it does," said Traver. "And it's really good to have a system in place to monitor how much energy you're actually using."
WAER broadcast the inaugural episode of Sound Beat, a new 90-second public radio module that highlights recordings from the Belfer Audio Archive, on Tuesday, March 1 at 3:30 p.m.
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 performances, operatic works, and film scores are well-represented, as are those from distinctly American musical forms like jazz, bebop, country, and bluegrass.
And it's not just music. Sound Beat also features recordings from some of the great thinkers, political figures, and luminaries from the late 19th and early- to mid-20th centuries. People like Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Amelia Earhart, and Theodore Roosevelt, to name just a few.
Producer Jim O'Connor, Bob Hodge and others have been mining the Belfer holdings for interesting recordings. Others involved in the project include host Brett Barry, a Newhouse alum. Credit for the original idea for a radio show focusing on Belfer collections goes to SU Magazine's David Marc. Theme music was written by Grammy-nominated composer David Wolfert, who also has SU connections.
Ron Ockert, program director at WAER, had this to say, "I love Sound Beat! There's nothing else like it out there. It is equal parts history and fun and makes a great complement to WAER's lineup."
If you just want to listen in, every Sound Beat episode will be available, along with other interesting facts and features, at soundbeat.org. WAER will carry it in the 3:30 p.m. daily time slot.
Linda Galloway was recently appointed as biology, chemistry and forensic sciences librarian at Syracuse University Library. In this position, Ms. Galloway works with faculty and students to facilitate access to the information resources and tools necessary for their academic success. She will be involved in a number of collaborative initiatives to promote the Library's value-added content and connect researchers to the Library.
Prior to her current appointment, Ms. Galloway was an instruction, grants and reference librarian at SUNY-ESF. She has a BS in chemistry from Long Island University and an MSLIS from Syracuse University.
Ms. Galloway has served in leadership roles in the Upstate Chapter of the Special Libraries Association and is a member of the Academic, Chemistry, and Science and Technology divisions. She also serves on the board of the Pi Lambda Sigma Chapter of Beta Phi Mu, the international library science honor society. She can be reached at 443-9766 or Galloway@syr.edu.
Syracuse University Press, a unit of Syracuse University Library reporting to Dean Suzanne Thorin, offers the following statement from Press Director Alice Pfeiffer regarding an article appearing in Inside Higher Education on February 24, 2011.
"In mid-2010, SU Press became aware that a character in "Lahore with Love" very closely resembled, by name and description, an individual citizen in Pakistan. Upon review, the Press found the representation of the character in the book was virtually identical to this citizen, and that the portrayal raised very serious concerns of libel and defamation of character.
The Press discussed these concerns with Dr. Afzal-Khan. She initially offered to revise the book, but later withdrew that offer. After ongoing discussions, both parties ultimately chose to end the contract, as often happens when authors and publishers have issues that cannot be resolved.
SU Press very much recognizes Dr. Afzal-Khan's right to publish her book and the effort she undertook in authoring it. Indeed, SU Press offered to transfer full rights to the book, without cost, to her should she wish to obtain a new publisher. At the time, it was our understanding that Dr. Afzal-Khan was pursuing that route, and we wished her well moving forward."
Explore the world of U.S. and international advertising via the Adforum database. This latest addition to SU Library's collection is an online audiovisual library of more than 120,000 advertisements (1999-present), including:
and various other forms of "Out of Home" advertising like billboards, posters, and vehicle mounted images. Content originates from over 20,000 advertising agencies in dozens of countries. Award-winning advertising can also be retrieved by award name and year (e.g., Clio, Effie, One Show, etc).
The database offers a variety of other features, including a searchable listing of ad agencies, job postings, a blog, and much more. Additional functionality, such as the ability to maintain a customized playlist of favorite ads, is available to users who register to join the Adforum community.
Adforum's convenient online platform is accessible to faculty, students, and staff from on- and off-campus locations. The Adforum archive may be smaller than the wide variety of content dispersed across the free web, YouTube, and numerous advertising agency websites, however Adforum's aggregated content offers greater stability and far more extensive indexing of content, all within a single, internationally oriented collection.
To access Adforum, visit http://libezproxy.syr.edu/login?url=http://www.adforum.com/syr or simply type "Adforum" into the databases section of the search box on the Library home page.
For more information about Adforum, contact Public Communications Librarian, Michael Pasqualoni at (315) 443-3715 or mjpasqua@syr.edu.
Six newly designated "Team Rooms," located on the 3rd and 4th floors of Bird Library, are available for group work or projects requiring the use of technology. Team Rooms with Technology can be used for presentation practice, web conferencing, and other group project work.
Each room is equipped with a large LCD screen, desktop PC, and a media control panel. Rooms can be customized with additional technology, including:
Team Rooms are available to SU students, faculty and staff by reservation. Rooms that have not been reserved are available on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information or to submit a reservation, see http://library.syr.edu/services/space/team_room_form.php.
To sign out a key, obtain additional equipment, or inquire about room use, visit the Technology Support & Loan desk on the first floor of Bird Library or call 443-4160.
Syracuse University Library is pleased to announce the availability of the Research Helper guide, a student-designed booklet intended to help users organize and record the strategies and resources they use in conducting a research project. A pdf version of the Research Helper can be found at http://tinyurl.com/4lm8vfb. Print copies are available at any library service desk.
Research Helper simplifies the research process and the creation of bibliographies and works cited pages by offering a convenient, central location to record keywords, names of databases and journals, detailed citations, and other relevant research data. Research Helper also includes advice on how to begin conducting research, suggestions on how to create an effective search strategy, and describes a variety of resources available within the Library.
The back cover of the guide features a list of Library contacts for getting help with research, including text, online, instant message, phone, email, or in person options.
The Research Helper was designed by Allie Jennings '10 (VPA) as a project for her Communications Design course. Several Syracuse University librarians also assisted in developing the content.
Syracuse University Library has received a grant of $86,000 from the Dana Foundation to process recently acquired personal papers of the late William Safire. Safire, the Pulitzer prize- winning political columnist for the New York Times and former Nixon speechwriter, passed away in 2009. This grant will enable the Library to hire a full-time, professional archivist to arrange and describe the collection, currently on deposit in the Special Collections Research Center. In addition, the archivist will create an online finding aid (a file-level inventory of the collection) and select 500 items to be digitized and made available on the Library's web site.
This addition to the Safire papers includes materials relating to his "On Language" column, subject files, correspondence with leading literary and political figures, including former president Bill Clinton and author Norman Mailer, as well as scrapbooks, and videos of lectures. The collection is not available for research while it is being processed, however SCRC staff will request permission from the Safire family on behalf of researchers interested in accessing Safire's papers.
Safire's estate also donated almost 1,700 books, some of them rare, including a 1663 edition of Nicolas Caussin's The Holy Court in Five Tomes (London). Safire donated books from his personal collection and selected personal papers to the Library between 1994 and 1998. At that time, the Dana Foundation provided funding for the construction of the Safire Room on the 6th floor of Bird Library, a popular quiet study spot.
Safire was on the Board of Directors of the Dana Foundation and served as its chairman from 2000 until his death. He also served on the Syracuse University Board of Trustees.
Beginning on Tuesday, January 18, 2011, the Special Collections Reading Room (which includes service to the Belfer Audio Archive and University Archives) will be open on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9 a.m. until 7 p.m. Hours on Monday, Wednesday, Friday are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
For more information, see http://library.syr.edu/find/scrc/visit/hours-location.php
The iPOLL Databank is now available to the SU campus and all affiliated students, faculty, and staff as one of Syracuse University Library's newest databases. Published by the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, University of Connecticut, this public opinion repository draws upon academic, media, and commercial polls originating from more than 150 organizations (e.g., Gallup, Harris, CBS/New York Times, Fox News, et al). iPOLL covers over one half million polling questions and responses from 1935 to the present.
iPOLL's features include question level retrieval with links to full results, links from questions to study abstracts and questionnaires, and unlimited download of datasets via RoperExpress (in SPSS or ASCII formats). Once inside the database, users can also register for accounts that enhance their ability to manipulate and save search results.
To access the iPOLL Databank from on or off campus, point your browser to http://libezproxy.syr.edu/login?url=http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/iPOLL/login/ipoll_login.html or, alternatively, type ipoll (all lowercase) into the Databases section of the search box on the Library home page.
For more information on the iPOLL Databank, contact Michael Pasqualoni, Political Science Subject Specialist Librarian, at mjpasqua@syr.edu or 443-3715.
The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has awarded a $143,100 grant to Syracuse University to support the processing of the archive of avant-garde publisher, Grove Press, housed in Syracuse University Library's Special Collections Research Center. Considered to be the literary engine behind the sexual revolution in America, the Grove Press archive spans the years 1953 to 1985 and is comprised of manuscript drafts, correspondence, and photographs, as well as editorial, film, and publicity files for Grove and for its landmark literary magazine "The Evergreen Review." Included are extensive legal records and clippings files relating to the obscenity trials sparked by the publication of "Lady Chatterley's Lover" and "Tropic of Cancer." The collection includes 2,500 print titles, many of them first editions in excellent condition.
While Grove was based in New York City, its list of titles, authors, and subjects was international in scope. Subjects and genres range from Victorian erotica and literary modernism to post-colonial Latin America and Africa. Grove's author list included such luminaries as Samuel Beckett, Paul Bowles, Jean Genet, Marguerite Duras, Robert Frank, D.H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, Pablo Neruda, Frank O'Hara, Charles Olson, Harold Pinter, Gilbert Sorrentino, and others. It was the first to publish many writers of the "Beat" generation, including Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka, and William Burroughs.
The Grove Press archive holds individual documents of extraordinary value, for example, Malcolm X's 1964 handwritten letter to Alex Haley detailing his softening views on race. It also offers opportunities for deeper, more sustained, research. In addition to attracting scholars of changing sexual mores, it will also draw those studying the Vietnam War, counterculture, race relations in America, and post-colonial revolution. Those interested in the Grove collection will include scholars of history, English, American studies, African American studies, Latin American studies, writing and rhetoric, as well as legal and business history.
For more information on the Grove Press archive, contact Sean Quimby at smquimby@syr.edu.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded $505,000 to Syracuse University to support the positions of director and sound archivist for the Library's Belfer Audio Laboratory and Archive. The Library will work closely with the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Visual and Performing Arts, the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, and, the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs to integrate Belfer resources into their scholarly work and to make it easier for scholars to discover and use audio resources in a digital environment. The award also provides funding to equip a smart classroom in the Belfer facility.
Vice-Chancellor and Provost Eric Spina spoke with enthusiasm about the initiative, saying, "Syracuse University is grateful to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for this generous grant. By rebuilding the leadership, we will rekindle the involvement of faculty here and nationally in this exemplary research archive. This award will enable us to reach our goal of making Belfer's treasures broadly available for teaching, research, and listening."
The Belfer Audio Laboratory and Archive at Syracuse University is a significant research repository that documents the history of American recorded sound. The collections have grown to more than 500,000 recordings, making it one of the nation's foremost audio archives. Belfer's extensive collections and playback equipment represent a wide range of audio recording history, from the earliest experimental recordings on tinfoil, to cylinders, Edison Diamond discs, 78-rpm and 45-rpm recordings, and a variety of audiotapes. The collections are especially rich in popular vocal and instrumental music, and include classical, jazz, marches, novelty, comedy, folk, country, ethnic, and experimental genres.
In addition to music, the Belfer collections also contain recordings of political leaders, poets, philosophers, and famous actors, as well as early radio broadcasts and unreleased discs from major recording companies. Famous voices include Thomas Edison, George Bernard Shaw, Amelia Earhart, Albert Einstein, Margaret Bourke-White, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Albert Schweitzer, and Benjamin Spock.
The Director, who will teach in one or more of the Belfer's constituent academic departments, will promote the innovative use of the collections in research and teaching and will have an established reputation in the history of recorded sound and/or in the policy, law, and economics governing the use of recorded sound. The Archivist will be responsible for providing access to Belfer's recordings, selecting appropriate discovery tools (including MARC cataloging, EAD finding aids, and new methodologies) and devising new delivery methods.
The Dean of the Library, Suzanne Thorin, commented that the new state-of-the-art classroom will help to ensure that the Belfer Archive becomes a recognized campus center for research and teaching in the history of recorded sound. Mellon funds will be the catalyst for University investment in renovating this space, which will double the capacity of the existing classroom and make available technologies that will enable faculty and students to experiment with historical and new recorded sound.
Syracuse University Press has announced the release of more than 300 titles on Google eBooks. Google launched its long-awaited Google eBooks on December 6, which includes a redesigned Google Books page that features a store where consumers can find and buy ebooks and a research option for those who wish to search and use the repository. It also includes a Google web reader and apps for both Apple and Android devices, which are available for free.
Google's cloud-based eBooks can be accessed and read anywhere, on any device with a modern, HTML5-enabled browser, whether desktop computers, laptops, netbooks or tablets, or via apps for iPhones, iPads and Android-powered smartphones. Because it is an open platform, Google eBooks (http://books.google.com/ebooks) will also be accessible on any e-reader that is based on an open platform, like ePub, including the Sony Reader and the B&N Nook.
Available at the Google eBookstore are a variety of SU Press books, ranging from "Slices of Orange: A Collection of Memorable Games and Performers in Syracuse University Sports History," to "Globalization and the Muslim World: Culture, Religion and Modernity."
Each year, SU Press publishes new and groundbreaking books in specialized areas, including New York state, Middle East studies, judaica, geography, Irish studies, Native American studies, religion, television and popular culture. For more information, contact Mona Hamlin at the Syracuse University Press at (315) 443-5547, or mhamlin@syr.edu.
During December and January, ProQuest, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, and some Chadwyck Healey products will be migrating to a new interface. While this happens, the library will be updating database listings and URLs accordingly.Though the Library expects this process to go smoothly, there is the possibility that links or click throughs will not work, particularly for bookmarked or saved items.
The list of databases affected can be found at: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/promos/platform/databases_supported.shtml
Thank you for your patience during this transition. We hope you will find the new interface to be improvement in the long run.
If you have any questions during this time, please contact: Pam Thomas, pthomas@syr.edu or Tasha Cooper, nacoop01@syr.edu.
Syracuse University Library is pleased to announce the launch of its mobile web site. Optimized for iPhone, Android, and Blackberry smart phones, the site can be accessed at http://m.library.syr.edu. Also, users who visit the regular Library homepage from a mobile device will be redirected automatically to the mobile version.
The new mobile site offers quick, convenient access to core library information sources, including library hours, contact info, and locations. Via the mobile Library site, users will be able to:
• Search the Library catalog, WorldCat, and mobile versions of a number of Library databases
• Check Library hours for all locations
• Find the locations of all SU libraries and collections
• View floor maps of Bird Library
• Browse the Library staff directory and automatically email or place a call to each individual.
• Get research assistance via text message, instant message, email, or phone
• View Library events
Full functionality of the mobile services will depend on the data plan, connectivity, and capabilities of the phone used.
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Those needing poster-size printing on campus have a new option available in Bird Library's Learning Commons. A new color plotter (HP DesignJet Z6100PS) unveiled this week prints documents up to 36" wide. Printing to the plotter is available from all Windows-based public workstations in the Learning Commons (lower level, 1st and 2nd floors of Bird Library) from 9:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m., Monday - Friday and from 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday during the regular semester. Cost is $2.00 per linear foot.
After sending a print job to the plotter, users will need to visit the Technology Support and Loan desk on the 1st floor and request that their print job be released from the queue and sent to the plotter. For more information about the new plotter, including configuration assistance, sample prints jobs and other documentation, see http://tinyurl.com/37aud4z or visit the Technology Support and Loan desk.
Syracuse University Library announces the launch of SUrface, a full-text, multi-media online database that provides open access to the extensive and diverse array of scholarly, professional, scientific, and creative output produced at Syracuse University. At the same time, SUrface increases the visibility of authors' works; maximizes research impact; facilitates interdisciplinary research; and provides local, regional, and global communities with immediate and permanent access.
A launch party will be held Monday, October 18, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons of Bird Library. Cake and light refreshments will be served. All faculty and graduate students are invited to attend.
Special workshops will take place in room 046 of Bird Library to introduce SUrface to those interested in depositing their work. Hours are:
Why join SUrface?
• Increase your visibility
• Showcase your work in multiple formats
• Learn what colleagues are doing
• Engage with the local and global community
• Preserve your electronic research
Making accessible the knowledge, creativity, research, and innovation of Syracuse University is the very essence of "scholarship in action" and helps facilitate the crucial mission of the university as a public good.
About SUrface
Beginning in December 2009, a team of librarians, staff, and students from the Syracuse University Library, the H. Douglas Barclay Law Library, the University Archives, Syracuse University Press, and the iSchool, with advice and consultation from University faculty, collaboratively planned and implemented SUrface, the Syracuse University Research Facility And Collaborative Environment. Their efforts are now reaching fruition, with over 1,000 Syracuse University documents now housed in SUrface.
For more information, contact Charlotte Hess, Associate Dean for Research, Collections, and Scholarly Communication at 443-5528 or hess@syr.edu.
Syracuse University Library's Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) has amassed a fine collection of graphic novels, or novels without words. Striking specimens of the genre from the 1920s and 1930s are now on view in an SCRC exhibition entitled The Silent Scream: Conflict in Novels without Words. Selections for display were made in keeping with this year's Syracuse Symposium theme: "conflict."
In addition to conflict, novels without words often portray a quest for self-fulfillment or social justice. Because of their historical context, they may also depict the struggle between the individual and the industrialized world. Similarly, the law, the police, and the armed forces may all be viewed as instruments of repression in graphic novels.
The artists represented are William Gropper (1897-1977), a caricaturist, cartoonist, book illustrator, and social activist in the causes of labor; Laurence Hyde (1914-1987), who produced wood engravings and linocuts for books, as well as pen-and-ink illustrations for various left-wing journals; Frans Masereel (1889-1972), creator of stark and moving woodcuts; Giacomo Patri (1898-1978), who helped to promote the growing labor movement through illustration of union organizing pamphlets; John Vassos (1898-1985), commercial artist and book illustrator; and Lynd Ward (1905-1985), wood engraver known for his portrayal of quests after social justice and the fulfillment of human and artistic potential.
The exhibition is free and open to the public from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, excepting holidays, on the sixth floor of Bird Library on the Syracuse University campus.
Syracuse University Library has obtained a campus-wide site license for online access to the Chronicle of Higher Education and the Chronicle of Philanthropy.
The Chronicle of Higher Education offers news, information, and employment opportunities for college and university faculty and administrators, along with a variety of newsletters. Its digital publications are updated every weekday; back issues are available from 1995.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy offers content for nonprofit organizations, grant makers, and other philanthropic enterprises. Digital copies of the publication are updated every other Monday and back issues are available from October 1997. The Chronicle of Philanthropy's free e-newsletter, Philanthropy Today, is available daily.
To be recognized as an authorized user of the Library subscription, including premium content, access either publication from the Library homepage. Enter the title on the E-Journals search tab and choose the entry labeled Miscellaneous Ejournals on the search results page to connect directly to the Chronicle web site. When connecting from off campus and prompted to login, use your SU NetID and password. The Chronicle of Higher Education and The Chronicle of Philanthropy may also be found at http://chronicle.com/ and http://philanthropy.com/, respectively, however premium content may not be available.
The Library's license does not include an obligation to maintain a print subscription. Any pre-existing individual or departmental subscriptions will be unaffected by this new access.
For more information about this subscription, contact Robert Cleary at 443-2989 or email rmcleary@syr.edu. For assistance accessing these titles, contact Kelley Lasher at 443-6179 or email kllasher@syr.edu.
The Library has created a brand new virtual tour, with web, video, and slide show versions available.
The Virtual Tour provides an overview of library places, services, and collections for new and returning students. Please send questions and comments to Learning Commons Librarian Pamela Thomas, chair of the Virtual Tour Team at 443-5526.
Want to make a difference in improving Learning Commons' services? Don't have much time, but still want to have an impact? Now is your chance to volunteer as a Learning Commons student advisor!
Image courtesy of American University of Beirut.
Early in July, the Library began to de-accession journals in the Sci-Tech Library for which we purchased online equivalents earlier this year. You may see several staff members removing print journals from the Sci-Tech Library over the course of the summer.
This de-accessioning provides much needed room for the ongoing growth of the print monograph collections in Sci-Tech. In addition, the purchase of these backfiles means that online access to this historically valuable record of 20th century science is now available to SU students and researchers anywhere, anytime.
This project originated as the Library began addressing a space crunch and announced plans to relocate some materials offsite. As an alternative to offsite storage, the Library trialed several online backfiles of the most significant science journal packages and sought input from faculty and academic departments.
From March 1 - March 31, 2010, the Library arranged with 4 major science publishers for trial access to older runs (backfiles) of chemistry and physics journals. In total, over 300 journals from 7 different backfile packages were evaluated. Librarians were sensitive to concerns about the image quality, legibility, and accessibility of this content and only purchased those collections that received no negative feedback from any departments or faculty members.
For complete information about this project, please contact Scott Warren, Bibliographer for the Sciences and Technology, at (315) 443-8339, email sawarren@syr.edu, or visit the Sci-Tech De-accessioning Project webpage.
Visitors to the Syracuse University web site now have the option of taking a virtual tour of campus. The SU virtual tour includes panoramic photos of a variety of campus locations, including 3 library locations. Click on the links below to view the photos (requires Quicktime).
Joseph W. Denn, a second-year graduate student in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics in Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences, received the Mary Hatch Marshall Essay Award at the Syracuse University Library Associates annual Spring Luncheon on April 30. His essay is entitled "Le Mariage de Figaro comme théâtre et opéra : une comparaison des deux spectacles" (The Marriage of Figaro as Theater and Opera: A Comparison of the Two Works). Denn is a native of St. Peter, Minnesota.
To honor and help perpetuate Mary Hatch Marshall's scholarly standards and generous spirit, Library Associates in 2004 established this annual award for the best essay written by a graduate student in the humanities at the University. 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 that funds this annual award.
Born in 1903, Marshall graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar College, received a Ph.D. from Yale University, and was later named a Guggenheim Fellow. Marshall joined the SU faculty in 1948 and became the first woman to achieve the rank of full professor in The College of Liberal Arts. During her tenure, she held the Jesse Truesdell Peck Chair in English literature; helped to establish the Honors Program, serving as its first director; and was among the founding members of Library Associates. After retiring from full-time teaching with emeritus status, Marshall continued to offer courses through the Humanistic Studies Center at University College until 1993. Among the awards and honors she received were the Post-Standard Award for Distinguished Service to the Syracuse University Library, a Chancellor's Citation, and an Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award.
Full- and part-time students from African American Studies; English; Fine Arts; 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 $500 award. Nominations are coordinated by the respective department and program chairs. Faculty members who served on the Marshall Award Selection Committee this year were Gerry Greenberg (chair), Rebecca Howard, Claudia Klaver, Gregg Lambert, and John Robertson.
Syracuse University Library's newest exhibition, "4,000 Years and Counting," features treasures from the Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) that highlight the breadth of the library's special collections--from second-century-B.C. cuneiform tablets to the papers of notable contemporary figures like Joyce Carol Oates.
The exhibition occupies the display case on the first floor of E.S. Bird Library and the gallery on the 6th floor, which is open from 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday-Friday. The exhibition will remain up until Aug. 31.
The exhibition opens with the origins of special collections at SU: the 1887 purchase of the eminent German historian Leopold von Ranke's library. In support of the acquisition, University Librarian C. W. Bennett made this assessment: "For this has always been my theory, that six thousand to ten thousand well-selected volumes are sufficient for the wants of the undergraduate, but to keep the professors from mental hunger and starvation, sources, authorities and books of a very different kind must be had in large numbers and in special collections."
Special collections was born of the Ranke library and matured in the 1960s under the leadership of Chancellor William Pearson Tolley (1901-96), a noted collector of rare books. Librarians solicited the personal papers of the best and brightest of the day, including pediatrician Benjamin Spock, architect Marcel Breuer, photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White, Nobel Laureate Albert Schweitzer and Grove Press publisher Barney Rosset. The Belfer Audio Laboratory and Archive, with its world-class collection of wax-cylinder recordings and state-of-the-art reformatting studio, was founded in 1963. These notable accomplishments gave rise to subject areas in which SU could claim to be among the best in the world, including architecture and design, popular culture, and the literary and artistic expression of radical ideology. This exhibition offers an introduction to these and other collecting areas.
SCRC continues to build upon historical strengths while new areas of collecting have emerged; for example, the history of broadcasting. Increasingly, special collections include not just print and manuscript items, but a growing number of material-culture artifacts--from clay tablets to Tupperware--and a variety of media formats, such as Edison wax cylinders. SCRC's mission is to collect and preserve the best of today for the researchers of tomorrow, and increasingly that means bits and bytes as well as paper and print.
For more information about special collections at Syracuse University Library, contact, Sean Quimby, director of special collections.
The Syracuse University Library is very pleased to announce the purchase of the Web of Science archive. Coverage for both the Science Citation Index and the Social Sciences Citation Index now extends from 1900 to the present. The Arts and Humanities Citation Index covers from 1975 to the present. Previous coverage for all three databases was from 1985 to the present.
Web of Science enables researchers to find citations to scholarly articles and track the progress of research not only backward in time via bibliographies, but forward via citations. Contrary to its name, it is a powerful research tool for the social sciences and humanities as well.
Try the new, deeper Web of Science!
"The full-file (1900 through present) indexes 32 million articles, papers, and other scholarly items from over 230 different disciplines and over 10,000 journals. Of the 50 most highly cited items in Web of Science, more than 60% were published over 20 years ago. Via the powerful linking capabilities of the Web, retrospective data "comes to life" and maximizes serendipitous discovery."
- From Thomson Reuters, the company that produces Web of Science.
This was a significant, six-figure purchase by the Library, made possible with a consortial discount provided by a partnership with the NorthEast Research Libraries (NERL) consortium and after negotiation with Thomson Reuters. Large backfiles like this are an excellent investment for the Syracuse University Library since they represent a one-time purchase, rather than an ongoing commitment. The Library now owns this content outright rather than needing to lease it year after year.
By pursuing innovative strategies to purchase online content at substantial savings, the Library not only stretches its dollars, but reaffirms its commitment to providing the highest quality searching tools and the largest amount of scholarly material possible to Syracuse University students, faculty members, and researchers.
For more information or assistance with the Web of Science archive, contact Scott Warren, Bibliographer for the Sciences and Technology, at 443-8339 or sawarr01@syr.edu.
Peter Verheyen, head of Preservation at Syracuse University Library, collaborated with senior curator Debora Ryan on Fit to be Bound, the second exhibit in the Everson Museum's The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series. The exhibition features artist books created by thirty-four artists currently living in New York State, the first survey of its kind at the Everson.
Ryan describes the exhibition as "an exploration of the various means by which contemporary artists have expanded and reinterpreted the notion of the book form, from the traditional to the sculptural, from paper to mixed-media, small-scale and oversized."
Four artists were invited to participate: Miriam Schaer, Tatiana Kellner, Claire Maziarczyk, and Drew Goerlitz. Thirty additional artists were selected by jurors Ryan, Verheyen, and Hannah Frieser, book artist and director of Syracuse University's Light Work, a non-profit, artist-run organization that provides direct support to artists working in the media of photography and digital imaging.
Verheyen, who is also a widely exhibited book binder and founder of the Book Arts Web and its e-journal The Bonefolder, will give a free talk on the book arts in general and in New York State on Saturday, May 8 at 2:00 p.m. at the Museum.
Students in the VPA's fiber architecture class, co-taught by Janet Ambrose and Mary Giehl, have installed their final semester projects on the first floor and lower level of Bird Library's Learning Commons. The class draws students from design, architecture, sculpture, fiber arts, and other majors.
Students used the two Learning Commons spaces as their inspiration and planned their work to fit and work in these spaces. Fiber sculptures are wrapped around columns, suspended from the ceiling, and situated in some unexpected locations. By displaying in the Library, student artwork will be seen by hundreds of people. In addition, installing in a public setting like Bird provided students with the real-life experience of working in an environment where there is less control and predictability than in a critique space or gallery.
This exhibit is a result of the ongoing partnership between the Learning Commons and COLAB, which has previously installed exhibits in the lower level of Bird Library. The first phase of installations was completed in late March and additional works will be added. They will remain in place through the end of the semester.
The PRAVDA DIGITAL ARCHIVE from Eastview Press is available for a trial period.
The most widely read and referenced news source from the Soviet era is now available online in full-text and full-image back to its inception in 1912 up to the end of 2009. East View has converted Pravda microfilm to an online digital resource that is fully searchable.
Researchers will be able to research the chief chronicle of Russian and Soviet history, from the beginnings of the Russian Revolution through World War II, the Cold War, the fall of the Soviet Union, and everything in between.
This trial is available from April 1, 2010 to April 30, 2010 and it's available via IP athentication only.
To access the collections, point your browser to
http://dlib.eastview.com/browse/udb/870
For more information or feedback, please contact Lydia Wasylenko
Access Services currently presents Notable Native Americans, a display featuring materials related to prominent American Indians from the past five centuries. Located on the 4th floor of Bird Library, the display contains brief biographical sketches and illustrations of key figures such as Pocahontas, Sequoyah, Sitting Bull, Jim Thorpe, Maria Tallchief, Joanne Shenandoah and many others.
The New York Center for the Book is pleased to announce the winners of the 2010 Letters About LIterature contest for New York State.
Level I - Grades 4 - 6
First place winner is Sal DiGuardia, who wrote to Cynthia Lord about her book Rules. Sal attends Jericho Middle School.
Second place winner is Zerrin Kamal, who wrote to Wendelin Van Draanen about her book Shredderman: Secret Identity. Zerrin attends Longwood Middle School in Middle Island, NY
Third place winner is Bhavya Gopinath, who wrote to Beverly Cleary about her book Beezus and Ramona. Bhavya is a 4th grader.
Level II - Grades 7 - 8
First place winner is Molly Clark, who wrote to John Boyne about his book The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Molly attends Onondaga Hill Middle School in Syracuse, NY.
Second place winner is Alexandra Kung of Chappaqua, who wrote to Jennings Burch about his book They Cage Animals at Night.
Third place winner is Tristyn Mandel, who wrote to Jacqueline Woodson about her book Miracle's Boys. Tristyn attends Great Neck South Middle School.
Level III -- Grades 9 -12
First place winner is Marisa Hamel of Cortland, NY, who wrote to Sandra Cisneros about her book The House on Mango Street. Marisa attends Christian Brothers Academy in Syracuse.
Second place winner is Ivy Stevens, who wrote to Tamora Pierce about her Circle of Magic series. Ivy attends Charles O. Dickerson High School in Trumansburg.
Third place winner is Courtney Brown, who wrote to Ellen Hopkins about her book Crank. Courtney attends Webster Thomas High School in Webster.
For more information about the Letters About Literature program, see http://www.lettersaboutliterature.org/
Beginning in March, the Library to Go faculty delivery service was expanded to include new locations and additional types of material. Delivery service will now be provided to the Warehouse downtown and the Comart building on South Campus. In addition to circulating books, Library to Go will also deliver DVDs/videos, interlibrary loan items, and books that have been requested (holds and recalls) to faculty in participating departments.
A link to request delivery appears in the SUMMIT catalog record for items that are eligible to be delivered. The Library will also retrieve books from departmental offices. To request a pickup, use this form.
This popular program now encompasses a large number of departments, including the entire School of Architecture, School of Education, L. C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science, School of Information Studies, and the Martin J. Whitman School of Management. A complete list of participating departments is located here.
To join Library to Go, schools, colleges, and departments enter into an agreement with the Library to receive items in departmental offices and distribute them to faculty. For more information or to join the program, please contact Charles Russo at 443-2452 or email ctrusso@syr.edu.
The following facts and figures provide a picture of Syracuse University Library collections and use for July 2008 through June 2009
Number of visits to Bird Library......................957,504
Items borrowed............................................162,812
Group presentations...........................................491
Presentation participants..................................9,751
Reference interactions....................................28,783
Volumes held............................................2,975,469
New books added (print & electronic)...............22,863
Current journals (print & electronic)..................24,361
Video and film titles........................................22,127
E-Journal articles viewed.............................1,898,956
Website page views....................................1,235,227
Online catalog searches................................275,248
Database searches.......................................828,709
Materials expenditures..................$6,161,793
Expenditures for books..................$1,288,576
Expenditures for journals...............$4,603,624
Open hours, weekly (Bird)........................136
Laptops for loan........................................45
Public workstations...................................97
Seating Capacity:
Bird.............................1,268
SciTech, branches..........294
Total...........................1,562
The CLASSICAL SCORES LIBRARY from Alexander Street Press is available for a trial period.
Classical Scores Library contains more than 350,000 pages of the most important classical scores and manuscripts, allowing for the study and analysis of more than 15,000 scores.
Trial is available through May 11, 2010 and is available via IP authentication only.
To access the collections, point your browser to:
http://shmu.alexanderstreet.com
For Off-Campus access please point your browser to:
http://libezproxy.syr.edu/login?url=http://shmu.alexanderstreet.com
For more information or feedback, please contact
Carole Vidali, cfvidali@syr.edu
The CHILDREN'S LITERATURE COMPREHENSIVE DATABASE from the CLCD Company, LLC is available for a trial period.
The Childrens Literature Comprehensive Database provides reviews of more than 4,000 titles annually from a review staff of over 125.
Trial is available through March 31, 2010 and it's available via IP athentication only.
To access the database point your browser to: http://www.childrenslit.com
For off-campus access please point your browser to:http://libezproxy.syr.edu/login?url=http://www.childrenslit.com/
For more information or feedback, please contact Natasha Cooper nacoop01@syr.edu
The Architecture Reading Room will have normal hours up until Friday, March 12th closing at 6 p.m. that day. The following Saturday and Sunday (March 13th and 14th) the room will be closed. Monday, March 15th through Friday, March 19th the room will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., then closed again on Saturday March 20th. It will reopen on Sunday, March 21st at 12 p.m., closing at 11 p.m.
Information from two recent "What is a Library?" forums is now available at http://tiny.cc/xp8tb. The page includes notes from both sessions, questions and answers, and a number of related articles.
Moonfixer: The Basketball Journal of Earl Lloyd, a memoir by Earl Lloyd with Sean Kirst and published by the Syracuse University Press, was recently featured on Weekend Edition Sunday, a program on National Public Radio (NPR) News. Lloyd was the first African American to play in a National Basketball Association game. His memoir recalls his "incredible journey" which included six seasons as a member of the Syracuse Nationals basketball team.
In a segment entitled "Black Basketball Player Pioneer Remembers a Barrier Broken" that aired on February 23, host Liane Hansen speaks with Lloyd about his experience breaking racial barriers. She juxtaposes his journey to that of Jackie Robinson, the first African American to play major league baseball. Click here to listen to the full interview online.
Weekend Edition Sunday covers newsmakers, artists, scientists, politicians, musicians, writers, thinkers, theologians and all manner of news events. The program is broadcasted on nearly 600 NPR stations across the United States and around the world on NPR Worldwide.
For more information on Moonfixer visit http://www.syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu.
Librarians Bonnie Ryan and John Olson have compiled a resource guide related to the recent earthquake in Haiti. The guide provides resources on Haiti, the January 12th earthquake and its aftermath, as well as information on how to help and the SU campus response. John compiled the Haiti Maps and Atlases page, which includes links to information from ReliefWeb, World Health Organization, WikiProject - Haiti, the Army Geospatial Center, Google Earth and Geologic Earthquake maps from the US Geological Survey.
Bonnie is working in collaboration with faculty members Paula Johnson, Law; Arthur Paris and Cecilia Green, Sociology; and Linda Carty, African American Studies, to coordinate dissemination of information about the disaster.
The SU resource guide is based on a similar one created by UMass Amherst's W.E.B. DuBois Library, located http://guides.library.umass.edu/haiti.
Syracuse University Library Associates will present "The Death of History: Natural Causes or Murder?," a lecture by historian and video archivist Fred MacDonald, on Thursday, September 23 at 5 p.m. in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, First Floor, Bird Library, 222 Waverly Avenue.
Performing an "autopsy" on the traditional study of history, MacDonald contends that in the digital age primary documents-the raw materials essential to an understanding of the past- are easily, casually, and regularly being relegated to the obscurity of basements around the world through online auctions. Most of these documents will be forever lost to public scholarship. MacDonald will discuss efforts to save the principal evidence of our past from amateur collectors, impulse buyers, and ideological revisionists.
MacDonald is Professor Emeritus of History at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago and founder and president of MacDonald & Associates, whose holdings constitute one of the largest private repositories of films and television programs in the world. Clients of his archive include the BBC, NHK (Japan), and every major U.S. motion picture studio and television network. He is the author of six books and numerous articles on the history of American popular culture, available for free online reading at www.jfredmacdonald.com.
The event is free and open to the public. Free event parking is available at Booth Garage, on the corner of Waverly and Comstock avenues, one block from Bird Library. For more information, visit library.syr.edu/libraryassociates.
Syracuse University Library's spring 2010 exhibition is entitled Covering Photography: Imitation, Influence and Coincidence, by guest curator Karl Baden. Baden, a class of 1974 Syracuse University alumnus, is a Boston-based photographer and member of Boston College's Fine Arts Department. He will present a gallery talk on Tuesday, March 2nd at 5:00 p.m. in the 6th floor gallery.
In 2005, Baden founded the Web-based archive Covering Photography (www.CoveringPhotography.com), based on his own book collection. The exhibition previously appeared at the Boston Public Library in fall 2009. In his introduction to the online version of that exhibition, Baden writes, "Creative individuals from every discipline have regularly appropriated the ideas of others, at least as a foundation to build on. . . .This exhibition compares the cover art of selected books with the photographs from which they are, or may be, derived. The books were chosen not because of their content, but because the images on their jackets reference, in some way, another image . . . a photograph whose significance or popularity has earned it, or its maker, a place in the history of photography."
Among the pairings in the exhibit are the Italian edition of James Baldwin's If Beale Street Could Talk, which uses Walker Evans's "Atlanta, Georgia, 1936" as the source for its cover artwork, and the cover image of The Mammoth Book of Erotica, which calls to mind "Nude, 1919," part of Alfred Stieglitz's collective portrait of his wife, the painter Georgia O'Keeffe.
According to Baden, "The connection between book cover and photograph may be obvious--an instance of imitation or even blatant appropriation. In other cases, it is more a question of the designer or illustrator being subtly, perhaps even unconsciously, influenced by a particular photographer or photograph. Finally, there may be no direct, or even indirect, trail of influence; the idea or visual trope may just be part of our collective cultural consciousness."
The exhibition is free and open to the public and runs from January 19 to April 30, 2010 in the Special Collections Research Center gallery on the sixth floor of Bird Library. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., except holidays. The exhibit is also featured in the exhibit case on the first floor of Bird Library.
Beginning on Sunday, January 24th, Sunday hours for the Science and Technology Library (Carnegie) will be noon to 8:00 p.m. Users needing materials from SciTech prior to noon on Sundays can request to have them paged from the Circulation Desk on the first floor of Bird Library, which opens at 10:00 a.m.
The December 30, 2009 New York Times City Room column by Sewell Chan, entitled "On the Road: A Walking Encyclopedia of the State" featured a profile of the Encyclopedia of New York State and its editor in chief, Peter Eisenstadt. The landmark reference was published by Syracuse University Press in 2005.
The Fall/Winter 2009 issue of SU Magazine includes the first installment of a new series, University Treasures, focusing on the fascinating artifacts held by the Special Collections Research Center.
Inspired by Dean Thorin's Treasures of the University Library roadshows, this issue features the Howard Bond photography collection, donated by Marcy and Carl Armani '60.
The detailed notes taken during the December 9th What is a Library forum are now available:What is a library forum notes.pdf.
The date of a followup session to be held early in the spring semester will be announced soon.
Also available is the Text of petition.pdf submitted to Dean Thorin by Concerned members of the student body.
For more information, please contact Charlotte Hess at 315 443-5528 or hess@syr.edu.
In the spring semester, Syracuse University Library will unveil a dynamic new research and scholarly communication tool for faculty and SU researchers. SURFACE, or Syracuse University Research Facility and Collaborative Environment, is an online database that provides open access to the extensive and diverse array of scholarly output produced at SU. SURFACE will gather, organize, disseminate, and preserve the cultural and scholarly record of the University and is designed to increase the accessibility and visibility of individual author's works, maximize research impact, facilitate interdisciplinary research, and provide access to local, regional, and global communities. Making the richness of SU knowledge available to the world through free and open access is the very essence of fulfilling the mission of education as a public good.
The Library is currently in the process of identifying University colleges, schools, departments, and university centers that have articles, working paper series, conference papers and proceedings, grant reports, technical reports, documents on collaborative projects, exhibitions, concerts, recitals, and other high-quality materials that document SU cultural and scientific scholarship. The library will also provide assistance in the curation of these materials. To participate or for more information, please contact Charlotte Hess, Associate Dean for Research, Collections, & Scholarly Communication, at (315) 443-5528 or hess@syr.edu.
To ease a serious space shortage, the Library was exploring the option of sending less used material to a commercial offsite shelving facility. Based on recent feedback received from faculty and students, the Library has put those plans on hold and is now exploring alternatives to sending materials offsite.
Possibilities under consideration to ease the space crunch include the relocation of some collections within the library, the installation of additional shelving in some areas on the upper floors of Bird Library, and the purchase of additional online journal backsets.
The Library will share new details as they become available.
In recognition of the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth, a display featuring images of Lincoln gathered chiefly from SU Library materials is presently on view on the 4th floor of Bird Library. This display briefly examines some of the more familiar and affecting images of Lincoln created by painters, sculptors, printmakers, and photographers during the past two centuries, including works by Mathew Brady, James Earle Fraser, Gutzon Borglum, and Anna Hyatt Huntington.
Double sided printing will become the default printing in the library beginning on Friday, October 9th, to change to single print please see the computer consultants or reference desks for assistance.
Students enrolled in the Newhouse School's Goldring Arts Journalism program have published their annual magazine, entitled The Mix, which also appears as an insert in the September 4 Syracuse Post-Standard newspaper. Upon arrival at SU this summer, these aspiring professionals received a multi-disciplinary arts journalism research guide, created by a team of SU librarians using web content management software called Libguides. Communications Librarian Michael Pasqualoni coordinated the library orientation and guide creation, which includes significant contributions by Ann Skiold (Arts Librarian), Carole Vidali (Music Librarian), Barbara Opar (Architecture Librarian), Robert Hodge (Audio Engineer) and Will LaMoy (Curator of Rare Books and Printed Materials). Similar SU Library guides have been created for other disciplines and appear on the library's web site under the link entitled Resources by Subject.
An exhibition of works by acclaimed large format photographer Howard Bond will be on display during the fall 2009 semester in the Special Collections Research Center gallery on the 6th floor of Bird Library, in conjunction with the Syracuse Symposium's 2009 theme of "light". Entitled Luminous Construction: the Photography of Howard Bond, the exhibition was curated by Master of Fine Arts student Kelli Pennington '10.
A catalog of the exhibition will be available for purchase on Amazon.com lecture.
Syracuse University Library owns all 22 of Howard Bond's limited-edition portfolios of prints, which were donated to the Library in 2008 by alumnus Carl Armani '60. Bond's photographs have been exhibited in some 60 single-artist and 40 group shows, and examples of his work can be found in 34 permanent collections, including the Bibliotheque Nationale (Paris), the Victoria and Albert Museum (London), the University of Michigan Museum of Art, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Bond is the author of two books, Light Motifs (1984) and White Motif: The Cyclades Islands of Greece (1991), and has contributed more than 100 articles to Photo Techniques magazine.
Syracuse University Librarian Adina Mulliken and Eve Hill of the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University were instrumental in the recent passage of two resolutions by the American Library Association. The resolutions, passed during the association’s annual conference in July, recommend that libraries offer websites that are accessible for users with disabilities and ensure that their technology vendors guarantee accessible products.
Web accessibility initiatives ensure that online resources are available to all people, including, for example, those with visual or learning disabilities who may use screen readers or other assistive software, people who need multimedia to be captioned or described, and people who use an alternative to a mouse input device. Many libraries have not understood their responsibility and authority to require accessible technology from their vendors. As a result, some libraries have purchased or licensed databases, e-books and other resources that cannot be used effectively by people with disabilities, thus inhibiting their research and study.
These resolutions are intended to build awareness among libraries about Web accessibility laws and standards. Others involved in creating the resolutions were Mike Marlin, manager of the California Braille and Talking Book Library; David Vess and Camilla Fulton, both from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and Ken Nakata, director of disability initiatives and government compliance for BayFirst Solutions LLC.
Syracuse University Library will launch its redesigned web site on Tuesday, July 28th. The new website, which has been available in a beta version since mid-spring, has a completely new look and incorporates several new tools for locating and organizing resources.
The new search box on the home page includes Discover (Start tab), a new and improved search tool for the library catalog and other collections. Discover is intuitive and user friendly and enables users to easily refine searches using a variety of facets and tags. A number of other features will be added to Discover over the next several weeks.
Access to databases has also been restructured, powered by MetaLib. Individual databases are listed by name, keyword, and subject, and also grouped by discipline or format into “QuickSets” for federated searching. Other enhancements include MYbrary, a tool for creating personalized collections of library resources, and a new collection of subject and course-related resource guides.
User input has been an important component of site development and user testing on the new site will continue. Developers will be adding content and making other refinements to the site throughout the summer. A link to the previous website will be available for a limited time following the official launch on August 25th.
The Library Web Team is very interested in receiving feedback on the new site and welcomes contributions to the site's Feedback Survey.
The article Have You Seen Me? in the July 1 issue of Architect magazine features Theresa Franzese, longtime Architecture Reading Room student assistant and recent School of Architecture graduate. Tessa's photo also appears as the magazine's cover image. The story compares today's job market for architecture graduates with that of the "lost generation" from the early 1990's.
For many years, the Special Collections Research Center at Syracuse University Library has collected examples of upstate New York printing from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. A selection of items from this collection is now on display in the 6th floor of Bird Library. The exhibition, entitled New York Imprints: Well beyond New York City, is open between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday (excepting holidays) until September 4, 2009.
In the late 18th century, when impenetrable forests covered much of upstate New York, communities formed near the Hudson and Mohawk rivers and, later, the canals. As these communities grew, they established schools, businesses, churches, and other institutions, all of which created a demand for local printing. The relatively simple and portable printing presses then available were transported along those same waterways; and through their products one can trace the cultural and technological development of upstate New York.
Newspapers were typically the first items brought to a new locale. In order to supplement their income from newspapers, however, printers undertook other printing, such as business and legal forms; blank books; and pamphlets of a religious, educational, or even a sensational nature. These were followed by full monographs on a wide range of topics. All of these forms are represented in the exhibit.
The exhibit features some of the earliest newspapers printed in the state; scarce pamphlets about sensational murders; a broadside concerning the development of salt works in Syracuse; textbooks on spelling, geography, elocution, and logic; the first edition of The Book of Mormon; and the second iteration of Frederick Douglass’s memoir, My Bondage and My Freedom. This 1855 book was printed in Auburn, New York, then the fourth largest printing location in the United States. Other upstate cities and towns represented include Catskill, Hudson, Albany, Troy, Lansingburgh, Balston Spa, Caldwell, Salem, Saratoga Springs, Schoharie, Cooperstown, Hartwick, Hamilton, Cazenovia, Manlius, Onondaga, Syracuse, Auburn, Geneva, Plattsburgh, Watertown, Potsdam, Canandaigua, Palmyra, Rochester, and Bath.
Syracuse University Library's Biblio Gallery on the 4th floor of Bird Library is now featuring artwork by Maire Kennedy, a graduate student studying Fiber Arts and Material Studies in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. In her artwork, Maire creates and documents installations of highly exaggerated repetitions. The show will run through June 30, 2009.
For more information, contact Melinda Dermody at 443-5332 or mderm01@syr.edu. To learn more about the Biblio Gallery, visit http://library.syr.edu/information/finearts/bibliogallery.html.
Architecture Reading Room hours for first summer session are as follows:
Monday 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Tuesday 9 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Wednesday 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Thursday 9 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Friday 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Closed Saturday
Sunday hours for June will be posted separately.
Jonathan Singleton, a doctoral student in the English Department in Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences, received the Mary Hatch Marshall Essay Award at the Syracuse University Library Associates annual Spring Luncheon held on May 1. His winning essay is titled “Religion, Radicalism, and Sympathetic Reading in Gaskell's Mary Barton.”
Mary Hatch Marshall joined the faculty of Syracuse University in 1948 and became the first woman at Syracuse to achieve the rank of full professor in the College of Liberal Arts. During her tenure, she was one of the founding members of the Library Associates. She also helped establish the Honors Program, serving as its first director. Professor Marshall retired from full-time teaching in 1970 and was awarded emeritus status. She promptly began a second career in adult education, offering courses through the Humanistic Studies Center at University College until 1993.
To honor and help perpetuate Mary Hatch Marshall's scholarly standards and generous spirit, Library Associates in 2004 established this annual award for the best essay written by a graduate student in the humanities at the University. 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 that funds this annual award.
Full- and part-time students from African American Studies; English; Fine Arts; 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 $500 award. Nominations are coordinated by the respective department and program chairs. Faculty members who reviewed essays submitted for this year's awards were Eileen E. Schell (chair), Kenneth Baynes, and Ernest Wallwork.
Library Associates is a society devoted to the enrichment of the University Library and the greater Syracuse community. Members share an interest in books, learning, and the preservation of knowledge. To learn more, visit http://library.syr.edu/libraryassociates.
Syracuse University Library Associates will present noted political pollster John Zogby G'74 at its annual Spring Luncheon on April 30 at the Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel and Conference Center at Noon. In a presentation entitled "America's First Globals and Their Impact on the 21st Century", Zogby will offer his thoughts on the changing nature of the American Dream.
Zogby will address a rude economic reality: the number of Americans working for less has steadily climbed for decades. Even before the current recession, this was the case for more than a quarter of the population, a statistic that strikes at the heart of the materialism that once defined the American Dream. In probing the national mood, Zogby discovered that a life measured by material positions has lost its allure to a group he calls "The First Global Generation." He will explore the implications of this for marketing, politics, and American culture. The talk is based on Zogby's recent book, The Way We'll Be, which will be available for purchase at the luncheon. The author will sign copies at the conclusion of his presentation.
Zogby made his hometown, Utica, the headquarters for Zogby International, a worldwide leader in market research and public opinion polling. A senior advisor to Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, he serves as a trustee of his alma mater, Le Moyne College, and holds a master's degree in history from SU.
The luncheon begins at noon, with Zogby's talk to follow. The event also includes the awarding of the annual Mary Hatch Marshall Essay Award for the best essay by a graduate student in the College of Arts and Sciences. The luncheon costs $25 for Library Associates members and $30 for non-members.
For more information, contact Kathleen White at 443-8782 or kswhite@syr.edu. To learn more about the Library Associates visit library.syr.edu/libraryassociates.
To better meet the ongoing research needs of Ph.D. students, the Library will now deliver items from its collections directly to currently enrolled Ph.D. students who reside outside of the Central New York area, but within the continental United States. Previously, this delivery service was available only to those enrolled in one of SU’s formal distance education (ISDP) programs.
In addition to books, the Library will also provide scanned copies of articles from print journals in its collections. For detailed instructions and request forms, see http://library.syr.edu/information/isdp.htm.
For more information, contact Access Services Librarian Robert Capuano at (315) 443-6180 or rgcapuan@syr.edu.
In response to requests for additional quiet study space in Bird Library, the Library has opened a quiet reading room on the lower level of the Learning Commons. The new room is for SU students, faculty and staff only and is open 24 hours, Sunday through Friday, along with the rest of the Learning Commons (floors 1, 2, and the lower level). The room is outfitted with individual study tables and carrels and is equipped with a printer, network ports for student laptops, power plugs, and Air Orange access.
We welcome additional comments and suggestions about library spaces and services via the Suggestion Box.
Librarian Gurnek Singh, who retired on July 31, 2008, was recently awarded emeritus status by the University Senate in recognition of many years of outstanding service to the Syracuse University Library and to the Syracuse University academic community.
Before coming to the Syracuse University Library, Mr. Singh earned a B.S. degree (1955), a degree in Library Science (1958), and a B.A. in English and Bengali literature (1965) from Calcutta University. He received an M.L.S. from Syracuse University in 1975. Mr. Singh joined the Library in 1971 as Asian Studies Bibliographer and subsequently served as head of the Area Studies Department (1973-1989) and Asian Studies Librarian (1989-2008).
Mr. Singh began his career at SU as Asian Studies bibliographer, working closely with Maxwell’s South Asia Program. His initial tasks related to managing SU’s participation in the PL-480 Program , a federal government program that supplied books in 18 languages published in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Nepal. His next few years were spent in establishing a productive relationship with the South Asia Program’s faculty and students, discerning their teaching and research needs and providing a range of library services, including library instruction, research consultation, and guest lectures. He worked especially closely with faculty teaching history of India and Hindu courses and also taught a Punjabi language class for the South Asia Center. As a result of Mr. Singh’s efforts, Syracuse University’s South Asia Center, jointly with Cornell, has been recognized as one of the National Centers by the US Department of Education, on the basis of its academic program and library collections.
As Asian Studies librarian, Mr. Singh has had an active professional life, contributing articles to professional journals and giving presentations at a number of Asia-related conferences. Of particular note, he contributed the chapter on the National Library of India to the International Dictionary of Library Histories, edited by former University Librarian David Stam and published in 2001 by Fitzroy Dearborn. Mr. Singh is a life member of the Indian Library Association and a member of the Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centers (IASLIC), the Association of Asian Studies, the Committee on South Asia Libraries and Documentation (CONSALD), and the South Asia Microform Project (SAMP).
Mr. Singh’s has an extensive record of service to the library. He served on numerous committees, including promotion committees, search committees, and various other committees and task forces related to the improvement of the library. In related community service, Mr. Singh was President/Founder of the Sikh Foundation of Syracuse and a founding member of the India Community, Religious and Cultural Association (ICRCC). He has also served as an official translator of Bengali, Hindi, and Punjabi languages for the Syracuse Federal Court System since 1998.
The Library has added 22 new computers, including 4 Macs, to the center area of the 1st floor Learning Commons, bringing that floor’s total to 50 machines.
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded the Syracuse University Library a $350,000 grant to create a digital scholarly edition of the works of Bauhaus architect Marcel Breuer. The project, entitled “Marcel Breuer, Architect: Life and Work, 1922-1955” will run from May 2009 through April 2011 and culminate in the release of the web-based edition in May 2011.
Breuer began donating his papers to Syracuse University Library more than forty years ago, in 1964. Today, the Syracuse Breuer collection includes thousands of original oversized drawings and blueprints, correspondence, and photographs. Upon Breuer’s death in 1981, his widow donated many of his remaining papers to the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art. This NEH-funded project will unite these geographically separate collections in an online edition of 50,000 items. It will also incorporate Breuer materials from other international archival repositories.
Based in the Library’s Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) and led by its director, Sean Quimby, the project is a partnership with the SU School of Architecture. SOA students and faculty will assist with usability testing as the web project develops. SOA faculty member Jonathan Massey and Barry Bergdoll, Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art will serve on an advisory board.
“The Breuer project will not only enable a new generation of Breuer scholarship, it will open a whole new set of questions about the profile and issues of American modernism from the 1930s through the late 1970s,” Bergdoll said in a letter supporting the proposal.
Marcel Breuer was born in Pécs, Hungary, in 1902. At the age of 21, he went to work in the office of Walter Gropius, founder of the modernist Bauhaus school of design. At the Bauhaus school, Breuer taught furniture design, and in 1925 earned critical acclaim for his “Wassily” chair, which combined the radical simplicity of form with tubular steel and fabric. He and Gropius emigrated to the United States in the late 1930s, where they taught at Harvard University and maintained a joint architectural firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1941, Breuer established a singular reputation for his “bi-nuclear” house, which organized physical space around new modes of day-to-day life. The “bi-nuclear” house, along with his demonstration house in the garden of New York’s Museum of Modern Art (1949), helped to inspire America’s fascination with housing in the post-war era.
By the mid 1950s, Breuer had designed some 60 private residences and had begun to undertake large-scale, institutional projects, like the UNESCO headquarters in Paris (1953), the Whitney Museum of Art in New York (1966), buildings on the campuses of New York University and St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota, and the Cleveland Museum of Art (1970). The collections at Syracuse, the Smithsonian, and elsewhere document not only those buildings which were completed, but also projects that never came to fruition. Together, they document the career of a man that Time magazine in 1956 called one of the “form-givers of the twentieth century.”
For more information on the project, contact Sean Quimby at 315 443-9759 or smquimby@syr.edu.
To make room for more quiet study space on the second floor, the newspaper collection is being relocated this week to the first floor, adjacent to Pages (the library cafe) on the east side of the building.
Citrus TV produced a video of the recent Library Lock-In event. For a glimpse into the after-hours competition on a recent snowy night, scroll to February 24th on the Latest Videos section on the right side of the Citrus TV homepage. Also available on the February 24th edition of Juice and Java -- segment begins at 14:30 on the scrollbar.
The Library "Green" Team announces the launch of a new Library Green Guide website. The site includes information about both Library and SU's Green UniverseCity sustainability initiatives, as well as links to information about similar programs across the country. The site also has a suggestion box where users can also post their green ideas.
The Library Green Team was established to research green initiatives and recommend actions that will contribute to positive environmental change within the Library and on campus. Committee members are Tasha Cooper (chair), Paul Bern, Michele Combs, Tom House, Tom Keays, and Eli Liquori. For more information, contact Tasha Cooper at nacoop01@syr.edu.
Syracuse University Library, in partnership with Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts and the Syracuse City School District, is now presenting “An Alphabet in Your Own Backyard”, an exhibition of handmade accordion books.
The exhibition is currently located in the new display case on the first floor of Bird Library until the end of the February. It will then move to the sixth floor exhibition space where it will remain until the end of spring semester. The exhibit is free and open to the public.
The exhibit showcases books created by students from Henninger High School and Syracuse University. In the fall semester, VPA professor Gail Hoffman's freshman ‘Foundation 2-D Creative Processes' class worked with Henninger High School art teacher Lori Schneider's class of advanced design students. SU students were paired up with Henninger students and the teams used cameras to capture natural images resembling letters, such as a ladder resembling an “A”, to create the alphabet in images. Students used the images to create an accordion book.
“An Alphabet in Your Own Backyard” exhibition is the first stage of a two-year collaborative community project. Funded by SU's Enitiative with funds from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the project will connect Syracuse University with the broader Syracuse community, educate both Syracuse University and Syracuse City School District students about the book arts, and teach Syracuse University students entrepreneurial skills related to creating, marketing, and managing a new product. From this exhibition of handmade books, a jury of design faculty will select twenty six letters to create a final alphabet accordion book that will be professionally printed.
For more information on this exhibit, please contact Peter Verheyen, pdverhey@syr.edu or 443-9756
The Syracuse University Library has purchased Elsevier’s Materials Science backfile, consisting of online content for 108 Elsevier journal titles for years prior to 1995 (years of coverage varies by journal). The library has offered many of these journals from 1995 onward via Science Direct and has others in print. With earlier years of these important journals now accessible through Science Direct, faculty and students have much more convenient access to the articles they need. For example, the journal Polymer is now available online beginning with 1960 issues.
A complete list of titles and years covered is available at http://info.sciencedirect.com/techsupport/journals/bfmatsci.htm.
Materials science is especially important to the Syracuse University Library because it is an excellent example of the innovative and interdisciplinary research taking place on campus. Chemistry, Biomedical and Chemical Engineering, the Biomaterials Institute, Physics, Electrical and Computer Engineering, the GeoFoam Research Center, and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering are among the departments and research organizations that benefit from these titles.
In addition, the Library also recently licensed additional journals from Sage Publishers. A number of their materials science titles were part of that arrangement, with access back to 1999.
Both the Elsevier and Sage materials science titles are available via the E-journal locator.
Large backfile purchases, such as the Materials Science package, represent an excellent investment for the Syracuse University Library since they are a one-time purchase, rather than an ongoing commitment. In effect, the Library now owns this content rather than leasing it.
By pursuing innovative strategies like this to acquire online content at substantial savings, the SU Library not only stretches its dollars, but reaffirms its commitment to simultaneously providing the maximum amount of scholarly material and the highest quality journals to SU students, faculty and researchers.
For more information or assistance with the Materials Science backfile titles, contact Scott Warren at 443-8339 or sawarr01@syr.edu.
Syracuse University Library’s Belfer Audio Archive now offers Web access to its collection of cylinder sound recordings. Cylinders were the earliest form of commercially produced sound recordings, popular from the late 1880s through the 1920s. Belfer’s collection of 22,000 cylinders represents 12,000 unique titles and is the largest of any private institution in North America. The collection includes a wide range of performances, including orchestral, vocal, folk and dance music, as well as spoken word such as speeches, poetry and dramatic readings.
The Belfer Cylinders Digital Connection now contains about 300 items and will eventually include 6,000 cylinder recordings that have not been available on the Internet before. Recordings can be browsed by subject and genre. Search options include title, performer, composer, time period, label and others.
Recordings are provided in both MP3 and WAV formats. The WAV files are larger in size and represent the sound of the original recording as it was played. The MP3s are smaller and have had extraneous sounds removed.
The Belfer Cylinders Digital Connection project was partially funded by a grant from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. The library welcomes additional financial contributions to support the cylinder digitization project, as well as donations of cylinders.
Currently the fourth-largest sound archive in the country, the Belfer Archive holds more than 340,000 items in a climate-controlled facility on campus. With funding provided by Diane and Arthur B. Belfer and the Jon Ben Snow Memorial Trust, the Belfer Audio Laboratory and Archive was the first building in the world designed and constructed specifically for the preservation of recorded sound collections.
For more information on the Belfer Cylinders Digital Connection, contact Melinda Dermody at mdermo01@syr.edu.
The Syracuse University Library and University Archives have created a new digital collection of Carnegie Library images.
This fully searchable digital collection of Carnegie Library photographs includes over 200 images of the Syracuse University Carnegie Library from the 1905 ground breaking to the 2007 centennial. The collection includes images of the main Reading Room, interior rooms and spaces, the exterior façade, architectural detail, construction photos, as well as students and librarians. Photographs were selected from the Syracuse University Archives’ collection of campus building photographs and digitized by the Library’s Digital Imaging Services Center.
The Carnegie Library History web page features information on philanthropist Andrew Carnegie’s $150,000 donation to Syracuse University for the construction of the new library, which opened in September 1907. The page includes a history of the Library, timeline, historical news articles, and a link to leave a remembrance.
For more information on the project, please contact Mary DeCarlo at mmdecarl@syr.edu.
A new exhibition, “A Goodly Heritage of Study: The Portfolio Club of Syracuse,” is now on display in Syracuse University Library’s Special Collections Research Center. Displayed are the archives of a still-thriving women’s study club that was formed in 1875 in Syracuse.
The Portfolio Club exemplifies a post-Civil War movement in which many thousands of middle-class women came together to educate themselves in a society that restricted women’s access to institutions of higher learning. This club began a few weeks after the Association for the Advancement of Women held a congress at the Wieting Opera House in downtown Syracuse. At these congresses, which took place in many American cities, Julia Ward Howe and other presenters encouraged women to form study clubs for self-culture.
Nine young women founded the Portfolio Club, with guidance from Mary Dana Hicks, their art teacher. Though they began with a focus on art, in the middle 1880s they expanded their scope to include literature, current events, history, performing arts and many other subjects. Members have met regularly from October through April since the club’s inception to read their papers on a topic assigned by each year’s president.
Syracuse residents and those long associated with SU will recognize the married names of many past club members, such as Mrs. Donald Dey, Mrs. William Nottingham, Mrs. E.N. Westcott and Mrs. Mildred Eggers. Among Portfolio guest speakers during the club’s first several decades were Judge Charles Andrews, Dean George Fiske Comfort, Howard Lyman, professors Sawyer Falk and Irene Sargent, Paul Paine, Douglas Petit, Katherine Sibley and SU Chancellor Charles Sims.
The exhibition, which emphasizes the years 1875–1950, includes annual program booklets, many of them finely crafted. Also on display are meeting minutes, clippings, photographs, film footage of a 1935 gathering and other club documents. The exhibition will be available until May 8 on the sixth floor of E.S. Bird Library. The sixth-floor gallery is open from 9 a.m.–5 p.m., Monday–through Friday, except holidays.
The Library will offer a number of RefWorks training sessions during the spring semester. RefWorks is an online citation management tool available to all SU students and faculty. Attend a session and learn how RefWorks can simplify and enhance the process of organizing research materials.
Hands-on sessions will include demonstrations of how to import and save citations, generate bibliographies, insert in-text references, and more. Sessions will be held in Room 046 on the lower level of E.S. Bird Library. No registration is required - drop-ins are welcome!
Sessions will be held on:
Friday, January 30 from 12:45 p.m. to 1:40 p.m.
Thursday, February 5 from 11:00 a.m. to 12:20 p.m.
Wednesday, February 11 from 2:15 p.m. to 3:10 p.m.
Monday, February 1 from 10:35 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Tuesday, February 24 from 2:00 p.m. to 3:20 p.m.
Tuesday, March 3 from 11:00 a.m. to 12:20 p.m.
Wednesday, March 4 from 2:15 p.m. to 3:10 p.m.
Tuesday, March 17 from 12:30 p.m. to 1:50 p.m.
Friday, April 3 from 2:15 p.m. to 3:10 p.m.
For more details about RefWorks and a copy of the class schedule, please visit the library’s RefWorks webpage.
The Library has released a beta version of a new Library website for trial and comment. The new site is available from on-campus locations at this time and will be available from off-campus in the near future. Visitors can make comments and suggestions via a survey form prominently located on the new site.
The graphical and navigational design of the site was based on Syracuse University’s new Website Design Style Guide. The design was also guided in large measure by input from users gathered during a series of feedback sessions held in the library and elsewhere on campus during the fall.
One of the most notable features in the beta website is a new integrated search tool. Based on user needs for better guidance in navigating the website, the new search was created to direct users to all types of information, regardless of its source or location. The federated search includes a broad range of "silos" of information (the catalog, e-journals, databases, SU Library website, SU digital collections, Google, etc.) and also leads to more advanced research tools.
Other features of the new site include: new top level and 2nd-level page navigation; an interactive Library map; real time Library hours; staff directory; tagging; session recording; bread crumbs; new photo and image content; and a tool showing availability of public workstation.
Some new features and content are under development and will be added to the beta site over the course of the spring semester. In addition to more content, other functionality that will be added includes: new subject pages using LibGuides program; Mybrary, which allows users to create a personalized Library webpage with their favorite resources, saved searches, feeds, etc (similar to iGoogle and MyYahoo); blogs and wikis, video content, and a room reservations tool.
During 2008, Syracuse University Library acquired several data sets of potential interest to SU researchers who are researching the current financial situation. Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data, 2000-2007, which comprises every mortgage application made in the United States, and Government Sponsored Enterprises data, which includes all mortgages purchased by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, 1993-2006, are now available via the web. The data for New York are available for online statistical analysis and data for the entire country are available for extract and downloading at: http://library.syr.edu/information/mgi/nds/resources/. Updated data will be added as it becomes available.
Please direct questions and requests for assistance to Paul Bern, phbern@syr.edu, 443-1352.
The staff, services, and collections of the Library’s Media Services Department will be relocated to other areas of the library during the semester break. They will be available in their new locations on Monday, December 22, 2008. At that time, the Media Services area on the lower level of Bird Library will no longer be open to the public. The DVD/ film collection will be unavailable Thursday, December 18 and Friday, December 19 while collections, equipment, and staff are in transit.
The following is a summary of the new media locations and service points:
• Multimedia hardware and software -- Learning Commons, 1st floor
• Macintosh computers – Learning Commons
• Color printing – Learning Commons and GSIC Lab (3rd floor)
• Heavily-used microfilm titles, readers, printers, scanners -- 3rd floor
• DVD/film collections, equipment and user support -- 4th floor
• Audio/video digitizing station and consulting -- 4th floor service desk
• Color copier – 4th floor
• Self-service scanners – 1st, 3rd and 4th floors
• Media microfiche collections and remaining microfilm titles -- by request from 1st, 3rd, and 4th floor service desks
For more detailed information, please contact Melinda Dermody at 443-5332 or mderm01@syr.edu.
Syracuse University Library and the National Plastics Center in Leominster, Massachusetts have signed a memorandum of understanding transferring the Center’s collection to the SU Library. This action creates the “National Plastics Center at Syracuse University.”
Founded in 1982, the National Plastics Center and Museum has amassed one of the nation’s largest private collections of artifacts, books, and papers related to the history and use of plastics. The Center moved the collection to Syracuse University to increase its use. “We’re delighted to partner with Syracuse University Library to make our rich collections more accessible to students and scholars,” said G. Watts Humphrey, Jr., chairman of the National Plastics Center’s board of directors.
Syracuse University Dean of Libraries Suzanne Thorin commented, “When coupled with SU’s interdisciplinary curriculum, these resources will bring history to life by demonstrating how integral plastics are to modernity.”
As a result of this new partnership, SU Library will make available to faculty, students and researchers:
- Nearly 3,000 books, journals, magazines, newspapers, and industry publications
- Papers, business records, and manuscripts from plastics companies, plastics-industry entrepreneurs, and members of the Plastics Hall of Fame, including the records of Union Products, maker of the iconic pink flamingo lawn ornament
- Thousands of artifacts, including molds and machinery, fine art, toys, car parts, medical devices, housewares, and jewelry.
The artifacts in the collection include objects made of natural plastics such as horn, ivory, and tortoiseshell, semi-synthetic plastics including celluloid, and fully synthetic objects including those made of the first synthetic plastic, Bakelite®.
The collection has potential connections to the university’s curriculum in a number of areas, including chemistry, chemical engineering, industrial design, history, environmental science, and entrepreneurship. For example, a women’s studies class might consider the role of the Tupperware party in shaping postwar, American gender relations.
Scheduled to arrive in Syracuse in December 2008, the collection will be available for teaching and research in early 2009 through the Library’s Special Collections Research Center. Syracuse University welcomes additional contributions of rare or historically significant books, periodicals, and artifacts, as well as financial support to curate and promote this collection.
For more information, contact Sean Quimby, Director of the Library’s Special Collections Research Center, at (315) 443–9769 or smquimby@syr.edu.
In partnership with ITS, the Library now provides information about the availability of public workstations on the Web. The URL to the system is http://surelock.syr.edu/LIB/. On the left of the page is a listing of the locations of library public workstations. Select a location to see which workstations are available in that area. To ensure up-to-date information, be sure to press the F5 key occasionally to refresh the display. A legend is provided.
Effective January 1, 2009, the Syracuse University Library has added nearly 350 online journals to its already extensive holdings. The journals, which span numerous disciplines, are all published by Sage Publications, a respected publisher of academic titles. The library was already purchasing about 150 Sage journals and, with this addition, now makes available all of Sage’s titles. Access to the entire collection from 1999–present is provided through one easily searchable platform.
Especially important to Syracuse University librarians and researchers is the interdisciplinary nature of many of Sage’s titles. With the addition of these titles, the library has increased its support for emerging areas of excellence at SU, including materials science, health sciences, environmental sciences, air quality, hospitality and sports management, engineering and sustainability. A sampling of new titles includes: Journal of Bioactive and Compatible Polymers, Journal of Thermoplastic Composite Materials, Statistical Methods in Medical Research, Lighting Research & Technology, Environment and Urbanization, Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, Autism, Chronic Illness, Modern China, Simulation and Gaming, Journal of Consumer Culture, Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research, and the Journal of Sports Economics.
The campus community is welcome to explore all of the new titles by discipline (http://www.sagepub.com/journals.nav, left side of page) or by title (http://www.sagepub.com/journalsIndex.nav).
Normally, adding 350 journal titles at one time at full market cost would be fiscally challenging, if not impossible, for most research libraries. However, this large increase was made possible by the library’s participation in the Westchester Academic Library Directors Organization (WALDO). WALDO is a nonprofit library consortium that procures online content for its members at reasonable costs by leveraging their collective negotiating power. Currently, WALDO includes 450 academic libraries, 325 public libraries and 155 hospital libraries in New England and the Mid-Atlantic states.
As an example of the impact of group purchasing, annual subscriptions to the 19 materials science journals included in this package would have cost the SU Library about $33,000 per year. However, SU’s consortial price to add all 350 titles (in addition to the base cost for the current 150 titles) is about half that amount annually.
By pursuing innovative strategies like this to purchase or lease online content at substantial savings, the SU Library not only stretches its dollars, but reaffirms its commitment to simultaneously providing the maximum amount of scholarly material and the highest quality journals to SU students, faculty and researchers.
For more information or assistance with Sage e-journals, contact Scott Warren at 443-8339 or sawarr01@syr.edu.
Syracuse University Library recently received the personal book collection of Khalil I. Semaan, professor emeritus of Arabic at Binghamton University. Semaan’s gift consists of about 3,000 items and constitutes his personal research library collected over a period of more than 40 years. The extensive collection provides a strong core of research support for SU’s developing Middle Eastern Studies Program.
The collection reflects Semaan’s particular interest in the study of the Middle East, Arabic and Islamic culture and history. Additional subject coverage includes the Crusades, medieval history (Middle East and Europe), linguistics, politics, economics, modern history and development. Consisting primarily of 20th-century items, the gift includes many seminal works in Arabic, English, French and German; significant runs of several periodical titles; and a number of items in Spanish, Persian and Hebrew. A particular strength of the collection is the number of works by modern and contemporary Arab literary writers.
“Professor Semaan’s gift represents the largest donation of books related to the Middle East in the University’s history and will help us improve our collection in the vernacular languages of this important region,” says Mehrzad Boroujerdi, founding director of the Middle Eastern Studies Program at SU.
“Professor Semaan was particularly gratified for his collection to go to Syracuse University Library, in the knowledge that it would make a real contribution to the development of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies there,” says Ali Houissa, Middle East and Islamic studies librarian at Cornell University, who, along with Gurnek Singh, Asian studies librarian at SU Library (now retired), met with Semaan and conducted an on-site evaluation of the collection.
For more information on this collection, contact Martha Hanson, social sciences and area studies bibliographer, at 443-1947 or mjhanson@syr.edu.
In a partnership with the Bird Library Learning Commons, the Tutoring and Study Center is now offering students the opportunity to sign up for tutoring services right in the library. The TSC provides academic tutors for Syracuse University students seeking to do better in their courses. To sign up for these services, students are invited to visit the Tutoring and Study Center desk located on the first floor of Bird Library (near the stand-up workstations) on Mondays and Tuesdays from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., and on Wednesdays from 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.
For more information, please contact the Tutoring and Study Center Office at 443-2005 or tutorctr@syr.edu. The Center is located on 111 Waverly Avenue, Suite 220 and is open daily from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
The Library has activated access to the web version of SciFinder. Unlike the desktop program, SciFinder Web can be used from off-campus via the EZproxy authentication server
SciFinder Web Edition offers many of the features of the desktop version of SciFinder Scholar. In addition, in this new browser-based version, you are able to save answer sets against your account on the server; navigate to stages of your search using breadcrumbs; generate and view keep me posted results about updated searches; analyze answer set automatically; analyze substances by substance role, elements, reaction availability, or commercial availability; limit substance refine by the absence of commercially available substances; and more.
Before using SciFinder Web Edition for the first time, you need to register for an account.
There will be a representative from Chemical Abstracts at our Information Fair on Tuesday, October 7 (see http://libweb.syr.edu/librarynews/archives/001066.html ) demonstrating the web product and helping people register.
The Library has currently switched over 1 of the 6 simultaneous access seats that we have available as part of our SciFinder subscription to the web version - i.e., 1 person at a time can use the web version and the remaining 5 seats are allotted to users of the desktop program. We'll be monitoring the usage statistics to see how many people are using the web version vs. the desktop version and will make changes as necessary.
Contact Tom Keays if you have any problems or concerns.
URL: http://library.syr.edu/research/database/scifinder/
Contact: Tom Keays htkeays@syr.edu
Trial access has been established for Material Connexion. Trial is available through October 20th, 2008 and it's available via IP authentication only.
To access the database, point your browser to: Material Connexion
For Off-Campus access please point your browser to: Material Connexion
Material Connexion provides a quick global view of the latest innovative and often cutting edge materials. Designed to serve the design disciplines broadly. Material Connexion offers easy keyword searching options. Users can locate detailed information about specific products and manufacturers. Material Connexion highlights products that defy conventional notions of strength, weight, and density. Sustainable products are emphasized.
For more information or comments, please contact Barbara Opar
Syracuse University Library's Special Collections Research Center (SCRC), in conjunction with this year's Syracuse Symposium and its theme of "migration," will present a fall exhibition titled "Dawn of a New Age: The Immigrant Contribution to the Arts in America."
The exhibition, which is free and open to the public, runs Sept. 8-Jan. 20 in the SCRC gallery on the sixth floor of E.S. Bird Library. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday from 9 a.m.-5 p.m., except holidays. For more information, call (315) 443-2697.
"Dawn of a New Age" tells the story of five artists who immigrated to the United States during the first half of the 20th century: Adolph Bolm, a Russian dancer and choreographer who performed with the Mariinsky Ballet and Ballets Russes; William Lescaze, a Swiss architect who was one of the pioneers of modernism; Louis Lozowick, a Russian printmaker known for his Art Deco and Precision lithographs; Miklós Rózsa, a Hungarian composer of more than 100 film scores, including "Ben Hur"; and John Vassos, a Greek illustrator and industrial designer. The exhibition draws from the rich holdings of SCRC and showcases more than 50 of the artists' personal papers, manuscripts, photos and artifacts.
"In keeping with the theme of 'migration,' the exhibition traces each person's humble beginnings and the process by which he immigrated to the United States and later shaped modern culture," says co-curator Nicolette A. Dobrowolski. "These artists, individually and collectively, created a dynamic new vision for America."
With more than 100,000 printed works and 2,000 manuscript and archival collections, SCRC is home to some of SU's most valued treasures, including early printed editions of Gutenberg, Galileo and Sir Isaac Newton, as well as the library of 19th-century German historian Leopold Von Ranke. Twentieth-century holdings are particularly strong and include the personal papers and manuscripts of such luminaries as artist Grace Hartigan, inspirational preacher Norman Vincent Peale, author Joyce Carol Oates, photojournalist Margaret Bourke White and industrial designer Walter Dorwin Teague, as well as the records of organizations including avant-garde publisher Grove Press. SCRC regularly hosts exhibitions, lectures and classes, and offers fellowships and internships in library instruction and conservation. More information is available at http://scrc.syr.edu.
Syracuse Symposium is a semester-long intellectual and artistic festival about interdisciplinary thinking, imagining and creating, presented by The College of Arts and Sciences for the Syracuse community. More information on lectures, performances, exhibits and other special events is available at http://syracusesymposium.org.
Watch the live broadcasts of the Presidential and Vice Presidential debates in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, Room 114, E.S. Bird Library. The debate schedule is:
Friday, September 26th, 9 -10:30 p.m. (Obama/McCain #1)
Thursday, October 2nd, 9 -10:30 p.m. (Biden/Palin)
Tuesday October 7th, 9 -10:30 p.m. (Obama/McCain #2)
Wednesday, October 15th, 9 -10:30 p.m. (Obama/McCain #3)
A team of SU students is promoting the use of the GoodSearch.com search engine as a way to support the John Dau Sudan Foundation. Goodsearch is a Yahoo-powered search engine that donates a penny to the charity of your choice for every search you make. A corollary service, GoodShop.com, also donates a percentage of purchases made through the website to charity. By concentrating its efforts on the John Dau Sudan Foundation, the team hopes to raise awareness and funding for the charity. Goodsearch also allows users to track the amount of money raised. John Dau, one of the Lost Boys of the Sudan, is an SU student who started the foundation to build and sustain healthcare clinics in South Sudan.
The Library will offer a number of RefWorks training sessions in September and October.
RefWorks is an online citation management tool available to all SU students and faculty. Students and faculty are encouraged to attend a session and learn how RefWorks can simplify and enhance the process of organizing research materials.
These are hands-on sessions and will include demonstrations of how to import and save citations, generate bibliographies, insert in-text references, and more. Sessions will be held in Room 046 on the lower level of E.S. Bird Library. No registration is required - drop-ins are welcome!
Sessions will be held on:
Tuesday, September 16, 11:00 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.
Monday, September 22, 12:45 p.m. - 2:05 p.m.
Thursday, October 2, 12:30 p.m. - 1:50 p.m.
Wednesday. October 8, 12:45 p.m. - 2:05 p.m.
Tuesday, October 14, 11:00 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.
Tuesday, October 21, 2:00 p.m. - 3:20 p.m.
Monday, October 27, 2:15 p.m. – 3:25 p.m.
For more details about RefWorks and a copy of the class schedule, please visit the library’s RefWorks webpage: http://library.syr.edu/cite/refworks.html
Charlotte Hess has been appointed associate university librarian for collections and scholarly communication at Syracuse University Library. She is responsible for guiding new initiatives to evaluate, strengthen and promote the collections of the SU libraries. She will also provide leadership in developing goals, and determining policies and directions to meet the challenges of the changing modes of scholarly communication.
Hess was director of library and information services at the Research Library of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University since 1989. She is founder of the Digital Library of the Commons at Indiana University and served as the director from 2000-08. She previously served in several librarian positions at Indiana University.
Hess has an extensive publication record and has been a presenter or planner for numerous national and international professional conferences. She co-edited “Understanding Knowledge as a Commons: From Theory to Practice” (MIT, 2007). She has also been a key contributor to website development and has been a consultant in the research areas of the commons and knowledge management for several African universities. She has been the information officer and served on the executive council of the International Association for the Study of the Commons since 1997.
Hess received a bachelor’s degree with honors in Germanic languages and a master’s degree in library science from Indiana University. She has also done graduate work in comparative literature.
She can be reached at 443-5528 or hess@syr.edu.
K. Matthew Dames (G ’01) has been appointed Copyright & Information Policy Adviser at Syracuse University Library, effective August 2008. In this newly created position, Dames provides strategy, advice, guidance, and education to the Library on copyright and information policy issues so the Library can effectively deliver information, scholarship, and related services to the University and its constituents. Mr. Dames also will work upon request with members of the University community, including faculty, who are seeking guidance on copyright or policy issues that affect scholarship and research.
Reporting to the University Librarian and Dean of the Library, Mr. Dames serves as the Library’s primary resource for copyright, fair use, and information policy, Mr. Dames also will develop a variety of educational initiatives to inform the Library and broader University community about best practices for using copyrighted information in teaching and research. He will manage the Library’s copyright website and its copyright permissions initiatives, and will continue serving as a member of the University Committee on Copyright, established by the Provost in 2007.
Mr. Dames is an alumnus of the School of Information Studies, where he was awarded the Lemke Book Award in 2001, and currently is enrolled in the School’s doctoral program, where he is researching rhetoric and framing in information policy. Dames has also served in academic positions at the Syracuse University New Technology Law Center at the College of Law, and the iSchool’s Center for Research on Collaboratories and Technology Enhanced Learning Communities and Wireless Grids Laboratory.
Mr. Dames has written extensively on copyright and information policy matters, both as the Executive Editor of Copycense and for several publications. His awards and honors include being named a University Fellow; serving as a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics, and the Media; receiving an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Future Professoriate fellowship; and completing a post-graduate fellowship at the Georgetown University Law Center. He received the 21st Century New Librarian award from the iSchool in 2003 and is a member of the Beta Phi Mu honor society.
In addition to his iSchool graduate degree, Mr. Dames has earned a bachelor’s degree in business from Bernard M. Baruch College, and a law degree from Northeastern University School of Law.
He can be reached at 443-8508 or kmdames@syr.edu.
Scott Warren has been appointed bibliographer for science and technology at Syracuse University Library. He is responsible for evaluating, strengthening and promoting the science and technology collections of the Syracuse University Library in alignment with the teaching and research needs of the University.
Warren was associate director of the Burlington Textiles Library and Engineering Services at North Carolina State University. He served in several librarian positions while at NCSU, including librarian for the physical and mathematical sciences. Warren began his career as an NCSU Libraries Fellow, working with the Textiles Library and the Reserves Department of the NCSU libraries. He was a frequent guest lecturer in classes in the textiles, engineering, and humanities and social sciences colleges at NCSU.
Warren has published in The Journal of Interlibrary Loan; Document Delivery & Information Supply; Technical Services Quarterly; and Libri, among other journals, and has presented at numerous national conferences. He has an extensive record of library service while working at NCSU, serving on and leading numerous committees, including the North Carolina State University Librarians Association. He is also a member of the American Society for Engineering Education’s Scholarly Communication Committee (Engineering Libraries Division).
Warren received bachelor’s degrees in astronomy, mathematics and physics, as well as a bachelor’s degree in history from the Pennsylvania State University. He also received a master’s degree in library and information studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was nominated for membership in the Beta Phi Mu library honor society.
Simmons Choices III (Experian Consumer Research) is a CD containing extensive survey data for a large sampling of American consumers and households. Available at leading business libraries across the U.S., Choices III allows cross tabulation of hundreds of consumer product categories, with usage data for over 8,000 brands, inclusive of consumer media habits, diverse demographic categories, and psychographic (attitudinal and lifestyle) profiles. Data is from the most recent CD release (Spring 2006) and includes Simmons’:
· Integrated National Consumer Study/Hispanic Consumer Study
· National Consumer Study - Teens (ages 12-17)
· National Consumer Study - Kids (ages 6-11)
Although only located at one offline location, the CHOICES III CD provides invaluable information to researchers and students investigating consumer product and media preferences. This highly sought after competitive business data is not otherwise readily obtainable by most academic communities. Interested researchers will find CHOICES III available at E.S. Bird Library’s 3rd Floor, Geographic & Statistical Information Center - Workstation A. The document, A Guide to Choices 3 Software, is also available at the Center.
Science Reference Center from EBSCO is a comprehensive research database that provides access to a wide range of full text science-oriented content. It contains more than 630 full text titles, including leading science encyclopedias, reference books, and periodicals, as well biographies and images. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife. Science Reference Center is especially strong in meeting general or introductory science research needs. In addition, over 70 science-oriented educational benchmarks are aligned with relevant articles to help ensure that curriculum and/or science-specific educational standards are being met.
For more information or to arrange for a demonstration, please contact Janet Pease at 443-9768 or jlpease@syr.edu.
Syracuse University Library now subscribes to China Data Online, the product of a collaboration between the University of Michigan's China Data Center and All China Market Research Co., Ltd.
China Data Online provides comprehensive information on China’s economic and social development at national, provincial, county, city, and industrial levels. Its core databases include:
• Monthly Statistics - provides the monthly macroeconomic statistics at national, provincial and city levels from 1998 to the present;
• National Statistics - provides statistical data at the national level from 1949 to the present;
• Provincial Statistics - provides statistical data at the provincial level from 1949 to the present;
• City Statistics - provides annual statistics of prefecture and county level cities from 1996;
• County Statistics - provides the annual county statistics from 1997;
• Industrial Statistics - provides monthly and yearly statistics by industries from 1999; and
• Statistical Yearbooks - includes a series of China national, provincial, city and professional statistical yearbooks, which will be expanded to cover all statistical yearbooks published by the National Bureau of Statistics of China.
In addition, its China Census Databases contain approximately 3,000 electronic census data books that provide a unique collection of various census data for all provinces, cities, counties and townships of mainland China. The databases include: Industrial Census Data; Basic Unit Census Data; Economic Census Data; Agricultural Census Data; and Population Census and Survey Data.
For more information about China Data Online, please contact Marty Hanson, mjhanson@syr.edu, 443-1947. For assistance in using the database, please contact Paul Bern, phbern@syr.edu, 443-1352.
Syracuse University Library has developed a research guide to help students explore themes in the book A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah. A Long Way Gone is the 2008-2009 selection for the Syracuse University Shared Reading Program. As of way of introducing new students to the intellectual community on campus, the Syracuse University Shared Reading Program provides new undergraduate students with a copy of the book and facilitates programs, events, and courses throughout the academic year that incorporate the book’s theme. This is the fourth year the Library has developed a research guide in support of this program.
A Long Way Gone research guide includes book reviews, background information on Beah, and resources on topics such as child soldiers; culture and history of Sierra Leone; African rap and hip hop music culture; and more. The guide refers students to articles, audio files, videos, photographs, and web sites. Teaching guides and tips on finding relevant materials are provided in the guide as well.
The research guide is online, available to the public, at: http://library.syr.edu/instruction/class/sharread2008/.
For more information about the guide, contact Susan Miller at 443-2091 or email smmiller@syr.edu.
Beginning in the fall 2008 semester, the Learning Commons on the lower three floors of E.S. Bird Library will remain open from Sunday at 10 a.m. through Friday at 10:00 p.m. These new, extended hours will provide access to study spaces, technology, and library resources at times convenient to student schedules. Service hours will vary somewhat, with staffing generally until midnight. A Public Safety officer will be present in the building from 11 p.m. until 7 a.m. A valid SU/ESF ID is required to enter the building after 9 p.m.
For library hours, see: http://library.syr.edu/information/hours/fall2008.html
A fascinating collection of memorabilia associated with presidential campaigns from 1824 to 1972 is now on display on the 6th floor of E.S. Bird Library. Drawn from the artifactual collections of Syracuse University Library’s Special Collections Research Center, the exhibition of buttons, banners, bumper stickers, brochures, apparel, and other items provides a historical overview of the images and slogans candidates have used to position and advertise themselves in their quest for the White House. The exhibit is open to the public from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday - Friday through January 20, 2009.
Syracuse University Library Associates invites members and friends to a lecture, "Out of the Sky: 9/ll, a Tribute," presented by Werner Pfeiffer, sculptor and book artist. The event will take place at 4 p.m. Thursday, September 11 at the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, First Floor, Bird Library, Syracuse University.
Free event parking is available in Booth Garage on the corner of Waverly and Comstock Avenues.
Pfeiffer, a native of Germany who emigrated to the United States in 1961, witnessed the tragedy first-hand. His book is a sculptural tribute to the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. In the lecture, he will assemble "Out of the Sky" while commenting on the technique and inspiration behind it.
For more information on this lecture, please contact Anne Roth at 685-6832.
Syracuse University Library’s art librarian, Ann Skiold, will join the library staff of Syracuse University in Florence (SUF) from August 2008 through June 2009. The Florence Library and Media Lab maintain a multi-disciplinary, multi-format collection that supports teaching and research in the range of disciplines taught at SUF, including Architecture, Art History, Studio Arts, Italian, and Social Sciences.
Ann will work closely with SUF Library Coordinator Cathleen Compton to develop library programs and enable SUF faculty and students to make effective use of library resources. She will also serve as a consultant to the SUF director Barbara Deimling, SU Abroad, and the SU Library. In this role, Ann will gather user input on desired changes to the SUF Library’s overall program, assess library collections and services, and recommend strategies for strengthening the library and for integrating it more fully into SUF programs. Another important facet of Ann’s work will be to investigate and recommend options for shared collections and services between the SUF and home campus libraries. She will also assist Cathleen in developing collaborative relationships between the SUF library and other libraries in Florence.
Support for Ann’s appointment has been enthusiastic and broad-based, made possible by contributions from the Provost, the Vice President for Enrollment Management, and the College of Arts & Sciences, in addition to SU Abroad and the Library. In expressing his views about Ann’s appointment, SU Abroad Executive Director Jon Booth said, “With her international background and expertise in both the arts and librarianship, Ann is ideally suited for this position. With her help, we will rethink what the Florence Center library should be and affirm or adjust the program accordingly.”
Ann, who holds dual citizenship in the U.S. and Sweden, came to Syracuse University Library from Westmont College in Santa Barbara in 2005. She is a Senior Assistant Librarian in the Arts and Humanities Services Department and is responsible for research assistance, instruction, and collection development in a number of subject areas, including Art History, Photography, Film, Applied and Decorative Arts, English, Linguistics, and Communication and Rhetorical Studies.
During Ann’s time away, the following librarians will cover her subject responsibilities: Barbara Opar (baopar@syr.edu), Art and Design; Pam Thomas (pthomas@syr.edu), Photography and Film; and Lydia Wasylenko (lwwasyle@syr.edu), English, Linguistics, and Communication and Rhetorical Studies.
Syracuse University Library now subscribes to the Scopus database, published by Elsevier. Scopus is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary abstract and citation database covering scientific, engineering, medical, and social sciences information. In addition to title, author, and subject searching, Scopus provides cited reference searching capabilities, links to full-text, saved searches, and an alerting feature.
Scopus covers 15,000 peer-reviewed and open access journals from over 4,000 publishers, over 600 trade publications, 500 conference proceedings, 200 book series, as well as more than 386 million scientific web pages, and 22 million patent records from five patent offices. References and cited reference information are provided from 1996 forward. Abstracts go back further, with retrospective content being continually added. Scopus is updated daily with new information.
Scopus makes available an online interactive tutorial series; training sessions will be offered in the fall. For more information about Scopus or to schedule a demo, contact Elizabeth Wallace at elwallac@syr.edu.
Syracuse University Library’s Belfer Audio Laboratory and Archive has received a major gift from the family of the late Morton J. “Morty” Savada—the complete inventory of his Manhattan record store, Records Revisited, including more than 200,000 78-rpm records, along with a related print collection of catalogs, discographies and other materials. With the addition of the Savada Collection, Belfer’s holdings now total more than 400,000 78-rpm recordings—second in size only to the collections of the Library of Congress.
The Savada Collection, valued at just over $1 million, is a treasure trove of popular music, including unique and hard-to-find genres. It is strongest in big band and jazz, but also represents a wide variety of other musical genres, including country, blues, gospel, polka, folk, Broadway, Hawaiian and Latin. It also contains spoken-word, comedy and broadcast recordings, as well as V-disks, which were distributed as entertainment for the U.S. Armed Forces during World War II.
In addition to the popular labels of the day—such as Columbia, Decca and Victor—Savada collected rare and specialized recordings. Dates of recordings in the collection range from 1895 to the 1950s.
“The library is grateful to the Savada family members for their generosity,” says University Librarian and Dean of Libraries Suzanne Thorin. “The rich and varied resources in this collection will greatly enhance research and scholarship done at Belfer for years to come.”
Savada, who died Feb. 11, was well known by audiophiles and the entertainment industry in New York as an exceptional source for both sound recordings and recording history. Will Friedwald remarked in his Feb. 13 obituary in The New York Sun: “For any collector looking for a rarity, historian working on a research project, or reissue producer in search of something so rare it wasn’t even in the vault, Records Revisited was generally the first call to make.
“Savada specialized in filling gaps and finding vintage single tracks that had never been reissued in any of the long-playing formats,” Friedwald wrote. “Savada regularly collected 78 collectors together for lunches and bull-sessions. His shop off of Herald Square was a hub of such activity, where younger aficionados of old music picked up folklore in addition to the discs themselves.”
Savada opened Records Revisited in 1977 but had been collecting 78s since 1937. Records Revisited was the last store exclusively selling 78-rpm recordings and was a frequent haunt for those in the film and music industries, including actor/directors Woody Allen and Matt Dillon. Savada often lent his 78s to movie and music producers rather than selling them, and never sold the last copy of a recording because he regarded his collection as an archive, not an inventory.
Savada had wanted to donate his collection to a major institution that would maintain the collection and make it available to enhance research and teaching. He was very familiar with SU’s Belfer Audio Laboratory and Archive and its staff, whom he knew from regular meetings of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC). He also had another connection to the University: his granddaughter graduated from SU in 2005.
“I am unaware of another donation of recordings as large as the Savada gift to Syracuse University Library,” says Sam Brylawski, immediate past-president of the board of ARSC. “It is an outstanding gesture by the family. It is gratifying, too, to know of Syracuse University’s commitment to preserving the work of Morty Savada and making it available to the public and the research community.”
Sound recordings are a rich resource for researchers, faculty and students in a variety of disciplines. In addition to documenting the musical styles and performance practices of the day, these sound recordings provide a glimpse into social, political and cultural history. At SU, sound recordings are regularly used by faculty teaching music, musicology, history, filmmaking, journalism, political science and many other fields.
“The Savada Collection is precisely the kind of collection music industry and Bandier Program students need to work with,” says David Rezak, director of SU’s Bandier Program for Music and the Entertainment Industries. “Students in the ‘Music Company’ course operate a functional record label and publishing company. For them, the process of exploring the recordings in the Belfer Archive for potentially releasable material is an education in itself.”
“The Savada collection is truly an archival wonder—an exhaustive survey of popular music recordings from the first half of the 20th century,” says Theo Cateforis, assistant professor in SU’s Department of Fine Arts, who also makes extensive use of sound recordings in teaching. “For students whose relationship with music and technology rarely extends beyond the confines of the iPod, it is always eye-opening to see and hear the original 78s that were the mainstay of the recording industry for many decades. As such, these recordings offer an invaluable social and historical context.”
The Savada gift constitutes an important contribution to the University’s $1 billion capital campaign, The Campaign for Syracuse University, the most ambitious fundraising effort in SU’s history. By supporting faculty excellence, student access, interdisciplinary programs, capital projects and other institutional priorities, the campaign is continuing to drive Scholarship in Action, the University’s mission to provide students, faculty and communities with the insights needed to incite positive and lasting change in the world. More information is available online at http://campaign.syr.edu.
“The Savadas’ contribution is remarkable not only for its impact on our academic and research communities but as a significant contribution to The Campaign for Syracuse University,” says Brian Sischo, associate vice president of development and campaign director. “It is one more example of a gift that has the potential to affect students, faculty and researchers across many different disciplines. It truly represents the University’s belief in Scholarship in Action.”
The Savada Collection will be relocated to Syracuse this month, when work will begin to process the collection. For additional information on the collection, contact Melinda Dermody, head of arts and humanities services at SU Library, at (315) 443-5332 or mderm01@syr.edu.
This new exhibition in the hall exhibit case on the sixth floor of E.S. Bird library features an exploration of the book by students in Foundation Bookmaking (FND 116) and Hand Paper Print/Book workshop (PRT 552) in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. The exhibition will run through August 21.
During the first 2008 summer session, students in the Foundation Bookmaking class taught by Assistant Prof. Chris Wildrick learned to make books that are image-intensive from both art and design points of view. Students learned to create their own books using several book-binding techniques and approaches, including accordions and scrolls, pamphlet bindings, Japanese bindings, coptic bindings, altered books, and interactive books. The class investigated how books are structured, both within one single page and from page to page throughout the book. They also learned about digital layout techniques using InDesign as well as the options available for online self-publishing. Students in the class were drawn from diverse areas of the University, and came with a wide range of interests, experience, and skills.
One day in the month of April, the book artists of PRT 552, the book arts class in the College of Visual and Performing Arts taught by Associate Professor Holly Greenberg, were told to make an exchange of books with the sole requirement that they fit inside a wooden box. The students created two separate exchanges of eight books apiece, totaling sixteen books in all. In the end the groups came up with two greatly diverse exchanges: “Dirt,” based upon the concept of what things we may want to keep hidden or secret, and “Home,” which played off the theme of rooms in a house and associations made with the space. All students were encouraged to use a variety of binding techniques and materials, as well as raise the question of “what is a book?” Both groups collaborated with the PRT 552 teaching assistant on the exterior design of their boxes.
On September 1, 2008, the Library will no longer subscribe to the Academic OneFile database. We are sending out this information in advance to enable those in the planning stages for the fall semester to make other arrangements.
The library continues to offer several general and interdisciplinary databases, all of which are available through the Find Articles page and the SUMMIT Catalog (Find Books). If you need assistance selecting a database, please stop by a library service desk or use our online research assistance service.
If you have questions about this change, please contact Tasha Cooper, Social Sciences/Area Studies Bibliographer, nacoop01@syr.edu; 443-9518.
Trial access has been established for China Data Online.
Trial is through July 15th, 2008 and it is available via IP authentication.
To access the database, point your browser to: China Data Online
For Off-Campus access please point your browser to: China Data Online - Off-Campus access
China Data Online has extensive economic and social data at the city, county, provincial, and national levels; detailed census tables for 1982, 1990, 1995, and 2000; national statistical yearbooks from 1999 and provincial yearbooks from 2002; and maps including the Atlas of China. Trial access covers the following databases:
(1) Monthly Statistics
(2) National Statistics
(3) Provincial Statistics
(4) City Statistics
(5) County Statistics
(6) Monthly Industrial Data
(7) Yearly Industrial Data
(8) Statistics with Map & Charts
(9) Statistical Yearbooks
For more information or comments, please contact Natasha Cooper.
Effective Monday, June 30th 2008, all Blackwell journal content—including all full-text HTML and PDF versions of articles from current issues, backfiles, and issues published online before print—will be incorporated into Wiley InterScience. After June 30th, Blackwell Synergy will no longer be available.
Access to Blackwell Synergy will end at the close of business (Pacific Standard Time) on Friday, June 27th and the migration will be completed by Monday, June 30th. Over the weekend of June 28th and 29th, there will be a period when Wiley InterScience will also be unavailable while system transition and re-indexing of data occurs.
The Syracuse University Library’s Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) has been awarded a grant of $79,440 by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) to support the arrangement and description of the library’s 134 unprocessed collections of original cartoon art. The funds will help support a full-time project archivist for a period of two years. The award to Syracuse was one of six “Detailed Processing Grants” awarded by NHPRC and the Archivist of the United States. Other recipients included Princeton University and the University of Chicago.
Syracuse’s collection of original cartoon art is among the most comprehensive in the U.S. It includes over 20,000 original works by approximately 173 artists and comprises more than 1,000 linear feet of material. Spanning the course of the 20th century, it includes both serial and editorial cartoons.
Among the serial cartoonists represented are: Bud Fisher, whose Mutt and Jeff was the earliest successful daily comic strip; Mort Walker, whose Beetle Bailey anticipated the changing notions of American masculinity and militarism during the Cold War; Hal Foster, whose lavishly illustrated Prince Valiant elevated the artistic ambitions of the genre; and Morrie Turner, whose Wee Pals was the first comic strip to chronicle the lives of racial and ethnic minorities in American life.
The editorial and political cartoonists represented in the collection include: William Gropper, whose leftist political cartoons in the Daily Worker raised working class consciousness during World War II; F.O. Alexander, whose everyman alter-ego “Joe Doakes” experienced the turbulence of the 1960s in the pages of the Philadelphia Bulletin; and Carey Orr, whose editorial cartoons appeared in the Chicago Tribune for nearly fifty years.
The physical cartoons in Syracuse’s collection are as wide-ranging and diverse as the artists that created them, assuming countless shapes, sizes, and media including pencil, pen, and gouache on paper. Over the next two years, the project archivist will take steps to ensure that the cartoons are housed in archival-quality containers. He or she will also draft online, searchable finding aids so that they are accessible to researchers and individuals all over the world.
The NHPRC grant is exciting news for scholars who specialize in the genre, casual fans, and, of course, for Syracuse University, which has held many of these collections since the 1960s. For the full list of the Commission’s 2008 grants, see http://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2008/nr08-106.html
About the Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Library
With more than 100,000 printed works and 2,000 manuscript and archival collections, SCRC holds some of Syracuse University’s most precious treasures, including early printed editions of Gutenberg, Galileo, and Sir Isaac Newton as well as the library of 19th century German historian Leopold von Ranke (1795-1886). SCRC’s holdings are particularly strong in the 20th century; they include the personal papers and manuscripts of such luminaries as artist Grace Hartigan (1922- ), inspirational preacher Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993), author Joyce Carol Oates (1938- ), photojournalist Margaret Bourke White (1904-1971), and architect Marcel Breuer (1902-1981). SCRC strives to be a “humanities laboratory” where librarians and scholars collaborate with the artifacts of history in an ongoing and vital learning process. Home to a new, state-of-the-art instructional seminar room, SCRC also regularly hosts exhibitions, lectures and classes focusing on its collections. For more information, visit the web site at http://library.syr.edu/information/spcollections/index.html
For more information on this project, contact Sean Quimby, director of the Special Collections Research Center at 315 443-9759 or smquimby@syr.edu.
Pamela McLaughlin was elected to the position of chair-elect of the board of the New York State Higher Education Initiative (NYSHEI) at the group’s recent annual meeting in Syracuse. McLaughlin, who is director of communications and external relations at Syracuse University Library, was also elected to a three-year term on the board, representing very large private institutions.
Founded in 2002 and based in Albany, NYSHEI represents the interests of public and private academic and research libraries in New York State and serves as an advocacy group for academic libraries before elected officials and their staff. Its stated mission is “To develop, enhance and preserve our research and educational services, collections and resources for the benefit of faculty, students and the larger research community, and to promote new methods of scholarly communication.”
NYSHEI assists over 130 member institutions in providing the broadest possible access to information, fostering the academic enterprise, and advancing industry-academic partnerships in support of the innovation economy. The group is currently working on legislation to secure statewide funding for access to science, technology, and medical information resources.
For more information on NYSHEI and its activities, see http://nyshei.org/
The New York Center for the Book at Syracuse University Library has been reauthorized by the Library of Congress to continue through 2010. The New York Center is a state affiliate of the Library of Congress (LC) Center for the Book, which was founded in 1977 as a public-private partnership to “promote books, reading, libraries, and literacy.” Syracuse University Library has been the home to the New York Center since 2002 and collaborates with the LC Center in its annual, nationwide program to encourage reading and writing
Pamela McLaughlin, Director of Communications and External Relations at Syracuse University Library, was appointed Executive Director of the New York Center in November 2007. She works with an advisory board of librarians and interested others from across the state to develop the Center and its programs. Bart Harloe, University Librarian at St. Lawrence University, is the current chair of the board.
A key activity of the Center for the Book is the annual Letters About Literature contest. One of the Center’s most successful literacy programs for students, the contest invites students to write a letter to an author explaining how their work has changed the way they view themselves or the world. State winners receive a cash prize and gift cards provided by contest sponsor Target Stores. Participation in New York has grown steadily over the last three years, from 350 entries in the 2005-06 school year to over 1,800 entries in 2007-08. This year, two of New York’s first place winners also received honorable mention awards at the national level of the contest. Syracuse University Library underwrites the program and manages the related administrative functions.
Interests of the New York Center include scholarship relating to all aspects of the book, books as artifacts, the aesthetics of books, book arts, book publishing and distribution, and reading for pleasure and enlightenment. For information about the national center’s activities and programs, visit http://www.loc.gov/cfbook. For more information about the New York Center for the Book, see http://nybook.org or contact Pamela McLaughlin at (315) 443-9788 or pwmclaug@syr.edu.
Arts & Humanities Services presents Inner Selves, a collaborative display created by participants in Enable (an individualized service center for people with disabilities) and Writing 205 students from Syracuse University. In this display, the students help articulate the thoughts and emotions of the Enable participants, who describe their lives and interests as they theatrically transform into a role model of their choosing. Photographs of the participants in character accompany text co-authored by the participants and the students. The display is located in the Biblio Gallery on the 4th floor of Bird Library, and will remain up until July 11th.
Elaine Coppola, Librarian for Government Information, Political Science and International Relations in the Social Sciences and Area Studies Department at Syracuse University Library has received the 2008 Syracuse University Library Distinguished Service Award.
Elaine’s letters of support were strong and eloquent in outlining her many contributions to Syracuse University Library. One colleague wrote:
“Because human relationships are central to effective academic librarianship, employees like Elaine are priceless. Her collegial nature, sense of humor, analytical ability, and overall sense of advocacy for individual librarians and the broad field of librarianship more generally, is demonstrated on a daily basis.”
Elaine is widely known for her skill in user support, faculty liaison work, reference, and government documents. She began her career at Syracuse University Library in 1979 as a Catalog Librarian Technical Services, a position she held for the next 10 years. In a portent of things to come, Elaine volunteered at the reference desk from 1984 until 1989, when she transferred to public services and joined the Reference Department.
Elaine served in a number of key roles in the ensuing period, including Social Sciences Reference Bibliographer, Reference Desk Manager, and Head of Reference from 1999 through 2003. Elaine assumed her present position in Social Sciences and Area Studies in 2005.
Concurrently, Elaine amassed an impressive array of publications, including her most recent article, “May Day, May 1” in the Spring 2007 issue of Documents to the People, reviews for Choice magazine, and the Political Science section of The Guide to Reference Books, 10th edition supplement.
Elaine’s commitment to SU Library is also evident in her extensive record of service, serving on or chairing library committees ranging from the current MetaLib Committee, to the Electronic Resources Advisory Group, the Library Cabinet, the Collection Development Committee, various search committees, SULA, and many others.
Elaine was previously honored by the Eastern NY Chapter of ACRL with its Librarian of the Year award in 1996 for her contributions to that organization. She has also been involved in a number of ALA committees and activities over the years.
Syracuse University Library now offers access to the world’s largest archive of visual histories of the Holocaust. The Shoah Foundation Institute’s Visual History Archive, housed at the University of Southern California, includes nearly 52,000 video testimonies of Holocaust survivors, rescuers and other witnesses gathered by the Shoah Foundation. The interviews, which are in 32 languages, were conducted in 56 countries between 1994–2005. Syracuse University is one of only 10 partner universities worldwide that provide students, faculty, staff and the general public with access to the complete archive.
“Syracuse University Library is honored to become one of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute’s partners. The Visual History Archive is a welcome addition to our collection of multidisciplinary research tools,” says University Librarian and Dean of Libraries Suzanne Thorin. “The firsthand perspective provided by these interviews will be invaluable to students and scholars of history, religion, anthropology and many other disciplines.”
The USC Shoah Foundation Institute grew out of Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, established by film director Steven Spielberg following the release of “Schindler’s List.” The purpose of the project was to document the experiences of survivors and other witnesses to the Holocaust. The majority of the interviews—about 90 percent—are with Jewish survivors of Nazi persecution; also represented in the archive are political prisoners, Roma and Sinti (Gypsy) survivors, homosexuals and Jehovah’s Witnesses, along with liberators, witnesses, rescuers and aid providers.
Users can search more than 50,000 geographic and experiential keywords, the names of every person mentioned in the testimonies, and biographical information for each interviewee. A selection of testimonies will be immediately available at SU; users can request that other testimonies be delivered to SU’s local server. The Shoah system makes use of Internet2, a relatively new network that is ideally suited to transferring large files like the Shoah videos. Users must be physically present on the SU campus to access the Visual History Archive, which is located at http://vha.usc.edu/.
“The Visual History Archive is an extraordinarily useful tool for addressing the issues of the Holocaust and making it relevant to the theme of being a bystander in today’s world,” says Alan Goldberg, professor emeritus in SU’s School of Education and coordinator of the institute’s “The Holocaust, Lessons for the Classroom,” a collaboration of Syracuse University, the Holocaust Museum, Houston, and the Warren Fellowship for Future Educators.
The mission of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute is to “overcome prejudice, intolerance and bigotry—and the suffering they cause—through the educational use of the institute's visual history testimonies.” The institute relies upon partnerships in the United States and around the world to provide public access to the archive and advance scholarship in many fields of inquiry. The institute and its partners also utilize the archive to develop educational products and programs for use in many countries and languages.
For more information about Shoah or to arrange for a demonstration, contact Lydia Wasylenko at 443-4692 or lwwasyle@syr.edu.
The Syracuse University Library and Renée Crown University Honors Program are presenting Invasion! The Culture of Fear in America, a student-curated exhibition of books, manuscripts and art from the Special Collections Research Center. A gallery reception will be held on Tuesday, April 29, at 5 p.m. on the sixth floor of E.S. Bird Library. The exhibition runs through Sept. 5. It is free and open to the public.
During the Spring 2008 semester, students from the Renée Crown University Honors Program taking the course American Fear, taught by Sean Quimby, director of the Special Collections Research Center, explored the history of fear in American life by immersing themselves in the Library’s primary resource collections.
The students worked diligently to produce an exhibition that accurately illustrates the concept of fear in the United States. They felt that the theme of “invasion” underlies many of our historical anxieties relating to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation and a host of other issues. The idea that different people, aliens or even epidemics, like the AIDS virus during the 1980s, might infiltrate society and bring about sweeping change has been cause for extreme fear in the American experience. Fundamentally, the exhibition raises questions of identity, and the class hopes that visitors will “understand their differences and be less discriminating in their actions.”
Among the exhibited works that illuminate the roots of our culture of fear are a 1651 edition of Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan, Cotton Mather’s 1693 account of the Salem Witch trials, the literature of the Red Scare, a variety of pulp science fiction magazines and Werner Pfeiffer’s sculptural tribute to the victims of 9/11, Out of the Sky.
Due to growing demands for faculty and laboratory spaces in the Physics Building, the Library and the Physics Department have agreed to close the Physics Library. The last day of operation will be Friday, May 9, 2008.
Physics materials will be relocated to the Science and Technology Library at Carnegie, beginning on May 16. The move is expected to take several days. Users with an urgent need for specific material from the physics collection during the move should convey their requests directly to Science and Technology Library staff. Otherwise, the physics collection will be unavailable for use during the move. Physics materials that are currently charged out may be returned to any of the other SU Libraries.
For Science and Technology hours, please see: http://library.syr.edu/information/hours/summer2008.html
For additional information, please contact Janet Pease, head of the Science and Technology Library at 315-443-9768 or email jlpease@syr.edu.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded $250,000 to Syracuse University Library for the creation of detailed descriptive catalog records for historical 78-rpm sound recordings held by the Belfer Audio Laboratory and Archive. SU Library will join another 78s cataloging project that was previously funded by the Mellon Foundation, partnering with Yale University, the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and Stanford University.
The 14-month grant project will focus on 9,000 recordings on the Decca label. Decca has historical significance as the third-largest producer of 78-rpm recordings in the United States (after Victor and Columbia), beginning in 1934. Decca had contracts with many star performers of the day, such as the Mills Brothers, Guy Lombardo & the Royal Canadians, the Ted Lewis Band, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Judy Garland, Deanna Durbin, Dick Powell, Gene Kelly, Bob Hope and the Andrews Sisters.
Access to complete and accurate information about these recordings will enable scholars and others to locate materials that document social and cultural mores, performance practices and historical theories. Until recently, information about these recordings was scattered, appearing in a variety of discographies, card catalogs, stand-alone databases and the brief catalog records in the Rigler-Deutsch Index. These newly created records will be fully searchable in SU Library’s online catalog and will be added to the Online Computer Library Center’s (OCLC) WorldCat database, along with those from Yale, New York Public Library and Stanford. Detailed catalog records will also allow the library to promote the resources in a variety of ways, such as by genre, subject and performer.
Commenting on the award, SU Librarian and Dean of Libraries Suzanne Thorin says, “I am grateful for Mellon’s support to make more of Syracuse University Library’s rich humanities collections available for scholarship. We are pleased to join Yale, New York Public Library and Stanford on this exciting project.”
SU’s Belfer Archive is one of the five largest sound recordings repositories in the United States, with a collection of nearly 337,000 recordings representing America’s cultural history in recorded sound, along with a significant number of historical playback devices and recording artifacts.
For more information about the project, contact Melinda Dermody, head of Arts and Humanities Services at SU Library, at (315) 443-5332 or mderm01@syr.edu.
SU Library unveiled the contest-winning name Pages for the new Bird Library café at its grand opening celebration on February 21st. The selection panel for the naming contest included University Librarian and Dean of Libraries Suzanne Thorin, Library Communications Director Pamela McLaughlin, undergraduate student Dana Varin, History Professor Chris Kyle, and Director of SU Food Services Dave George.
The panel selected Pages from among over 800 entries submitted by SU undergraduate and graduate students during a two-week period following the café’s opening in mid-January. The new name was submitted by Benjamin Huang, a biochemistry major in the College of Arts & Sciences, and Marsha Tait, a graduate student in the Maxwell MPA program. Both were awarded a MacBook laptop.
Leading examples of the power of a free press are on display this February at all three Newhouse School of Public Communications buildings. A Library contribution to Newhouse’s “Year of the First Amendment” celebration, the poster exhibit highlights groundbreaking coverage by journalists, such as original reporting on the 1955 murder of Emmett Till, analysis of the illicit drug trade on the SU campus during the Vietnam era, and more recent exploration of the Bush administration’s controversial domestic eavesdropping program. This historical media exhibition is co-curated by Syracuse University Library and the Newhouse School of Public Communications, with poster production services courtesy of the Library’s Digital Imaging Services Center (DISC)
For more information, contact Michael Pasqualoni, Subject Librarian for Communications, mjpasqua@syr.edu, or Professor Charlotte Grimes, Knight Chair in Political Reporting, cgrimes@syr.edu
When librarians are considering the purchase of new online resources, they often arrange for a trial period to preview the content, web interface, and other features of the resource. To check out resources on trial, visit the trials web page often.
Syracuse University Library’s Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) has mounted an exhibition entitled The Small Press and the Black Arts Movement on the sixth-floor of E. S. Bird Library. The controversial Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s was a politically engaged artistic movement that explored the African American experience.
Drawing on its SCRC's holdings, the exhibit features works by participants in the movement that were published by small independent presses such as Broadside Press and Third World Press. Amiri Baraka (b. 1934) and painter Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000) are very well represented. Their works accompany those of other artists: dramatists, illustrators, novelists, and poets. Among the more well-known names are Gwendolyn Brooks, Chester B. Himes, Ishmael Reed, Sonia Sanchez, Melvin Van Peebles, Alice Walker, and John A. Williams. Also on display are a number of Black Arts Movement periodicals such as Black Theatre, Hoo-Doo, Kitabu Cha Jua (formerly the Journal of Black Poetry), Soulbook, and Y’Bird.
Free and open to the public, the exhibit is available weekdays (excepting holidays) from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. through May 1, 2008. Pay parking is available in the Marion visitor lot.
Syracuse University Library and the Barclay Law Library are pleased to announce new additions to the LexisNexis Congressional database. This joint purchase provides additional full-text congressional material to researchers at Syracuse University.
The new modules include searchable collections of Congressional Hearings (1824- ), Congressional Committee Prints (1830- ), and Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports (1916- ) in pdf format. A database of high resolution color images of the U.S. Serial Set Maps (1789-1969) collection is also part of the new purchase. These new modules add to the basic content of LexisNexis Congressional, e.g., abstracts and indexing for congressional publications, full-text of selected recent publications, and the U.S. Serial Set digital collection module purchased previously.
A comprehensive online resource, LexisNexis Congressional uses a single search interface for its collections of congressional publications and legislative information. It is ideal for student and faculty research in the areas of public policy, U.S. history, and law.
Syracuse University Library users may connect to these new LexisNexis Congressional digital collections by going to the library’s databases/Find Articles page: http://library.syr.edu/research/database/ and selecting Congressional or LexisNexis Congressional.
College of Law users may access LexisNexis Congressional through the Barclay Law Library's Federal Resources web page: http://www.law.syr.edu/lawlibrary/electronic/federal.aspx
For more information or assistance with LexisNexis Congressional, please contact Elaine Coppola, Syracuse University Library, emcoppla@syr.edu or 443-9523 or Robert Weiner, Barclay Law Library, rjweiner@law.syr.edu, or 443-5424.
The SU Library has added a new feature called RefShare to our campus site license for RefWorks. RefWorks is an online citation management tool designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies. It allows you to save and store citations, generate bibliographies in different styles (e.g., APA, MLA, Chicago) and, using the Write-N-Cite feature, automatically add references to a paper and generate a bibliography with them. You can import references from a number of SU Library’s online databases, the SUMMIT library catalog, and other bibliographic management tools, or you can manually enter the information into RefWorks.
RefShare is an add-on module to RefWorks that provides a quick and easy way to share your entire RefWorks database or specific folders with other researchers, further enhancing collaborative research. You can share your RefWorks references with members of the SU community and globally with any researcher who has access to the Internet.
For more information on RefShare, visit SU Library’s RefWorks help page at: http://library.syr.edu/cite/RefWorksHelp.html.
Our Spring 2008 RefWorks training schedule is now posted at: http://library.syr.edu/cite/RefWorksTraining.html. Classes are free of charge, and registration is not required.
Syracuse University Library launched its new Business and Management Information Gateway on January 14th, 2008. A collaborative project of SU Library and the Whitman School, the Gateway is a customized collection of information resources specific to business and management that was designed specifically for Whitman School students, faculty, and staff. As information continues to shift towards online digital formats, the number of available information resources is increasing at a rapid pace. The Gateway organizes the best business information resources in a custom-designed and easy to use interface.
The Gateway's search functionality, powered by MetaLib, streamlines the discovery process and enables users to locate the information they need quickly and effectively. The new interface searches multiple information resources simultaneously, eliminating the need for users to learn different search protocols and interfaces. A single search will include results from a variety of information resources such as journal articles, newspapers, books, library catalogs, and other quality Internet resources. The Gateway also includes links to other library services, as well as to course-specific information developed by the library’s business subject specialist.
Gateway search results are presented in a manageable, unified format, enabling users to:
- Review retrieved items in a merged, de-duplicated list
- Group results by facets such as author, date, journal, or other attributes
- Compare the result lists of different searches
- Save relevant records and locate the actual material
The search interface accommodates the varying skill and experience levels of individual users, offering both novice and expert search modes. Options include a simple "Google-like" keyword search or an advanced search of specific fields with Boolean operators.
There are three audience-specific versions of the gateway available for student, faculty, and staff use. The gateway can be accessed through Whitman’s Blackboard Community Intranet; the student version is also available on the library website at http://library.syr.edu/information/services/whitman/students.html. Licensed online resources are accessible only by those with a current SU/ESF I.D. card.
For more information about this project, contact Angela Ramnarine-Rieks at x8709 or email auramnar@syr.edu.
Syracuse University Library has begun the process of redesigning its web site, the University’s primary point of access for scholarly information resources and services. In order to develop a new site that meets user needs and expectations, the Web Redesign Team is interested in hearing the thoughts and opinions of students, faculty and staff about the site’s functionality, content and organization.
The team will organize a number of focus group sessions and is seeking volunteers. Sessions will be about an hour long and no preparation is required. To register for a session, please use this online form or send your name, telephone number, status (undergraduate, graduate student, faculty, or staff) and major, department, or discipline to Nancy Turner, Senior Program Officer for Research and Analysis at nbturner@syr.edu or phone 443-2237.
Syracuse University Library has been awarded a $53,000 planning grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to conduct an ethnographic study of academic and library cultures. The purpose of the study is to gain insight into how teaching, learning and research in a highly ranked professional school are being conducted and how closely the library's services and resources synchronize with the school's needs.
The study focuses on the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, whose programs cover the convergence of media in society and the use of content in any format, whether it is the written word, photography or film. The grant, "Patterns of Culture: Re-aligning Library Culture to Meet User Needs," will continue a pilot study of Newhouse faculty and delve more deeply, working with students, faculty and staff.
"The library has proposed some innovative research that has the potential to provide benefits not just to Newhouse, but across campus as the library deepens its ties to academic work," says SU Chancellor and President Nancy Cantor of the grant award.
Results of the project will inform changes to library organizational structures and services, including new models for developing library collections and the creation of customized services for faculty and students. The project team, which includes librarians and a graduate assistant, is being trained in ethnographic research methods to equip them with skills in listening, observing, interviewing and understanding contemporary research practices and information-seeking behaviors. The project will create a model for data gathering and analysis that could be used to investigate other SU schools, departments and colleges, or by other institutions interested in conducting similar studies.
Suzanne Thorin, University librarian and dean of libraries, and Nancy Turner, senior program officer for research and analysis, are co-principal investigators on the project. Turner, who holds a bachelor's degree in anthropology and a master's degree in social sciences, in addition to an M.L.I.S., will serve as the project manager. She will be assisted by Ilka Datig, a graduate student in the School of Information Studies, who has a master's degree in cultural anthropology. Other project team members include librarians Nicolette Dobrowolski, John Olson, Michael Pasqualoni, Bonnie Ryan and Ann Skiold. In addition, SU anthropology professor Michael Freedman will give guidance to the team.
An advisory group of Newhouse faculty, staff and students is being formed to work with the library team, to provide assistance with access to classes and to help in identifying participants for various project activities.
The project will run through September 2008 in four phases: training, testing and team building; fieldwork and data collection at Newhouse; fieldwork and data collection at the library; and analysis, report writing and proposal for next steps.
For more information on the project, contact Nancy Turner at 443-2237 or nbturner@syr.edu.
Syracuse University Library’s Biblio Gallery on the 4th floor of Bird Library is now featuring artwork by Joshua Kaplan, a painting major in the School of Art and Design. The show will run through November 2, 2007.
The Biblio Gallery web site is located at http://library.syr.edu/information/finearts/SULibraryArtExhibits.html.
For more information, contact Melinda Dermody, head of Arts and Humanities Services at 443-5332 or via email at mderm01@syr.edu.
Numeric Data Services (NDS), a unit of the Social Sciences Services Department in E. S. Bird Library, announces the addition of several new resources for those interested in finding statistical information to use in a report or data for statistical analysis.
Located on the Numeric Data Services web page, the NDS Data and Statistics Search Engine, a Google Custom Search Engine, searches almost 1,300 web sites worldwide that contain data and statistical information in many subject areas.
In addition, NDS has made several new data sets available for online analysis. Of particular note are three datasets specific to Syracuse: the 2000 U.S. Census of Population and Housing, which includes Syracuse neighborhood identifiers; Public Use Microdata from the 1880 to 2000 U.S. Censuses; and the Public Use Microdata from the 2005 American Community Survey. These applications allow users to create tables and perform statistical analysis on the data over the web without need for additional statistical software. Other data sets listed on the NDS page provide data at the state and national levels.
Numeric Data Services, located on the third floor of E. S. Bird Library, provides support for students, faculty, and staff interested in finding and using statistical information and data. NDS can assist with data management and analysis; use of statistical software, especially SAS, Stata, and SPSS; and advise on research methods, study design, and questionnaire construction for those collecting their own data.
For further information, please contact Paul H. Bern, Numeric Data Services Librarian at 443-1352 or email phbern@syr.edu.
Syracuse University Library has developed a research guide to help students explore themes in Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World, by Tracy Kidder, the book chosen by the Syracuse University Shared Reading Program and Central New York Reads for 2007-2008. The guide includes book reviews, background information on Tracy Kidder and Paul Farmer, and resources on topics such as Haiti; poverty; public health; the role of the U.S. in the world; voodoo; and more. The guide refers students to articles, audio files, films and videos, photographs, and web sites. Tips on finding materials are provided. The guide is located at:
http://library.syr.edu/instruction/class/sharreadMountains/index.html
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The University Library’s Special Collections Research Center has mounted an exhibition called "The Never-Ending Wrong: The Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti" on the sixth-floor of E. S. Bird Library. The exhibit is available weekdays (excepting holidays) from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. through December 31, 2007.
An exhibit opening celebration and reception will occur at 5 p.m. on Thursday, September 27, 2007, also on the sixth floor, directly following a 4 p.m. Library Associates lecture by Sean Quimby, director of the Special Collections Research Center. His lecture, entitled “Phobia: Collecting in the History of Fear,” will take place in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons on the first floor. The exhibit, the reception, and the lecture are all free and open to the public.
The exhibit commemorates the 80th anniversary of the execution for murder of two Italian anarchist laborers, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. On display are period ephemera issued by the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee and a plethora of books associated with the trial by Paul Avrich, Felix Frankfurter, and Eugene Lyons, among others. The exhibit features artistic expressions (cartoons, illustrations, novels, plays, poems, songs and music) inspired by the trial, including the work of Maxwell Anderson, John Dos Passos, Fred Ellis, Howard Fast, Woody Guthrie, William Gropper, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Rockwell Kent, Katherine Anne Porter, Pete Seeger, and Upton Sinclair.
To see an online version of the exhibit, go to scrc.syr.edu.
What are Americans really afraid of? In this lecture, entitled "American Phobia: Collecting in the History of Fear," Sean Quimby, director of the Library's Special Collections Research Center, will consider the role of fear in American life. The lecture will take place at 4 p.m. on Thursday, September 27, in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, first floor, E. S. Bird Library.
In the post 9/11 world, we have grown accustomed to periodic “terror” alerts, but how did fear figure into the printed discourses of generations past? Quimby will detail the Special Collections Research Center’s ongoing project to build research collections that may help answer these questions. Burgeoning recent scholarship has equipped us with the tools required to examine this elusive topic, and available historical resources—religious tracts, popular psychology texts, eugenics manifestos, as well as self-help, child-rearing, and comportment manuals—can help us begin to trace the lineage of fear in America.
Sean Quimby holds graduate degrees from the Hagley Fellows Program in the History of Industrialization at the University of Delaware and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In the fall of 2006, he came to Syracuse from Stanford University, where he served as a manuscripts librarian.
This talk, sponsored by the Syracuse University Library Associates, is free and open to the public. Pay parking is available in the Marion lot on Waverly Avenue.
Combining South African and African Studies, NiPAD provides access to two million records and integrates information from over 40 smaller databases published in Africa, Europe, and the United States. Subject coverage includes politics, history, economics, business, mining, natural sciences, environment, development, social issues, anthropology, literature, language, law, music, tourism, and many more. The database includes sources such as books, journal articles, government and NGO reports; includes some fulltext.
The Library Arts & Humanities Services Department presents "Freedom Under Fire: Book Banning Past and Present," a display showcasing prominent books that have been challenged or banned by public institutions for religious, political, social, or sexual reasons. Offered in recognition of the American Library Association's Banned Books Week (September 29 - October 6, 2007), and in conjunction with the S.I. Newhouse School's year-long celebration of the First Amendment, the display on the 4th floor of Bird Library will remain up through October 6, 2007.
Do you have a favorite banned or challenged book? In conjunction with the Newhouse School's upcoming year-long First Amendment celebration, the library is working on plans for Banned Books Week 2007, September 29 - October 6, 2007. We are creating a web page with a list of banned or challenged books and reasons, and hope you will contribute your favorites. Using the form available at http://library.syr.edu/information/banned_books, please send the title of the book (or film or musical work, etc.) you have selected, the reason and year it was banned/challenged (if available), and any explanatory comments you want to add.
If you are not sure what books have been banned or challenged, please see the extensive listings on the American Library Association web site at: http://www.ala.org/bbooks/.
Please contact Tasha Cooper, nacoop01@syr.edu, for additional information.
Visit the new Biblio Gallery on the 4th floor of Bird Library, now showing the artwork of Elena Peteva, MFA candidate in Painting in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. The show will run through June 30, 2007.
The Biblio Gallery web site is located at http://library.syr.edu/information/finearts/SULibraryArtExhibits.html.
For more information, contact Melinda Dermody, head of Arts and Humanities Services at 443-5332 or via email at mderm01@syr.edu.
Syracuse University students, faculty, staff, and other eligible users now have the option to use a self-service kiosk to check out books and other circulating materials from E. S. Bird Library. To access the device, users will need to bring their valid SU ID card issued by the Syracuse University ID Card Office.
The self-check unit, which is similar to those used in retail businesses, is located directly across from the main circulation desk on Bird’s first floor and may be used during regular circulation desk service hours.
For additional information, please contact Marty Hanson, Head of Access and Preservation Services at 443-1947 or email mjhanson@syr.edu.
SU Library currently has a trial subscription to RefShare, which allows users to share their RefWorks database or specific folders from their RefWorks database with others. RefShare allows users to export, print, generate a list of references, and even use custom output styles at the folder or database level.
RefWorks is an online citation management service that helps users organize their references, generate bibliographies in different styles, add references to papers, and format reference lists.
For more information and instructions on how to use RefShare, see the RefShare Online Tutorial - http://www.refworks.com/tutorial/RefShare%20User%20tutorial.htm
For more information on RefWorks at SU, see http://library.syr.edu/cite/refworks.html
The trial ends May 31, 2007. Please email refworks@syr.edu for additional information.
Librarian and NY Center for the Book director Tasha Cooper has co-edited (with Douglas Cook) a new book on information literacy, Teaching information literacy skills to social sciences students and practitioners : a casebook of applications. The title was published in 2006 by the Association of College and Research Libraries and is available in SU Library - call number ZA3075 .T43 2006.
Janet Pease, head of the Science and Technology Library, was recently interviewed for the Institute of Physics web feature, Sixty seconds with... located at http://journals.iop.org/sixty/106. Congratulations, Janet!
The Library has added 10 years to the backfile of the Web of Science, which now spans from 1985 to the present. Web of Science includes the Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index. To take advantage of the new coverage, previous users should clear the cache/history in their browser before accessing the database. The URL is http://libezproxy.syr.edu/login?url=http://isiknowledge.com
Staff at any library reference desk can provide assistance in using this database. For locations and services, see http://library.syr.edu/information/reference/index.html
Barbara Opar, librarian in the Arts & Humanities Services Department of Syracuse University Library and liaison to the School of Architecture, contributed the chapter “Architectural Engineering” to Using the Engineering Literature, published by Routledge in 2006. The title was recently chosen as the 2007 recipient of the Best Reference Work Award by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), Engineering Libraries Division.
In hearing of the award, editor Bonnie A. Osif praised contributors, saying "I don't have the words to describe how happy I am for all of my wonderful writers. This is just an unbelievable honor. "
Opar has been architecture subject specialist librarian at SU since 1975. She is a regular contributor to the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, in which she publishes a bi-monthly booklist. She also serves as a member of the EPIC (Education/Practice/Industry Connection) steering committee, a project of the American Institute of Architects, Continuing Education System. EPIC is a partnership of the academy, the design professions, and industry to provide quality continuing professional education in architecture.
Come enjoy an afternoon of French culture and literature at the 10th annual French Graduation Student Colloquium on Friday, April 27th from noon – 3 p.m. in the Hillyer Room on the 6th floor of E.S. Bird Library. The program will consist of presentations by the graduate students, faculty members Philippa Kim and Jean François Bedard, and librarian Barbara Opar. A reception will follow.
Individuals interested in receiving regular updates from the library can now subscribe to library RSS feeds. In response to user requests to be alerted to new resources and services, the library developed a series of RSS feeds listed at http://library.syr.edu/feeds/. These feeds include resources newly added to the SUMMIT library catalog, library news and events, Web site updates, and Subject Guide updates. RSS (Really Simple Syndication) technology facilitates the delivery of information via a news reader or aggregator. Both MyYahoo and Google portals include feed readers; other examples include Bloglines, NewsGator, and Snarfer. The process of subscribing to an RSS feed is specific to the type of feed reader application chosen; detailed instructions can be found on the web site.
This is Phase I of this service and improvements are continually being made, along with the development of additional feeds in other subject areas. For additional information, please contact library web administrator Angela Ramnarine-Rieks at 443-8709 or email auramnar@syr.edu.
The extended study area on the first floor of E.S. Bird Library will offer a 24- hour study schedule from April 9 through May 9. The study area will be open continuously from 10 a.m. on Sundays until 10 p.m. on Friday evenings. Saturday hours in April are 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. and 10 a.m. to midnight on May 5.
A valid SU or ESF I.D. card is required to enter after midnight.
Complete hours information is available on the web:
http://library.syr.edu/information/hours/b-spring07.html#studyarea
The Belfer Audio Archive at Syracuse University Library will hold a record sale April 20-21, offering 78s, LPs and 45s, as well as some music scores and music books. The sale will be held in the Belfer lobby on Friday, April 20, from 10 a.m.-7 p.m., and on Saturday, April 21, from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. The Belfer building is adjacent to E.S. Bird Library on the library’s east side.
Prices are as follows: up to 25 discs, $1 each; 26-50 discs, 75 cents each; 51–100 discs, 50 cents each; and more than 100 discs, 35 cents each. Special pricing will be offered on Saturday afternoon of $5 per grocery bagful. No advance lists or preview inspections are available.
Paid parking is available in nearby University lots or meter parking is available on the street.
For more information, contact Sue Stinson at 443-3477
Bobbi Gwilt, recently appointed Associate University Librarian for Academic Resources at Syracuse University Library, has been selected to participate in the 2007 Frye Leadership Institute. The Frye Institute is a two-week intensive residential program held at Emory University each June and named in honor of Billy E. Frye, former chancellor and provost of Emory University. Co-sponsors include the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), EDUCAUSE, and the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation.
In establishing the Institute, Frye said, “As we plan for the future, we must make provision for the recruitment and development of potential leaders—persons who are capable of seeing the big picture and understanding institutional relationships: persons who welcome change and have the vision, imagination and courage to take carefully considered risks; and who are unselfish in their goals, fair in their dealings, and trusted by the colleagues at all levels with whom they work."
The Frye program consists of presentations by well-known leaders in higher education and society, seminars, and group projects. The year’s program will focus on the implications of the increasing power of information technology to transform research, teaching, and scholarly communication. Following the Institute, participants engage in a yearlong study of a related topic of their choosing. Gwilt intends to investigate how overall library user services are impacted by changes in collection development operations.
Michael Pasqualoni, Instructional Services Librarian, reviews Jeanette Woodward's "Creating the Customer-Driven Library: Building on the Bookstore Model," in the March 2007 issue of LIBRES: Library and Information Science Research Electronic Journal. http://libres.curtin.edu.au/libres17n1/index.htm
Information consultant and IST adjunct instructor Jill Hurst-Wahl, will give a talk on Libraries & Librarians in Second Life, on Tuesday, April 10 from 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons on the first floor of E.S.Bird Library. Second Life is a 3-D online digital world that is created by its residents. Currently inhabited by more than 4 million residents, Second Life has become home to a growing number of libraries and librarians. Jill will talk about the work that librarians are doing in Second Life, the spaces they are creating, and why we should pay attention to this activity.
Known as "Jillianna Suisei" in Second Life, Jill is a member of two active library groups and often gives tours of Info Island, an area that offers a variety of library and information services to Second Life residents. In real life, Hurst-Wahl has become a Second Life advocate by giving interviews, writing articles, and speaking formally and informally about Second Life.
Sue Miller, Instructional Services Specialist in Syracuse University Library, has been nominated for membership in the Phi Beta Delta honor society by Dr. Patricia Burak, Director of the Slutzker Center for International Services. As described on its web site, Phi Beta Delta “honors those who serve internationalism - the idea of a world connected, of respect for different traditions, of the need for education to enhance knowledge of the many cultures that are part of a globe that we all must share.” Sue will be installed as a member of Syracuse University's Alpha Sigma chapter on Monday, April 9, 2007 at 4:00 p.m. in Hendrick's Chapel.
Dr. Burak nominated Sue in recognition for her recent work in organizing and leading the Library's International Students Working Group. This team of librarians and library staff is committed to assisting SU's international students in making effective use of library facilities, resources, and services, and in developing information literacy and research skills. Accomplishments include the design of a special web page for international students and the delivery of several workshops on Library resources, evaluating sources, and avoiding plagiarism.
For more information of Phi Beta Delta, see http://www.phibetadelta.org/ . The library web site for international students is located at http://library.syr.edu/instruction/international/welcome.htm
Students, stop running around during this busy time of year. Take advantage of a special series of open research workshops at E.S. Bird Library. Come to one of these Crunch Time at 9 sessions to get personalized research help from a librarian on your final papers and projects. Sessions are March 27, 28, and April 4 from 9:00 - 10:30 p.m. and March 28 from 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. in the Electronic Training Center, Room 046, E.S. Bird Library. Contact Michael Pasqualoni for more information at 443-3715 or email mjpasqua@syr.edu. No RSVP necessary. Drop in when you can, stay as long as you need. For additional research help at other times, remember to visit the Library's "Ask Us" Reference & Research Assistance page at http://library.syr.edu/information/reference/index.html
Syracuse University Library’s Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) has opened an exhibition titled Lights, Camera, Music! on émigré composers Miklós Rózsa and Franz Waxman. Both men created scores for what are indisputably regarded as classic films from Hollywood’s golden age (Ben Hur and Sunset Boulevard are examples). The center is exhibiting material that commemorates the work of these musical celebrities in recognition of anniversaries associated with them.
The exhibition is free and open to the public. It will be available weekdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (excepting holidays) until June 30, 2007. Pay parking is available in the Marion visitor lot on Waverly Avenue.
CONTACT
Mary Beth Hinton
Syracuse University Library
315-443-9763
mbhinton@syr.edu
The Library will offer training sessions for international students on library resources and services as well as important information literacy skills such as evaluating sources and avoiding plagiarism. The sessions will be held in February, March and April in the Slutzker International Center. The complete schedule is available at: http://library.syr.edu/instruction/Internationalstclasssp07.html
An introductory web page specificially for international students is also available on the Library's website at: http://library.syr.edu/instruction/international/welcome.htm
Syracuse University Library will offer several training sessions and help clinics on RefWorks, a citation management tool, during February, March, and April.
“If you are writing a research paper, thesis, dissertation, or article, RefWorks is an excellent system for keeping track of your sources,” said Ruth Stein, interim director of the Academic Integrity Office.
RefWorks allows users to save and organize citations, generate bibliographies in different styles (e.g., APA, MLA, Chicago), add references to a paper, and format a reference list. Users can import references from many other sites or enter them manually. The Write-n-Cite feature automatically enters citations and generates bibliographies as you write your papers; RefGrab-It automatically captures citation information from web sites, and then converts the information into your desired citation format.
The upcoming training sessions are structured introductions to RefWorks, while the help clinics offer one-on-one assistance with specific questions. Both are open to all SU students, faculty, and staff, and no registration is required. All sessions are held in the Electronic Training Classroom, room 046, Bird Library. To see the schedule, go to http://library.syr.edu/cite/RefWorksTraining.html
Librarians from SU’s Science and Technology Library have created a RefWorks wiki, an interactive web environment, to post information and tips on RefWorks and share experiences and questions (see http://refworks.wikidot.com).
RefWorks is available for free to all Syracuse University students, faculty, and staff, as well as visitors using the campus network on-site (see http://library.syr.edu/cite/refworks.html).
Questions about RefWorks? Contact refworks@syr.edu.
Books24X7 ITPro provides both broad and deep coverage of over 100 technology topics from over 145 publishers including premier industry publishers, such as Wrox, McGraw-Hill, Apress, and Microsoft Press. Popular book series such as The Complete Reference, Inside Out, Bibles and many others provide multifaceted, multi-skilled approaches to topics.
As of January 2007, the collection includes over 5,400 titles with, on average, over 50 new titles added per month. ITPro also includes community-driven content. This content, developed as a direct result of user requests, provides coverage of specific aspects of technology, including emerging technologies--coverage that is not readily available from traditional sources.
Note: Access limited to foursimultaneous users. Registration with SU or ESF ID is required.
To access this resource, go to:
http://libezproxy.syr.edu/login?url=http://library.books24x7.com/library.asp?^B
CONTACT
Maryjane Poulin
443-9771
mdpoulin@syr.edu
"Welcome to SU Library" is a new three-part tutorial describing Syracuse University Library's locations as well as its web site and research tools. It offers an introduction to new students or to anyone who would like to learn more about the Library's services.
The tutorials can be viewed individually in three short segments or as one tutorial, depending on preference. The tutorials are interactive, requiring some participation throughout the experience.
The tutorials will be reviewed and updated periodically. Please complete the survey at the end of each tutorial to provide important feedback.
Tutorials are available at: http://library.syr.edu/instruction/tutorials/welcome/tutorials.html
Abby Kasowitz-Scheer
Head of Instructional Services
Syracuse University Library
Syracuse, NY 13244-2010
(315) 443-1943
askasowi@syr.edu
The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) announces a new, annual event to be hosted by ICPSR: the ICPSR Undergraduate Research Paper Competition!
The purpose of the competition is to highlight the best undergraduate student research papers using quantitative data. The objective is to encourage undergraduates to explore the social sciences by means of critical analysis of a topic supported by quantitative analysis of a dataset(s) held within the ICPSR archive and presented in written form.
Up to three cash prizes will be awarded. The winner will receive a monetary award of $1,000. Second place receives $750 and third place $500.
Deadline for submission is January 31, 2007.
For further information go to http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/prize/ or contact Paul Bern, Numeric Data Services Librarian (see contact information below).
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Paul H. Bern, Ph.D.
Numeric Data Services Librarian
352 Bird Library
222 Waverly Ave.
Syracuse, NY 13244
315-443-1352
http://library.syr.edu/information/mgi/nds
"Welcome to Syracuse University Library 2006-2007: Your Guide to Library Services" will be of particular interest to new students. It outlines the Library's services and collections and includes tips for using the Library. Find out how to check out books, get course reserve materials, borrow laptops for in-library use, scan items, print and copy materials, use audio and video resources, and much more. Information on getting research help and advice is also included.
The guide is available online at: http://library.syr.edu/publications/WelcometoLibrary_10mb.pdf . (Please note that the file is 10 MB and may take some time to load.)
Contact:
Abby Kasowitz-Scheer
Head of Instructional Services
Syracuse University Library
Syracuse, NY 13244-2010
(315) 443-1943
askasowi@syr.edu
Syracuse University Library has developed a research guide to help students explore themes in The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, the book chosen by the Syracuse University Shared Reading Program for 2006-2007 (and by Central New York Reads). The guide includes book reviews, author biographies and interviews, and resources on topics such as Afghanistan history, art and culture; discrimination; immigrants and refugees; religion; human rights; and more. The guide refers students to books, articles, audio files, films and videos, images, music, photography, and web sites. Tips on finding materials are provided.
See the web guide at:
http://library.syr.edu/instruction/class/sharreadKite/index.html
The University Library’s Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) current exhibition is entitled Imagine! Painters and Poets of the New York School. The exhibition is part of the Syracuse Symposium, which for 2006/2007 has chosen imagination as its theme.
On display is material from the recently processed Grace Hartigan Papers, as well as from the University Art Collection, the Grove Press Archives, and SCRC’s extensive holdings of art and literary magazines from the 1950s. Grace Hartigan (1922–) was a major participant in the explosion of creative energy that was the New York artistic and literary scene of the early 1950s. An important abstract expressionist painter, Hartigan was included in the famous show Twelve Americans at the Museum of Modern Art in 1956. Her friends and correspondents included Frank O’Hara, Larry Rivers, Barbara Guest, and Joan Mitchell.
The exhibition is available weekdays, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (excepting holidays) until December 15, 2006, after which time it will travel to the Palitz Gallery at the Joseph I. Lubin House in New York City.
The exhibition opening is free and open to the public. Pay parking is available in the Marion visitor lot.
CONTACT
Mary Beth Hinton
Syracuse University Library
315-443-2130
mbhinton@syr.edu
Last academic semester, E. S. Bird Library began a computing and printing pilot program for SU students. During the trial 10 General Reference Area computers were installed with Microsoft Office software (including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, and PhotoEditor), networked campus printing, and student directory files, in addition to access to the Internet and library online resources.
This fall the Library will expand this program to bring students additional computing software on these machines (similar to that of other labs around campus), as well as several more throughout the third and fourth floors of E. S. Bird Library and in the Science and Technology Library. A NetID login and password are needed to access the machines.
Starting on August 21, you can chat live with a librarian using instant messaging service and get reference and research help in realtime.
From your IM account, type in the screen name: SULibraryHelp.
Visit the SU Library web site (library.syr.edu) and click on Ask Us for IM hours.
Arts & Humanities Services currently presents The Horse in Art, a display featuring SU Library materials related to the artistic representation of horses from prehistory to the present day. The display will remain up until late August.
Contact:
Edward Gokey
eagokey@syr.edu
315-443-4160
Syracuse University, Syracuse University Law, and SUNY ESF Libraries have announced their participation once again in a “Food for Fines” amnesty day on November 29,2007. On thatday, borrowers will receive a $1 credit off their overdue fines for every non-perishable food item they donate. To qualify for credit, food may be brought to the of Bird Library circulation desk or any of the SU Library branches and reading rooms, or the SU Law Library between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 7:00 p.m.or to Moon Library between 8:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.
All food collected will be donated to the Syracuse Downtown Emergency Services for distribution to those in need all over Onondaga County.
For more information, please contact: Bevan Angier at 443-9765.
RefWorks, the popular web-based bibliographic management database, is now available to SU students, faculty and staff through a campus-wide license purchased by Syracuse University Library. RefWorks, from Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, is a leading online tool for helping students better understand and efficiently manage proper academic citation formats. RefWorks also provides invaluable citation management assistance to any researcher working with a high volume of outside sources.
RefWorks allows students and faculty to pull citations into the RefWorks system when researching the SUMMIT catalog and compatible databases. You can also manually enter references or convert them from related bibliographic software packages like EndNote. RefWorks supports many popular citation styles, such as MLA, APA, and Chicago.
To access SU Library's RefWorks subscription, simply go to the "Cite It!" web page (http://library.syr.edu/cite) and click on RefWorks. No separate software is required. You can create your own personal RefWorks account and manage your bibliographic citations online.
For assistance in using Refworks, contact the Library's reference service in-person, by phone, or via the web at http://library.syr.edu/information/reference/index.html.
Many students would like to be able to work on papers and print them out from the Library. In response to their requests, E.S. Bird Library has launched a computing and printing trial. For the trial, 11 General Reference Area computers will provide students with access to Microsoft Office software (including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, and PhotoEditor), networked campus printing, and student directory files. The workstations are located in the first floor reference area on the east side of the Library near the windows.
Please note:
· In order to use these computers, students must login with their NETID and password.
· Students can access Microsoft Office software, online library resources, the Internet, the student printing quota system, and student directory files on these computers.
· Those without NetIDs may use other General Reference Area computers for connecting to online library resources and the Internet.
The first floor Reference Desk will provide answers to questions about this service and assistance with software problems.
As part of the School of Architecture move, the Architecture Reading Room in Slocum Hall closed on December 15, 2005, and will reopen in its new downtown location on January 17, 2006.
The Architecture Reading Room can be reached at its original phone number: 443-3518.
Melinda Dermody
Head of Arts & Humanities Services
Syracuse University Library
Syracuse University
222 Waverly Ave.
Syracuse NY 13244-2010
p: 315.443.5332
e: mdermo01@syr.edu
SciFinder Scholar 2006 is a major upgrade for the Windows platform with improved search tools. SciFinder Scholar 2006 for Windows requires Windows 98, Me, 2000, XP, or NT 4.0. A web browser is needed to access full text via ChemPort, online Help, and Internet resources within the Tools menu. Plug-ins must be installed in the Netscape and Firefox plug-ins and components folders for some features in ChemPort, e.g., Reference Linking. The plug-in is installed automatically during the SciFinder Scholar 2006 installation. Java and Javascript must be enabled and cookies must be accepted for some features in Chemport.
SciFinder Scholar OS X is the long-awaited version for Macintosh OS X. Researchers should see improved performance and fewer problems with retrieving full-text of articles via ChemPort. SciFinder Scholar OS X requires Macintosh OS X operating system 10.2 or newer. A web browser is needed to access full text via ChemPort, online Help, and Internet resources within the Tools menu. Java and Javascript must be enabled and cookies must be accepted for some features in Chemport.
Visit the Library's SciFinder Scholar webpage to download the new software and users manuals: http://library.syr.edu/research/database/scifinder/
Contact Tom Keays htkeays@syr.edu or 443-9769 for assistance or information.
To connect with ILLiad you must type "https:" (instead of "http:") at the beginning of the URL.
These new databases became available on July 1 and are accessible via SUMMIT, the online catalog, and the Databases Main Menu.
The new databases include:
ARTstor
A collection of 300,000 images for use in the teaching and study of art, architecture and archaelogy. Specialized image collections include Asian art, Native American art and culture from the Smithsonian, the MoMA collection for architecuture and design and the Schlesinger photograph collection on the history of women in America.
Classical Music Library from Alexander Street Press
Classical music from the earliest Gregorian chants to works by modern composers-including symphonic music, vocal and instrumental music, choral works, and other forms.
Foundation Directory Online from the Foundation Center
Extensive program details for 1,500+ leading foundations; detailed application guidelines for 7,200+ foundations; and sponsoring company information for corporate givers. This service also includes a searchable file of more than half a million grants. The Trustees, Officers, and Donors search field and its corresponding index allow users to search among over 350,000 trustee, officer and donor names.
NewspaperARCHIVE Elite from EBSCO
Search hundreds of newspapers (.pdf) by title and date or by keyword. Database includes the Syracuse Post Standard. Coverage for some papers goes back to the 1700's.
Nancy Turner
Web of Knowledge provides access to the content of 8,700 authoritative, high-impact journals, including 200 open-access journals covered by Science Citation Index ExpandedTM, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
Using cited reference searching, a unique search method, users can navigate forward, backward, and through the literature, searching all disciplines and time spans to uncover information relevant to their research. Users can also navigate to electronic full-text journal articles.
Access to this database is available through SUMMIT, the online catalog, through the Databases Main Menu, and directly at http://libezproxy.syr.edu/login?url=http://isiknowledge.com
By the opening of the fall semester current periodicals and newspapers on the second floor of E.S. Bird Library, as well as materials having call numbers that begin with B, C, and D, will have been shifted to new second-floor locations.
Current periodicals and newspapers will move to a more visible and comfortable location adjacent to the soft seating area, by the west-side windows facing the Schine Student Center.
Temporary stacks will be built near the present Current Periodicals area to house the books with call numbers in the BVs to the BZs. Temporary signage will be posted for the time that these books are out of sequence, and staff will be available to help locate books. By mid-August the temporary stacks will be removed, and the area will again become a reading space.
Finally, to help increase available shelving throughout E.S. Bird Library, selected JSTOR journalsthat is, those journals that have an online electronic equivalent through the JSTOR programwill be removed from the general collection stacks.
Half hidden in the hill just east of E.S. Bird Library, the Belfer Audio Laboratory and Archive was the first facility of its kind in the world built specifically to preserve an audio collection. More and more faculty and students are discovering that its door opens upon a world of possibilities: Belfer contains 340,000 audio recordings in a variety of formats; a recording studio with two control rooms, both for studio recording and preservation mastering activities; a public research reading room; and a classroom/phonograph display gallery.
Syracuse University Library began its audio archive in 1963 with the acquisition of the Joseph and Max Bell Collection of some 150,000 sound recordings. The archive and a laboratory were housed in the off-campus Continental Can Company building until, with support from Diane and Arthur B. Belfer and the John Ben Snow Memorial Trust, the Belfer Audio Laboratory and Archive facility opened in 1982.
From the 1970s to the early 1990s, Belfer was a leader in the development of international standards for preservation and dissemination of sound recordings, and in research on sound recording and production methods. Sadly, budget cuts made it necessary to scale back the operation, which went into maintenance mode, with a full-time curator, Susan Stinson, assisted by a part-time cataloger and work-study students.
Nevertheless, since 1993 students in the College of Visual and Performing Arts (CVPA) Music Industry Program, have been getting hands-on experience in Belfers laboratory. Sound engineering professor James Abbott teaches music recording by conducting sessions in Belfers studio. More advanced students use the studio for independent study projects.
Students of David Rezak, faculty advisor and instructor for Syracuse University Recordings, a student-run label, have used many cuts from Belfer (for example, a 1980 recording of Dizzy Gillespie with the SU Jazz Ensemble) in their CD releases.
Students also helped create a historic compilation of sounds from the Universitys world-famous Holtkamp organ, which is located in Setnor Auditorium. The resulting CD continues to bring recognition to the performers, the instrument, the archive, the Setnor School of Music, and the student label.
The laboratory part of Belfer received a boost in 1999, when the Institute of Museum and Library Services, a federal agency, funded the Radius Project, which revived a project that had languished since 1985: to develop a laser cylinder playback system that could reproduce historically accurate (sonically correct) sound in a non-destructive, flexible, and cost-effective manner. With additional development, the Radius laser reader could be used to play back Belfers distinguished collection of cylinders for preservation, teaching, and research purposes without damaging the often-fragile cylinders themselves.
A New Vitality
Belfer acquired a full-time engineer, Robert Hodge, in December 2003, which reflects the Librarys renewed commitment to Belfer. The position is partly supported by the Fleming Educational Unitrust, directed by Fine Arts Professor Emeritus Frank Macomber.
Recently, the influx of students from CVPA, as well as other schools and colleges, has increased. For example, Belfer hosted 10 Freshman Forum classes in 20042005. According to curator Susan Stinson, When students come into Belfer they see displays of historical audio formats and phonographsan instant education in the 100-plus-year history of sound recording.
Faculty in the Colleges of Arts and Sciences (CAS) and of Engineering and Computing Science have been using the laboratory to remaster Belfer recordings and to transfer their own LPs to compact disc for classroom use. Fine Arts faculty members plan to showcase Belfer when they host the American Musicological Societys annual meeting in April 2006.
Revitalized interest in Belfer among campus partners has encouraged the Librarys associate university librarian for Collection Services and manager of Belfer, Peter McDonald, to pursue large-scale plans for Belfer, which involve partnerships among music industry leaders and sound archive professionals. Such plans are in concert with Chancellor Nancy Cantors vision for building a creative campus that is engaged in the community and in the world.
According to McDonald, Belfer is poised to serve as a center of digital excellence. The archive could play a leading role nationally in the creation, management, and dissemination of digital sound content, which would also tie in with CVPAs Music Industry Program and its digital rights management work.
There are myriad opportunities for campus collaborations. McDonald continued, The archive will become a magnet for graduate scholarship and internshipsa veritable digital laboratory for theses and dissertationswith programs in CVPA, the School of Information Studies, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Newhouse School of Public Communications. Furthermore, as the material in Belfer is digitized, it will grow in utility for students working on documentaries, news clips, movies, and other media formats.
The Belfer Audio Laboratory and Archive is poised for an exciting future. Not only will it continue to serve a growing constituency on campus with expertise and world-class collections, but it is equally rising to a national leadership position in the areas of music copyright, digital recorded-sound repositories, and public access to the worlds heritage in sound.
Gregory Griffin and David Rezak
From the Spring 2005 Library Connection newsletter
The Library will sponsor a two-day workshop, Introduction to GIS Using
ArcGIS 9.1, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sept. 12 and 13, 2005. The workshop will be held in the Elecronic Training Center on the lower level of E.S. Bird Library.
The workshop was originally scheduled for July 7 and 8, 2005.
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology has applications in
practically every field, and people who know how to work with it are in
demand in today's highly competitive job market. Learn how to take
advantage of this powerful technology with Introduction to ArcGIS using
ArcView 9.1. This two-day workshop will provide you with a hands-on
opportunity to begin using the world's most popular GIS software.
Description of the Workshop: The workshop will give you the
instruction you need to put ArcView to work for you right away. Through
a series of instructor-led demonstrations and hands-on exercises, you
will learn how to use ArcView to display, edit, query, and analyze
geographic data, as well as display and edit maps and charts.
Who should attend: ArcView is designed for and used by engineers,
planners, public utility managers, marketing professionals, public
safety personnel, natural resource managers, academic professionals, and
others who work with maps and other forms of geographic data.
Hands-on exercises: Each participant will have their own computer to
use in exploring the software and completing the exercises included in
the workshop.
Materials: You will also receive a 572-page introductory text "Getting
to Know ArcGIS Desktop" 2nd edition, and a CD-ROM with exercise data and
a FREE 180-day trial copy of ArcGIS 9.0 software. You will also learn
what's new in ArcGIS 9.1
Instructor: Nicholas Colas, who has more than twenty years of
experience in the use of geographic information systems. Over the last
12 years he has successfully taught hundreds of students how to
utilize GIS tools and techniques. Since 1995 his teaching has focused
primarily on ArcView, which he uses extensively in his work as an
employee of the Cayuga County Planning Department.
For more information and an application for this workshop go to the URL
below, or contact John Olson for more information.
http://libwww.syr.edu/information/mgi/GISWorkshops2005.html
John A. Olson
Maps/GIS Librarian
358 Bird Library
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY 13244
E jaolson@syr.edu
P 315-443-4818
F 315-443-9510
Last fall, the Vice Chancellor and Provosts Committee on Academic Integrity (VPCAI) conducted a survey regarding academic dishonesty on campus. The committee collected survey data from current graduate and undergraduate students, TAs and faculty at Syracuse University and SUNY ESF, and compared these data to those from other post-secondary institutions. The full report of forced-choice responses to the survey is available on reserve at E. S. Bird Library. Two copies are available for two-hour loan. Ask for the following call number at the first floor reserve desk: AAO 1.
Syracuse University students, faculty and staff can find additional research reports on the MySlice portal (myslice.syr.edu).
General information on the VPCAI and its work is on the web at: provost.syr.edu/integrity.asp
The Library has created a web page to describe the benefits and limitations of Googles new search tool, Google Scholar. The page includes tips for using Google Scholar and for finding the full text of articles, books, and other resources at Syracuse University Library.
Currently in beta version, Google Scholar attempts to link to scholarly research materials (e.g., articles, papers, etc.) on the web. It may be useful for some researchers looking for a few articles on a topic but is quite limited in scope. Find out more at:
library.syr.edu/instruction/questions/Google-Scholar.htm
Contact:
Abby Kasowitz-Scheer
Head of Instructional Programs
443-1943
askasowi@syr.edu
http://library.syr.edu/instruction
To find out what services and information the Library offers for users with disabilities, go to http://libwww.syr.edu/information/disabilities/index.html . From that page, there are links to additional pages: "Assistive Technology," "Building Access," "Parking," "Key Contacts," and "Related Links."
George Abbott
Head, Media Services Department
E.S. Bird Library
Beginning March 8, a passport security surcharge of $12 will be
collected on ALL passport applications, according to the U.S. State Department.
This surcharge will fund multiple security enhancements in the U.S.
Passport.
The $12 surcharge will be collected along with the regular passport
application fee of $55 for those 16 and older (total fee $67) and $40
for those under age 16 (total fee $52) for routine service. The $30
execution fee (payable to the processing agent) and $60 expedite fee
will remain the same.
The surcharge will also support the cost of upgrading passport delivery
from First Class Mail to Priority Mail. Customers will still have the
option to purchase two-way overnight delivery at an additional cost.
Also effective March 8, the fee to search Department of State records
to verify an applicant's U.S. citizenship is being increased from $45 to
$60.
More on passports:
http://travel.state.gov/passport/passport_1738.html
Lesley Pease
Maps & Government Information Department
3rd floor, E.S. Bird Library
315.443.4176
mapdocs@syr.edu
http://library.syr.edu/research/internet/government/index.html
The Library's information bulletins are now on the web in PDF format
at: http://library.syr.edu/instruction/handouts/index.html.
Links to this resource are also available from pages within the
library.syr.edu/instruction directory and from the
publications/index.html page.
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Abby Kasowitz-Scheer
Head of Instructional Programs
Syracuse University Library
Syracuse, NY 13244-2010
(315) 443-1943
askasowi@syr.edu
In support of the If All of Central New York Read The Grapes of Wrath initiative and the Syracuse Stage production of The Grapes of Wrath, the Librarys Special Collections Research Center is now displaying holdings related to radicalism in literature and art. The exhibition, titled Steinbecks Grapes of Wrath: Bitter Fruit of the Depression, will be available Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., in the sixth floor exhibit gallery of E.S. Bird Library until May 27, 2005.
Along with examples of contemporary critical response to publication of John Steinbecks The Grapes of Wrath, the exhibition includes other, if less well-known, Depression-era novels by Robert Cantwell, Edward Dahlberg, and Grace Lumpkin; an assortment of 1930s cartoons by A. Redfield, Otto Soglow, and Art Young; and a retrospective look at the uses of art, particularly drama, in the service of revolutionary ideology.
The exhibition is supported by the Peter Graham Fund for Radicalism in Literature and Art. Graham was University Librarian at Syracuse University from 1998 until his death in August 2004. During the 1960s, Graham was an active member of the Young Peoples Socialist League in Chicago and New York City. In 1963 he worked as an assistant to Bayard Rustin, executive director of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, managing the national office in Harlem for four months. Graham continued to be active in social organizations; in 2002, he and his wife, Lewraine Graham, were awarded the NAACP Presidents Award for service to the Syracuse/Onondaga County branch. The Graham Fund was established in Peter Grahams honor by his father, Harold Graham, and Harolds wife, Alaine Krim, of New York City.
The Special Collections Research Center at Syracuse University Library has a rich array of materials pertaining to the expression of radical thought in literature and art. In addition to printed works, the Center holds the papers of Arna Bontemps, Granville Hicks, Lillian Gilkes, John Spivak, Horace Gregory, and Harry Roskolenko, and the records of Grove Press, to name a few of the more important collections.
"The Bill of Rights," a traveling exhibition by book artist Richard Minsky will be available for viewing in the Sixth Floor Gallery of E.S. Bird Library from January 31 to April 1, 2005. This exhibition is sponsored by the Special Collections Research Center.
Minsky will, in addition, deliver a lecture in the Syracuse Seminar in the History of the Book series titled "Material as Metaphor" at 4 p.m. on Friday, March 4, 2005, in the Hillyer Room on the sixth floor of E.S. Bird Library.
The following day Minsky will offer a workshop for book artists, also on the sixth floor of E.S. Bird Library.
For further information, go to scrc.syr.edu.
Prominent book artist Richard Minsky will deliver a lecture in the Syracuse Seminar in the History of the Book series titled "Material as Metaphor" at 4 p.m. on Friday, March 4, 2005, in the Hillyer Room on the sixth floor of E.S. Bird Library.
The following day Minsky will offer a workshop for book artists, also on the sixth floor of E.S. Bird Library.
For further information, go to scrc.syr.edu.
See the display of tax forms and instruction booklets in the hallway near the elevators. If you do not see the form or instruction you need, ask at our desk. Every form is available for photocopying.
In addition, forms are available at the following web sites:
Federal
http://www.irs.gov/formspubs/index.html
New York State
http://www.tax.state.ny.us/forms/default.htm
Lesley Pease
Maps & Government Information Department
3rd floor, E.S. Bird Library
mapdocs@syr.edu
315.443.3209
In response to Chancellor Nancy Cantors invitation, to campus and community, to explore the Soul of Syracuse, the Syracuse University Library will lead an exploration of the concept of soul itself. The What Is Soul? program will include an interactive website, a keepsake publication, a symposium, and a keynote speech at the Syracuse University Library Associates annual Spring Luncheon. The Library invites all members of the campus and local community to participate in the program.
The Librarys What Is Soul? web site, launched on November 16, 2004, provides a context within which faculty, staff, students, alumni, parents, friends, and the local community can share personal reflections and perspectives on soul. In addition, the What Is Soul? website will list resources, quotes, examples, and definitions of soul. A schedule of What Is Soul? programs will also be online. Click libwww.syr.edu/soul to visit the site.
Responding to requests from students and faculty in the Maxwell School, SU Library has added full subscription access to UNCOMTRADE. This United Nations database is a platform for exploring detailed commodity statistics pertaining to the economics of global trade. Produced by the statistics division of the UN, the UNCOMTRADE database each year captures merchandise trade statistics as reported by over 130 countries. Although international trade statistics are commonly available in a variety of sources, this database is particularly unique because of its level of specificity relevant to certain commodity classifications. Its data are arranged according to five variables: country, commodity category (referenced by both the Harmonized System and the Standard International Trade Classification), trading partner country, year (ranging from the late 1960s through to the current period) and trade flow (import, export or re-export). All reported values are converted into U.S. Dollars. While the UN allows guest users some free content from UNCOMTRADE, the new SU Library subscription will allow SU affiliated students, faculty, and staff unlimited downloads. A link to this database appears on the SU Library web site Database Main Menu. Access it from the alphabetical list of databases or, alternatively, under specific database subject categories such as economics and international relations.
-Michael Pasqualoni, Reference Librarian for Political Science, Public Administration, International Relations & Economics mjpasqua@syr.edu
The Comprehensive Report of the Special Advisor to the Director of Central
Intelligence on Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction (Duelfer Report) released
September 30, 2004, will be distributed to SU Library (and all other federal
depository libraries) in paper format soon.
For immediate access to the report:
http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS54633
The entire print report will be disseminated in three volumes. A separate volume of key findings, which were extracted from the report, will also be distributed. Depository libraries will receive chronologies in the form of six-foot fold-outs.
Lesley Pease
Head, Maps & Government Information
On Monday, September 27, Syracuse University Library will be be changing the look of its LibChat reference service.
Although the look of the chat window itself will be different, you can still expect the same great service. Log in and give it a try. Just click the AskUs link under the Services menu on the Library homepage.
For more information about LibChat, read our help page or contact Tom Keays (443-9769) or Tasha Cooper (443-9523).
This expansive encyclopedia contains articles describing devices, techniques, and technologies that are critical to research at atomic, molecular, and macromolecular levels, ranging from 1 to 100 nanometers. It identifies current challenges and development paths that will influence fields ranging from materials and surface science, chemistry, and biomedicine, to computer technology, information processing, and mechanical, optical, and electrical engineering. The encyclopedia contains articles on new simulation tools and computational methods, application of nanotechnologies in drug delivery, biomedical devices, recording media, environmental remediation, and many other areas.
Initially published with 324 articles and nearly 4,000 pictures, illustrations, and tables, the Dekker Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology cites more than 21,000 works and offers customized content views and a personalized Table of Contents alerting service. It is updated quarterly, providing 10 percent new and updated content per year for the life of the edition.
Editors include Syracuse Universitys James A. Schwarz, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science.
Dekker is a digital publisher that offers authoritative scientific, technical, and medical content accessible at the article level with linked references.
For on-campus access, visit www.dekker.com/servlet/product/productid/E-ENN.
From off campus, access via the SUMMIT catalog (summit.syr.edu).
Peter S. Graham, University Librarian at Syracuse University, died Aug. 11 at his home in Syracuse after a long battle with lymphoma. He was 65.
Graham had served as University Librarian since Sept. 1, 1998. As head of the SU Library, he revitalized the staff structure by appointing nationally known leaders as heads of major Library areas. He successfully called for increases in librarians salaries and support staffs base wages, also obtaining a $1 million base budget increase in the Librarys acquisitions budget. Grahams emphasis throughout his tenure was on supporting traditional scholarly materials, primarily print, as well as the new technologies of research distribution. He inaugurated the ongoing SU Seminar in the History of the Book and made library facilities home for many other campus-wide intellectual activities.
Prior to coming to SU, Graham was associate university librarian for technical and networked information services at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, from 1987-98. He also served as associate vice president for information services at Rutgers, where he transformed the capabilities of administrative and academic computing and oversaw construction of a new library technical services building. He began his career in librarianship at the Research Libraries Group in its early days and has also been a librarian and manager at Columbia and Indiana universities. His earliest professional experience was with early IBM machines at the Association of American Medical Colleges.
In 1990, Graham founded the electronic bulletin board ExLibris, a forum for more than 1,600 rare book and special collections librarians; he was moderator until 1995. Graham was elected to the Council of the American Library Association (ALA) in 1993 and re-elected in 1997. He chaired the board of the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities at Rutgers and Princeton universities, was elected to the Council of the Bibliographical Society of America and served as a member of its Publication and Web Advisory committees. He was a member of the advisory board of the Rare Book School of the University of Virginia.
He authored more than 30 scholarly pieces, including New Roles for Special Collections on the Network (College & Research Libraries, 1998) and Requirements for the Digital Research Library (College & Research Libraries, 1995), which received an ALA award as that journals outstanding article of the year. He also wrote Intellectual Preservation: Electronic Preservation of the Third Kind for the Council on Preservation and Access and Electronic Information and Research Library Technical Services (College & Research Libraries, 1990).
His writing and speaking in the 1990s primarily addressed the emerging issues of digital preservation. He emphasized an area that he called intellectual preservationthe assurance to a reader of an electronic document that it is in fact what it purports to be.
His key professional recognitions included election to the board of the Research Libraries Group, from 1999-2003, and membership on the steering committee of the Coalition for Networked Information, from 2002-04.
During the 1960s, Graham was an active member of the Young Peoples Socialist League in Chicago and New York City. In 1963, he worked as an assistant to Bayard Rustin, executive director of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, managing the national office in Harlem for four months. Graham continued to be active in social organizations; in 2002, he and his wife, Lewraine Graham, were awarded the NAACP Presidents Award for service to the Syracuse/Onondaga County branch.
Graham studied English at Columbia University and earned graduate degrees in English Renaissance literature there and at Oxford University. He subsequently earned a graduate library degree at Indiana University.
He is survived by his wife, the former Lewraine Buckingham of York, Pa., a professional artist; son Andrew Graham of Boston; and daughter Rae Buckley of Carrboro, N.C. He is also survived by his father, Harold N. Graham, and his fathers wife, Alaine Krim, and by siblings Margaret Schultz, Vicki Graham, Emily Graham and Rocky Graham.
Calling hours are Sunday, Aug. 15, 1 to 3 p.m., with the service to follow at 3 p.m., at Greenleaf Funeral Home, 503 W. Onondaga St., Syracuse. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Syracuse University Library in memory of Peter Graham.
The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (9-11 Commission) is releasing its final report. The report will be available after 11:30 AM on July 22, 2004 from the U.S. Government Printing Office.
The Commission, an independent, bipartisan commission created by congressional legislation under the signature of President George W. Bush in late 2002, is chartered to prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, including preparedness for and the immediate response to the attacks. The Commission is also mandated to provide recommendations designed to guard against future attacks.
The 9-11 Commission's Final Report is available on GPO Access at http://www.gpoaccess.gov/911/index.html. The Report has been made available in its entirety, as a single PDF file, and is also available as a collection of smaller PDFs arranged in a browse table based on the document's table of contents.
In addition, the Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (9-11 Commission) will be distributed to Federal depository libraries (including the Syracuse University Library) in paper format.
In their Online June Update of June 15, 2004, Oxford Online Products of Oxford University Press reports that the new OED contains more than 2,800 new and revised words. Their announcment continues:
The latest alphabetical range to be revised is OLM to ORATURE. Coverage is broadincluding everything from OMIGOD and OMIGOSH to OMBUDSPERSON and ONE-WORLDISM. The revisions for this update revealed an earlier origin than previously known for many words, including OPEN-MINDED (1748), OOH (as in oohs and ahs - 1602), and OPPORTUNISTICALLY (1915). (See http://www.oed.com/help/updates/olm-orature.html for full update details.)
THE LATEST VOCABULARY
Do you wear JOHN LENNONs? Have you tried PILATES or KITESURFING? Do you spend too much time in TV LAND? Do you have any CYBERPETS? These are just some of the many new words and phrases which have been added to OED Online as part of the latest update. You can explore the full list of out-of-sequence new entries at http://www.oed.com/help/latest.htm.
NEW FEATURES
SEARCHABLE HELP TEXT
The OED Online Help pages (http://dictionary.oed.com/help/) are now fully searchable and allow users quick access to the in-depth help resources available on the site. The Help section is also now available to non-subscribers and has been redesigned with a frames-free format. Users accessing the general site search option at http://dictionary.oed.com/general/search.html now have the option to limit their search to the Help text by using a drop-down menu.
COUNTER-COMPLIANT USAGE STATISTICS
A new presentation of OED usage statistics in COUNTER-compliant format will soon be available. This is in addition to the existing detailed format and can be accessed by a separate link to a new display summarizing searches and sessions. All statistics are available from the Customer Service pages of OED Online at http://dictionary.oed.com/services/
AUTHOR/BIBLIOGRAPHY LINKING COMING SOON
We are currently working on some new functionality that will offer a quick look-up from quotations to bibliography. Many author names will become hyperlinks, and, when selected, will launch a new window displaying the OED bibliography for that author. This means that the names and abbreviated work titles can be more easily seen in their full form in order to identify them for further research or library catalogue consultation.
NEW ISSUE OF OED NEWS
The June issue of OED News is now available at http://dictionary.oed.com/newsletters/2004-06/ and can be downloaded as a PDF file. This month's features: read about a day in the life of the OED through contributions from a wide range of staff. As usual, the issue also includes an appeal for help with particular words: for example, can you help us track down pre-1989 examples of "plinky-plonky" or pre-1981 examples of "plank" (as in a stupid person)? If you can help, please e-mail oed3@oup.com.
Those who wish to learn more about the OED will enjoy the following article, by Wendy Bousfield, subject librarian for English and Textual Studies.
OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY (OED) ONLINE
Researchers who want to know an English words various meanings or evolution consult the Oxford English Dictionary, the most comprehensive historical dictionary of the English language. In the 1980s, computer technology began to transform the method of compilation of this 118-year-old publication. In 2000 the OED became available as an online database. (Go to the SUMMIT Databases Main Menu [http://libwww.syr.edu/research/database/index.html], and click on the letter O.)
Researchers who wish merely to survey the chronologically arranged definitions under a head word may choose to consult the second edition of the OED, located in the E.S. Bird Library Reference stacks: REF PE 1625 .O 87 1989. However, the online version has advantages. Every quarter new words are added and existing entries revised. Researchers may use wildcards in their word searches, locate the time period their word was used from a date range chart, and e-mail entries to themselves. Furthermore, computer technology has unlocked the worlds largest dictionary of quotations. In the Advanced Search, researchers