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Representatives from regional campuses will share information on their sustainability programs and plans. Participants include:

• Tom Keays, Le Moyne College
• Steve Lloyd, SU Associate Director for Sustainability
• Cristina Pope, SUNY Upstate Medical University
• Sean Vormwald, Onondaga Community College
• Stephen Weiter, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry

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:

• Gary Pavela, Director of the University's Academic Integrity Office
  
• Rebecca Moore Howard, Professor of Writing and Rhetoric
  
• Steven Lux, Director of the Executive Education Program, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
  
• Diane Wiener, Director of the Disability Cultural Center

Contact amullike@syr.edu or x9519 if you need accommodations for a disability.

]]> http://library.syr.edu/blog/news/archives/001854.php http://library.syr.edu/blog/news/archives/001854.php Homepage News Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:24:38 -0500 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.

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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.

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/.

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.

Items saved in a WilsonWeb folder or saved searches will need to be recreated in EBSCO. Saved content and searches will not transfer automatically.

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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

Governments around the world have been a driving force fueling the explosion of open data on the Web, by making large data sets about their people and operations available as well as by funding science and medical research. As with scholarly publications, taxpayers and others have advocated making these valuable resources available through some form of "open access." Because this data is produced at a massive scale, and from locations throughout the globe, making these data objects available is not just a social or legal problem, it is also a technical problem.

Dr. Erickson, holder of numerous patents and a member of various Web standards working groups over the last two decades, will base his talk on his team's award-winning paper presented at the last I-SEMANTICS conference, "The TWC International Open Government Dataset Catalog." This paper describes TWC's efforts to aggregate descriptions of a diverse selection of more than 116 government dataset catalogs from around the world. The growing catalog is based on a practical dataset metadata model, now moving towards becoming a standard, for integrating such diverse datasets.

Erickson's talk is sponsored by SU Library & the SU iSchool's eScience Librarianship Program.

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