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SULAIR NEWS – November 1, 2002
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
- Access the CDROM Network from the Web!
- New Head of Cataloging and Metadata Services
- Mia Rode, Cataloging Services Liaison Retires
- SUL/AIR Job Opportunities
1. Access the CDROM Network from the Web!
The CDROM Network has gone through a major upgrade and is now ready for the Stanford community to use for their research. The CDROM Network is a Citrix-based system that allows you to access specified CDROM titles remotely. In the past, the only way to access the CDROM Network was to use the Citrix Program Neighborhood application that was installed on all staff, kiosk, and cluster machines around the libraries. You can now access the CDROM Network using your Web browser.
To access the network, go to http://cdserver.stanford.edu. This site is Web authenticated, so you will need to have a valid SUNet ID to
gain access. (Non-Stanford folks will ONLY be able to access the CDROM Network using a public kiosk located in one of the libraries on campus. To connect, go to START Menu-->Citrix Program Neighborhood. The list of CDROM titles will appear.)
On the main page, there lists a brief FAQ that you should read before moving on to the page that publishes the available CDROM titles. The system has been tested on the PC platform only, but should work on Mac and UNIX platforms with the proper Web client installed. (See the FAQ.)
The CDROM titles that are currently being delivered through this network are as follows:
Historical Statistics of the U.S.
Index Islamicus
Lira
Phase Equilibria Diagram
Powder Diffraction File
The Merck Index
More CDROM titles will be added to the network in the near future. If you have any questions with connecting to this system, please email Ronnie Fields (rfields@stanford.edu).
--submitted by Ronnie Fields
2. New Head of Cataloging and Metadata Services
I am very happy to announce that Katherine B. Kott has accepted our offer as Head of Cataloging and Metadata Services - aka, Head of Cataloging - and will begin work on January 6, 2003. Katherine currently is Director of Implementation Services at Innovative Interfaces, Inc. (Emeryville, CA), where she has worked since 1998 in various managerial positions. Before moving to California, Katherine was Systems Librarian at Bates College in Maine; in that role she managed the local library system, consulted across the whole library on process improvement, managed information technology beyond the library, and played a key role in consortium developments with Colby College and Bowdoin College. Earlier in her career, Katherine was a cataloger and head of technical services at Duke University School of Law.
The evolving role of the Head of Cataloging is critical to SUL's progress, so we searched very carefully over the two years since Phil Schreur moved to HighWire to find the right person to meet the challenges of the developing environment. The job description specifies that this person will (among other responsibilities): "Provide leadership for conceptual development of the SUL/AIR information space. Immediate concerns include: metadata infrastructure and standards; relation of these new mechanisms to the online catalog; linkages among disparate access systems on campus and beyond." We believe Katherine has the breadth of skills and experience to be this leader.
Our appreciation to Dianne Chilmonczyk for serving as Acting Head is boundless. Dianne immediately took up the initiatives Phil had begun and with her managers completed implementation of the "no-new-backlogs" process flow as well as managed and orchestrated the processing of large-scale acquisitions (i.e., bulk processing). Her work coordinating her staff efforts toward SAL3 is currently proceeding very well. Dianne's relentless commitment to Stanford objectives has been apparent in every job she has filled, and in this most recent role, she has shone brighter than ever. Please join me in thanking Dianne for her devotion to Cataloging in these past two years.
--submitted by Catherine Tierney
3. Mia Rode, Cataloging Services Liaison Retires
Mia Rode, Liaison for the Cataloging and Metadata Services Department, will be retiring from Stanford after thirty years of service. She leaves a distinguished body of accomplishment in the SUL cataloging program and in SUL project management.
Mia has been serving as Stanford's Liaison to the Library of Congress' Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) for BIBCO and as the Liaison to the Program for Latin American Cataloging (PLAC). Mia's enthusiasm for cooperative cataloging and viable, cost effective national standards contributed in no small measure to the effectiveness with which she has conducted many bibliographic cataloging projects for the Libraries. Many of you will remember her for two large federally funded projects: the Early American Imprints Project (EAI) and the Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature (GK). Since those projects, she has been an ardent contributor to both the Slavic and Hebraica programs here at Stanford, helping to write and manage many grants.
Through these involvements she has taken on subject areas, languages and expertise in preservation and special collections cataloging, that I am sure she would not have predicted as her career direction which began with music, government documents, Slavic studies and serials, followed by increasing management responsibility within the department. She continues to this moment researching, assimilating and proposing strategies for the many cataloging projects that seem to abound, as we prepare for occupation of our high-density storage facility in Livermore.
Mia's last day at work will be Friday November 8th and while she does not want the fanfare of a formal retirement party, she will be having her own 'open house' in our staff room on Meyer 3rd floor. She encourages you to stop by to see her on your way home from work, Wednesday November 6th between 3 and 5. I know so many of you join me in already missing her wise perspective, effortless grace, humor and indefatigable work ethic. Brava, Mia!
--submitted by Dianne Chilmonczyk
4. SUL/AIR Job Opportunities
SUL/AIR has no new positions this week.
For a complete description of open positions within SUL/AIR, visit the recently redesigned Opportunities for Employment page on the Human Resources Web site.
--submitted by Editorial Staff
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