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SULAIR NEWS – August 17, 2005
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
- RSS Feeds Demo and Discussion Tomorrow
- Winners Announced for the 2005 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing
- Parker Library's Medieval Manuscripts on Web
- Physics Library's Campus Eateries Resource Moves to the University's Visitor & Neighbors Site
- IT Open House: This Year It's in Meyer and Green Libraries on October 27
- SULAIR News Resumes Weekly Publication on September 14
- SULAIR Job Opportunities
1. RSS Feeds Demo and Discussion Tomorrow
This week, the SULAIR Technology Chalk Talk will feature Brad Lauster from ITSS leading a demo and discussion of RSS feeds.
What: RSS Feeds demonstration and discussion
SULAIR Technology Chalk Talk
When: Thursday, 8/18, 2 - 3 PM
Where: Meyer Flexible Classroom (2nd floor)
RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication", and represents a way to add or aggregate dynamic web content from multiple sites into your web site or newsreader. In short, it allows people to syndicate content on the web.
It has emerged as a powerful tool for sifting and managing the growing volumes of web content for individual users. When embedded in your own web site, it can also transform a static web page to a dynamic one, with constant and automatically updating content coming from other sources.
USA Today published an excellent summary of RSS feeds and their use on college campuses earlier this month at: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2005-08-01-rss-research_x.htm
Brad will be demonstrating RSS feeds, and with the group, exploring how they might be leveraged in SULAIR.
--submitted by Chris Bourg and Tom Cramer
2. Winners Announced for the 2005 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing
George Hagen, author of the novel The Laments, and Mark Arax and Rick Wartzman, authors of the nonfiction book The King of California, received the biennial William Saroyan International Prize for Writing at a ceremony at Green Library on July 19. The $12,500 prize is awarded to authors of newly published works of fiction and nonfiction. Fiction finalists included How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer, The Calligrapher by Edward Docx and Bloodvine by Aris Janigian. Finalists in the nonfiction category include Chasing the Sea by Tom Bissell and The Children's Blizzard by David Laskin. For more information regarding the Saroyan Prize, please see http://saroyanprize.stanford.edu.
--submitted by Kelly Morris
3. Parker Library's Medieval Manuscripts on Web
In June, the University of Cambridge received a $1.4 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support work at Cambridge and Stanford that will make hundreds of medieval manuscripts accessible on the Internet. The collaborative project, involving the Stanford University Libraries, the Cambridge University Library and Corpus Christi College, will digitize more than 500 manuscripts housed in Corpus Christi's Parker Library. This unique collection, which spans the 6th to 16th centuries, contains some of the oldest works written in the English language, and some of the oldest extant examples of English art, as well as nearly a quarter of all the Anglo-Saxon manuscripts in the world.
Matthew Parker (1504-1575) was a powerful figure of the English Reformation, and was largely responsible for the establishment of the Church of England as a national institution. Parker served both Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, and at various times was Master of Corpus Christi College, Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University, confessor to Anne Boleyn, and Archbishop of Canterbury. Parker's greatest legacy is his library, consisting of some 600 manuscripts and books bequeathed to Corpus Christi in 1574. Parker was an avid book collector, salvaging medieval manuscripts dispersed at the dissolution of the monasteries; he was particularly keen in preserving those materials that related to Anglo-Saxon England, motivated by his search for evidence of an ancient English-speaking church independent of Rome.
Although the library has drawn visiting scholars from around the world for more than a century, access to its materials has been limited due to space and preservation concerns. The Parker on the Web project will digitize more than 200,000 pages, including editions, translations and secondary works. The effort will also create a rich electronic research environment, with supporting tools such as flexible links between high-quality images of the manuscript pages and supporting texts. This will allow scholars to conduct both text-based and contextual research. The Mellon Foundation grant will fund the project's first production phase. The full project is expected to be completed in about four years.
A prototype of the Parker on the Web site, produced in the course of earlier pre-production work, contains high-resolution page images for two complete manuscripts (Parts I and II of Matthew Paris' Chronica Maiora), as well as an encoded version of M.R. James's 1912 catalog describing the entire collection, plus a selection of secondary texts. It is currently available on the web at:
http://parkerweb.stanford.edu/
Prototype development and related tasks were supported by earlier grants from the Mellon Foundation and the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. Scholars and students in all relevant disciplines - especially medieval, Renaissance and early modern studies, art history, paleography, church history, the history of the English language and Anglo-Saxon studies - are invited to visit the prototype site. Feedback on the prototype will help the project team as a full site is designed and implemented in the months ahead.
SULAIR staff who contributed to the successful Mellon proposal for this project included Michael Gonzalez, John Haeger, Andrew Herkovic, Bill McPheron, John Mustain, Michael Olson, Jerry Persons, and Stu Snydman. John Haeger is the project director and Michael Olson is the project manager for the Stanford project team.
--submitted by Andrew Herkovic and John Haeger
4. Physics Library's Campus Eateries Resource Moves to the University's Visitor & Neighbors Site
In June 2001, the Physics Library launched its Campus Eateries web page, the
brainchild of then Physics Library Operations Manager, Terry Mesa. Since
its inception, the web page has grown in content and popularity and today
is known widely among Stanfordites as the most comprehensive list of
eateries on campus. This past spring, the University Webmaster asked
permission to move the Eateries page into the Stanford University Web
realm. After much discussion, it was decided that the page would best fit under
the University Web site's Visitors & Neighbors section. In mid-May, a
slightly modified version of the Eateries page was launched in this domain
at http://www.stanford.edu/home/visitors/eateries/index.html.
During Summer Quarter, the Physics Library and Visitor & Neighbors Eateries
pages will run in tandem. The Physics Library will pull its Eateries page
and fully relinquish page maintenance duties to the University's Web staff
in Fall 2005.
For an historical perspective, see the October 5, 2001 SUL/AIR News article
entitled "Campus Eateries Website", which announces the
original Eateries page.
--submitted by Rebecca Wedl and Stella Ota
5. IT Open House: This Year It's in Meyer and Green Libraries on October 27
Mark your calendar for this year's Information Technology Open House. It's on Thursday, October 27, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., in Meyer and Green Libraries.
This year's event combines the annual Open House with the Campus Wide Agreement Show. In joining ITSS and Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information Resources (SULAIR) as an open house sponsor, CWA brings more than 15 vendors, who will be on hand to show their latest products. ITSS and SULAIR gather representatives from over 30 campus-wide technology services groups to provide information and advice about Stanford's rich technology resources.
Come for the educational value and stay for the fun. There will be plenty of both, with refreshments, raffles, and gifts as well.
Check the web page in September for details:
http://itopenhouse.stanford.edu/
--submitted by Editorial Staff
6. SULAIR News Resumes Weekly Publication on September 14
SULAIR News will resume a weekly publication schedule on Wednesday, September 14. This will be the last issue until that date. Articles for the September 14 issue are due by noon on Friday, September 9.
--submitted by Editorial Staff
7. SULAIR Job Opportunities
SULAIR has the following new position this week:
Production Specialist, HighWire Press (#008458). Range: 4P2. Posted: 08/05/2005
For a complete description of open positions within SULAIR, visit the Jobs page.
--submitted by Editorial Staff
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