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SULAIR NEWS – July 18, 2007
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
- Unicorn Upgrade to GL3.1 Completed Successfully
- Copyright Regime vs. Civil Liberties
- Reminder!! SAL3 Tours - Summer 2007
- SULAIR News Summer Publication Schedule
- New Curatorial Assistant, American and British History
- Three New Faces in Acquisitions
- ***Reference Question of the Week ***
- SULAIR Job Opportunities
1. Unicorn Upgrade to GL3.1 Completed Successfully
Digital Library Systems & Services is pleased to announce that Unicorn was successfully upgraded to GL3.1 over the weekend of June 16-17. 
Completion of this upgrade is a milestone in SULAIR's move toward a Unicode environment. This upgrade involved both the Oracle database and the Unicorn software, which are now at versions required for a Unicode migration.
Many, many people were involved in work to make this upgrade a success. Thanks goes out to all those in Technical Services and Collections and Services who worked hard to test the software prior to the upgrade, and to train staffers on the new version. The efforts of the Library Expert Partners and Unicorn Coordinators in ensuring that staffers had the correct client setup was a key part of the process. And thanks to everyone for their patience after the upgrade while some inevitable problems were sorted out and resolved.
Finally, special thanks to the many DLSS staffers who worked overnight and at odd hours to make the upgrade as smooth as possible, especially: Matthew Ahmed, Sam Natarajan, Darsi Rueda, Carol Lawrence, and Foster Zhang.
--submitted by Lauren Scott
2. Copyright Regime vs. Civil Liberties
Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources & Stanford Center for Internet and Society present:
RICK FALKVINGE, founder of the Swedish Pirate Party
Join Rick for a talk entitled, Copyright Regime vs. Civil Liberties.
Tuesday July 31, 2007 from 3:00 - 4:30
Stanford Law School Room 280A
Free and open to the public
Refreshments served
Audio will be available on Stanford iTunes at a later date.
Maps and directions:
http://www.law.stanford.edu/directions/
Questions? Contact James R. Jacobs, jrjacobs@stanford.edu
Rick Falkvinge is best known as the founder of the Swedish Pirate Party and is active in the international politicized pirate movement. On July 31st he will join us on campus to talk about the rise of pirates in modern society, and why pirates are necessary in today's politics. He'll also outline the next steps in the pirates' strategy to change global copyright laws.
The fight against copyright aggression tends to focus on economic aspects of the shift to a networked economy. Falkvinge explains how this conflict is much broader, and tied to fundamental civil liberties, including the postal secret, whistleblower protection, freedom of the press, and even issues of identity.
Biography: Rick Falkvinge is the founder and leader of the Swedish Pirate Party, as well as the founder of the international politicized pirate movement. Under his leadership the Pirate Party grew from nothing into one of the top ten parties in the last Swedish election, and all without a dime in the campaign
chest. Rick's personal candidacy came in at #15 out of over 5,000 candidates for parliament, although he didn't win a seat due to threshold rules. However, his fight against copyright aggression continues, as does the party.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party
--submitted by Mimi Calter and James Jacobs
3. Reminder!! SAL3 Tours - Summer 2007
SAL3 is hosting tours this summer for staff interested in gaining a better understanding of SULAIR's high-density preservation facility.
The Final tour will take place at 10:00 am on Friday, August 10.
Please contact your supervisor if you are interested in a tour of SAL3. Carmelita Quiambao, quiambao@stanford.edu, will be organizing the tour groups and furnishing directions. Please note that transportation is not provided. Carpooling is recommended.
--submitted by Carmelita Quiambao
4. SULAIR News Summer Publication Schedule
As previously announced, SULAIR News is on a reduced publication schedule for the summer. This is the only issue of SULAIR News that will be published in July.
The next issue will be published on Wednesday, August 15 (with a submission deadline of Noon, Friday, August 10).
SULAIR News will resume weekly publication on Wednesday, September 12 (with a submission deadline of Noon, Friday, September 7).
--submitted by Editorial Staff
5. New Curatorial Assistant, American and British History
I'm very pleased to welcome Michelle Morton, who began work in HASRG as Curatorial Assistant for American and British History on July 9.
Michelle brings a wealth of research, teaching and library experience to HASRG. She holds a B.A. and M.A. in Latin American Studies and Spanish from the University of New Mexico, and a Ph.D. in Literature from UC-Santa Cruz. Her dissertation examined historical narratives by Mexican Californians, or Californios, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She has taught a variety of courses in literature, composition, and Spanish.
Following completion of her Ph.D., Michelle served as a CLIR post-doctoral fellow at the Bancroft Library, where she served as temporary curator for the Latin American Collection. She is currently enrolled in the MLIS program at San Jose State University.
Please join me in welcoming Michelle to SULAIR.
--submitted by Ben Stone
6. Three New Faces in Acquisitions
Shelley Doljack joined the Serials Receiving Unit on Meyer 3 in July 2007 after Mini Guptan left us for the Operations Manager position at the Physics Library. Shelley will be responsible for checking-in and processing monographic serials materials and non-paper format materials. She holds a B.A degree in German from UC Berkeley and is currently pursuing an MLIS degree at San Jose State University.
Shelley is no stranger to SULAIR as she spent the past 7 months in the Monograph Receiving Unit as a Shelf Ready / EDI Receiving Specialist and Copy Cataloger.
Kaylan O'Byrne also came on board the Serials Receiving Unit in July 2007 and will be joining the team of Serials Receivers doing serials check-in, processing, claiming and problem solving. She is filling behind Herve David who has moved on to a new position in the MARC Unit.
Kaylan recently graduated from Santa Clara University with a B.A degree in History and has worked at the Santa Clara University Library as a library student assistant for the past 2 years.
And last but not least, Laura Lind joined the Government Documents Unit in July 2007.She is filling behind Mausumi Dutta Mukherjee who was recently promoted to the Operations Manager position in the Monograph Receiving Unit. Laura's primary responsibility will be maintaining SULAIR's U.S. Federal depository program and resolving complex problems related to these materials and British Government Documents.
She holds a B.A. in sociology from Eastern University, PA and recently completed her MLIS degree at San Jose State University. Her previous library experience includes student research assistant work for the director of SJSU School of Library and Information Science and being a student assistant in the Archives and Special Collections at King Library in San Jose.
All 3 new staff come to us highly recommended and with great enthusiasm, and we are very excited and delighted to have these wonderful folks join our team.
--submitted by Linh Chang and Brigitte Burnham
7. ***Reference Question of the Week ***
Question: I am doing research on pharmaceutical
companies. I don't have a specific research angle yet but I'd like to
explore about pharmaceutical industry and ethics.
Answer: Since you are still in the process of
shaping your research topic, I suggest you to start with journal and
newspaper articles to get some overall ideas on this topic.
You can start with a database called Academic Search Premier
(available only to Stanford users), which includes scholarly journals as
well as popular magazines. You can use search terms like pharmaceutical
industry and ethics and will find many articles in your search results.
For newspaper articles, I'd suggest the following databases:
- Alt-PressWatch (available only to Stanford users) includes newspapers, magazines, and journals of the alternative and independent press.
- America's Newspapers (available
only to Stanford users) contains complete full-text content of local
and regional news, including community events, government policies,
cultural activities etc.
- Lexis Nexis
(available only to Stanford Users) has transcripts of radio and
television programs, law review journals, government documents etc
For the rest of the answer, please visit
the Information Center Web site at: https://www.stanford.edu/group/ic/cgi-bin/drupal/node/170.
--submitted by ShinJoung Yeo
8. SULAIR Job Opportunities
SULAIR has the following new positions this week:
Administrative Assistant (Technical Services)
(# 26234)
Library Systems Programmer & Analyst (# 26182)
Editorial Assistant
(# 26153)
Acquisitions Editor, Stanford University Press
(# 25975)
Financial Associate, Academic Computing
(# 25896)
For a complete description of open positions within SULAIR, go to the Stanford Jobs page and type University Libraries in the Job Search box at the bottom of the page.
--submitted by Editorial Staff
SULAIR News is an electronic publication of Stanford University
Libraries and Academic Information Resources issued weekly. Copy deadline is
12:00 NOON Friday for publication on the following Wednesday. Submit items for
publication via the online submission system.
Editor: Eleanor Brown, Eleanor.Brown@stanford.edu
