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SULAIR NEWS – November 14, 2007
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
- Reminder about This Year's Winter Closure Dates
- Surviving! Magazine
- New Librarian Hired for the Engineering Library
- ***Reference Question of the Week ***
- SULAIR Job Opportunities
1. Reminder about This Year's Winter Closure Dates
As previously announced in SULAIR News, the University's winter close dates this year are:
Monday, December 24, 2007, through Wednesday, January 2, 2008.
Normal business hours will resume on the morning of Thursday, January 3, 2008.
Three (3) days are designated as paid holidays:
-
Monday, December 24, 2007
- Tuesday, December 25, 2007, and
- Tuesday, January 1, 2008,
- plus one additional day off with pay.
For regular workdays that are not designated by the University as holidays or the paid day off, employees *must use* PTO, Floating Holiday and accrued Vacation, or any combination thereof before taking Leave Without Salary (LWOS). Since unused 2007 Floating Holiday and PTO will be lost if not used by December 31, 2007, employees should use these first before applying Vacation hours.
There will be a number of employees who do not have sufficient leave time to cover all of these winter closure days, either because the employees are relatively new to Stanford or because their time has been used due to unexpected leaves. Regular staff will be given the option to borrow their 2008 PTO allotment and Floating Holiday. Staff may also borrow one month of Vacation accrual. Any additional hours not covered must be taken as Leave Without Salary (LWOS).
It is to the employee’s advantage to borrow time before electing LWOS because any employee on LWOS before or after a holiday will NOT receive holiday pay (Admin guide 22.12, eligibility for paid holidays). Additionally, leave accruals and benefit contributions may be affected for employees who take LWOS.
Please note that Catalina Rodriguez (723-8257 or cjara@stanford.edu) and Gary Harris (726-0729 garyh@stanford.edu) are available to help employees with low leave balances identify the best strategy for covering winter closure.
--submitted by Catalina Rodriguez
2. Surviving! Magazine
Lane Medical Library is proud to host an original exhibition highlighting Surviving! magazine. Surviving! a ground-breaking magazine that ran 1983-2003, was created by and for cancer patients and was supported by the Stanford Hospital.
The exhibit runs through the end of December 2007.
--submitted by Kim Schwartz
3. New Librarian Hired for the Engineering Library
We have been successful in hiring a new librarian into the position recently added to the Engineering Library. Sarah Lester is a recent graduate (2006) of the University of Washington Graduate School of Library and Information Science. While completing her MLIS, Sarah was a graduate reference assistant for 2 years at the Engineering Library where she worked with students and faculty providing reference and developing Web tools. Sarah's other work experience includes 4 years as a User Interface Designer/Software Engineer for Getty Images and most recently an Indexer/Developer for Microsoft's Health Vault Search as part of the MSN Health and Fitness portal. Sarah will start in the Engineering Library on Jan 7, 2008.
With Karen Greig's departure in July and Susan Payne's departure in November, the Engineering Library has two vacant positions. We will be interviewing additional candidates in November. We hope to fill at least one more position soon.
--submitted by Helen Josephine
4. ***Reference Question of the Week ***
Question: I'm writing a research paper for a
history class on British justifications for the opium trade and the
Opium War. I'd like to find primary sources from Parliament, British
officials, and possibly even merchants who were involved in the opium
trade. I thought I would start with looking through Parliamentary
debates leading up to 1840-1842, and I was wondering if there was any
easier way to do it than going into the stacks and looking at the index
books for those years? I know there's a CD-Rom or something to look
through the Parliamentary Papers, but I never quite got the hang of it.
Would you happen to know where I could find other primary sources like
letters or memos from British officials and merchants about the opium
trade?
Answer: There are definitely primary materials out there, many of which are listed on our databases page for British and Commonwealth history. And lucky for you we now have a subscription to the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers database (Stanford access only). You can get to it from our databases page.
Another database to try is the The Times of London archive
(also on that databases page). Newspapers are primary material in and
of themselves and are also a good tool to finding public records of the
day.
And one other place to try is the UK National Archives.
They've now got a document delivery service which, despite the cost,
has a very good search engine and lots of public records outside of the
Parliamentary Papers. Before you order documents from their service,
search for interesting titles in Socrates and the Parliamentary papers.
For the complete answer visit the Information Center Web site at:
https://www.stanford.edu/group/ic/cgi-bin/drupal/node/294
To contribute to the Reference Question of the Week feature of SULAIR News, submit your question and answer through the SULAIR News online submission form at: http://sulairnews.stanford.edu/issues/submit/submit.jsp.
--submitted by Editorial Staff
5. SULAIR Job Opportunities
SULAIR has the following new positions this week:
CourseWork Quality Assurance Engineer
(# 28099)
Academic Technology Specialist for the Office of Accessible Technology
(# 28052)
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
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Editor: Eleanor Brown, Eleanor.Brown@stanford.edu
