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SULAIR NEWS – December 5, 2007
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
- SULAIR News Publication Schedule for Winter Break
- SULAIR Technology Chalk Talk on Federated Searching Prototypes - Thursday, December 13 at 2 PM
- Digital Library Federation Releases American Social History Online
- Over 200 Scholarly Publishers Participating in LOCKSS Digital Preservation Program
- The Perilous Adventures of a Library Book
- Art & Architecture Library Exhibition: Final Weeks
- New Staff Member in Monograph Receiving
- ***Reference Question of the Week ***
- SULAIR Job Opportunities
1. SULAIR News Publication Schedule for Winter Break
Because of the University's Winter Closure from December 24-January 2, SULAIR News' publication schedule will change as follows:
- The last issue of December 2007 will be on Wednesday, December 19.
- The first issue of January 2008 will be Wednesday, January 9.
Remember to submit your articles via the online submission system. The deadline for submitting an article is 12 noon Friday for publication the following Wednesday.
--submitted by Editorial Staff
2. SULAIR Technology Chalk Talk on Federated Searching Prototypes - Thursday, December 13 at 2 PM
Next Thursday, December 13 at 2 PM, the SULAIR Technology Chalk Talk will feature Grace Baysinger, Phil Schreur and Tom Cramer, presenting on SULAIR's pilot with Deep Web Technologies' federated search tool.
What: Federated Search at SULAIR with Deep Web Technologies
SULAIR Technology Chalk Talk
When: Thursday, 12/13, 2 - 3 PM
Where: Green Library, SSRC Seminar Room
Federated searching is a strategy for simultaneously searching a number of online resources and pooling the results into one interfiled result set. SULAIR is experimenting with federated searching as a means of giving scholars a broad view of disparate resources held across many different, isolated systems.
For this pilot, we are working with Deep Web Technologies. The company’s federated searching system, Explorit Research Accelerator, is currently powering a number of science, technology and government search portals, including Scitopia.org and Science.gov.
This talk will focus on this implementation of federated searching at Stanford, a demo of Deep Web Technologies' tool against three separate sets of resources, and a group discussion and evaluation of the richest veins to pursue.
You can view and evaluate all three prototypes now by following the links below:
"Top 10" Databases at Stanford
https://deepweb.stanford.edu/su/search.html?viewId=3
All Library Catalogs at Stanford
https://deepweb.stanford.edu/su/search.html?viewId=2
Locally Digitized Collections at Stanford
https://deepweb.stanford.edu/su/search.html?viewId=4
--submitted by Tom Cramer
3. Digital Library Federation Releases American Social History Online
The Digital Library Federation released DLF Aquifer’s American Social History Online Web site at DLF Forum in Philadelphia in early November. Designed to make digital material in American culture and life easier for scholars to find and use, the Web site is also integrated with Zotero citation management software for the Firefox Web browser. American Social History Online aggregates distributed collections using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). Because the Web site is optimized for discovery by commercial search services, collection contributors can expect increased traffic to their own Web sites from links in American Social History Online. Integrations with a federated search solution and with Sakai are now in development.
Several SULAIR staff members are active participants in DLF Aquifer: Chris Bourg, Services Working Group; Jerry Persons, Technology/Architecture Working Group and Ben Stone, Collections Working Group. SULAIR also hosts the Aquifer Director, Katherine Kott and Phil Schreur is the SULAIR Aquifer “Champion.” Digital Library Systems and Services and Cataloging and Metadata Services are working together to prepare selected Stanford digital collections for American Social History Online. More information about DLF Aquifer and American Social History Online is available at http://www.diglib.org/aquifer/.
--submitted by Katherine Kott
4. Over 200 Scholarly Publishers Participating in LOCKSS Digital Preservation Program
The LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe) Program is pleased to announce that best-of-breed scholarly journals from over two hundred publishers, including Annual Reviews, BMJ Publishing Group, and the Oxford University Press, will be preserved in LOCKSS. LOCKSS, developed here at Stanford University Libraries, provides the tools, services, and publisher support that ensure libraries access to their Web-based subscriptions in perpetuity. By joining LOCKSS, publishers of the New England Journal of Medicine, AnthroSource, and others, have granted permission to LOCKSS member libraries to preserve an electronic copy of their subscribed content locally in a “LOCKSS box.” When an article or book can no longer be accessed on the publisher’s Web site, LOCKSS libraries will be able to serve it to their readers in real-time -- today and for years to come.
“A core library mission is to build and perpetuate collections. The LOCKSS system helps them in their task by allowing the library to collect, preserve, and serve to authorized readers its own copy of the Web-based content when the publisher’s copy is unavailable,” explains LOCKSS Director Vicky Reich. “The high level of publisher participation in LOCKSS enables libraries to offer tomorrow’s readers access to more of today’s publications.”
Any library can participate in LOCKSS. To do so, they must set up a LOCKSS box which runs on a basic PC and free, open-source software. (Watch how simple it is to set up a LOCKSS box at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wdcnXrQkaI.) By joining the LOCKSS Alliance, members can benefit from access to premium content already preserved by other member libraries and suggest the preservation of those titles most relevant for their community.
For the complete list of publishers participating in LOCKSS, please visit http://www.lockss.org/lockss/Publishers_and_Titles.
For more information about LOCKSS, please visit www.lockss.org or contact membership@lockss.org.
--submitted by Amy Kohrman
5. The Perilous Adventures of a Library Book
At Green Library's Loan Desk, sometimes we receive moldy books back from library users. "The book was left out in the rain", the patron mentions to us, or "it fell in the tub." Recently we received a moldy book in the mail, accompanied by a limerick that fully explained what happened:
Danny's Damaged Overdue
There once was a smart boy named Danny,
Whose literary taste was uncanny.
With library books still due,
He traveled to far Peru.
Now his library fines are so many!
There once was a girl named Margot,
Who offered to trim Danny's cargo.
She took home those tomes,
To return them from loans,
But she left one in her mom's car. NO!
Her mother didn't follow the rules,
Drove a car full of gardening tools.
Baskets of seeds,
And buckets of weeds,
And a book to go back to school.
Well, the sad tale ends with some pain.
The book sat out in the rain.
Left out in the cold,
The poor book sprouted mold.
And will never be read again.
So please when you read this lament,
This book which should have been sent,
We now return,
Don't let it be spurned.
It comes with any equal replacement.
Sure enough, I opened the second part of the package (carefully encased in bubble wrap to prevent the mold from spreading to it) and Margot's mom had sent us a shiny new copy of the book. And, yes, the ISBN matched!
--submitted by Kira Corngold
6. Art & Architecture Library Exhibition: Final Weeks
The Art & Architecture Library’s current exhibition, Revues: Vues Rares: Three Journals of the Parisian Avant-Garde, 1920-1949, is in its final weeks. The show, highlighting a significant segment of avant-garde design and publication across the two world wars, has been a successful start to the Library’s exhibitions program. During the winter quarter the Library will present the first of several collection highlights shows. Please stay tuned for details!
--submitted by Anna Fishaut
7. New Staff Member in Monograph Receiving
We are very pleased to announce that Parisa Hassani-azad has filled the position of Shelf-Ready/Enhanced EDI Receiving Specialist in the Acquisitions Department as of October 16, 2007. She will be working in the Monograph Receiving Unit mainly processing shelf-ready material.
Parisa is no stranger to SULAIR as she spent three years as a Stacks Employee in Green Library where she sorted, shelved, straightened, and scanned books. She recently earned her B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in Legal Studies. She is also fluent in Farsi.
We are sure that Parisa will be a great asset to SULAIR. Please join us in welcoming her!
--submitted by Mausumi Dutta-Mukherjee
8. ***Reference Question of the Week ***
Question: I need help finding British Government documents. I was looking for two specifically. The first one is the Local and Personal Acts 56 George III c. 99 of 1816. The second is the British Museum Act of 1963.
They both concern ownership of the Elgin Marbles, which is basically
the topic of my PWR 1 research paper. Any help would be great, thank
you!
Answer: Thanks for the question. The library has a
deep collection of and many avenues for getting at British government
documents and Parliamentary papers.
As late as last year, I would have sent you to the Chadwyck-Healey
microfiche collection (1801-1900) -- of which there's a guide in the
Social Sciences Resource Center (call# Z2019 .C62 1991) -- and the
Stanford Law Library for the Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain.
As luck would have it, there is now online access for a large
portion (but not all!) of British documents in the 19th and 20th
century. We now have a subscription for the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers database. I searched and found the documents that I was originally going to show you in microfiche and in paper volumes:
As for the 1816 act, besides being available at the Law Library, you can get access to it via Google Books:
For the complete answer, visit the Information Center Web site at:
https://www.stanford.edu/group/ic/cgi-bin/drupal/node/320
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
9. SULAIR Job Opportunities
SULAIR has the following new positions this week:
Serials Access & Maintenance Specialist
(# 28266)
Content/Parser Software Developer
(# 28284)
Systems Administrator
(# 28352)
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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