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SULAIR NEWS – January 16, 2008
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
- A Few HR Announcements for the New Year
- Winter Quarter 2008 Learning and Development Courses
- Stanford Joins the Electronic Cataloging-in-Publication (ECIP) Program
- New Exhibition in Green Features Japanese Textile Design Books
- ***Reference Question of the Week ***
- SULAIR Job Opportunities
1. A Few HR Announcements for the New Year
Happy New Year!
First paycheck of 2008
Please keep in mind that paychecks issued for the 12/31/07 pay period (payday 1/7/08) is the first for tax year 2008. Employees may see changes in net pay due to the new tax and benefit year.
Social Security and Voluntary Disability Insurance (VDI) taxes are withheld again for those employees who reached the maximum in 2007. Additionally, the VDI tax rate has increased to .8% for 2008.
Year-to-date totals on employee pay statements have been reset to reflect the new tax year. Final year-to-date totals for 2007 can be found on your 12/15/07 pay statements.
2007 W-2 Forms
This is a follow-up reminder regarding your 2007 W-2 forms. This year you may elect to receive your W-2 form online. To request this election you must sign up through Axess and should do so soon.
Instructions to elect are: go to axess.stanford.edu and click on the Employee Information Tab, click the W-2 Tax Form link located in the Financial Information menu (this is on the left side of the screen) and follow the instructions for W-2.
Online W-2 Forms will be available by Friday, January 18 and may be downloaded into most tax preparation software programs. Additional enrollment instructions are available at:
http://financialgateway.stanford.edu/staff/payemployee/quick_steps/elect_online_w2delivery.html
Paper W-2 forms will be mailed out to your mailing address on file with Stanford, by January 31, 2008.
Here is the 2008 University Holiday Schedule:
New Year's Day---------------------------Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Martin Luther King Holiday--------------Monday, January 21, 2008
President's Day---------------------------Monday, February 18, 2008
Memorial Day-----------------------------Monday, May 26, 2008
Independence Day-----------------------Friday, July 4, 2008
Labor Day---------------------------------Monday, September 1, 2008
Thanksgiving-----------------------------Thursday, November 27, 2008 - Friday, November 28, 2008
Winter Holiday(s)------------------------Wednesday, December 24, 2008 -Thursday, December 25, 2008
New Year’s Day (2009)------------------Thursday, January 1, 2009
--submitted by Malini Prakash
2. Winter Quarter 2008 Learning and Development Courses
Was focusing on your professional development on your New Year's Resolution list? Consider registering now for Stanford Learning and Development's Winter Quarter classes and webinars offered this January, February, and March.
The Winter Quarter 2008 Training Opportunities Guide (TOG), listing all the L&D courses and those of other Stanford training providers, should be arriving in your ID mailbox this week. It's also available as a PDF file (16 pages) at http://ld/pdf/2008WinterTOG-FINAL-WEB.pdf. The L&D course listings are also posted on the L&D Web site at http://ld/courses.html.
Here are the January courses with space still available:
- Administrative Advantage Essentials (5 part series), TOD-5026, starts 1/15
- Jumpstart Your Career (noontime Career Snack), TOD-2053, 1/16
- Resume Writing & Interviewing Skills (2 part course), TOD-2037, 1/23 & 1/30
- Managing Priorities & Effectively Multitasking, TOD-4094, 1/23
- Establishing Your Supervisory Role, TOD-6080, 1/23
- Coaching & Mentoring Skills, TOD-6607, 1/23
- Life Planning for Retirement, TOD-2066, 1/24
- Writing & Producing Effective Publications, TOD-3633, 1/24
- How to Live an Organized Life (3 part series), TOD-5027, starts 1/24
- Copyright Considerations, TOD-4090, 1/29
- Customer Services On-line & In Writing, TOD-4104, 1/30
- Overview of Performance Management, TOD-6030, 1/30
- ADA & the Interaction Between FMLA, ADA and Leave Laws, TOD-6423, 1/30
- Core Conflict Resolution Skills, TOD-3043, 1/31
- Techniques for Designing Training Webinars, TOD-3508, 1/31 (webinar)
Course Registration: Registration is required for L&D courses. Many of the L&D courses are free of charge.
To register for a course, go to STARS (Stanford Training and Registration System) on-line catalog and registration system at http://axess.stanford.edu then click on the Training Tab. You can see the L&D courses if you use the Browse Catalog function under the Organizational and Employee Effectiveness category. Or use the Search function to look for a specific class by title.
--submitted by Malini Prakash
3. Stanford Joins the Electronic Cataloging-in-Publication (ECIP) Program
Last month, at the invitation of the Cataloging-in-Publication (CIP) program at the Library of Congress (LC), Stanford began its participation in the ECIP Cataloging Partnership Program by contributing the first five bibliographic records.
Even without paying special attention, most readers notice bibliographic information printed on the verso of the title page of the book they are reading. Since 1971 the Library of Congress (LC) has been providing this information, known as CIP data. The CIP Division catalogers create catalog records based on copies of galleys for forthcoming titles submitted initially by mail, and more recently electronically (ECIP), by the participating publishers. The completed cataloging information is then sent to the publisher so that it can be printed in the published book.
SUL catalogers will now be providing cataloging for all monographs published by the Stanford University Press (SU Press). SU Press would, as usual, send their galleys and other information to LC. In the ECIP system, SUL is considered a cataloging "team", with all SU Press forthcoming titles automatically forwarded by LC to us. David Bucknum of the LC CIP Division customized his ECIP cataloging program for SUL to facilitate the new, seamless electronic workflow. MARC catalogers use the application created by LC for descriptive cataloging and finish up their records in the local OCLC Connexion Client save file before submitting them electronically to LC for shelflisting and Dewey Classification assignment. LC then returns the records to SU Press to be printed when the book is published. When libraries receive SU Press books, the records for them are already available and the books can be processed promptly.
Two MARC Unit catalogers, Margaret Hughes and Robert Rohrbacher will be cataloging SU Press titles for the ECIP. They are expected to contribute over 100 records annually.
--submitted by Joanna Dyla
4. New Exhibition in Green Features Japanese Textile Design Books
An exhibition of woodblock-printed books produced ca. 1890-1940, Zuanchō in Kyoto: Textile Design Books for the Kimono Trade is on display in the Peterson Gallery, Green Library, January 7 - April 16, 2008.
Special Collections began collecting zuanchō (design idea books) in 2004 and over the past three years has acquired more than eighty volumes. The books were published in Kyoto beginning in the mid-Meiji period (1868-1912), when widespread availability of synthetic dyes imported from the West introduced bright, bold colors to the Japanese printing and textile industries. The works on display demonstrate the transition that took place in surface design for kimono in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, from a painterly style to a graphic approach characterized by kinetic lines, geometric shapes, and abstraction of traditional Japanese themes drawn from nature. In addition to group publications of award-winning designs, such as Seiei (published by Unsōdō, Kyoto, 1903-1906), the collection includes titles by known artists, such as Kamisaka Sekka, Kaigai Tennen, and Furuya Kōrin, a painter and designer whose use of geometric form and dynamic line devoid of the use of the brush helped to establish Japanese "modern design" in the first decade of the twentieth century.
In addition to the volumes shown, a series of prints made from the original woodblocks for one of the books demonstrates the sequential addition of color in the woodblock-printing process.
A 40-page color catalogue, published in conjunction with the exhibition, is available for purchase in the Special Collections Reading Room. SULAIR staff receive a 20% discount off the $15 selling price ($12 + tax).
--submitted by Becky Fischbach
5. ***Reference Question of the Week ***
Question:
How do I find articles from old Life Magazines (or Time or Look or McLeans, and others)?
Answer:
If you know the issue you want, you can search Socrates
to see if we have the issue in digital or in print form. For example,
we have Life Magazine in bound print volumes from Volume 1 (1936) to
Volume 73 (1972) (call number 051 .L723 in Green Library Stacks), and
from 1978-2000 (call number AP2 .L55 in Green Library Stacks). We have
Life Magazine in digital form (text only, not pictures) from 1983-2000.
You will find all this information by "Browse" searching for Periodical
Title: "Life" in Socrates. The detailed record will show you the links
to the electronic issues, if we have them. You can also search Ejournals to see if we have digital holdings for a particular journal or magazine (only available to Stanford users).
We have old print copies of lots of other magazines, such as Look,
McLeans, Ebony, Vanity Fair, and more. Just look them up (Browse
periodical title) in Socrates! For the complete answer, visit the Information Center Web site at:
https://www.stanford.edu/group/ic/cgi-bin/drupal/node/358
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
6. SULAIR Job Opportunities
SULAIR has the following new positions this week: Human Resources Assistant, Stanford University Libraries
(# 28795)
Technical Manager, HighWire Press
(# 28770)
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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