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SULAIR NEWS – March 5, 2008
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
- SULAIR Launches Donor Newsletter
- New Exhibit in the Engineering Library: Engineering and Technical Consulting
- Welcome Rachael Valdez
- ***Reference Question of the Week ***
- SULAIR Job Opportunities
1. SULAIR Launches Donor Newsletter
In February, the Library Development Office released the first issue of ReMix: News from the Stanford Libraries. Issued only as an e-newsletter, ReMix is intended to give our many donors some idea of the wealth of collections and innovative services SULAIR provides. On advice of key donors, a prime criterion is brevity: issues are limited to two or three one-paragraph articles, links to articles elsewhere about us, and notices of upcoming events. In principle, it will be highly redundant with the SULAIR News (from which ideas will be stolen regularly). ReMix is edited by David Jordan and Sonia Lee and published approximately monthly. Subscriptions are provided on request to SULAIR donors.
--submitted by Andrew Herkovic
2. New Exhibit in the Engineering Library: Engineering and Technical Consulting
The second in a series of exhibits answering the question, "What is an Engineer?" is on display in the Engineering Library.
The winter term exhibit features materials and project information from Exponent engineers. Exponent is a leading engineering and scientific consulting firm that demonstrates how a multidisciplinary team can provide solutions to complex technical problems. The firm, formerly known as Failure Analysis Associates, assists clients with proactive (independent third-party design evaluations) and reactive (accident/failure investigations and product recall) consulting. Exponent has over 450 consultants that hold an advanced degree, including more than 275 that have earned a Ph.D. or M.D. in their chosen field of specialization.
Exponent engineers have been proud to work on a number of significant projects, including: Boston's "Big Dig" Construction Delay Evaluation, UK Buncefield Facility Explosion, Evaluation of Artificial Joint Design, Hurricane Katrina Damage Assessment, Las Vegas Monorail Design Review, Northridge Earthquake Structural Evaluations, Portable Power Reliability Testing and Evaluation, Roller Coaster Safety Evaluation, Vehicle Crash Testing to Evaluate Real-World Design Performance, and the World Trade Center Structural and Fire Investigation.
The exhibit displays examples of project work from Exponent's Thermal Sciences, Buildings and Structures, Mechanical Engineering and Materials/Metallurgy, and Biomechanics practices.
Founded in 1967, Exponent is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the firm. A copy of EX40: an Exponent Retrospective is available at the Engineering Library. For more information about Exponent, please contact Jenny Irwin at jirwin@exponent.com or see the Web site: http://www.exponent.com.
--submitted by Helen Josephine
3. Welcome Rachael Valdez
The Engineering Library welcomes Rachael Valdez as the half-time Evening Circulation Supervisor. Rachael fills the vacancy left by Irina Trapido who now works for the Serials Unit. Rachael's primary responsibilities will be supervising the circulation desk in the evenings (Mon-Thurs) and working on special projects related to the transfer of materials to SAL3.
Rachael is completing her BA at San Jose State. She has experience working in the Periodicals and Circulation department of the West Valley College Library in Saratoga and as a Front End Associate/Team Leader at Whole Foods in Los Altos. Rachael starts March 3, 2008.
--submitted by Helen Josephine
4. ***Reference Question of the Week ***
Question: Do you know of any other places I could
find community cookbooks (from churches, junior leagues, women's clubs,
etc.) from across the USA? I especially need some from the mid-West,
North East, South, and West?
Answer: Since Interlibrary Borrowing was not able to fill your requests within one week, look at Cornell University's Home Economics Archive. City College of San Francisco's Culinary Arts and Hospitality Management Program has an extensive collection of cookbooks. According to its website, the Alice Statler Library is open to the public. You would be able to check out materials.
Its catalogue retrieved hundreds of cookbooks with the subject term: American Cookery.
- Limit your search to the Alice Statler Library.
- Try simpler keyword searches, for example: cookbook and junior--for junior league holdings.
- Call the library:Tel. (415) 239-3460 or e-mail: Andrea Niosi -
aniosi@ccsf.edu. Its librarian will know the collection and be able to
direct you to cookbooks by state, community, or online sites with
cookbooks possibly already scanned.
You can find more reference questions and answers at the Information Center Web
site.
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:
Operations Manager, Physics Library
(# 29345)
Manager, Library Shipping & Receiving Operations
(# 29442)
Associate Director, Facilities
(# 29439)
Computer Resource Associate
(# 29062)
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
