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SULAIR NEWS – April 23, 2008
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
- Conference Focuses on Legal Issues in Web Publishing - May 15 & 16 on Campus
- IASSIST 2008 Conference - May 27 - 30
- VRC Collection in ARTstor
- Scanning Ops Opportunity
- Librarian Position with the Stanford Cancer Palliative Education Network
- ***Reference Question of the Week ***
- SULAIR Job Opportunities
1. Conference Focuses on Legal Issues in Web Publishing - May 15 & 16 on Campus
Legal Frontiers in Digital Media is a two-day conference designed for Web professionals--including managers and lawyers--who are responsible for sorting out the emerging legal issues surrounding the management of a content-rich Web site.
Presented jointly by Stanford Law School's Center for Internet & Society, the Media Law Resource Center, and Stanford Publishing Courses, the conference features legal experts from Google, YouTube, Disney, Newsweek, Microsoft, CBS, and attorneys from key law firms from across the country.
Registration is $285. STAP funds are accepted.
For more information, call Melissa Vallejo, Program Coordinator, at 725-4301, or visit:
http://publishingcourses.stanford.edu/legal-frontiers/
--submitted by Lisa Pliscou
2. IASSIST 2008 Conference - May 27 - 30
IASSIST 2008 Conference
SULAIR is hosting the 34th annual conference of the International Association of Social Science Information Services and Technology (IASSIST). The association's diverse membership of over 300 professionals hail from Africa, the Asia/Pacific region, Canada, Europe and the United States, and work in a range of settings that include data archives, statistical agencies, government departments, research centers, libraries, colleges and universities, and non-profit organizations. This year's conference theme, "Technology of Data: Collection, Communication, Access and Preservation" examines the role of technology and tools in various aspects of the data life cycle. Examples of workshop and session titles include, Supporting Undergrads with Data; Data Discovery and Dissemination: Linking Librarians, Vendors, and Archives; Data Security and Access: Connecting from Afar; and Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: Data on the Web from Vision to Practice to Sustainability. Pre-conference workshops are on Tuesday, May 27, and take place in Green Library and in the Arguello labs, with the main conference activities (May 28-30) located in the Arrillaga Alumni Center.
SULAIR staff members can use their STAP (Staff Training Assistance Program) funds to register for the entire conference or for individual and all-day sessions. Early registration ends Friday, May 2. Registrants will enjoy the welcome reception in the Ford Alumni Gardens on Tuesday, May 27 and the conference dinner at the Stanford Faculty Club on Thursday, May 29. Each of these events will feature live entertainment. In addition, you can sign up for the post-conference excursions offered on Saturday and Sunday, May 31 and June 1. Interested staff members may learn more about this year's IASSIST conference via the conference Web site at: iassist08.stanford.edu
This conference is sponsored in part by the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences (IRiSS). Please send your questions and comments regarding the conference to Ron Nakao, ronbo@stanford.edu.
--submitted by Judy Marsh
3. VRC Collection in ARTstor
I am pleased to announce that Stanford's Visual Resources Center is now a participating member of the ARTstor digital library. Approximately 23,000 out of the VRC's overall collection of 43,000 digital images are now available through ARTstor. ARTstor (http://www.artstor.org/index.shtml) can be found under "Art, Architecture and Design" on the SULAIR databases page. As we continue to produce new images and replace old images with higher quality versions, we hope to expand our ARTstor presence in the future. These 23,000 images, along with the Maps of Africa collection, are only available to Stanford viewers who connect to ARTstor. For the most current collection of digital images please visit our ImageBase at vrc.stanford.edu.
--submitted by Amber Ruiz
4. Scanning Ops Opportunity
The Operations Manager of Scanning Operations in Access Services is now posted, and we are looking for a motivated person to step into Jessie Keck's shoes. The position provides an exciting chance to supervise the logistics of the Google scanning project for Stanford. The Ops Manager responsibilities include:
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Supervising the staff who pull and reshelve books;
- Overseeing the transit of books and transmission of metadata to Google;
- Integrating the workflow of the Google Project with SAL3 ingestion as appropriate; and
- Being the liaison with individual SULAIR branches, with coordinate libraries, and with Google.
This could be the job for you if your experience and interests include supervising, workflow management, and statistics tracking. The position is advertised at the 1A3 or 1A4 rank, dependent upon extent of qualifications and experience. For further details, refer to our job posting on the Stanford Jobs page # 29997. Write me if you have any questions.
--submitted by Regina Wallen
5. Librarian Position with the Stanford Cancer Palliative Education Network
The goal of the Cancer Palliative Education Network (CancerPEN) is to create opportunities for a practice-relevant, problem-based virtual learning network specifically tailored towards interdisciplinary clinicians caring for patients at the end-of-life. CancerPEN is seeking a candidate with library experience and a background in health medicine to put together a list/database of references based on our online educational modules. Our curriculum theme is "Cross-cultural, ethnic specific data, and palliative care". We will primarily focus on the last 10 yrs. of research and the candidate will need to be able to explain to the readers/users why & how he/she used & searched for the related articles. The final format will be in the form of abstracts and related abstract info (authors, title, publish date, source, etc).
We would like to hire a full-time person for 6 months as soon as April 2008.
The position will be within the School of Medicine/GIM based at the VA Palo Alto Medical Center (if space is needed) paid from the CancerPEN grant. Salary is negotiable. More details/questions about the project can be reviewed at our initial kick-off meeting. Any immediate questions please do not hesitate to contact San T. Lu, MA.
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San T. Lu, MA
Project Manager, CancerPEN
Division of General Internal Medicine
Phone:(650)849-1975
Fax: (650)849-0524
http://hospice.stanford.edu
http://endoflife.stanford.edu
--submitted by Kim Schwartz
6. ***Reference Question of the Week ***
Question: Where can I get help for citation formatting?
Answer: The library has several excellent citation guides in our collection, including:
See also:
How do I find Style Manuals?
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
7. SULAIR Job Opportunities
SULAIR has the following new position this week:
Circulation and Public Service, Stanford Auxiliary Library
(# 29998)
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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