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SULAIR NEWS – April 30, 2008
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
- Everyone on Campus Urged to Enter, Update Contact Information
- New Issue of Remix Newsletter Is Now Available Online
- How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall? Ask Frank Ferko!
- ***Reference Question of the Week ***
- SULAIR Job Opportunities
1. Everyone on Campus Urged to Enter, Update Contact Information
The university is rolling out AlertSU, a mass-notification system that will quickly send time-sensitive information via phone, e-mail and/or text messages to students, faculty and staff in the event of a major emergency on campus.
Staff in Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S), Information Technology Services and the Department of Public Safety are overseeing the implementation and urge all staff and faculty to update their contact information in StanfordYou at http://stanfordyou.stanford.edu. Earlier this month, Greg Boardman, vice provost for student affairs, instructed all students to confirm or provide their contact information in Axess at http://axess.stanford.edu.
In order for AlertSU to be effective, the system must have contact information for everyone on campus. The data will be loaded into the system for message-distribution purposes only and otherwise kept confidential. The university will conduct a full-scale test of the system later this month or in early May. Additional information will be sent out once a date has been set to inform all members of the campus community.
To deliver the emergency messages, the university will rely on Connect-ED—known as AlertSU on campus—a comprehensive communication system designed specifically for educational institutions. A service offered by Blackboard Connect Inc., Connect-ED will allow campus leaders and security professionals to send out thousands of time-sensitive notifications in minutes.
"As part of our comprehensive communications plan, we have added the Connect-ED service because of its successful track record and multimodal capabilities that will help us keep students and staff informed whether they are in their dorms, sitting in front of their computers or on their way to class," said Keith Perry, campus emergency manager at EH&S. "Today we are forced to prepare for situations that we never could have anticipated happening, and we recognize the important role that accurate and timely communication plays in keeping the Stanford community safe."
-Reprinted from the April 23 issue of the Stanford Report
--submitted by Editorial Staff
2. New Issue of Remix Newsletter Is Now Available Online
In February, the first issue of ReMix: News from the Stanford Libraries was released. Remix was created to inform the donors about the collections and services that SULAIR provides. The most recent issue has been published and is now available on the Web at:
http://library.stanford.edu/about_sulair/giving_to_sulair/remix.html
The Web page includes links to all previous issues of Remix.
--submitted by Editorial Staff
3. How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall? Ask Frank Ferko!
When not working as Sound Cataloger in the Archive of Recorded Sound, Frank Ferko writes music. Good music. Good enough to be included on the April 15 song recital in Carnegie Hall presented by renowned baritone Nathan Gunn.
Mr. Gunn, partnered at the piano by his wife, Julie, enhanced the recital experience with the addition of lighting, dance, and video projections. Frank’s works, entitled, Five Songs on Poems of Thomas Merton and For My Brother, Reported Missing in Action, 1943 were interspersed between solo keyboard works by Olivier Messiaen and songs by Samuel Barber.
Anthony Tommasini (who visits Stanford in May) wrote in the New York Times, "...[the songs] explored the monastic life and the heightened awareness that can come through contemplation and solitude... There were humorous episodes in the music and the staging, as in 'Reduced to This', Merton’s exasperated depiction of writer’s block, which Mr. Ferko conveys through fidgety music and sputtering riffs."
At the end of the evening, Frank was summoned to take a well-deserved bow in the spotlight. We're so proud!
The evening's program:
http://www.carnegiehall.org/article/box_office/events/evt_9913.html?selecteddate=04152008
and the review by Anthony Tommasini:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/17/arts/music/17gunn.html?ex=1209096000&en=9c06853cee3dcc4d&ei=5070&emc=eta1
--submitted by Ray Heigemeir
4. ***Reference Question of the Week ***
Question: Where can I find films about the Iraq war?
Answer: Hollywood has begun to produce films on the Iraq war that, while topical, have not yet proven to be box office hits. Notably the powerful new Brian Depalma film Redacted and the recently released film by Paul Haggis In the Valley of Elah.
Documentary filmmakers have long ago seized on the war as an ideal subject for their scrutiny. You can locate films in the media collection by searching the subject Iraq war 2003.
The many titles held at Green include:
Iraq in fragments (2007)
Home of the brave (2007)
No end in sight (2007)
Ghosts of Abu Ghraib (2007)
War tapes (2007)
Lost year in Iraq (2006)
Short life of José Antonio Gutierrez (2006)
Blood of my brother (2006)
Cindy Sheehan, Amy Goodman (2006)
Off to war: from rural Arkansas to Iraq (2006)
Iraq for sale: the war profiteers (2006)
Combat diary. The marines of Lima company (2006)
Ground truth (2006)
Why we fight (2006)
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 position this week:
Evening Loan Specialist, Stanford University Libraries
(# 30147)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
