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SULAIR NEWS – July 16, 2008
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
- Miller Library Participates in Aquatic Commons Digital Repository
- CLOCKSS, A Trusted Community-Run Archive, Debuts at ALA
- New Head of Access Services
- Cisco Barron to Leave Student Computing
- *** Reference Question of the Week ***
- SULAIR Job Opportunities
1. Miller Library Participates in Aquatic Commons Digital Repository
The Miller Library made its first deposit into the "Aquatic Commons", a digital repository of public domain documents covering marine, estuarine/brackish, and freshwater environments. The depository started in September 2007, by the International Association of Aquatic & Marine Science Libraries & Information Center (IAMSLIC), and during its first 8 months over 800 documents were deposited and the site already averages over 10,000 visits a month.
Last month the library received an interlibrary loan request for an item where Hopkins was the only holding library in WorldCat. Rather than risk loaning the 1976 California Fish & Game report on sea otter management, the decision was made to scan the 272 pages and deposit it into the repository.
Currently the library is taking on a more ambitious project to digitize the entire run of the monthly newsletter published by the Monterey Chapter of the American Cetacean Society titled "Soundings". Hopkins Marine Station appears to have the most complete archive of this newsletter, and with the help of the Miller Library's emeritus librarian, Alan Baldridge, most of the library's gaps in holdings have been filled and even earlier issues have been located. Written permission was obtained to deposit the resulting PDFs into the "Aquatic Commons" repository for public use.
The URL to the "Aquatic Commons" is http://aquacomm.fcla.edu/.
--submitted by Joe Wible
2. CLOCKSS, A Trusted Community-Run Archive, Debuts at ALA
The founding members of the CLOCKSS pilot program are pleased to announce that CLOCKSS will advance to active operations. Two years ago, scholarly publishers and research libraries, challenged by the responsibility to preserve the digital assets of the community, joined forces to build a prototype for a global dark archive. Their unique collaboration focused on creating an archive "cooperative," with publishers and libraries running the archive together. The prototype was successfully built and tested, and the need for a robust governing structure was addressed.
One of the CLOCKSS board's first resolutions was that any content released from the archive would be made available for free to the world, without need of a subscription. Content stored in CLOCKSS cannot be accessed until a trigger event is deemed to have occurred and the CLOCKSS board votes to "light up" the affected titles and restore access to them again.
Utilizing open source LOCKSS™ (for Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) technology, the CLOCKSS archive comprises geographically-dispersed nodes located at major research libraries into which e-content is routinely ingested and preserved. Within the past year, CLOCKSS experienced two trigger events and responded by releasing the endangered content at CLOCKSS host organizations.
A unanimous vote by the CLOCKSS board in April 2008 led to the decision to transition the archive from prototype to production. With commitment from Elsevier, Wiley, Nature Publishing Group, American Physiological Society, Taylor & Francis, bepress, and other premier publishers to deposit their titles, and from libraries across the world to act as archive nodes, CLOCKSS is currently incorporating as a not-for-profit organization, and will begin operations soon thereafter.
CLOCKSS was unveiled at a June ALA event honoring Victoria Reich, Stanford University Libraries, this year's recipient of the ALCTS Ulrich's Serials Librarian of the Year award, in part, for her work with CLOCKSS. Libraries and publishers worldwide are invited to help build, guide, and govern CLOCKSS.
"Securely archiving our digital content is key to the future of scientific communication," explains CLOCKSS founding member, Howard Ratner, Chief Technology Officer, Nature Publishing Group. "The joint efforts of the participating libraries and publishers have made CLOCKSS an essential part of the fabric of digital archiving. CLOCKSS offers a proven secure dark archive and hosting system for triggered content. CrossRef and CLOCKSS worked closely to make sure that users can access triggered archived content via the DOI system. This is just one example of how CLOCKSS is already helping to shape industry practices."
Pilot Participants:
Publishers include American Chemical Society, American Medical Association, American Physiological Society, Elsevier, IOP Publishing, Nature Publishing Group, Oxford University Press, SAGE Publications, Springer, Taylor & Francis, and Wiley-Blackwell.
Library organizations include Indiana University, New York Public Library, OCLC, Rice University, Stanford University, University of Edinburgh, and University of Virginia.
The CLOCKSS pilot was funded by participating publishers and library organizations, as well as by a grant from the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) via the US Library of Congress.
For information on the CLOCKSS Initiative, please visit http://www.clockss.org.
June 30, 2008
CLOCKSS
1450 Page Mill Road
Palo Alto, California USA
650.721.5838
--submitted by Amy Kohrman
3. New Head of Access Services
I am very happy to announce that Rebecca Pernell joined SULAIR as Head of Access Services Department on July 14. Rebecca comes to Stanford from the Scott Memorial Library at Thomas Jefferson University (Philadelphia, PA) where she served as Manager of Access Services. Prior to her service at Scott Memorial, Rebecca worked as a contractor to the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Library at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Rebecca did summer internship as Assistant Cataloger for the Division of Literary & Historical Documents at Pierpont Morgan Library (New York, NY).
Rebecca received her Master of Science in Library Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her B.A in German Studies is from the University of Florida (Gainesville). The Search Committee (Helen Josephine, Philip Schreur, Laszlo Jakusovszky, Chris Bourg, and Catherine Tierney) was especially impressed by her passion for patron service, engagement in process improvement and technology, native intelligence, and clear leadership qualities. Please join us in welcoming Rebecca to SULAIR.
--submitted by Cath Tierney
4. Cisco Barron to Leave Student Computing
Cisco Barron, a business services manager for Student Computing, has accepted a new position in Residential Education as the Evaluation and Program Development Specialist. Residential Education (ResEd) is part of the office of the Vice Provost of Student Affairs and is an important partner of Student Computing, so at least Cisco won't be too far away.
Cisco, Stanford '04, served as a College Assistant (similar to RA) for Freshman Sophomore College his senior year, and then began working at ResEd as a Residence Student Affairs Specialist. He joined us as the office manager for Residential Computing in November of 2004. He steadily took on new and larger responsibilities, which included managing and growing our complex summer conference computing operations, and providing leadership in areas such as student employment and program assessment. At the same time, he managed to earn a Masters in counseling psychology from Santa Clara University and is currently working toward a Masters in higher education administration.
We're very grateful for Cisco's outstanding contributions to our programs and to the Stanford students. His last day was Friday, July 11.
--submitted by Rich Holeton
5. *** Reference Question of the Week ***
Question: I came by the library today to seek help
finding some information related to NATO. In particular, I am looking
for statistics on NATO's Implementation Force (IFOR), Stabilization
Force (SFOR), and the Kosovo Force (KFOR), all of which took place in
the Balkans in the early 1990s. I am interested in how much money and
how many troops did NATO countries commit to those three operations.
Even though it is easy to get the numbers for the US, other countries
are somewhat more difficult. NATO does not have that kind of
information on its website either. Thus, I was wondering if you could
direct me to some sources?
Answer: There are 3 angles to think about in tackling this question: 1) statistics; 2) the organizations themselves (in this case NATO and the United Nations); and 3) Secondary scholarly literature.
LexisNexis Statistical database
(Stanford only) is a good place to start. If you're on campus, that
link should go right through, or perhaps ask you for your SUNET
id/password. If you're off campus, you'll want to set up the proxy in your browser.
If you search LN statistical for NATO and allied contributions, you'll
find an annual report to Congress on allied contributions to NATO going
back to 1985. Hopefully, that report will have all the information you
need. I also found a table for "Defense Spending As A Percentage Of
GDP, 1990-2001 [U.S., NATO Allies, Pacific Allies, And Gulf Cooperation
Council, By Country]" issued by the Office of the Secretary of Defense and several others from the DoD.
For the complete answer, visit the Information Center Web site at:
https://www.stanford.edu/group/ic/cgi-bin/drupal/content/qa-finding-nato-troop-levels-balkan-operations
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.
--submitted by Editorial Staff
6. SULAIR Job Opportunities
SULAIR has the following new positions this week:
Library Specialist, Islamic and Middle Eastern Collection - Arabic language Copy Cataloger, Stanford University Libraries
(# 31200)
Production Specialist in HighWire Press, Stanford University Libraries
(# 31174)
Applications Software Developer of Manuscript Management System, HighWire Press
(#
31126)
Preservation Librarian, Stanford University Libraries
(#
30748)
Evening Workflow Supervisor, Green Library
(# 30957)
Senior Systems Software Developer, Stanford University Libraries (#
30947)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
