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SULAIR NEWS – September 17, 2008

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

  1. Library Open House on Thursday, October 2, 2pm-6pm
  2. Welcome to the New IC Web Site
  3. New Exhibition at the Art & Architecture Library
  4. Stanford Syllabus Drive
  5. The Digital Library and its (Dis)Contents (CLS 76)
  6. *** Reference Question of the Week ***
  7. SULAIR Job Opportunities

1. Library Open House on Thursday, October 2, 2pm-6pm

As Fall Quarter begins, be sure to let your colleagues and our patrons know that there will be a Library Open House on Thursday, October 2, 2pm-6pm.

This year's Library Open House will take place in and around the Green Library East lobby. There will be tables and displays in front of Green Library and in the Green East lobby, highlighting SULAIR's services and resources. Participants will include dozens of campus libraries, Special Collections, the Media MicroText Center, SULAIR in Second Life, CourseWork and many more.

We'll have tours of Green Library (led by Michael Keller), and of the Robotic Book Scanner, as well as short presentations on SULAIR in Second Life, the Google Books project, and more. There will be music, movies, and great raffle prizes.

Please check the Library Open House Web site for more information:

http://library.stanford.edu/openhouse/

--submitted by Chris Bourg
2. Welcome to the New IC Web Site

Our new Information Center Web site (http://infocenter.stanford.edu) is designed to make it easier for you to do what you come to the library to do: Find Books, Find Articles, and get research help.

Note the Ask a Librarian chat box on every page and the opportunity to Add a Comment anywhere on the site. We kept the IC Blog in the center of the home page, and encourage you to send us your comments on current blog posts, and suggestions for new topics.

Please wander around our new site, come back often, and let us know what you think.

Special thanks go to all SULAIR staff who worked on the redesigned IC site, including Shinjoung Yeo, John Bickar, Ronnie Fields, James Jacobs, Jessie Keck, and Stu Snydman.

--submitted by Chris Bourg, Shinjoung Yeo
3. New Exhibition at the Art & Architecture Library

The Art & Architecture Library is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition Photobooks: Inspiration and Process, on view in the Reading Room now through mid-fall.

As part of their coursework, students in Lukas Felzmann's Spring 2008 course ARTSTUDI 276: The Photographic Book visited the Art & Architecture Library in order to work with prime, classic examples of the photobook drawn from the Locked Stack collections. As the students examined numerous examples dating from 1864 to the present day, they gained a sense of the medium's historical context and of its development as a unique form.

This exhibition combines the students' work with some of the photobooks and non-photographic artists' books examined during the class visits. The purpose of the exhibition is not necessarily to suggest a causal relationship between the books the students viewed and the works they eventually created, but rather to explore the variety of forms the photobook can take, and how those forms affect our understanding of photographs.

We hope you'll join us at the Art & Architecture Library in order to view and enjoy these excellent examples--old and new--of the photobook form.

--submitted by Anna Fishaut
4. Stanford Syllabus Drive

In order to help students and advisors plan for the upcoming quarter and reduce the chaos of the shopping period, it is time for instructors to post their syllabi to the Stanford Syllabus website. As of March 7, 2008, Stanford Syllabus has been integrated with CourseWork. If a syllabus is uploaded in CourseWork, it will automatically appear in Stanford Syllabus. A syllabus can be revised in either Stanford Syllabus or CourseWork and the change will be reflected in both places.

If instructors post their syllabi in CourseWork, it is strongly encouraged to set the access to "Stanford community only" or "Public access", so that students don't have to register for classes to view syllabi.

As library staff, you can help instructors to upload their syllabi to the Stanford Syllabus website. Please encourage any instructors you work with to take a minute to upload their syllabi or allow you to upload syllabi on their behalf.

To upload a syllabus on behalf of an instructor:

- Go to http://syllabus.stanford.edu
- Click "Admin Syllabus" and enter your SUNet ID and password in the WebAuth screen
- Enter the instructor's SUNet ID in the Instructor's SUNet ID field and choose Fall 2008 from the Academic Term drop-down menu.
- Click "Add" next to the desired course name.

For more instructions, refer to the How-To Guide available here:
http://www.stanford.edu/group/syllabus/faqs/

--submitted by Christine Doherty
5. The Digital Library and its (Dis)Contents (CLS 76)

Stanford Continuing Studies is offering a 5-week, Tuesday evening course this quarter called "The Digital Library and its (Dis)Contents" (CLS 76), taught by SULAIR's Glen Worthey.

Students in this course will learn something about the theory, history, and present state of the digital library; speculate on its future possibilities; and critically engage the ideas of enthusiasts, naysayers, and creators of digital libraries. They'll examine both the metaphors that shape our understanding of the digital library, and the more down-to-earth legal, economic, and technological questions it raises, and will engage in hands-on, experimental work with a number of digital library collections to reveal some of their remarkable possibilities and potential pitfalls.

Guest speakers include representatives of Stanford's Office of the General Counsel and the Google Books Project. The course description is here.

Continuing Studies Registration is still open, but don't delay: classes begin September 23. STAP funding applies, and all are welcome.

--submitted by Chris Bourg
6. *** Reference Question of the Week ***

Question: How do I access library resources from off-campus?

Answer: To gain access to the libraries' electronic resources from off-campus:

  1. You must go through the proxy server. Follow the Off-Campus Access instructions to set up your browser.
  2. You can use our Proxy Test site to verify that your browser is set up properly. If proxying is set up correctly, the Remote Host entry should start with "proxy" and end with ".Stanford.EDU".
If you are still having troubles connecting from off campus, try these suggestions:
  1. Go to our Authorization test page to see whether you are authorized to have off-campus access to Stanford Libraries' electronic resources. If you see a "Not Authorized" message, see Policies: Access to Electronic Resources.
  2. Some resources do not work with our standard proxy server. Try our alternate proxy server, which is set up for many of our resources.
  3. Your ISP may be doing something that interferes with proxying. Ask them if they know of any reason why you would not be able to use "automatic proxy configuration" to connect through a proxy server at Stanford.
  4. Note that using the proxy server is not the same as using the VPN client. Even if you have downloaded the VPN client software, you must still go through the proxy server, even though VPN at Stanford mentions that you have access to restricted electronic publications.
  5. Some resources do not work properly with Internet Explorer or Safari. Try using Firefox.
  6. Cookies sometimes cause problems with off-campus connections. You may need to clear out all cookies from the remote site (e.g. sciencedirect.com) as well as all .stanford.edu cookies, then clear out your cache, close all browser windows, and restart your computer.
If you still have problems, use our Report Connection Problems form. Please make sure to include the exact URL that's causing the problem, as well as information about browser and operating system.

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.

--submitted by Editorial Staff
7. SULAIR Job Opportunities

SULAIR has the following new positions this week:

Application Software Developer, HighWire Press (# 32233)
Facilities Services Coordinator, Stanford University Libraries (# 32201)
Daytime Workflow and Reserves Supervisor, Green Library (# 32202)
Engineering Librarian for Outreach, Instruction and Electronic Resources, Stanford University Libraries (# 32154)
HighWire Accountant, Stanford University Libraries (# 32168)
Senior Application Software Developer (# 32148)
NDIIPP/HPS Project Manager (# 31961)

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
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