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SULAIR NEWS – October 1, 2008
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
- Library Open House Is Tomorrow!
- Jacob Cohn Joins SULAIR Facilities
- *** Reference Question of the Week ***
- SULAIR Job Opportunities
1. Library Open House Is Tomorrow!
The Library Open House is tomorrow; 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. Jacob Cohn Joins SULAIR Facilities
I am please to announce that Jacob Cohn will be joining the SULAIR Facilities Department as our new Facilities Coordinator beginning September 22nd.
A graduate from the University of Michigan, Jacob comes to us after a long stint at the J. Paul Getty Trust in the Los Angeles where he served as Facilities Planner and Maintenance Technician. He's also been employed at the Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities (formerly known as the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities) in Santa Monica where he's worked as their Facilities Coordinator, all in all a total of 20 years with the Getty Family.
You can contact Jacob via our Facilities email address, sulair-facilities@lists.stanford.edu or his landline (650) 721-5559.
Please join me in welcoming Jacob to our SULAIR family and as a new resident to the Bay Area!
--submitted by Edgar Maxion
3. *** Reference Question of the Week ***
Question: I am looking for literature on domestic workers in the U.S. and their
working conditions. Can you give me some ideas about where to start?
Answer: I recommend searching Socrates
using terms such as "immigrant workers" and "women" (depending what
you're looking for). You'll find many useful books, such as Doméstica: immigrant workers cleaning and caring in the shadows of affluence
by Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo. Those records contain subject headings
such as "Women domestics" and "Domestics United States;" you can expand
your search using these subject headings.
Also, you can find newspaper and journal articles by using the
following databases (all of which are available only to Stanford users):
- Ethnic News Watch has newspapers and periodicals published by the ethnic, minority, and native press in the U.S., starting in 1960.
- Contemporary Women's issues has articles from numerous periodicals about various women's issues.
- Policyfile provides
abstracts and articles about public policy research and analysis from
think tanks, university research programs, and research organizations.
- LexisNexis offers access to current U.S. and international news, federal documents, law journals, etc.
- Sociological Abstracts has research literature in the social and behavioral sciences.
For the complete answer, visit the Information Center Web site at:
https://www.stanford.edu/group/ic/cgi-bin/drupal2/node/361
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
4. SULAIR Job Opportunities
SULAIR has the following new position this week:
Serials Access & Maintenance Specialist, Stanford University Libraries
(#
31588)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
