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SULAIR NEWS – October 15, 2008
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
- IT Open House Focuses on Sustainability
- Soundings Newsletter Now Online Back to 1980
- New Evening Loan Supervisor at Green
- New Staff Member in Monograph Receiving
- *** Reference Question of the Week ***
- SULAIR Job Opportunities
1. IT Open House Focuses on Sustainability
Please join us for the 2008 IT Open House, where IT Services teams up with Sustainable IT and Campus Wide Agreement to explore our common goal of Getting to Green: IT Paths to Sustainability at Stanford.
This year's event, on Thursday, October 23, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center, brings together technology services from all over campus and vendors from throughout the Bay Area into one exhibition hall—as well as a speaker series on sustainable IT practices.
Learn about important new trends in sustainable IT, including consolidated and green data centers and server virtualization. See demos of new technology, ask questions of tech wizards, listen to speakers on sustainability, share ideas. And, you could win a Lenovo laptop or another great prize!
Whether you participate as a service provider or as an attendee, we hope you will find the event valuable, informative, and fun!
For more information, see the web site, itopenhouse.stanford.edu, or contact the IT Open House planning group.
--submitted by Nuriya Janss
2. Soundings Newsletter Now Online Back to 1980
Through the efforts of Don Kohrs and with the permission of the Monterey Chapter of the American Cetacean Society, the Miller Library at Hopkins Marine Station scanned its print copies of the organization's Soundings newsletter to create a digital archive of searchable PDF files. These files have been deposited into the IAMSLIC Aquatic Commons digital archive and are available and fully searchable at the URL http://aquacomm.fcla.edu/.
One feature of this monthly newsletter is a section called "Sighting" which provides a record of marine mammals observed in Monterey Bay for the month. Sightings are listed by date, time, and number of each species - a potentially useful data set.
While the library's holdings were relatively complete, there were some missing issues. Hopkins Emeritus Librarian Alan Baldridge helped locate many of the missing issues, but there are still a few that were not found. A call for the missing issues will be going out in an upcoming issue of Soundings in the hope of completing the archive.
--submitted by Joe Wible
3. New Evening Loan Supervisor at Green
Please join me in welcoming Abdelali Ferri into his new role as Evening Supervisor for Access Services. Ali has worked for Access Services in a variety of positions since 2002, most recently as one of our evening closers.
I'm very glad to have Ali aboard. He has a strong commitment to providing quality service to our patrons, even when faced with trying situations. He's been a valued member of the evening staff since the beginning, working diligently to learn new duties and taking additional ones when other staff changed positions or went out on medical leave. While he will be missed as a member of our closing "team" (with R.T. Carr), Ali will provide a very welcome, stable presence to the evening staff as a whole.
--submitted by Laszlo Jakusovszky
4. New Staff Member in Monograph Receiving
We are very pleased to announce that Po Polly Yeh has filled the position of Shelf-Ready/Enhanced EDI Receiving Specialist in the Acquisitions Department as of October 1, 2008. She will be working in the Monograph Receiving Unit mainly processing shelf-ready material.
Polly is no stranger to SULAIR. In 2005, she began working at Stanford as a Data Control Specialist. More recently, she has worked on a serials control project for the Serials Access and Maintenance Unit within the Acquisitions Department. Polly received her MLIS degree from Brigham Young University.
We are sure that Polly will be a great asset to the Monograph Receiving Unit. Please join us in welcoming her!
--submitted by Mausumi Dutta-Mukherjee
5. *** Reference Question of the Week ***
Question:
How do I find information about farmers' markets?
Answer: The Encyclopedia of Food and Culture in the Information Center has background information and references. Using a Simple Search in Socrates, "Search Everything: farmers markets" finds Closing the food gap, Remaking the North American food system: strategies for sustainability (2008), and the movie The future of food (2007, also 2004 copy). More resources are in "Food Resources". See also: Stuffedandstarved.org - tied to the book of the same name by Raj Patel.
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
6. SULAIR Job Opportunities
SULAIR has the following new positions this week:
Technology Specialist, Art & Architecture Library (#32767)
Application Software Developer, HighWire Press
(# 32729)
Digital Humanities Specialist
(# 32686)
Marketing Assistant, Stanford University Press
(# 32695)
Monographic Receiving and Copy Cataloging Specialist
(#
32692)
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
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Editor: Eleanor Brown, Eleanor.Brown@stanford.edu
