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SULAIR NEWS – October 29, 2008
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
- Need Articles for SULAIR News
- Appreciation for Ilana Braun at the National Level
- Student Computing Welcomes New Office Manager
- New Data Analyst in Metadata/Library Systems
- *** Reference Question of the Week ***
- SULAIR Job Opportunities
1. Need Articles for SULAIR News
Just a reminder that SULAIR News is a useful communication tool only if SULAIR staff contribute articles. If you have work-related items that would be of interest to all staff, please submit them via the online submission system at:
http://sulairnews.stanford.edu/issues/submit/submit.jsp
Example topics include new projects or project updates, new SULAIR staff, significant acquisitions, and all-staff announcements.
More information about submitting a SULAIR News article is on the web at:
http://library.stanford.edu/about_sulair/for_sul_staff/subm.html
--submitted by Editorial Staff
2. Appreciation for Ilana Braun at the National Level
I would like to congratulate Ilana Braun, the Circulation Supervisor and Monographs Specialist, at Branner Library for her work on geoscience gray literature.
She was recently awarded a certificate in appreciation for "outstanding service and lasting contributions in helping to identify and provide access to important geoscience gray literature." The recognition was announced at the Geoscience Information Society annual meeting in Houston, October 2008. It was noted that during "this past year, Ilana was one of the three top contributors of guidebook titles to be added to GeoRef and the Geologic Guidebook Database. This valuable service is deeply appreciated."
Well done, Ilana!
--submitted by Julie Sweetkind-Singer
3. Student Computing Welcomes New Office Manager
We're very pleased to welcome Kestrel Dunn as the new Office Manager
for Student Computing. Kestrel is a 2008 honors graduate of UC Santa
Cruz in Language Studies.
At UCSC she worked as a resident advisor, instructional assistant, instructional computing consultant, learning management systems assessment intern, and student web assistant, and she was twice recognized with Student Employee Recognition Awards.
Kestrel will work with the Academic Computing administrative team on some organization-wide responsibilities in addition to serving as
primary administrator for Student Computing. Her office is located in
Meyer 250, behind the Tech Desk and next to the mailslots, phone
723.2434.
--submitted by Rich Holeton
4. New Data Analyst in Metadata/Library Systems
We are very pleased to announce that Shelley Doljack joined us this month as a new Data Analyst.
The Data Analyst role is a new position, shared by the Metadata and Library Systems departments. The position was created in response to the growing number of vendor-supplied records for e-resource packages. Shelley's immediate attention will be on analyzing our large, and still growing, backlog of e-resource records; to work on developing a systematic process for their handling, and ultimately to get them loaded into Socrates, so that our users will be able to find and use these electronic resources.
Shelley comes to us from the Acquisitions Department, where she was a serials receipt specialist. She is also currently enrolled in the library and information science program at San Jose State University, working towards a MLIS degree.
Please join us in welcoming Shelley in this new role.
--submitted by Lauren Scott and Vitus Tang
5. *** Reference Question of the Week ***
Question: I have the following citation from the LexisNexis Congressional Publications database:
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF: P.L. 98-473
TITLE: Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984
CIS-NO: 84-PL98-473 (Title II)
DOC-TYPE: Legislative History
DATE: Oct. 12, 1984
LENGTH: 224 p.
ENACTED-BILL: 98 H.J.Res. 648
STAT: 98 Stat. 1976
CONG-SESS: 98-2
I want to get a copy of the actual law called the Comprehensive
Crime Control Act of 1984. A librarian told me that P.L. stood for
Public Law, that 98 was the Congress that passed it, that 473 was the
law number for that Congress, and that these laws could all be found in
the Statutes At Large set in the Green Library Information Center. I went to the Public Law set in Green Library,
but when I looked up law number 473 for the 98th Congress, it seemed to
be about the Dept. of Interior and has nothing at all to do with crime
control. Is the citation incorrect?
Answer: The
citation is correct, but this particular Public Law is one of those
so-called omnibus bills, that has a large number of legal acts and
appropriations in them, none of them necessarily related to one
another. This is why lawyers usually give their citations based on the
Statutes At Large number, rather than the Public Law number. The
Statutes At Large listing for this item is that part of your citation
that goes as follows:
STAT: 98 Stat. 1976
So if you go back to the same volume [98] you were in before, and
look at page 1976, you will find the text of the law you want, starting
under the heading "Title II". Note that the Statutes At Large listing
cites the volume and page, not the Congress. In this particular case,
the volume number and the Congress number are the same, but this is
accidental, and isn't usually the case.
A very efficient way to handle such citations for the Statutes At Large is to do it electronically, in the database called HeinOnline. In that database:
- Click on Subscribers Click Here to Enter.
- Click on U.S. Statutes At Large, under Subscribed Libraries.
- In the Citation Navigator, on the far left, type 98 for the volume and 1976 for the page.
The search engine will take you to the exact page in the volume you want.
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:
Reprographic Assistant, Special Collections
(# 32873)
Head of Reference, Stanford University Libraries
(# 32884)
Evening Closer, Loan & Course Reserves Unit, Access Services, Stanford University Libraries
(# 32885)
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
