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SULAIR NEWS – January 14, 2009
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
- SULAIR Staff Anniversary Honorees
- 2009 Holidays
- Recent New Media Scholarship and Publications
- *** Reference Question of the Week ***
- SULAIR Job Opportunities
1. SULAIR Staff Anniversary Honorees
Well over 400 staff members attended the annual SULAIR Holiday Party on December 16th at the Stanford Faculty Club. The event involved great food, great music by our own Marty Williams, and a visit from St. Nicholas (known to the library staff as R.T. Carr, III).
As usual, in addition to providing an opportunity to celebrate the accomplishments of 2008, the holiday party provided an opportunity for University Librarian Michael Keller to recognize staff celebrating employment anniversaries.
For the listing of honorees, please see
http://library.stanford.edu/depts/ts/about/awards/service_awards_08.pdf.
--submitted by Faye Gage
2. 2009 Holidays
The 2009 Holiday Schedule is as follows:
January 1: New Year’s Day
January 19: Martin Luther King Holiday
February 16: President’s Day
May 25: Memorial Day
July 3: Independence Day
September 7: Labor Day
November 26 & 27: Thanksgiving
December 24 & 25: Christmas Holiday
--submitted by Editorial Staff
3. Recent New Media Scholarship and Publications
Rich Holeton, Head of Student Computing and Associate Director of Academic Computing, has a chapter called "New Students, Emerging Technologies, Virtual Communities, and the College Residential Experience" in the monograph Residence Life Programs & The New Student Experience, ed. William Zeller, published by the Association of College & University Housing Officers - International (ACUHO-I) and the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience, University of South Carolina. The chapter will also be excerpted in the upcoming issue of The Talking Stick, the magazine of ACUHO-I.
Rich has also contributed a chapter called "How Much is Too Much New Media for the Net Generation?" for the forthcoming RAW: Reading and Writing New Media, ed. Cheryl E. Ball and James Kalmbach, Hampton Press. The chapter addresses Rich's experience teaching a pilot course for Stanford's Program in Writing and Rhetoric. The book's contents and some PDFs are available at http://rawnewmedia.net/.
Rich's own new media work, in the form of a "PowerPoint fiction" called "Voyeur with Dog," was exhibited this fall at The Future of Writing Conference at UC Irvine and has been accepted for publication in a forthcoming special e-lit edition of Counterpath Press Online. In a more traditional literary form, he also won 6th place in the 2008 Writer's Digest Short-Short Story Contest with "Year of the Pig."
--submitted by Editorial Staff
4. *** Reference Question of the Week ***
Question: In 1898, Hellen Keller mentioned that she was reading Virgil's Aeneid, and implies that it is an edition for the blind. I've searched for Braille editions of Virgil that would have been plausibly read by her, but only come up with versions post-1930 or so. Where can I look?
Answer: The Callahan Museum of the American Printing House for the Blind has created a list of the first books embossed in the U.S. for blind readers, 1833-1880.
From this list, it looks like the American Printing House for the Blind published an edition of the Aeneid in 1871-1872:
1871-72 Virgil's Aeneid (Latin), APH, line letter, $3.00
While Keller could have used an edition printed in Europe, this could also be the copy she used. However, note that this is called a "line letter" edition, which the Callahan Museum explains is raised or embossed Roman letters, not Braille. Multiple systems were used in the latter half of the 19th Century.
The archivists/librarians at the Gallaudet University Archives and/or the Helen Keller Archives might be able to shed more light on the question. Their web sites don't catalog Helen Keller's personal library, but they might have this information. Here are their email addresses:
Helen Keller Archives: hkarchives@afb.net
Gallaudet University Archives: archives@gallaudet.edu
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
5. SULAIR Job Opportunities
SULAIR has no new positions this week.
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
