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SULAIR NEWS – April 29, 2009
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
- Reference Forum - Wednesday, April 29 - Music to Your Ears
- Frank Mace MacFarland Opisthobranchiate Molluscan Collection
- New Exhibition at the Art & Architecture Library
- Eliasaf Robinson Tel Aviv Collection Launched
- *** Reference Question of the Week ***
1. Reference Forum - Wednesday, April 29 - Music to Your Ears
The next Reference Forum will be today from 2:00-3:00p.m. in the IDA GREEN Conference Room (in the directors' suite, Green Library, 101 Bing Wing -- to the left after you enter the Bing Wing entrance).
Music To Your Ears
Ray Heigemeir will give a refresher overview of subscription streaming audio databases (now numbering 7), discuss some new features, and introduce several free online music sites of potential interest. Jerry McBride will talk about the current landscape of copyright as it pertains to sound recordings, including exciting developments on the horizon.
If you would like to be on the email distribution list for future Reference Forum announcements, please go to https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/libref-forum and Subscribe to the list.
--submitted by Chris Bourg
2. Frank Mace MacFarland Opisthobranchiate Molluscan Collection
Back in 1967 Stanford received the books and reprints from the MacFarland estate, but the materials sat unprocessed for four decades. Thanks to the efforts of Vicki Pearse and Margaret Lui, the materials are now visible to the world. In addition to creating the EndNote database for the reprints and processing all the bound volumes, Vicki researched all of the books to either locate copy cataloging or provide metadata information Margaret would need in order to perform original cataloging.
The collection consists of 123 bound volumes and 593 unbound reprints. The bound volumes can be pulled from Socrates as a group by searching for "MacFarland opisthobranchiate molluscan collection". The citations for materials contained in the reprint collection were exported from EndNote to create a Web page bibliography which includes materials published between 1802 and 1969.
The Web page listing all the reprint citations is at:
http://library.stanford.edu/depts/miller/collections/MacFarland_Collection.html
Frank Mace MacFarland was a member of Stanford faculty for almost sixty years. His long and intensive study of the nudibranchs brought Dr. MacFarland world-wide recognition as an authority on the life and habits of these animals. In the early summer of 1892 Dr. MacFarland came to Stanford as an instructor and advanced student, less than a year after the University first opened. During his long association with the University, Dr. MacFarland contributed much to its development. He played a leading role in organizing the Hopkins Seaside Laboratory (now Hopkins Marine Station) in Pacific Grove, of which he was in charge from 1910 to 1913 and co-director from 1915 to 1917 and in which he maintained an active interest throughout the remainder of his life.
--submitted by Joe Wible
3. New Exhibition at the Art & Architecture Library
The Art & Architecture Library is pleased to announce the opening of its latest exhibition of materials from its Locked Stack collection, curated by Operations Manager David Platt. Elements of Interpretation: Intersections Between Archaeological Fragments, Art, and Audience considers some of the different strategies that visual artists have used in representing the fragmentary remains of the past: Does an artist depict the artifact in its entirety or focus on particular elements? Does an object require multiple, separate representations in the same work, or will one suffice?
The exhibition highlights how these different approaches have addressed the interests of diverse target audiences, whether these are amateur aristocratic enthusiasts, tourists, or modern professional archaeologists. Highlights include William Gell's The Geography and Antiquities of Ithaca (1807), a nineteenth-century souvenir book from Pompeii, and Arthur Evans's The Palace of Minos (1921-35).
Special thanks to Becky Fischbach for her continued support of our exhibitions program.
--submitted by Anna Fishaut
4. Eliasaf Robinson Tel Aviv Collection Launched
I'm pleased to announce the beta launch of the Eliasaf Robinson Tel Aviv Collection celebrating the hundredth anniversary of the founding of Tel Aviv. This site is both a virtual exhibit and digital collection of documents about the early history of "The First Hebrew City."
http://collections.stanford.edu/telaviv
A symposium celebrating Tel Aviv's anniversary and Stanford's acquisition of this important collection was held on April 23. This event showcased the Web site's official launch, a companion virtual exhibit of the Tel Aviv collection on our Island in Second Life and the opening of the physical exhibit in the Bing Wing of Green Library.
The success of this project has required the hard work of many SULAIR staff and interns. Special thanks in no particular order are due to Zachary Baker and his assistant Anna, Heidi Lerner in Metadata, Special Collections staff, Glen Worthey of HDIS, Elizabeth Fischbach in Exhibits, DLSS's Digital Production Group, DLSS's WebTeam and Deni Wicklund's Island Builder's Group.
Great work to all and my many thanks for your hard and successful work!
See also "The Eliasaf Robinson Collection on Tel Aviv Goes Online" in the spring issue of Speaking of Computers.
--submitted by Michael Olson
5. *** Reference Question of the Week ***
Question: Is there a database or compilation that lists all countries that are former colonies of a European nation?
Answer: There is an encyclopedia in the Information Center, Colonialism: an international, social, cultural, and political encyclopedia (call # JV22. C65 2003), with chronologies, lists, and documentation. There is also a good Historical Dictionary of European Imperialism
in the Information Center with two useful Appendices, one listing all
the former colonies and their languages, and one giving a chronology
(call # D217 .H57 1991). There is also a similar list on Wikipedia, which is pretty good if you just want a simple list broken down by region.
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
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