Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information Resources: SULAIR News

In his new book, A Companion to Bede, Stanford scholar George Hardin Brown generously acknowledges the support of the Stanford University Libraries:

"I am particularly grateful for the resources, textual and electronic, of the Stanford University Libraries, and for my study in Green Library, a daily haven for research and writing. Michael Keller, University Librarian, and Assunta Pisani, Associate University Librarian for Collections and Services, have been generous in their support. The reference librarians, especially Eric Heath, Rose Harrington, Miriam Palm, and Molly Molloy, have been unfailingly helpful; Mary-Louise Munill has efficiently proved interlibrary borrowing; R.T. Carr III has cheerfully searched for missing books in the stacks (and found them!); my former student in paleography and now assistant library director, David Jordan, has provided manuscript and bibliographic information; and John Mustain, rare book librarian, has enthusiastically assisted with numerous services and friendly counsel (p. vii-viii)."

Great job everyone!

Of interest to SULAIR train riders, from PT&S:

Board decision expected later this month.

Earlier this month, Caltrain staff modified their recommendation to the Caltrain Board of Directors regarding fare and service changes. They continue to recommend reducing weekday midday service to one hour headways, increasing the GO Pass price from two zones to three zones, and increasing parking fees to $3 a day and $30 a month.

Caltrain staff recommended against further consideration of fare increases, suspension of weekend and Gilroy service, and onboard bicycle fees. The board received public comment on June 4 and is expected to take action at a meeting tentatively scheduled for the end of June.

Parking & Transportation Services plans to keep university GO Pass holders apprised of any changes to the pass program. To contact Caltrain, send an email to changes@caltrain.com. To contact Stanford, send an email to commuteclub@stanford.edu.

The American Institute of Physics (AIP) has announced it will preserve its award-winning publications in the CLOCKSS digital archive of scholarly research content. AIP will place over 150,000 articles in the archive, including back-file materials dating back to 1999.

CLOCKSS is a community-governed, not-for-profit collaboration between librarians and publishers. The CLOCKSS archive ensures the long-term availability of scholarly digital content. With CLOCKSS, content is housed and preserved at major research libraries around the world. When a title is no longer available from any publisher, and with the approval of the CLOCKSS Board of Directors, that title is copied from the archive and made freely available to everyone with a Web browser. The Board is composed equally of publishers and libraries. Additionally, CLOCKSS supporters appoint one representative to serve on the CLOCKSS Advisory Council.

"AIP has long been committed to digital archiving, formulating our first policy statement on the subject more than 10 years ago," said Tim Ingoldsby, AIP's Director of Strategic Initiatives and Publisher Relations. "In the intervening years, we've been gratified when other publishers have taken our framework as a model when fashioning their own archiving policy."

"We are pleased AIP has joined the CLOCKSS community. By depositing its vital content into the CLOCKSS archive, AIP is ensuring its materials will be available for future scholars," notes CLOCKSS Co-Chair and Berkeley Electronic Press' CEO, Gordon Tibbitts. "And through its participation on the Advisory Council, AIP is ensuring that its authors' and readers' interests are represented as CLOCKSS works to build a state-of-the-art archive."

About CLOCKSS: CLOCKSS is a joint venture between the world’s leading scholarly publishers and research libraries. Its mission is to build a sustainable, geographically distributed dark archive with which to ensure the long-term survival of Web-based scholarly publications for the benefit of the greater global research community. Governing Libraries include the Australian National University, Indiana University, the National Institute for Informatics (Japan), New York Public Library, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Rice University, Stanford University, the University of Alberta, the University of Edinburgh, the University of Hong Kong, and the University of Virginia. Governing Publishers include the American Medical Association, the American Physiological Society, bepress, Elsevier, IOP Publishing, Nature Publishing Group, Oxford University Press, SAGE Publications, Springer, Taylor & Francis and Wiley-Blackwell.

Visit http://www.clockss.org/ for additional information about CLOCKSS.

For more information, please contact: Amy Kohrman
Phone: +1 650 721 5838
E-mail: akohrman@clockss.org

Question: I found a book in the catalog and the catalog record says it is at SAL, but there is no link to request it. How do I get the book brought to my library?

Answer: Sometimes when you find a book in the catalog, the catalog record lists the location as SAL. A book that is in SAL is in one of the Stanford Auxiliary Libraries, and can be paged to the library of your choice. Usually there is a link in the catalog record that says: "Request this item", which links to a form which allows you to request that the item be brought to the library. Sometimes, there is no link to "request this item". Sometimes the catalog record indicates that the item is in Temporary Shelving at SAL.

If there is no link to request, you can have the book paged to your library by emailing SAL at salcirculation@stanford.edu.

Since SAL 1&2 are on campus, and you also can go during their open hours and check the book out there.

You can find out more about the SAL Libraries at the Stanford Auxiliary Library Homepage.

SULAIR NEWS – June 24, 2009