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SULAIR NEWS – July 15, 2009
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
- Special Reference Forum Today, 2-3PM
- Taking Eisig Silberschlag on the Road or, Eisig Who??
- Lots of Reference at Green Library
- Change in Publication of SULAIR News for August
- *** Reference Question of the Week ***
- SULAIR Job Opportunities
1. Special Reference Forum Today, 2-3PM
The next Reference Forum will be today, July 15, 2-3pm in the SSRC Seminar Room.
Visiting librarian Katharina Beberweil from the University Library of the Free University of Bolzano in Northern Italy will present:
Young, trilingual, just in time - Get to know the University Library of Bolzano and talk to our visiting Librarian Katharina Beberweil from Italy!
Katharina Beberweil is a subject specialist for Economics at the University Library of the Free University of Bolzano in Northern Italy and is staying at Green Library until July 25. Besides her work as subject specialist, she is also active in the field of information literacy and customer service.
If you are interested in getting to know her library and in finding out what aspects this library differs from Stanford Libraries, please join us today, 2-3pm in the SSRC Seminar room for this special Reference Forum.
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. Taking Eisig Silberschlag on the Road or, Eisig Who??
On Monday, July 6, Anna Levia, curatorial assistant for Judaica and Hebraica, presented highlights from the Eisig Silberschlag Papers collection (M1479) at the Association of Jewish Libraries convention in Chicago. Presented here is her brief summary of the presentation:
Stanford University Libraries acquired the papers of Eisig Silberschlag (1903-1988) in 2003. Silberschlag was recognized as an authority in the field of Hebrew literary criticism and won prizes for his translations of Aristophanes and Menander from Greek into Hebrew as well as for a book of his poems. He was much beloved as a teacher, served as Dean and later President of Hebrew Teachers College in Boston, and ended his career as a visiting professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Texas, Austin.
What makes this collection important and potentially valuable to researchers? Silberschlag never moved beyond second-tier status in academia nor did he succeed in having his plays produced by any of the leading theater companies in Israel or the United States. Yet his correspondence files, which comprise the bulk of the collection, reveal that he was highly regarded by many of the literary and academic luminaries in the world of Hebrew letters and scholarship. The collection contains correspondence from writers S.Y. Agnon and David Vogel; historian Salo Baron; and publisher Avraham Stybel, among many others, and offers glimpses of the twentieth century Jewish academic experience in Europe; Palestine and post-1948 Israel; and North America.
--submitted by Editorial Staff
3. Lots of Reference at Green Library
Between June 2008 and June 2009, the librarians
at the Information Center desk in Green Library answered a total of
20,758 questions.
- That comes to 9 questions for every hour we are open
- 63% were Reference questions
- 6% were technical questions
- 31% were directional questions
If you have a question, or just want to consult with a librarian about your research, stop by the Information Center desk -- plenty of your colleagues and classmates do, and they are glad they did!
4. Change in Publication of SULAIR News for August
SULAIR News will reduce publication for August, with one issue during that month:
Wednesday, August 19 (Submission deadline is by Noon, Friday, August 14.)
Weekly publication of SULAIR News will resume on Wednesday, September 9. (Submission deadline is by Noon, Friday, September 4.)
--submitted by Editorial Staff
5. *** Reference Question of the Week ***
Question: Where can I browse for good fiction books at Stanford?
Answer: In addition to searching for fiction books by author or title in Socrates, you can also browse one of several specially designated collections of fiction titles:
- For recent fiction, see the collection of New Fiction titles in the Lane Reading Room. These are selected by our American and British Literature Curator, and are available on 28-day loan. (They are listed in Socrates under HAS-Fiction.)
- The Physics Library has a Science Fiction
collection available for browsing and for 28-day loan. Many titles are
uncatalogued and located in the Science Fiction bookcase near the
current journals display. These are not all listed in Socrates.
- The Robert Crown Law Library
is home to the Vrooman Collection, an eclectic collection of popular
fiction and nonfiction on subjects outside of the law. Vrooman
Collection titles are listed in Socrates and available on two-week
loan. Law Library staff can point readers in the right direction to
find these books in the law library.
- The Bender Room contains current and classic fiction and non-fiction. Though these books cannot be checked out, if you search Socrates, you can probably find another copy somewhere on campus.
Stanford's collections are large and unlike a public library, it is
difficult to browse the literature sections. However, if you want to
browse these, check out the section with call numbers beginning in PS
for American literature and PR for English literature. For literature
in other languages, see Library of Congress Classification Outline (PDF).
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:
Application Software Developer, HighWire Press
(#34992)
Advertising and Direct Mail Coordinator, Stanford University Press
(#34994)
Serials Specialist, Art and Architecture Library
(#35010)
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
