SULAIR News

Who: SUL and Coordinate Library Staff
When: Thursday, November 1, 2012, 2:30 - 4 PM
Where: Green Library, IC Classroom 

Whether you knew it or not, something big and brand new has come to the library catalog: Resource Description & Access, a.k.a. RDA. This new standard for information organization (a.k.a. cataloging) is the replacement for the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules that libraries all over the country, and in many other parts of the world, have been using ever since 1967. (For you younger colleagues, that was before both the Internet and microwave popcorn! As you might imagine, a few things in the library world have changed since then.)

Spaces still available for the sessions on Friday, October 19, 10-11am or 3-4pm.

Join your colleagues at the October Library Concierge Program presentations on the Libraries' support for Faculty Research through the ATS (Academic Technology Specialists) Program. Concierge 4 covered support for Digital Humanities research and teaching. In Concierge 7, you will learn about support for social science research and other disciplines.

Sign up for Concierge 7: Academic Computing Services, Support for Faculty Research and Teaching.

You are invited to attend a workshop on the newly-available Data Management Planning (DMP) Tool. The workshop will take place Monday, Oct. 22 from 10-11am in the IC Classroom in Green Library.

Please note the time change for the seminar. It will be held, 1:00-2:00 pm on Oct. 24th. Please email Daphne Chang if you are interested in attending.

Date: Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Time: 1-2 pm
Venue: B400, Seawell Family Boardroom, GSB Library, Bass Center

Let your colleagues and our patrons know that the Library Open House is today from 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.!

This year's Library Open House will take place both outside and inside the Green Library East portal/lobby area, highlighting SUL services and resources.

Participants will include most of the campus libraries, Special Collections, Digital Humanities, SUL in Second Life, and many more.

This year, Stanford’s own radio station, KZSU (90.1 FM), will be broadcasting live, featuring some music from our Music Library collections, as well as engaging in live chat sessions. There will be a curated tour of the new exhibit: Scripting the Sacred: Medieval Latin Manuscripts; the newest information/tips on SearchWorks, xSearch, RefWorks, Mendeley, and Zotero will be presented; and the very popular Robotic Book Scanner tours are back. Fun giveaways and a drawing for prizes will round out the event.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Maps of Africa Workshop
Tuesday, October 9, 2012, noon - 1 pm

This workshop will focus on both the physical and digital collections of Maps of Africa at Stanford. We will explore ways to find Maps of Africa online; we will also have on display several of Stanford's Maps of Africa from its rare map collections.

Location: Barchas Room, 2nd Floor of Green Library; Access is through the Lane Reading Room, seen here at http://bit.ly/lanereading.

Join your colleagues at the October Library Concierge Program presentations on the Libraries' support for Faculty Research through the ATS (Academic Technology Specialists) Program. Concierge 4 covered support for Digital Humanities research and teaching. In Concierge 7, you will learn about support for social science research and other disciplines.

Sign up for Concierge 7: Academic Computing Services, Support for Faculty Research and Teaching.
Note the Tuesday and Friday sign-up times.

• Tuesday, Oct 16th 10-11am

Dr. Samuel Kai Wah Chu from the University of Hong Kong has been invited to present a seminar at the Business Library. The topic will be: "How Do Libraries Use Social Networking Sites to Interact with Users?" We welcome colleagues from all campus libraries to join us. Please email Daphne Chang if you are interested in attending.

Date: Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Time: 2-3 pm
Venue: B400, Seawell Family Boardroom, GSB Library

Don't forget that the Library Open House is on Tuesday, October 9 from 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Again, we are asking all library staff to consider yourselves as co-hosts of the Library Open House. As you visit the various tables and displays at the Open House, please take the initiative to greet students and faculty, answer their questions, and guide them towards the exhibits of interest to them. This is the perfect time and venue to put your concierge skills in action.

As good hosts, please remember that the limited number of drawing prizes and giveaways are intended for our guests and patrons.

To entice the passers by, we are extending the boundaries of this year’s Open House. Many of the participants will be stationed outside of the Green Library East entrance, in addition to those located around the lobby and Information Center area. Participants will be highlighting SUL's vast services and resources, and will include most of the campus libraries, Special Collections, Digital Humanities, SUL in Second Life, and many more.

Well maybe not that many questions, but the Science and Engineering Libraries are offering over 30 workshops in October during the Fall 2012 Term. Workshops include multiple sessions on Citation Management Tools, Finding Standards, Resources for Medical Devices, Data Management Plans, Web of Science, xSearch, SciFinder, Reaxsys, GeoRef, and Finding Energy Resources. Plus detailed Geospatial training sessions on ArcGIS, Fusion Tables and Google Earth are offered throughout the term.

For Geospatial Training courses go to: http://bit.ly/geotraining