SULAIR News

It may take some time getting used to the new version of the SUL News bulletin, but for those of us who can boast having seen many iterations of the staff news bulletin, this isn't the first time the bulletin has changed names or venues.

SULAIR News, SUL/AIR News, and SUL News Notes were all predecessors of our latest SUL News page. Keeping all those titles straight is half the fun. If you’d like to see the various aliases of the libraries’ staff newsletter, and how the newsletter itself has progressed over the past two decades (plus), check out some of the back issues; you’re sure to find some “titles to make you smile”!

Reminder: You will still be able to access and perform search queries on the old SULAIR News site as well as have access to the back-issues link (also located on this site) to view the various editions/aliases of the staff news bulletin.

Kelly Fields
Editor, SULAIR News

Effective today, October 31, 2012, SULAIR News is officially retired!

This SULAIR News site at http://lib.stanford.edu/sulairnews will still be available for archival purposes. You will still be able to access and perform search queries on the SULAIR News site as well as have access to the back-issues link (also located on this site) to view the various editions/aliases of this staff bulletin; however, please do not use this site to submit articles.

About a month ago the processing team in Special Collections came to the end of our time on the NHPRC STOP AIDS Project processing grant. This post discusses how we processed the born-digital files we imaged from floppy disks, CDs, and zip disks.

Stanford University Libraries Department of Special Collections and University Archives is excited to announce the completion of the processing of the STOP AIDS Project records.

This effort was made possible by a detailed processing grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC). The records consist of over 370 linear feet of textual, audiovisual and photographic material and 5,925 megabytes of born-digital files documenting the organizational history and activities of this San Francisco-based HIV prevention non-profit. For more information on the materials now available for research, please see this post on the Special Collections and University Archives Blog.

A recent article published on the Esri website speaks of the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) support team within the Earth Sciences Library & Map Collections (Branner), and how the use of GIS has progressively grown and expanded over the years, specifically here at Stanford.

In 1970, the emergence of a standardized 1/2" video format changed the landscape for documentarians, visual artists, educational institutions and home video enthusiasts. EIAJ-1 would become the first and most widely used non-broadcast video format across the world.

Please join me in welcoming Tiffany Tsui as our Service Desk Manager to Student Computing in Academic Computing Services. Tiffany will be overseeing our Meyer Tech Desk and supervising the student tech desk consultants. She (and her team) will also be providing technical assistance to faculty teaching in our classrooms.

The Stanford TIPS (Team to Improve Productivity at Stanford) Group is celebrating their 25th anniversary this year. The celebration got off to a great start on September 19th with IT Services and BeWell presenting at the monthly meeting.

Jo-Ann Cuvas from IT Services presented project updates.

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