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Welcome, Tiffany Tsui, New Service Desk Manager

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.

Tiffany comes to Stanford from Rutgers where she had a variety of support roles for faculty and students. She's held jobs as a consultant for the labs and Help Desk, eventually rising to the supervisor level. She also comes with experience in training and supervising over 75 lab consultants, network troubleshooting and working with router issues, and providing support for Sakai at Rutgers.

We're looking forward to having her work with the Tech Desk, our students, and our patrons and bringing her ideas and insight into our operations, recruitment, and training efforts. She is located in Meyer 250 (behind the Meyer Tech Desk).

Jennifer Ly
Head of Student Computing
Academic Computing Services

Submitted by jly@stanford.edu on Wed, 10/17/2012 - 11:01

25 Years of TIPS

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.

box.stanford.edu, a document management and sharing platform, is actively in use by departments across campus. To incorporate feedback from initial users, IT Services hopes to launch workgroups within box.stanford.edu. Workgroups allow accounts to be established that are unrelated to a specific SunetID. The benefits to Workgroups are that the data is retained as long as the workgroup link exists and all members of the workgroup are co-owners (they all have read, write, and share access). Storage rates for Workgroups are currently being defined and box.stanford.edu is under evaluation by SUL's Emerging Technology Team. For questions on using this technology please contact Deni Wicklund at dwicklun@stanford.edu or Ronnie Fields at rfields@stanford.edu

While there is currently no plan in place for moving staff and faculty to gmail, there is the option for staff and faculty to use Google Apps for Education. This includes the ability to log in with your Stanford Credentials to gain access to Google Drive (and Docs), Google Groups for Business, Google Sites and Google Contacts. More information regarding the log in process and additional details can be found at: http://itservices.stanford.edu/service/googleapps

Lastly it was announced that the Information Security Office developed training videos focusing on data handling - specifically confidential, restricted and prohibited data. Later this quarter faculty, staff, and affiliates will be contacted about watching a required 12 minute training video developed by the Information Security Office.

Wes Alles, PhD Director of Health Improvement Program for Stanford, presented about the past, present and future of the BeWell Program.

The Health Improvement Program (HIP) at Stanford has offered programs to staff, faculty and retirees since 1983. Currently they offer more than 900 programs a year.
Not only do they help others achieve their wellness goals, they set goals for themselves.
The BeWell Program Goals are:

Enhance the existing culture of wellness for the Stanford community.
Improve and maintain a high quality work life balance for all faculty, staff and students.
Improve the health and well-being of all Stanford faculty, staff, students, family members and retirees.

Visit http://bewell.stanford.edu to learn more about all they have to offer.

Submitted by sizzi@stanford.edu on Tue, 10/16/2012 - 14:44

WORKSHOP: Crafting a Data Management Plan

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.

Many funding agencies - including NEH Office of Digital Humanities and the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences directorate - are now requiring data management plans to be included with funding requests. The Data Management Planning Tool (DMP Tool) puts at your fingertips all the information you need to write the data management plan for your next research grant proposal. This online tool includes:

Current funding agency requirements
Help text with suggestions and guidelines on composing each plan section
Links to Stanford-specific guidance, as well as general guidance from funding agencies and information about best practices
Suggested answer text for those interested in preserving data in the Stanford Digital Repository
The ability to track, edit, share (via pdf link), and export your plan

The workshop will also include information about Stanford University Libraries' new Data Management Services web site and the kinds of help you can find there, as well information about the Stanford Digital Repository (SDR). The workshop will be given by Amy Hodge, Science Data Librarian, but is appropriate for any Stanford researcher with data management needs or questions about data management plans or the Stanford Digital Repository.

All are welcome. You may sign up for the workshop in advance at bit.ly/SciEngWorkshops or feel free to just show up.

Amy Hodge, Science Data Librarian, Branner Earth Sciences Library

Submitted by amyhodge@stanfo... on Tue, 10/16/2012 - 14:00

SUL Job Opportunities - October 16, 2012

SUL has no new positions this week:

For a complete description of open positions within SUL, go to the Stanford Jobs page, select University Libraries from the Job Search/Location: list, and then click on the Search button.

Editorial Staff

Submitted by krkay@stanford.edu on Tue, 10/16/2012 - 10:55

Time change for the seminar "How do libraries use social networking sites to interact with users?"

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

Abstract: Social networking sites (SNSs) are helpful for stirring up interactions among users. The number of libraries that adopt SNSs is increasing. However, user engagement is low on many libraries’ SNSs. Existing research mainly focuses on the ways SNSs used in libraries and the librarians or users’ attitudes towards libraries using SNSs. Little research has been done on how to use SNSs to interact with library users effectively. This study focuses on the interactions between libraries and users on libraries’ Facebook, Twitter and Weibo. Four types of interactions are examined, including knowledge sharing, information dissemination, communication and knowledge gathering. A mixed method is applied in this study: quantitative results, generated from the analysis on around 1700 posts sampled from 40 libraries’ SNSs, are incorporated with qualitative results concluded from the interviews with 10 librarians. The study finds that among the four types of interactions, knowledge sharing attracts the largest volume of user responses on libraries’ SNSs. The study’s investigation on the differences of Facebook-like and Twitter-like SNSs and those between academic and public libraries on using SNSs suggests that in order to improve the efficiency of interacting with users on SNSs, there are necessities for libraries to coordinate different types of SNSs and take the properties of their communities under consideration.

Biography: Dr. Samuel Kai Wah Chu is an Associate Professor (Division of Information & Technology Studies) and the Deputy Director (Centre for Information Technology in Education) in the Faculty of Education, the University of Hong Kong. He is also the Program Director for MSc (Library & Information Management).

He has published over 100 articles and books including key journals in the area of IT in education (e.g., Computers & Education, Journal of Educational Technology & Society), information and library science (e.g., Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Library & Information Science Research), school librarianship (e.g., School Library Media Research, School Libraries Worldwide), academic librarianship (e.g., Journal of Academic Librarianship) and knowledge management (e.g., Journal of Intellectual Capital). He is also the author of a series of children story books published by Pearson Longman Hong Kong, including My Pet Hamsters and The Chocolate Boy.

Dr. Chu is the Associate Editor (Asia) for Online Information Review. He is also the Asia Regional Editor for Journal of Information & Knowledge Management and an Editorial Board Member for School Libraries Worldwide. He holds many research grants including a 3 million Hong Kong dollar (USD$381,270) Quality Education Fund and is a recipient of his Faculty's Early Career Research Output Award.

Submitted by cdchang@stanford.edu on Fri, 10/12/2012 - 16:33

ORBIS featured in the "Journal of Digital Humanities"

One of Stanford's latest (and greatest) digital humanities efforts is ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World, a collaboration between the Stanford University Libraries and Professor Walter Scheidel of the Stanford Classics Department. ORBIS was released in early May, 2012, to great acclaim and accompanied by masses of web traffic and multiple write-ups in the popular Internet press. But now it's receiving more attention of a different and more substantial nature: professional reviews and attention in the scholarly press.

The latest issue of the Journal of Digital Humanities (a peer-reviewed, open access journal published by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University) includes three different articles dedicated to ORBIS:

"Modeling Networks and Scholarship with ORBIS," a detailed and useful introduction to the methods and principles that underlie the complex work, written by our two SUL colleagues who were responsible for its creation: Elijah Meeks (Digital Humanities Specialist) and Karl Grossner (Digital Humanities Research Developer).

"ORBIS: An Interactive Scholarly Work on the Roman World," a presentation of ORBIS as a sort of prototypical example of what many believe will be an important genre of research publication for the digital humanities: the "Interactive Scholarly Work." This important theoretical article was also written by Elijah and Karl, and will, I predict, be widely cited as interest in this new scholarly genre takes hold in the Academy.

A highly positive "Review of ORBIS" by Stuart Dunn, a Lecturer in the Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London. Dunn writes that "ORBIS is an exciting and innovative experiment in simulation modelling in history and archaeology, which starts to critique this distinction; even if, by its own clear admission, it does not yet have the answers. [...] The possibilities for [its] future are immense."

ORBIS "blurs the line between archive, tool, and publication," as Elijah and Karl write. "To treat such objects [as ORBIS] only as tools, and implicitly capable only of providing that which they were designed to provide, undercuts the possibilities of advancing the use of models and modeling in the humanities." Thanks first to Karl's and Elijah's excellent collaborative work in creating ORBIS, and now to their thoughtful theoretical and practical writing about it -- as well as to the continuing flow of outstanding peer review -- ORBIS is quickly taking its place in a new canon of Interactive Scholarly Works specifically, and of research publications in the digital humanities generally.

Submitted by gworthey@stanfo... on Wed, 10/10/2012 - 13:10

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