Due to various changes to our electronic mail systems, and the phasing-out of the CN forsythe accounts, SUL News Notes will be going on hiatus. Electronic mail can still be sent out to SUL/AIR staff using the "ALL-SUL-STAFF@FORSYTHE" email distribution list.
--Editor
We are sad to announce the death of Viktor Bortnevski, a library specialist in the Monograph Receiving Unit. Viktor had been a member of the department since November 1995. Previous to that, he was a Title VIII Fellow at the Hoover Institution during 1994/1995. A noted Russian historian, Viktor's experience included serving as a Visiting Fellow in the International Security Program at Yale University, teaching in the history departments at the University of California at Riverside and Leningrad State University, and serving as a librarian in both the National Library of Russia and the Library of the Academy of Sciences in Leningrad. Viktor was well respected by his colleagues here at SUL. He will be missed very much.
--Vickie Seymour, Monographic Receiving
I am pleased to announce that the behavioral guidelines for reference librarians have finally been approved by all of the necessary ALA committees. These guidelines are intended for use in training and evaluating reference librarians in respect to their interaction with the patron, rather than the accuracy of the question. The official version of the guidelines will be published in a forthcoming issue of RQ, but I have been given permission to distribute them in advance through other means.
I want to thank everyone who has provided input into this project and hope that many of you can use these guidelines in your own environments. Please feel free to contact me with any questions or suggestions.
David Tyckoson, Head, Reference Department Univ. at Albany - SUNY; (518) 442-3559; DT673@cnsvax.albany.edu
Note: The guidelines are quite lengthy, so if you are interested in the full document, please send an email request to ireney@leland and Irene will forward it to your email account electronically.
--Submitted by JK Herro, Branner Earth Sciences Library
In this era of changing electronic mail addresses each of us needs to be sure that we are either reading all the accounts where mail could be sent to us, or we have forwarding in place to redirect mail to accounts that we do use regularly. There have been some problems with email not being read!
If you went through the conversion process of moving your existing mail from either Forsythe or Leland to SULmail (where Simeon is used), a forward was placed automatically on your Forsythe or Leland account, so you don't need to set any forward. If you did not go through this process, or for any other reason you would like to forward your mail, below are instructions for several common systems.
set mail forward username@sulmail
set mail forward username@leland
lelandforward
81 - Forward mail from sulmail to another account
If you have an account on other machines such as a department machine, you may need to consult the online help or system administrator to find the forwarding command to use.
--Sue Dentinger, Library Systems
sdentin@sulmail.stanford.edu
Please mark your calendars now for a talk by Ken Dowlin, Head of San Francisco Public Library, on Thursday, May 30, at 3:00. Details to follow in a later News Notes.
--Jennie Nicolayev, LASU Program Committee
FROM AESTHETICS TO ATHLETICS: A Visit to Two Special Collections, Thursday, May 23, 1996, 8:30 am - Noon.
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AMATEUR ATHLETIC FOUNDATION A Library Specializing in All Sports "Olympic Collection" 2141 West Adams Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90018 | UCLA CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY Rare Book & Manuscript Collections "Oscar Wilde" 2520 Cimarron St. Los Angeles, CA 90018 |
Registration -- 8:30 AM
Tours -- 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Refreshments -- 11:00 AM - Noon
$10.00 Carl Members; $10.00 Students; $12.00 Non-members
For further information about this seminar, please contact Lisa Snyder at UCLA at (310) 206-4474 or at lsnyder@library.ucla.edu
--Submitted by Suzanne Sweeney, Jackson Library
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Often, in the lazy fall, the dog days drag in; lank, limp and leaden from the tempestuous chase of the changing seasons; puff-panting their hot breaths down their dripping tongues as they gaze longingly towards winter, and relief. This year, though, the dogs have arrived too early: They're all turned around; preceding, not succeeding, the placid period of summer. Their own heat, possibly, has damaged their doggy brains, confounding and confusing them into coming here before they could be coming; certainly before they should. Perhaps they were pursuing the cat days of spring, that toppled torrentially down the heavy clouds, clawing the air in protest and leaving wet streaks to mark their steep descent. Grounded, their paws danced lightly atop the puddles, as they gathered strength to spring aloft once more into the bright spring sun. When the dog days arrived those cool cats were gone; vanished; evaporated. The pursuit fruitless, the dog days panted. |
What will you do now, calendrical canines? Summer simmers dead ahead, long, warm and weary, in wait between you and your wonted season. What days shall be coming when yours should be coming? What, then, are you becoming? Do you devolve down to rats, small, sizzling terrors for newer, fiercer dog days, to tear, terrier-like; to rend and devour? Or do you slowly diminish with each hot, wet pant, melting mournfully away until nothing is left but a doggy dew? Save yourselves! Take a long stretch before that long stretch! Bestir yourselves; bound back behind Heaven's blazing beacon, catch your cats, and be gone! |
--Anonymous