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The Stanford Libraries Staff Association is pleased
to provide you with an excuse to take a
break from the piles of work on your desk.
Jim Coleman, Head of Academic Computing for the
Humanities and the Academic Text Service
(ATS) will talk about SUL/AIR's current digitization
projects and the ATS's new Web presence.
His talk will pay particular attention to SUL/AIR's
effort to digitize its collection of Dime
Novels/Penny Dreadfuls. Included in his
presentation will be a brief history of the
project, issues the project team has had to confront
(technical, preservation-related, and
architectural) and a demonstration of the project's
Web site.
The ATS demonstration will highlight the new Web
environment for text searching, retrieval,
and analysis, and lay out the development of
these resources for the coming months. For those of
you who watch Channel 51, you may have seen Prof.
Barbara Gelpi exclaiming over the wonders of Jim's ATS machine and how
it has revolutionized her teaching.
Jim's talk will be on Wednesday, July 30th, at
3:00, in the Meyer Forum Room.
2. GREEN STACK 95 AND 96 PUB PLAN MATERIALS MOVE TO SAL
Early next week, Green Stack PUB Plan materials
(Monographs:Interim Processing on Stack
directories) beginning with the numbers 95 and
96 and followed by 5 digits will move from the
South Mezzanine Stack to SAL. Both years
are being moved in order to make room for growing
collections elsewhere in the Green building.
The change in physical location will be reflected
in the public catalog, thanks to the work of the
Systems Group and particularly to Darsi Rueda.
It is, however, possible that the physical move
will precede the catalog record changes
by as much as one week.
Green Library patrons wishing to have this material
paged to Green may use paper forms
available at the Loan Desk; all patrons may,
of course, send e-mail requests (giving requestor
name and full citation information) to salcirc@sulmail.
Paper and floor directories will be updated as
soon as possible.
3. ANNOUNCING THE CREATION OF A MINORITY LIBRARIAN MAILING LIST
The ARL Diversity Program is charged with, among
others, assisting in the creation and
maintenance of assertive systems for enhancing
the racial and ethnic diversity represented in
library candidate pools. In response to
this charge, and numerous inquiries from hiring
institutions seeking to market their positions
to a diverse audience, a minority librarian mailing
list is being created.
The Diversity Program regularly receives calls
from personnel officers, human resource
managers, search and affirmative action committee
members requesting contact information for
librarians from racially underrepresented groups
as position openings become available
in their home institutions. ARL's incentive
in creating this mailing list is to create a forum for
connecting a broad pool of minority librarians
with libraries interested in affirmative
recruitment and hiring strategies.
The ARL minority librarian mailing list will be
maintained by the Diversity Program. The
mailing list will include self-identified minority
librarians interested in receiving current
position openings. The list will also include
the names of administrators who are
actively engaged in distributing career information
to minority librarians. The ultimate product
will allow direct and indirect access to librarians
from underrepresented racial and ethnic
groups for those institutions committed to assertive
outreach practices.
The list will be updated regularly so names may
be submitted at any time. Mailing list
information should be forwarded to Marianne Seales,
Program Assistant <marianne@cni.org>.
Please route this message to others who you feel
may benefit from this service.
4. OPENING IN CURRENT PERIODICALS & MICROTEXTS IN GREEN LIBRARY
This is a full-time LSII position. Send
your resume, along with an SU application to Mike
Ballard, CP&Mtxts, Green East, MC6004.
100%. For 6,000 title serial collection in Current
Periodicals & Microtexts, Green Library:
checks-in new issues; creates/maintains serial
records, statistics and online journals file;
initiates claims/replacement orders; handles
lapsed subscriptions, transfers and special serial
problems. Provides microtext and periodical
collection oriented informational and tech
assistance to patrons. Supervises assistants
in serials work. Supervises unit evenings and
Sundays. Hours: Sun-Thur 12-9pm during
academic terms & Mon-Fri 9am-6pm during
Intersessions.
Qualifications: Demonstrated experience
providing effective customer service; excellent
interpersonal, problem solving & communication
skills; accuracy & attention to detail essential;
able to maintain good attendance record.
Preferred: familiarity with UNICORN, SOCRATES,
EXCEL, WORD; experience overseeing/providing
work assignments; experience with serials &
microtexts. Reading knowledge of one European
language other than English.
Zita Zukowski, aka The Tanner Philosophy Library,
will be leaving the library she has tended so
well and so lovingly, and retiring at the end
of this month. She was the only staff member at the
library, working half time and overseeing a host
of student workers. During her tenure at Tanner,
Zita moved the library from a manual circulation
system to NOTIS, and then hung on with the
restof us while we moved from NOTIS to Unicorn.
For Zita, this latter move was compounded
by the simultaneous physical move of the entire
Philosophy Dept. from its temporary Encina
location back to its permanent quad location,
only days before we went live on Unicorn. Zita
came up on Unicorn without terminals, without
wiring, and without supplies! That experience
may have hastened her plans to retire.
You are invited to join us in honoring Zita and
celebrating her years with the Libraries on
Thursday, July 24th, from 10-11, in the Ida Green
Room.