CUL NEWSLETTER

DeGolyer Cookbook Collection Presentation/ February (time and date TBA),  Texana Room

• Now is the time to take a moment and review your W-4 marital status and allowances.
• If you are presently claiming "Exempt" on your W-4 you will need to submit an new form for 2003.  If you do not submit a new form, your "Exempt" status will be stopped by February 15, 2003.
• If you are eligible for the Earned Income Credit (EIC), you may also be able to receive advance EIC payments by completing the W-5 form.

Are you looking for a way to share your knowledge and expertise about the SMU Libraries? Students are waiting to hear from you. Opportunities are available in the following categories: Library Tours, PONI Workshops, and Introduction to SMU Libraries. Library Tours have cards available, PONI has a script and Intro to SMU has a PowerPoint all ready for you. Of course you can use your imagination, too!! Anyone in CUL can share there knowledge on the following days:

Back by popular demand… The Book Roadshow

The Friends of the SMU Libraries

cordially invites members to

The Book “Roadshow”

Sunday, February 2, 2003

3:00 p.m.

DeGolyer Library

Free, but reservations are necessary.

Call 214-768-3225 or

e-mail jsearles@mail.smu.edu 

Join fellow members for afternoon tea, scones and conversation on a winter’s day. You may bring up to three books for quick appraisals by local area book experts. The afternoon concludes with a discussion of the most unique ‘finds’ of the day. If you wish to attend, you MUST make reservations as this is a MEMBERS ONLY event.

Saturday, April 5, 2003

Invitational brochures will be sent in March.

Table Hosts for 2003 are:

Anne and Alan Bromberg

Lee Cullum

Ron Davis

John Gage

Richard Haddaway

Elizabeth Forsyth Hailey

Bonnie and Lou Jacobs

Cal Jillson

Dian Malouf

Judy Mohraz

Jasper Neel

Douglas Newby

Rose Mary Rumbley

Laurie Shulman

The Friends of the SMU Libraries is joining with the Meadows Museum to co-sponsor a book club that will explore literary works connected to the museum’s renowned collection of Spanish art. The group will meet once a month on a Thursday evening at 7 p.m.

Dates:

• Feb. 20 (Book: Reluctant Saint: The Life of Francis of Assisi by Donald Spoto)
• Mar. 20 (Book: Collected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca)
• Apr. 24 (Book: I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton De Trevino)
• May 8 (Book: Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges)

Where: Meadows Museum, 5900 Bishop Blvd. on the SMU campus

Cost: $5 per book club meeting; $2.50 each for Friends and museum members

Info: Call Judy at 214-768-3225 or Lisa at 214-768-2516.

New Information Facility at SMU-in-Taos

 On December 30, 2002, SMU issued a press release announcing $2 million dollars in gifts to build an information commons building and provide wireless connections on the SMU-in-Taos campus.  Although some preliminary work has been done, construction on the 5,000-square-foot building, which will house the library collection and computing laboratory, is set to begin in the spring. Equipping the campus for wireless technology will be the second phase of the project.

 One of the principal donors is Former Texas Governor William P. Clements, who has contributed more than $17.3 million for SMU’s academic programs and facilities, including $3.5 million in support of SMU-in-Taos.  A second donor wishes to remain anonymous.

 SMU archaeology students excavated the site of the building in the summers of 2001 and 2002.  They mapped and documented the area and concluded that the original structures on the site probably were hastily constructed storage facilities, built late in the Fort’s history.   The garrison, called Cantonment Burgwin, was established in September 1852 and abandoned in May 1860.  It was a small post, designed for about one hundred soldiers, but its population often doubled as troops heading west stopped there temporarily. 

 Linda Sellers continues to be actively involved with SMU-in-Taos administrators in the planning of the new facility and selection of shelving and furniture.

CUL Interlibrary Loan is now offering another improvement in user services. Thanks to a new scanner with a speedy automatic document feeder, we can offer electronic delivery for all articles requested on interlibrary loan--even those that libraries send to us as photocopies. No more explaining to users why some articles are delivered electronically and some aren't!

FLC EXHIBIT

An exhibit for the Shuler Museum will be put up in the display cases in the Fondren Library Center Lobby, in late January. It will highlight the fine Paleontology program we have at SMU.  Included in the display will be information on the development of the paleontology program, and current research and information on the scholars and graduate students associated with the program.

According to the 2003 Chase's Calendar of Events January is:

• Book Blitz Month

• 1st-7th Diet Resolution Week

• 1st Get a Life Day

• International Creativity Month

• National Clean Up Your Computers Month

• Oatmeal Month

• 11th-18th International Thank You Days

• 16th National Nothing Day

• 19th-25th National Creative Frugality Week

• 19th Penguin Awareness Day

• 21st National Hugging Day

• 27th Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day

• 31st Fun at Work Day

(Thanks to Troy Sherrod for this )

• The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the country.

• The Washington Post is read by people who think they run the country.

• The New York Times is read by people who think they should run the country.

• USA Today is read by people who think they ought to run the country but don't really understand the Washington Post. They do, however, like their statistics shown in pie chart format.

• The Los Angeles Times is read by people who wouldn't mind running the country, if they could spare the time, and if they didn't have to leave LA to do it.

• The Boston Globe is read by people whose parents used to run the country and they did a far superior job of it, thank you very much.

• The New York Daily News is read by people who aren't too sure who's running the country, and don't really care as long as they can get a seat on the train.

• The New York Post is read by people who don't care who's running the country, as long as they do something really scandalous, preferably while intoxicated.

• The San Francisco Chronicle is read by people who aren't sure there is a country or that anyone is running it; but whoever it is, they oppose all that they stand for. There are occasional exceptions if the leaders are minority feminist atheist dwarfs.

• The Miami Herald is read by people who are running another country but need the baseball scores.

• The National Enquirer is read by people trapped in line at the grocery store.