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EVENTS:
LEAD:
Please mark your
calendars for the next LEAD event:
Rob Walker will
give CUL staff a tour and orientation of
the
Norwick
Center for Digital Services
Thursday,
Feb. 28th at 11 am.
A WORD FROM EC MEMBER:
In collection development we are
enjoying a couple of new developments that have an impact in
practically every area of the library. Until the English
department’s new PhD program is fully established, they are
sharing some of their endowment funds with the library.
Many of you probably know already that English money helped
us buy Evans’ Early American Imprints and Gale’s Eighteenth
Century Collection Online. Along with Early English Books
Online, we now have electronic copies of pretty much every
book published in English prior to 1800. What is less well
known is that the English department is paying for a huge
increase in the number of books in literary criticism,
literary history, fiction, and poetry that we purchase.
This has led to an increase in the effort needed to order
books in collection development and the CIP. It has also
encouraged us to purchase additional shelving for East Floor
3 and massively shift books there. The English department’s
funds have indeed affected not only collection development,
but also circulation, CIP, reference, and information
support systems.
As part of the creation of the new
School of Education and Human Development, we are receiving
additional funds for the support of education materials as
well. Evelyn Day, part of whose responsibilities include
collection development for this new school, is working with
professors on how to spend these funds. Evelyn also has
begun work with the psychology and sociology departments,
and Julia Stewart, our other new reference/bibliographer in
the FLC, is making contacts with the political science and
economics departments.
Our “big deals” for scholarly
periodicals continue. From Wiley we receive over 530 titles
for the price of 45; from Springer, over 1,500 for the price
of 80; and from Blackwell, over 750 for the price of 150.
These deals also include price caps, and we believe that we
are about to sign a 5-year price cap with Elsevier for
5%/year, far below the nightmare years of double-digit
inflation. All of our big deals came up for renewal this
year, and they have consumed an immense amount of Erika
Ripley’s time and my own. The big publishers sadly need our
help to determine what they are selling to us.
For the future, we hope to expand our
electronic purchases—particularly in reference materials—and
we expect to expand our use of reference bibliographers.
You will be hearing more about this soon.
Curt Holleman
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DIVISION NEWS
NEW STAFF:
The Hamon Library is excited to announce
the arrival of our new Music and Media Librarian,
Jon Haupt. He comes to us from Iowa State University, where
he has been the Fine & Performing Arts Librarian since 2004. He
completed his MLIS at the University of Washington, and has
additional degrees in piano performance and music history from
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Jon began his work at the
Hamon on Wednesday, January 9th. Please drop by the
Hamon and give him a warm CUL welcome.
Lisa Wall now occupies a newly
created position that continues her major responsibility in the
area of evaluating and ordering audio-visual media, but adds the
responsibility of processing science-engineering gifts and
orders for new materials. As she has acquired the additional
responsibilities in science and engineering, Lisa will no longer
work in the Circulation area. Lisa’s new office is in Room 212
of the Science/Engineering Library. Her e-mail address and
phone number remain the same as always. Congratulations to Lisa
on her new position.
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STAFF
NEWS
“This Isn’t Your Grandmother’s Library Anymore”
 The
Friends of the SMU Libraries presented a panel discussion
led by Dean McCombs, on the ever-changing
role of libraries in today’s fast-paced technological world.
The panel included Pattie Orr, Vice President for Information
Technology
and Dean of University Libraries at Baylor University, Gerald D.
Saxon, Dean of Libraries at the University of Texas at Arlington
and SMU’s Sandy Miller, Director
of the Business Information Center, Cox School of Business.
Dean McCombs began the evening with a discussion and overview of
SMU libraries, past and present. Each panelist discussed
today’s technology and
the changing roles of today’s libraries. Questions and answers
from the audience completed the evening.
Happy
Birthday!!!...& many more...
Marna Morland - February
5th
Carol Baker - February
7th
Carolyn Keenon -
February 16th
Ruthann Swanson -
February 20th
Marja Pietilainen-Rom -
February 27th
Sarah Haight - February
28th
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send an email to the editor. Also, if you don't want to be
included, let us know that too. Thank you and Happy
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EXHIBITS & PROGRAMS
Spring 2008
DEGOLYER LIBRARY
Merchandise for the Millions: American Trade Catalogs
October 9-February 15, 2007
http://www.smu.edu/cul/degolyer/exhibits.htm
HAMON ARTS LIBRARY - HAWN GALLERY
Through March 16, the Hawn Gallery is the venue for
“Leonard Stokes: Collages.” Born in
New York City in 1944, Leonard Stokes earned a BA, BFA and MFA
from Yale University. He is currently Professor of Visual Art at
Purchase College, State University of New York. His work was
recommended for exhibition in the gallery by Philip van Keuren,
Associate Professor of Art
at SMU.
Stokes describes his work as follows:
I invite viewers to eavesdrop on the conversations between and
among the archival digital prints and their paper collage
ancestors. Whether composing by hand or,currently, by means of
the computer, I regard myself as a chef who cooks with whatever
is at hand - left-overs, essentially. This practice has been
common throughout the history of music (“sampling” is a recent
manifestation), and arose within the plastic arts with the
advent of collage during the early years of the last
century.
I endeavor to bring elements of disparate provenance together so
that they interact to form new worlds. Each fragment is an actor
who auditions for a role in a play that is being improvised
during the tryout. No attempt has been made to disguise my love
of the ancient art of Italy - from Magna Graecia to il
Quattrocento.
Viewers may also notice Asian influences. Ultimately, my
concerns are with the poetics of color, form, light and space.
Each viewer (myself included) is invited to create a narrative -
once the image has been composed and presented to the world...
- Sam
Ratcliffe
Gallery Hours:
9 – Midnight- Monday-Thursday
9 – 6-Friday
9 – 5– Saturday
1 – Midnight--Sunday
BRIDWELL LIBRARY:
Methodism in the
American South
Foundation through Reunification
28 January - 11 July
2008
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CONFERENCE NEWS
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STAFF SPOTLIGHT
Professional/Educational background:
My
background is in library science and music history; I have master’s
degrees in both from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. My bachelor’s
degree—also in music--is from Ohio University.
Hobbies and
interests:
Favorite pastimes are birding and nature study; I also enjoy traveling
and going to concerts.
Interesting
facts about you:
I’ve
been compiling a life list of birds since I was in my twenties; one of
my favorite recent acquisitions was a vermillion flycatcher that I
watched for quite a while near the Popocatepetl volcano in Mexico last
fall.
Book or website
you would like to recommend:
I
enjoyed reading Bill Clinton’s Giving over the holidays;
It’s a great antidote to excessive consumption of mainstream
“news.”
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STAFF RECOMMENDS: 
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
A New York Times #1 Best Seller
(Now available in paperback)
Nominated for two Quill Awards,
2006
Nominated for Entertainment
Weekly’s Best Novel of the Year, 2006
Finalist for The Audie Awards,
Best Unabridged Fiction, 2006
Friends of American Literature Most Popular Fiction Award
Winner of an ALA /Alex Award 2007
Winner of the 2007 Book Sense Book of the Year Award
Bookbrowse Diamond Award for Most Popular Book
From the book jacket:
An atmospheric, gritty,
and compelling novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus
world circa 1932, by the bestselling author of Riding Lessons.
When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift,
jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks,
drifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to
survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in
town after endless town. A veterinary student who almost earned
his degree, Jacob is put in charge of caring for the circus
menagerie. It is there that he meets Marlena, the beautiful
young star of the equestrian act, who is married to August, the
charismatic but twisted animal trainer. He also meets Rosie, an
elephant who seems untrainable until he discovers a way to reach
her.
Beautifully written, Water for Elephants is illuminated by a
wonderful sense of time and place. It tells a story of a love
between two people that overcomes incredible odds in a world in
which even love is a luxury that few can afford.
Library Journal:
“Old-fashioned and endearing, this is an enjoyable, fast-paced
story.”
New York Times
Book Review: “An enchanting escapist fairy tale”
Entertainment
Weekly: “Has a ringmaster’s crowd-pleasing pace”
-recommended by Marna
Morland
This book-length
sequence of ecstatic,
visionary lyrics recalls
Rumi in its search for
the beloved and its
passionate belief in the
healing qualities of art
and beauty.
Concerning the Book
That Is the Body of the
Beloved is an
incantatory celebration
of the "Book," an
imaginary and
self-gathering anthology
of all the lyrics — both
poems and songs — ever
written. Each poem
highlights a distinct
aspect of the human
condition, and together
the poems explore love,
loss, restoration, the
beauty of the world, the
beauty of the beloved,
and the mystery of
poetry. The purpose and
power of the Book is to
help us live by
reconnecting us to the
world and to our
emotional lives.
I put the beloved
In a wooden coffin.
The fire ate his body;
The flames devoured her.
I put the beloved
In a poem or song.
Tucked it between
Two pages of the Book.
How bright the flames.
All of me burning,
All of me on fire
And still whole.
There is nothing quite
like this book — an
"active anthology" in
the best sense — where
individuals find the
poems and songs that
will sustain them. Or
the poems find them.
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-recommended by Marja Rom
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CLASSIFIEDS
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Marja Pietilainen-Rom at x83700 or
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