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President Obama appoints Suzanne Thorin to National Institute of Museum and Library Services board
Suzanne E. Thorin, Dean of Libraries and University Librarian at Syracuse University, has been appointed by President Barack Obama to the National Museum and Library Services Board.
Open house provides look at new library facility
The SU Library will host an open house on Tuesday, Dec. 4, from 3-5 p.m. to celebrate the completion of the new Syracuse University Library Facility, located adjacent to the Hawkins Building on Jamesville Avenue. The event will include guided…
SU Honorary Trustee, VPA alumna Dorothea Ilgen Shaffer dies at 101
Dorothea Ilgen Shaffer ’33 H’90, an honorary member of Syracuse University’s Board of Trustees and an alumna of the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA), died Wednesday, Oct. 17, in Lewisberry, Pa. She was 101. Born in 1911 in…
Building Digital Library Collections in Monteverde, Costa Rica
You are invited to an informal discussion on Wednesday, Oct. 24, with Laurie Kutner, a University of Vermont librarian and SU alum (Maxwell G’85 and iSchool G’98) who directs the SU iSchool Costa Rica summer internship project. This discussion will…
Faculty meeting with library review team
This fall, from Oct. 14-17, the library will undergo an external peer review. Jim Neal, dean of libraries at Columbia University, will lead the team, and will be joined by others from Dartmouth, Miami and Rice universities, plus the Coalition…
SU Library presents Open Access Week 2012
Open Access Week is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access—the principle that all research should be freely accessible online, immediately after publication —and to help inspire wider…
Registrar’s Office closed Oct. 17 from 2-3 p.m.
The Registrar’s Office will be closed on Oct. 17 from 2-3 p.m. for a staff development event. Contact Person: Christine Prouty Registrar’s Office 443-1034 caprouty@syr.edu
Call for SU Honorary Degree nominations deadline extended to Oct. 17
The Syracuse University Senate Committee on Honorary Degrees invites all students, faculty, staff and alumni to nominate candidates to receive honorary degrees at the 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 Commencement ceremonies. Deadline for all nominations is Oct. 17, 2012. Persons…
Workshop on the OECD iLibrary will be held Sept. 18
A workshop on the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development iLibrary, one of the most comprehensive online resources on the world economy, society, education and the environment, will be held Tuesday, Sept. 18, from noon-1:30 p.m. in the Peter Graham…
Exhibition of Marcel Breuer’s architecture opens Sept. 13 at Bird Library
Syracuse University Library’s fall exhibition “Assembly-line Architecture: Repetition and Innovation in the Work of Marcel Breuer” opens with a reception on Thursday, Sept. 13, at 5 p.m. in the Special Collections gallery on Bird Library’s sixth floor.