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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Who: SUL and Coordinate Library Staff
When: Thursday, November 1, 2012, 2:30 - 4 PM
Where: Green Library, IC Classroom

Whether you knew it or not, something big and brand new has come to the library catalog: Resource Description & Access, a.k.a. RDA. This new standard for information organization (a.k.a. cataloging) is the replacement for the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules that libraries all over the country, and in many other parts of the world, have been using ever since 1967. (For you younger colleagues, that was before both the Internet and microwave popcorn! As you might imagine, a few things in the library world have changed since then.)

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

You are invited to attend a workshop on the newly-available Data Management Planning (DMP) Tool. The workshop will take place Monday, Oct. 22 from 10-11am in the IC Classroom in Green Library.

Many funding agencies - including NEH Office of Digital Humanities and the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences directorate - are now requiring data management plans to be included with funding requests. The Data Management Planning Tool (DMP Tool) puts at your fingertips all the information you need to write the data management plan for your next research grant proposal.

Monday, October 15, 2012

Please note the time change for the seminar. It will be held, 1:00-2:00 pm on Oct. 24th. Please email Daphne Chang if you are interested in attending.

Date: Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Time: 1-2 pm
Venue: B400, Seawell Family Boardroom, GSB Library, Bass Center

Abstract: Social networking sites (SNSs) are helpful for stirring up interactions among users. The number of libraries which adopt SNSs is increasing. However, user engagement is low on many libraries’ SNSs. Existing research mainly focuses on the ways SNSs used in libraries and the librarians or users’ attitudes towards libraries using SNSs. Little research has been done on how to use SNSs to interact with library users effectively. This study focuses on the interactions between libraries and users on libraries’ Facebook, Twitter and Weibo.

Loring's Terrestrial Globe, 1833

David Rumsey Map Collection | October 26, 2012 | Noon – 2 pm   

What: Workshop featuring David Rumsey and items from his collection. The collection has a strong focus on 18th and 19th century maps and atlases of North America. 

Where: Barchas Room, 2nd Floor of Green Library; Access is through the Lane Reading Room seen here at: http://bit.ly/lanereading

To do: Due to limited seating, please register for this workshop at:
http://bit.ly/rumseyoct26 

No food or drink is allowed in the Barchas Room. A limited number of lockers available, these are located near the entrance to the Field Reading Room seen here: http://bit.ly/fieldreading . You can get a locker by asking for one at the special collections room (Field Reading Room) reference desk.  

For more information: contact G. Salim Mohammed, Digital and Rare Maps Librarian, gsalim@stanford.edu.

 

 

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