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Monday, August 6, 2012

This Fall, the Stanford Libraries will be rolling out a campus-wide upgrade to all current Mendeley users at Stanford. Mendeley is a desktop and web-based tool to help manage pdfs, citations and much more. If you want to try out Mendeley (it's free) and learn about all the features that are available to Stanford students, faculty, staff and alumni, please attend our introductory session on Monday, August 13 from 1:30-2:15 in the IC Classroom. After the introduction to Mendeley, for those who want to "try it out" or ask detailed questions, we will have hands-on time from 2:15-3:00 (bring your laptop or use one in the classroom).

We already have over 3,000 Mendeley users on campus and we will be migrating all of those accounts to our new campus-wide Stanford group account. We anticipate that a large number of new and returning graduate and upper division students will want to set-up Mendeley accounts to manage their pdfs, search for articles related to their area of study, and use the citation tool plug-in to Word or Open Office. We also expect that some of these students, as well as new students, may come to the library for assistance, so here's your chance to "be in the know".

This workshop is your opportunity to ask questions and get hands-on time with Mendeley. William Gunn, Head of Academic Outreach for Mendeley will be our speaker along with Mendeley users from the library as "experts" during the hands-on time.

If you have a particular question about Mendeley, please let me know so that I can make sure it is addressed during the session.

See you on August 13th in the IC Classroom!

Helen Josephine

Who: SUL and Coordinate Library Staff
When: Thursday, August 16, 2012, 2:30 - 4 PM
Where: Green Library, IC Classroom

Join us for a rousing reading-group style discussion on the topic of e-books in academic libraries. We'll talk about some of the current big issues surrounding e-books, such as licensing and ownership models, preservation, patron convenience (or inconvenience), financial questions, and selection.

Most of our texts are recent blog posts (so they're not too long, and are lively reading), but there are some meatier offerings as well.

Paul Zarins and James Jacobs will start the discussion out, but we count on active participation by all.

Thursday, August 2, 2012

William Saroyan

The winners and finalists of the 2012 Saroyan Prize for Writing have been announced: Elisabeth Tova Bailey's The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating won in the non-fiction category, and Daniel Orozco's Orientation and Other Stories won for fiction. The finalists for non-fiction are Arion Golmakani's Solacers and John Jeremiah Sullivan's Pulphead; and for fiction, Ben Lerner's Leaving the Atocha Station and Miroslav Penkov's East of the West: A Country in Stories.

From the Stanford News story:

The major literary award, sponsored by Stanford University Libraries and the William Saroyan Foundation, encourages new or emerging writers in fiction and non-fiction. The award honors the life and legacy of the American writer and playwright William Saroyan.

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William Saroyan was the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Time of Your Life (1939-40), the novel The Human Comedy (1943) and many volumes of short stories, essays and memoirs. Born in Fresno in 1908 to Armenian parents, Saroyan was a high school dropout and largely self-educated. He is best known for his short stories about the experiences of immigrant families and children in California. He died in 1981.

Stanford University Libraries houses the William Saroyan Collection, which includes manuscripts, personal journals, correspondence, drawings and other material.

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Green Library/Red Fountain Graphic

Join a group of fun colleagues, bring your ideas and let's get started on the best "Open House" (suggestions for re-naming?)ever. 

What: Open House Planning - Kickoff Meeting
When: Tuesday, July 31, 2012, 1:30 - 3:00 pm
Where: SSRC

See you there!

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