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Thursday, March 28, 2013

Miller Library Reading Room with new light fixtures
by Joe Wible, Hopkins Marine Station

The Miller Library had its 14 "salad bowl" lamps replaced. The lamps needed to be replaced because of frayed wiring, and Stanford used this opportunity to replace the incandescent fixtures with ones using compact fluorescent bulbs that are more energy efficient. The new lights are also significantly brighter. Jon Flores from Facilities was very patient with me as I agonized over the style and color of the replacement fixtures.

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

For almost a decade, Polly Armstrong has been the public services manager for Special Collections and there is good reason why you’ll frequently find her name in the acknowledgments of many published books: Polly gives patrons outstanding public service. Thus, it is with mixed emotions that I announce Polly Armstrong’s retirement from SUL beginning April 3, 2013.

Screen shot of the SUL News page

We are very excited to introduce to you a new feature/link on the SUL News page! A newspaper icon with a "Submit a news article" link now resides at the top, left hand side of the News page. This link puts all SUL staff who possess a SUNet ID one step away from submitting an article to the News page. You no longer need to have "content creator" status on the SUL website in order to submit an article, you need only to possess a SUNet ID and relevant news for our website visitors.

Stanford Quad corner and column

SUL has the following new positions this week:

Application Software Developer, HighWire Press, Stanford University Libraries (#51892)

Public Service Manager, Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries (#51903)

Subject Specialist for Germanic Collections, International and Area Studies Resource Group, Stanford University Libraries (#51873)

For a complete description of open positions within SUL, go to the Stanford Jobs page, select University Libraries from the Job Search/Location: list, and then click on the Search button.

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