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Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Tom Cramer, chief technology specialist for the Libraries and associate director of the Digital Library Systems and Services department, was appointed to the board of directors of DuraSpace, a not-for-profit organization founded “to save our shared scholarly, scientific and cultural record.”  In his acceptance note, Cramer said, “DuraSpace and its foundational projects, DSpace and Fedora, exemplify the power and potential of collaborative, open source software in the education and research community--enabling services that simultaneously benefit individual institutions and the collective good.”

http://duraspace.org/tom-cramer-stanford-university-joins-duraspace-board

Concierge Keys

The Library Concierge Program is sponsoring tours of the branch libraries during the first and second weeks of December. We have created signups for the tours on the LCP Coursework project site so the tour leaders will know how many to expect for each tour. Some of the branches have limited signups for each tour. Please signup as soon as possible to secure your favorite spot.

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Stanford Quad corner and column

SUL has the following new positions this week:

 
 

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.

Editorial Staff

Monday, November 26, 2012

Jonathan Manton

We are very pleased to announce that Jonathan Manton has accepted our offer to become the new Sound Archives Librarian in the Archive of Recorded Sound at Stanford University.

Jonathan comes to Stanford from the Britten-Pears Foundation, in Aldeburgh, England, which is an archive devoted to composer, Benjamin Britten, and tenor, Peter Pears.

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