Spaces still available for the sessions on Friday, October 19, 10-11am or 3-4pm.
Join your colleagues at the October Library Concierge Program presentations on the Libraries' support for Faculty Research through the ATS (Academic Technology Specialists) Program. Concierge 4 covered support for Digital Humanities research and teaching. In Concierge 7, you will learn about support for social science research and other disciplines.
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.
One of the Stanford's latest (and greatest) digital humanities efforts is ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World, a collaboration between the Stanford University Libraries and Professor Walter Scheidel of the Stanford Classics Department. ORBIS was released in early May, 2012, to great acclaim and accompanied by masses of web traffic and multiple write-ups in the popular Internet press. But now it's receiving more attention of a different and more substantial nature: professional reviews and attention in the scholarly press.
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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