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Tuesday, September 4, 2012

New AOM Publications Portal launches on HighWire

by Kelly Fields

The Academy of Management (AOM) is proud to announce the launch of the new AOM Publications Portal on the HighWire Open Platform.

STANFORD CA: August 30, 2012 — With this move, the AOM titles on the HighWire Open Platform embrace an online format that is quick and easy to use, offering greater discoverability, potential for innovation and personalization options. The AOM Publications Portal on HighWire brings news and member highlights to the forefront, offers improved access to journal content, and makes tools and resources easier to find and use.

“One of the Academy’s key missions is ‘to build a vibrant and supportive community of scholars by expanding opportunities to connect and explore ideas.’ To that end, we’ve been working hard to deliver AOM’s journal content to our members in multiple high-quality formats.” said Adam Etkin, Director of Publishing at the Academy.“ In addition to AOM’s iOS app, the new platform helps extend the reach of our publications: all smartphone and tablet users can view AOM content via an app-like experience on our HighWire-enabled mobile-optimized sites, wherever they are, on whatever device suits them.”

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Thursday, August 30, 2012

Largest private map collection of 'California as Island' comes to Stanford

by Kelly Fields

California is an island. Always has been. Always will be.

A new Stanford Libraries acquisition of 800 maps from one of the nation's top map collectors, Glen McLaughlin, bolsters the claim: California was portrayed as an island on maps for well over a century.

"To my knowledge, it is the largest collection featuring California as an island in private hands in the world," said McLaughlin. "The collection was built over a 40-year time period, from 1971 to last year."

Cartographers call it the greatest snafu ever, persisting on a few Asian maps even into the 1860s. But perhaps those mapmakers sensed a deeper truth.

Article written by Cynthia Haven, Associate Director for Communications, Stanford University Libraries

Article reposted in part. To read the article in its entirety, see the August 30, 2012, Stanford Report.

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Newly aquired book includes original Manet etching

by Kelly Fields

The Art & Architecture Library recently acquired an 1870 art classic book entitled Les Chats that features an original etching by the famous French artist Édouard Manet (1832-1883). Cynthia Haven, Associate Director of Communications wrote an article for The Dish on the recent acquisition.

There’s a new cat at the Art & Architecture Library in the Cummings Art Building – and it’s well over a hundred years old.

The 1869 cat is featured in an original etching by the famous French artist ÉDOUARD MANET (1832-1883). The feline is hidden away between the pages of a newly acquired book, the deluxe edition of an 1870 art classic called Les Chats, by JULES-FRANÇOIS-FÉLIX HUSSON, who used the pen name “Champfleury.” The etching is also an  “aquatint” that uses a powdered kind of resin (called rosin) to create a muted gray-blue background.  Manet made the plate by hand, etching fine lines with a needle.

“Le Chat et Les Fleurs” is described as one of Manet’s most subtle combinations of the complex and simple.  According to the late art historian Jean C. Harris, the etching shows the traces of Japanese influence, with its flatness of spatial arrangement and the “rather freely drawn and widely spaced strokes to describe the flowers,” which “help to animate the surface and to relieve the monotony of the uniform aquatinting.”

To read Cynthia's article in its entirety, see the August 29, 2012 edition of The Dish.

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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

SUL Job Opportunities - August 28, 2012

SUL has the following new positions this week:

Software Developer, Enterprise Systems and Programming, Stanford University Libraries (#49284)

Processing Assistant, Benoit Mandelbrot papers, Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries (#49294)

Senior Data Analytics Architect, HighWire Press, Stanford University Libraries (#49283)

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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