The Serials & Electronic Resources Cataloging Group is pleased to welcome two new staff members: Phyllis Brown, serials and media support cataloger, and Greta de Groat, media original cataloger.
Although new to this position, Phyllis is no stranger to SUL, nor to many of you, especially if your work involves government document serials. She has been on the staff of SUL for the past ten years, and has held a number of positions related to the acquisition and maintenance of government document serials.
Greta, on the other hand, is new to SUL, coming to us from WLN, a library network that operates primarily in the Pacific Northwest. She was Quality Control Librarian at WLN from 1990 to 1994, and Head of the Database Quality Section from 1994 to 1997. At SUL, Greta will serve as our principal cataloger of non-print materials (e.g. visual materials, sound recordings, CD-ROMs, Internet resources). She holds a B.A. in art history from California State University, Hayward, and a M.L.S. from the University of California, Berkeley.
Phyllis and Greta both work on the fourth floor of Meyer Library, I hope you will stop by to say hi and welcome. If you would like to do so electronically, their e-mail addresses are: pmbrown@sulmail and gdegroat@sulmail.
-- submitted by Vitus Tang, Serials & Electronic Resources Cataloging
God's loud hand : poems / by Kelly Cherry. -- Baton Rouge : Louisiana
State University Press, 1993.
ANL3216 / PS3553 .H357 G63 1993 / Green Library - Stacks.
Oh, holy Allen Ginsberg : oh, holy shit sweet Jesus Tantric Buddha
Dharma road; a full length serio-comedy in two acts / Nicholas
A. Patricca -- Woodstock : Dramatic, 1995.
AQD5703 / 96 07480 / Green Library - Stacks.
The sorriest cow of Capricorn : soprano and piano / Paul Patterson ;
[words by Mervyn Peake]. -- London : Universal Edition, c1990.
ALM3429 / M1621 .P318 OP.63 1990 / Music Library - Scores.
The spider in the cup : Yoknapatawpha County's fall into the
unknowable / Barbara H. Fried. -- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard
University Press, 1978.
AEU4422 / PS3511.A86Z79326 / Green Library - Stacks.
Tragi-comoedia [microform] : being a brief relation of the strange,
and wonderfull hand of God discovered at Witny, in the comedy
acted there February the third, where there were some slaine,
many hurt, and severall other remarkable passages : together with
what was preached in three sermons on that occasion from Rom. 1,
18 : both which may serve as some check to the growing atheisme
of the present age / by John Rowe ... -- Oxford : Printed by L.
Lichfield, for Henry Cripps, 1653.
AKL2308 / MFILM 015 4 509:11 / Current Periodicals - Microtext.
--submitted by Brian Kunde, Serials & Electronic Resources
Well, our repentant partygoer's question about Character and Fate got lots of action. From it's original go-round among the Green Deskers, John McDonald came up with all the right answers first. This is because he did his work in the Reference Room of Green. Reaching for those instant access tools, the books on our shelves, he quickly learned that the oldest version of "Character is fate" came from the Old Greek Guy Heraclitus.
The fun part about this question is that, if you felt compelled to do it electronically, you would discover our out-of-date Quotations Database on Folio, which only mentions Novalis. Checking the later edition of the Oxford Book of Quotations in the Reference Room, you find Heraclitus, Novalis and the original Greek text. The scandal: The Quotations Database comes from an earlier edition of the Oxford Book of Quotations. A better electronic resource, tried by both Meg Worley and Olivia Williamson, would be a Web search for the quote. This quickly yields the identity of the OGG and a 19th century translation, which changes "fate" into "guardian divinity."
As our non-Greek-speaking partygoer wanted further scholarly explanations, we would direct him to various books on Heraclitus in English, such as The Art and Thought of Heraclitus, by Charles H. Kahn. This is the sort of move that can establish a reference relationship, with the user returning from time to time carrying a new nugget of knowledge. Other players of our game did this, finding many variants of our quote throughout Greco-Roman culture. Adrienne Arden was especially good at this, finding a number of Christian and pagan variants.
A transliteration of our quote: "Ethos anthropoi daimon." So let's all keep our daimons under control for the sake of this, our local ethos.
-- submitted by Eric Heath, Reference, Green Library
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