SUL NEWS NOTES - June 13, 1997 +^+^+^+^+^+^+^+^+^+^+^+^+^+^+ TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1. Weber Research Awards 2. Staff Training Assistance Program (STAP) 3. Green Library Hours Change 4. The Next Question, Please--No. 3 ------------------------------------------------------- 1. WEBER RESEARCH AWARDS Maria Grandinette and Roger Kohn have been honored with this year’s David C. Weber Librarian’s Research Award for two independent projects. Maria, Head of SUL/AIR Conservation Treatment unit, will use her grant to fund travel related to collaboration on a monograph on conservation repair techniques. Already underway, "Book Repair: A Guide to Library Conservation Techniques" is a joint effort with Randy Silverman at the University of Utah; the authors are under contract with ALA Books. The purpose of the work is to broadly disseminate to library conservators, book repair technicians, and librarians contemporary methods for extending the useful life of non-rare (but often irreplaceable) research library materials. Support for this project within the field has been enormous, and conservators from many institutions have loaned samples of book repair treatments to use as reference material as this book is written. Roger Kohn, Reinhard Family Curator of Judaica and Hebraica Collections, was granted funds to support travel to the Bodleian Library, Oxford, to research the archives and Hebrew manuscripts preserved there. Roger’s research, also funded generously by the Lucius N. Littauer Foundation, focuses on the details in the modernization of the field of Hebrew bibliography and paleography in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The current project grows out of a review Roger is writing of the "Supplement of Addenda and Corrigenda to vol. I of A. Neubauer’s Catalogue". At the Bodleian, Roger will explore letters of Adolf Neubauer and Moritz Steinschneider, the most prominent Hebrew bibliographer of his time. Roger expects that this particular research will develop into either a full-fledged monograph or a series of articles. Both Maria and Roger are delighted to describe their projects to you in further detail, so please feel free to engage them. SUL/AIR is most fortunate and proud to have such accomplished and professionally active people on its staff. Further information on the nature of the Weber Librarian’s Research Award and on two similar award opportunities for SUL/AIR staff is available starting at: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/diroff/awards/ -- Submitted by Catherine M. Tierney ------------------------------------------------------- 2. STAFF TRAINING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (STAP) We are pleased to announce a STAP increase starting fiscal year 1997/98! The quarterly allottment for STAP will be raised from $140 per quarter to $200 per quarter for all eligible staff who are working 50% time or more. This means that all classes taken after September 1, 1997 are eligible for up to a $200 reimbursement. If you are paying for a Fall quarter class this Summer, we will reimburse at the $200 rate. If a class is taken at a college on the semester system, the reimbursement can be up to $267. The Training and Organizational Development department will provide more information in July. -- Submitted by Carol Olsen ------------------------------------------------------- 3. GREEN LIBRARY HOURS CHANGE Effective this week, Green Library building will remain open until 6:00 p.m. on Fridays throughout the year as will the Current Periodicals/Microtext Room and the Loan Desk. In addition, the Loan Desk will open for business at the same hour that the building opens all days of the week, and the Interlibrary Services Office will open at 8:00 a.m., Monday through Friday. -- Submitted by Joan Krasner, Access Services ------------------------------------------------------- 4. THE NEXT QUESTION, PLEASE--No. 3 Our customer approaches either the Green Reference Desk or the Government Documents Reference Desk: "I recently heard on NPR a brief sound bite of FDR talking about what he called the 'four essential human freedoms': freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from fear, and freedom from want. Was this an official speech of the President, or just part of an election campaign? If it was an official speech, when was it given and for what reason? And if it was an official speech, where can I get the full text of the official version, or do I have to try and find it among Roosevelt's private papers?" The answers will be in the next issue. --submitted by Eric Heath, Reference, Green Library ------------------------------------------------------- Please send future submissions to SUL News Notes to Charity Nielson at cnielson@sulmail.stanford.edu. ------------------------------------------------------- SUL News Notes, an electronic publication of Stanford University Libraries is issued weekly. Copy deadline is Thursday noon. Submit items for publication to cnielson@sulmail.stanford.edu EDITOR/PRODUCTION: Maureen Davidson EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS: J.Baltierra, Branner (cn.jab@forsythe) Lucretia Cerny, Catalog (lcerny@sulmail) Sarah Dohi, Swain (cn.sed@forsythe) Liz Green, Reference (cn.dat@forsythe) Donna Hjertberg, Cubberley (cn.dxh@forsythe) Jill Otto, Falconer (jotto@leland) Riva Bacon, Music (hf.riv@forsythe) Lois Sher, Engineering (cn.las@forsythe) Liz Wise, Preservation (liz.wise@forsythe). 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