SERVICE AWARDS

We are always proud of our colleagues in the University Library, and last week we had special reason to be proud of a number of library employees who were honored at Samford's January 23 Service Awards Reception.

Samford University's Office of Human Resources held the Awards Reception honoring those employees who reached milestones in their service to the University. The reception, held at The Club, was emceed by Fred Rogan, Director of Human Resources at Samford. Our library colleagues who were honored are:

20 years of service: Ed Craig, Law Library
15 years of service: Tabitha Moore, Cheryl Cecil, and Regina Regina Coleman, University Library
5 years of service: Beth Ashmore, Gail Barton, and Jaro Szurek, University Library

Joe Zellner of Technology Services, whose office is located in the University Library, was also honored for 5 years of service to Samford.

We congratulate these valued members of our library family for their expertise and service.

"TREASURES OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY: THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE"

This fascinating YouTube video provides a glimpse into some of the treasures in the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. It is one of the many specialized collections within the New York Public Library system:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0mMabhS5vw

PHOTOS FROM THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ON FLICKR

The first part of this posting and the information it contains has been taken from Time Out New York Issue 693 : Jan 8–14, 2009
(http://www.timeout.com/newyork/articles/tv-dvd/70271/new-york-public-librarys-flickr-stream.)

"The Commons project is Flickr’s ongoing attempt to make publicly held photos more accessible...So far, it’s a big success: The Library of Congress has posted nearly 5,000 photos, and more and more cultural heritage institutions have been joining in. Last month, the New York Public Library got in on the action, posting around 1,300 of its photos." (http://www.flickr.com/photos/nypl/)

"The 16 sets of photos include images of early modern dance, Egypt, Japan in the late 19th century, cinema from 1912–14 and cyanotypes of British algae, among others...but my favorites are the pictures of New York. The shots from Ellis Island are fascinating but not sentimental. Berenice Abbott’s famous 'Changing New York' series perpetually absorbs new meaning. And the library’s documentation of its own history, in a set called 'NYPL: Work with Schools,' shows that even in 1910 there were kids...climbing all over each other to get to more books."
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You will also be interested to learn about the NYPL Digital Gallery:

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/
"NYPL Digital Gallery provides free and open access to over 640,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's vast collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs."

IM AND REFERENCE

You can now text the Reference department by sending a message to 265010. (Please note that this might result in the charge for a standard message text from your wireless service provider, depending on your plan.) Your message will be picked up by our chat reference service and the librarian on duty will respond.

THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY AND AMAZON

Valentine’s Day, birthdays, anniversaries – the shopping season is never over! And you never need a special occasion to shop for books. Online shopping puts you just a click away from some great gift ideas for both yourself and others. As you shop in 2009, make sure that your dollars are supporting your library. When you shop at our listed online retailers, the University Library gets money; it’s just that simple.

So, please keep our program in mind when you shop online. As a reminder, for the library to receive credit for your purchases, you must click on a store’s link from this page:

http://library.samford.edu/about/support.html

You can also get to this page from the library’s home page, click “About SU Library,” then choose “Support SU Library.”

In case you haven’t visited the page recently, there are now eight online bookstores in the program:

Amazon
Barnes & Noble
Books A Million
AbeBooks
Alibris
Bibles.com
Family Christian Stores
Simply Audiobooks