The Library Director Search Committee will host open forums offering faculty, staff, administrators, and students the opportunity to meet candidates for this position.  In a brief opening statement, candidates will be responding to a question about how academic libraries can support student learning and research.  The schedule is as follows:

Charles O’Bryan
Open forum:  Wednesday, April 18, 2:00—3:00 p.m., in the Alden Room, 3^rd floor, Milne Library

Elizabeth Connor
Open forum:  Thursday, April 26, 2:00—3:00 p.m., in the Alden Room, 3^rd floor, Milne Library

Susan Mitchell
Open forum:  Monday, April 30, 10:30—11:30 a.m., in the Alden Room 3^rd floor, Milne Library

Harry Pence will be giving a presentation on April 24, 2-3 in Milne Room 108 entitled “Is the Post-PC World real or just Apple hype?” Steve Jobs once observed that we live in a “post-PC world.”  I would argue that this is not just hype from Apple, but rather says something fundamental about our society in the 21^st Century.  We increasingly live in a media-saturated, multitasking, collaborative world.  This is the era of the mobile ecosystem, when users carry their internet connections with them all the time, and so expect to find answers to most questions literally in the palm of their hand.  Preliminary research already indicates that many people are using their mobile devices as auxiliary memory to store and organize the flood of information that is all around us.  This does not mean that the millions of desktop and laptop computers found on campuses and in offices all over the world are going to become obsolete overnight, but it does describe a fundamental change in the way that humans are interacting with computers.  This should change the teaching emphasis from what we need to know to how we can find what we need to know and, more importantly, how we evaluate the accuracy of what we find.

Celebrate National Library Week with Milne Library and Parnassus English Club at our Read-In!

• Come to the Reading Room (Rm. 118) at Milne Library on April 9, 2012 at 4:00pm.
• Bring your favorite book from your childhood to share with the group.
• Read a short selection from the book and share what makes it great.
• Selections from the library collection will be available to read and discuss.

Introducing the Alden Scholar Series

Held in the Alden Room, Milne Library’s Special Collections Center and Archives (3^rd floor), the new Alden Scholar Series celebrates SUNY Oneonta faculty members who have published scholarly books or produced book-length projects within the last five years.

The first Alden Scholar Series lecture will showcase the recently published book of

Dr. Yuriy Malikov (Department of History):

Tsars, Cossacks, and Nomads: The Formation of a Borderland Culture in Northern Kazakhstan in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 2011)

Thursday, April 12^th, 2012
Alden Room, 3^rd floor Milne Library
3:00 p.m. followed by a reception

All are invited to celebrate the publication of Dr. Malikov’s book.

Please address any queries to:
Alden Scholar Series Organizing Committee
c/o Dr. Mette Harder, History Department, SUNY Oneonta, (607) 436-3262, harderm@oneonta.edu

Carrie Jackson is a junior mathematics and physics major who completed a work study in the Alden Room last semester. She is continuing her research this summer through a fellowship. Carrie evaluated and created a catalog of math textbooks in the Early Textbook Collection. There will be a reception and refreshments on Tuesday, March 13 from 4-5pm on the first floor of the library. All are welcome!

Bambi Lobdell (adjunct lecturer in WGS and English) will present and read from her new book, “A Strange Sort of Being”: The Transgender Life of Lucy Ann / Joseph Israel Lobdell, 1829-1912″ (McFarland, 2011). The event, co-sponsored by WGS and English, will be held on Thursday, March 8, at 4pm in the Alden Room. There will be refreshments after her presentation and copies of her book will be available for purchase from the Red Dragon Bookstore.