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April 15, 2008
Issue No. 77

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CourseWork Integrated with Stanford Syllabus

Stanford Syllabus was released to the Stanford community in Fall 2006. Conceived by the Committee on Undergraduate Standards and Policy (C-USP), funded by the Provost's Office, and developed by Academic Computing... Read more

Changes to HelpSU with the Remedy 7 Upgrade

In February, IT Services upgraded to the new version of Remedy, the software behind HelpSU. You probably didn't notice the change unless you're a support team member who uses Remedy every day... Read more

Socrates Goes Global

On Monday, February 11, 2008, researchers encountered something new while searching the Stanford University Libraries' catalog, Socrates, for materials in Arabic and Hebrew... Read more

Technology Training for Spring

IT Services Technology Training provides a variety of training opportunities for faculty, staff, and students. See our sortable list of Current Courses for the quarter and consider Training-by-Appointment... Read more

New American Historical Newspapers Online: Series 4 and 5 of Early American Newspapers

Building on an already impressive holding of digital historical newspapers, the Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources (SULAIR) has recently acquired online access to Series 4 and 5 of Early American Newspapers... Read more

Getting Our Apple Stuff Together at Stanford

All things Apple at Stanford got easier to find this year with the advent of the Apple at Stanford Web site and the Mac OS X SIG (Special Interest Group) blog... Read more

Student Computing @ Stanford: Results from Annual Residence Evaluation

The results from the 2007-2008 undergraduate residence computing survey (part of the annual residence evaluation conducted by the Office of Residential Education) are now available... Read more

Not a "Library of Babel": Find "Hidden" Resources in the Stanford Libraries

Borges ominously wrote in the Library of Babel, "But the searchers did not remember that the calculable possibility of a man's finding his own book, or some perfidious variation of his own book, is close to zero." There are times it may seem as if all searches are coming up "zero"... Read more

Google and Beyond: Stanford's Evolving Research Library

As we move forward with the Google digitization project and purchase additional digital content, Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources (SULAIR) plans to implement new indexing, searching and browsing tools that will allow our users to take full advantage of digital-format materials... Read more

Editor: Eleanor Brown

Graphics and Layout: Eden Adogla, Eleanor Brown, Kelly Fields, Casey Chen (photographs)

Contributors: Noah Abrahamson, Zachery Baker, Nancy Baumann, Grace Baysinger, John Bickar, Surajit Bose, Mimi Calter, Cassandra Chen, Jason Cowart, Elizabeth Cowell, Tom Cramer, Tom French, Adan Griego, Kathleen Gust, Shelley Hughes, Kimberly Hayworth, Ammy Hill, Nuriya Janss, Helen Josephine, Annette Keogh, Amy Kohrman, Sindy Lee, Jennifer Ly, Julie Mai, Dave Ream Tricia Richter, Phil Schreur, Kim Schwartz, Lauren Scott, Scott Stocker, Ben Stone, Mimi Tashiro, Zhachui Xue, Shinjoung Yeo