NUL and NULies in the News: Streicker, Clausen, Swindells

Assistant Archivist Allen Streicker earned his sixth NU Service Excellence certificate in ten years by helping members of Delta Gamma sorority track down information on three early fraternity presidents whose photos were missing from the gallery of presidents in their executive offices.

The sorority was so grateful for his help that, besides contacting the Service Excellence program about him, they also invited him to address the Northwestern chapter at a special dinner and ran a photo in the issue of Anchora, their magazine, that includes an account of the search for information on the missing presidents. (See page eight).

In other Archives news, Janet Olson reports that the August issue of the Smithsonian magazine includes an article on the Leopold & Loeb murder case, with an image of the ransom note that Archives provided.

Beth Clausen, Head of Resource Sharing and Reserve Collections, has an article in the July Library Issues on the topic of scholarly communications. The piece, aimed at faculty and administrators rather than librarians, discusses the copyright considerations involved in posting online course content, and the role libraries can play in ensuring copyright compliance.

GovInfo Head Geoff Swindells's article "Informed Citizens in the Global Information Commons" has been published in Best Practices in Government Information: A Global Perspective (Lynden and Jane Wu eds.,. Munich: K.G. Saur, 2008, pp 67-84). The article is a revised version of a presentation he gave at IFLA in Oslo, Norway in 2005, arguing that political literacy in an increasingly global and networked information environment may depend upon finding new ways to bring the subject expertise of librarians (and others) to the networks. Currently, only the original version of the presentation is available online

(Photo of Allen Streiker provided by Anchora)