Archived Articles — Archive for July 2007
July 30, 2007
Northwestern University Library pedaled to victory in the Chicagoland Bicycle Federation’s 2007 Bicycle Commuter Challenge, taking first place in the competition’s "College/University 100-499" category. Held during the week of June 9-15, the Challenge required participating companies and institutions to recruit teams of staffers who would commit to riding their bikes to work at least one day of that week.
“I knew that wouldn’t be a problem for us,” says NUL team leader and Multimedia Specialist Dan Zellner. “We have some pretty hard-core people here, at least five, who bike to work every day.” Rising to the challenge, 25 staffers signed up for the team, giving NUL a 14.71% participation rate, and winning the category.
During the week of the competition, the team (pictured) met one day at lunchtime for a 1K Glory Ride around the Lagoon. This Friday, August 3, the team will reunite for a celebratory 1K Victory Lap around the Lagoon, leaving from the Fish Bridge at 12.30 p.m.
(Photo by Tom O'Connell)
Staff members enjoyed touring the hidden and not-so-hidden Evanston Campus gardens earlier this month on NULSA's Garden Tour.
Mother Nature supplied a warm, sunny, picture-perfect day for NULSA's annual summer barbecue on July 12.
July 16, 2007
After joining the faculty in 1950, Clarence Ver Steeg played many influential roles in the Northwestern community. In addition to his distinguished career as a professor of American history, he chaired the planning committee that developed an ambitious strategic plan for the University in the 1960s, led the committee that planned the lakefill campus, and served as dean of the Graduate School from 1975 to 1986. And it was this breadth of experience that in turn shaped his profound influence over the creation of the Main Library, recalled University Archivist Patrick Quinn in the wake of Clarence’s death on July 2 at the age of 84.
Part tree trunk, part antique book spine, Melissa Jay Craig’s “Prairie Palimpsest #3: Enlichened” stretches up with an ambiguous flourish toward the top of its vertical exhibit case. Inverting the spatial relationship of leaves to tree trunk, its “leaves”—in this case representing the leaves of a book, or pages—are enclosed within its covers, and consist of scaly ridges of the promised lichen. Is that a joke? Is it a commentary? Is it a book?
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“Sculpturally, it’s beautiful,” says Donia Conn, Northwestern University Library’s Head of Conservation Services, “and if the artist calls it a book, it’s a book.”
The Physics-Astronomy-Mathematics Division of the Special Libraries Association has selected SEL Head Bob Michaelson to receive its 2007 PAM Achievement Award. The award acknowledged Bob’s 20 years of service to the Division, specifically citing Bob’s “engaging and thought-provoking interactions on the PAMNET-L list as well as your leadership with the ‘Index to Translations.’” It was presented to Bob last month during the SLA’s annual meeting in Denver.
