#SHU_Libraries is pleased to offer the Life Magazine Archive, an extensive collection of the famed photojournalism magazine, spanning its very first issue in November 1936 through December 2000, in a comprehensive cover-to-cover format.
Access is available to current SHU Faculty, students, staff and administrators.
Published by Time Inc., LIFE magazine has featured story-telling through documentary photographs and informative captions. Each issue visually and powerfully depicted national and international events and topical stories, providing intimate views of real people and their real life situations.
Articles and cover pages are fully indexed and advertisements are individually identified.
Subjects covered include:
– 20th-Century national and international events
– Topical stories
– Award-winning photojournalism
– Politics
– The history of business
– Advertising
– Popular culture
Dr. Marta Deyrup received the 2018-19 Albert B. Hakim Faculty Service Medal for her outstanding service to the Seton Hall University community at the Faculty Convocation on Friday, September 14. After receiving the award from Dr. Jonathan Farina, Chair of the Faculty Senate, Dr. Deyrup was given a standing ovation by her colleagues at the event. Dr. Deyrup is a Professor and Co-Head of Technical Services at University Libraries.
Dr. Marta Deyrup
The Albert B. Hakim Faculty Service Award expresses the University’s grateful appreciation and high regard for members of the Seton Hall community who have served beyond measure with selfless dedication and high distinction. The medal bears the honored name of Albert B. Hakim to commemorate his exemplary and extraordinary sixty-two years of dedication and service to Seton Hall University as a professor, dean, colleague and friend. Recent winners of the Faculty Service Medal include: Dr. Judith Lothian, Dr. David Bénéteau, and Dr. Susan Nolan.
#SHU_Libraries is pleased to announce the next event in our Speaker’s Series: Critical Issues in Information and Education: “Threats to Democracy: Common Core, and the Challenge of Discussing Education Policy in a Democracy.”
The event will be held on Sunday, September 16th in Jubilee Hall Auditorium at 11 a.m. The event will feature Jonathan Cope, Reference Librarian at the College of Staten Island, and Dr. Nicholas Tampio, Associate Professor of Political Science at Fordham University.
The University Libraries’ Speaker’s Series focuses on the intersection of educational and informational issues.
About Our Speakers
Jonathan Cope
Jonathan Cope is a Reference/Instruction Librarian at the College of Staten Island (CSI), CUNY. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Communication and Politics from Antioch College, a Master of Library and Information Science from Queens College, CUNY, and Master’s in Liberal Studies from The Graduate Center, CUNY. His research is focused on the ways in which library and information literacy work is situated within specific social, cultural, economic, and disciplinary contexts. He is particularly interested in the politics of libraries and library work. Jonathan is the author of a book chapter which discusses the applicability of social power research to information literacy and an article about the ideal of librarianship as an intellectual craft. He is the coauthor of an article about information literacy in the study of American politics and he is the coauthor of an article that details a study of how disciplinarity influences how faculty outside of the library conceptualize information literacy. He is also the author of an article on neoliberalism and library and information science and an essay that outlines a framework that can be used to analyze socially-generated information.
Dr. Nicholas Tampio
Nicholas Tampio, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Fordham University. In his new book Common Core: National Education Standards and the Threat to Democracy (Johns Hopkins University Press 2018), Tampio considers the best arguments for and against national education standards and scrutinizes the Common Core English Language Arts (ELA) and mathematics standards, the Next Generation Science Standards, the Advanced Placement US History Curriculum Framework, and the National Sexuality Education Standards. He argues that national educational standards alienate citizens from the local schools thereby making education and democracy worse. His talk considers how democracies ought to foster the right kinds of discussions about education policy.
#SHU_Libraries is making it easier for you to give us your feedback!
We’ve developed an online feedback form, which is linked from the library’s homepage through this button:Use the feedback form to anonymously submit suggestions, complaints, things that need fixing, and so on.
You can also give us feedback using a traditional paper form, if you prefer. The feedback form and box are located in the library’s 2nd floor Information Commons right here:
I am pleased to announce that the Rethinking Resource Sharing (RSS) Innovation Award Committee has recognized Seton Hall University Libraries “for their process of innovating across all library services” with an Honorable Mention in this year’s award cycle. The notification e-mail stated that:
“The pool of nominations for the Innovation Award is always competitive and this year was no exception. We are pleased to inform you that we have awarded you an Honorable Mention….. We are impressed with the work you have done and would like to acknowledge and celebrate your efforts within the Resource Sharing community. … Congratulations to you and your team and thank you very sincerely for your efforts to improve resource sharing overall.”
Seton Hall’s application was for “the entire process that led us to numerous, small-scale, problem-solving innovations of importance to libraries our size from a challenging baseline” over the course of several years. The letter of support from OCLC noted that “SHU was critical in ensuring that their new cloud-based management service would work well with the legacy client-server software that allowed for material fulfillment for their users”, and EBSCO’s letter of support noted that SHU was “focused on building a library system which leveraged technology, a good user experience, and a long range plan. That progressive Seton Hall vision led EBSCO and OCLC by improving their partnership surrounding API interoperability” – among other large and small innovations over the years.
The RSS Innovation award (RRS Manifesto) is sponsored by Atlas Systems, and this year’s winners were the Information Delivery Services (IDS) Project, based primarily in the State University of New York system, and the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Libraries for developing an automated alternative to paper-based archival resource sharing. A fellow Honorable mention went to the University of Ottawa Libraries.
Printed and microfilm versions of the Catholic Advocate in Seton Hall University Special Collections
Based on research by Professor Alan Delozier
Selections from the Catholic Advocate, the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of Newark, have now been digitized in a cooperative project between Seton Hall University’s Special Collections and the Catholic Research Resources Alliance (CRRA). The newspaper has been published regularly since 1951; however, the issues selected for this digitization project were limited to the years 1958-1964, the era of the Second Vatican Council, enabling researchers to examine this period and its impact on the Newark Catholic community. The project digitizes newspapers from around the country, enabling scholars to examine differences and similarities between regions during this period.
Screenshot of Catholic News Archives
Seton Hall Special Collections and University Library staff selected the best quality images to scan and provided description of the materials to allow for the detailed searches that are now possible. As part of the digitization process, the text was captured using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to allow for keyword searches of the entire text of each article, not just the titles. If a word or name is mentioned anywhere in an article or even in a photograph caption, it will be found in the powerful search engine used in the portal. However, because the contents were read by machine, interpretive errors are possible in the text. Therefore, the public is invited to read and correct the text, and particularly active commentators are acknowledged on the website in a “Hall of Fame.”
Article text interface
The CRRA has digitized many more newspapers as part of its project, including the San Francisco Archdiocese’s Monitor, the Clarion Herald of New Orleans, and the Catholic Telegraph of Cincinnati, among others. The project and the construction of the Catholic News Archive website was the recipient of a Catholic Communications Campaign grant from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Student working with online resources
The digitized materials are currently being utilized in classes at Seton Hall University. Professor Alan Delozier, University Archivist, has introduced students to this new resource in his class “New Jersey Catholic Experience,” offered through the Department of Catholic Studies. Students are able to use this powerful new tool to conduct in-depth research on the history of the Catholic New Jersey community.
The new portal and all of its content can be explored here; the Catholic Advocate content specifically be found here.
#SHU_Libraries The top search term on the library’s SHU Search (between April and June) is “Antigone” followed by “monster theory” and “the yellow wallpaper”.
Check out the word cloud graphic for the complete list:
