SUL/AIR News: August 25, 2000

August 25, 2000

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Phil Hoehn leaves Branner Library
Titles to Make You Smile: Ignorance is Bliss (Part 2)
SUL/AIR Job Opportunities

1. PHIL HOEHN LEAVES BRANNER LIBRARY

Phil Hoehn, after nearly 5 years as Stanford's Map Bibliographer, is leaving Branner Library. His last day will be August 25, 2000. His depth of knowledge, exceptional competency, and years of experience will be sorely missed, not to mention the Friday snacks he never failed to forget!

Phil began his career as an assistant library clerk at UC Berkeley. Over the span of his 30 year career at Berkeley, he was the Head of the Map & Atlas Division at the Bancroft Library, the Map Room, and the Earth Sciences & Map Library. He has been the Chair of the Map & Geography Round Table for the American Library Association, the President of the Western Association of Map Libraries, one of the founders of the California Map Society, and the Chair of the UC/Stanford Map Librarians Group. In addition to these duties, he found time to publish, run workshops, and speak at numerous conferences.

His new position will be the Map Librarian for the David Rumsey Collection in San Francisco. This large private collection of 18th and 19th century North and South American maps is being digitally scanned to allow for online access over the Web (www.davidrumsey.com). Currently over 3,000 images are online with a predicted 5,000 by the end of the year.

We wish Phil all the best in his future mapping endeavors.

--submitted by Julie Sweetkind and Charlotte Derksen

2. TITLES TO MAKE YOU SMILE: IGNORANCE IS BLISS (PART 2)

These titles reflect the compiler's notions of the humorous, wry, ironic or unusual, and should not be construed as reflecting any other opinion or judgment, nor the editorial opinion of SUL/AIR News. Contributions for this feature are eagerly solicited. Submit any oddities to: bkunde@sulmail.stanford.edu

The Encyclopaedia of ignorance : everything you ever wanted to know about the unknown / edited by Ronald Duncan and Miranda Weston-Smith. -- Oxford [Eng.] ; New York : Pergamon Press, 1977. AES0930 / Q158.5 .E53 1977 / Green Library.

The Hinge factor : how chance and stupidity have changed history / Erik Durschmied. -- New York : Arcade, 2000. a4331208 / D24 .D87 2000 / Green Library.

The Natural science of stupidity / Paul Tabori. -- Philadelphia : Chilton Co. [1959] ADK5933 / 151.14 .T114 / Stanford Auxiliary Library.

An Outline of intellectual rubbish, a hilarious catalogue of organized and individual stupidity / Bertrand Russell. -- Girard, Kan. : Haldeman-Julius Publications, c1943. AKE1552 / AZ999 .R8 / Green Library.

A Primer of ignorance / R. P. Blackmur. Edited by Joseph Frank. -- New York : Harcourt, Brace & World [1967] AMC1678 / PS3503 .L266 P7 / Green Library.

--submitted by Brian Kunde

3. SUL/AIR JOB OPPORTUNITIES

SUL/AIR has the following new open positions this week.

Library Specialist (8/21/00); REQ# J002355
Library Specialist (8/21/00); REQ# J002360
Coordinator for Media-Microtext Services (8/21/00); Position #75
Computing Systems Manager, Technical Information Services, SLAC (8/22/00)
Administrative Associate V, Technical Information Services, SLAC (8/22/00)

For a complete description of these jobs and a list of all current SUL/AIR jobs, visit the Human Resources Web site at:

Human Resources Web site.

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