Piping Up

Author: Nathan Yau
Title: Data Points: Visualization That Means Something
Publisher & where & when published: John Wiley & Sons: 2013. 384 pp. $39.99/£26.99 ISBN: 9781118462195
Where you saw this item mentioned: It got a nice review in Science.
Your affiliation: SFU Faculty

A. Thank you very much for the book suggestion. I have ordered a copy of “Data Points: Visualization That Means Something” for the library and you will be notified when it arrives.

Cheers,
Jenna
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Jenna Thomson B.Sc., M.L.I.S.
Liaison Librarian for Chemistry, Earth Science, Mathematics, & Physics

Author: Carl Knappett
Title: Network Analysis in Archaeology: New Approaches to Regional Interaction
Publisher & where & when published: Oxford University Press
Where you saw this item mentioned: An article I wrote with Jessica Munson (SFU Archaeology) appears in this volume.
Your affiliation: SFU Staff

A. Thank you for your book suggestion. I am very pleased to inform you that I have ordered your requested title. You will receive an email notification when it is available to borrow.

All the best,
-Jenna
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Jenna Walsh, BA, MLIS
Indigenous Initiatives Librarian & Liaison for Archaeology, First Nations Studies and Political Science

Author: Zdravko Radman (Editor)
Title: The Hand, an Organ of the Mind: What the Manual Tells the Mental
Publisher & where & when published: The MIT Press (May 10, 2013)
Where you saw this item mentioned: http://www.amazon.com/The-Hand-Organ-Mind-Manual/dp/0262018845/
Your affiliation: SFU Graduate Student

A. Thank you for your purchase suggestion. I have ordered a copy of “The Hand, an Organ of the Mind: What the Manual Tells the Mental” by Zdravko Radman (Editor) for Fraser Library, Surrey. You will be notified by email when it is available.

Regards,
Baharak Yousefi
Head, Fraser Library

Q. Hi, I have a quick question. Will the library computers and printers be accessible to students during the extended 24-hour open period? (for example, at 5 a.m. Saturday on Apr. 20th). Hope to hear back from you soon. Thanks.

A. Yes the library computers and printers are accessible during the 24 hour opening.

Scott
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Scott Mackenzie
Head, Access Services

Q. I’m surprised there is no propaganda anywhere about the evils of writing in library books. I actually watched a fellow student mark up a library book with a highlighter pen, sitting in class just a few metres from the professor and in full view of other people who might want to read that book some day. Am I the only person who finds it unbelievably annoying to try to read through pages and pages of underlining, highlighting, and moronic annotations? There are lots of antisocial behaviours that in spite of their private nature are publicly censured. What about posters graphically depicting the terrible consequences of marking up library books that will only show up twenty years later, or the dangers of highlighter fumes for children yet unborn? It’s well-known that revealing your intellectual mediocrity by writing in the margins of library books makes you socially undesirable. Why don’t you publicize these things? I can’t believe librarians don’t study things like this in library school. Couldn’t you at least put up some posters or something? If it saved just one library book from these depradations, it would be worth it.

A. Thank-you for bringing this perennial issue to our attention and for your concern for library materials. We agree that damaging library material is a serious problem facing all libraries.

Sincerely,
Patty Gallilee
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Acting AUL Collections & Scholarly Communication

Q. I think you should have a separate spot for new purchase suggestions, rather than just lumping them in together with other feedback about the libraries.

A. Thank you for your comment regarding new purchase suggestions on the SFU Library’s feedback page at:

Regards,
Nina
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Nina Saklikar, Web Experience Librarian

Author: Martin Keogh (Ed)
Title: Hope Beneath Our Feet
Where you saw this item mentioned: Amazon
Your affiliation: SFU Graduate Student

A. Thanks for suggesting this title, “Hope Beneath our Feet”, for purchase for the SFU Library. It looks like a nice addition to our collection, with a range of authors who will be of interest to community members from a variety of disciplines. I’ve ordered the book and you’ll receive notification when it’s arrived and is ready for your pickup.

Sincerely,
Heather
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Heather De Forest, MLIS, MA
Liaison Librarian, Geography and Resource & Environmental Management

Author: Ian G. Cumming
Title: Digital Processing of synthetic Aperture Radar Data
Where you saw this item mentioned: Every where except than SFU library!
Your affiliation: SFU Graduate Student

A. Thank-you for your suggestion.

Patty
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Patty Gallilee
Acting AUL Collections & Scholarly Communication

Author: Trashed
Title: Candida Brady
Publisher & where & when published: Blenheim Films, 2012, UK
Where you saw this item mentioned: the web – this is a video, i can’t find
the form to use to request it, so i’m using this form. sorry.
Your affiliation: SFU Faculty

A. Thanks very much for your suggestion that we purchase this topical video. Are you wanting to use this video for a classroom showing? If so, the form to request the film booking is linked from the guide at: http://www.lib.sfu.ca/media-resource-centre/booking-films

Best regards,
Karen
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Karen Marotz
Head, Belzberg Library

Author: WJT Mitchell et al
Title: Occupy: Three Inquiries in Disobedience`
Publisher & where & when published: U Chicago Press, Chicago IL
Where you saw this item mentioned:

http://www.amazon.ca/Occupy-Inquiries-Disobedience-W-Mitchell/dp/022604274X

Your affiliation: SFU Faculty

A. Thanks very much for your suggestion for purchase. I have ordered this book and requested that you be notified once it arrives and has been processed.

Moninder Bubber
Liaison Librarian
Sociology / Anthropology