Author Archives: Zoe Gorman

Rather than be frustrated by the workload gap across disciplines, we should acknowledge and embrace it.

Library staff knew Yale would bring a new University librarian to campus this academic year, but some were surprised to find their own roles in the library changed. For the first time in over 10 years, the library is undergoing a major reorganization of personnel in an effort to centralize library services. Since August, the »

Earlier this month, library digitization assistant Kelly Perry placed an 1845 German medical history book on a machine three times her size. Perry can choose to turn the pages herself, but on this occasion, she switched on a large metal arm affixed to the device — called a Kirtas machine — to leaf through the »

Google Apps for Education, which is slated to go live for students and staff over the course of this academic year, is not the only external electronic platform upon which Yale relies. Many websites for admissions and employment are owned by outside providers, said Chuck Powell, associate chief information officer for Information Technology Services. Powell »

The fastest supercomputer Yale has ever owned is almost research ready. Since Information Technology Services acquired Bulldog O — or “Omega” — last March from an undisclosed government agency, the machine has arrived to West Campus and been in a beta testing phase since August. Though a select group of researchers and ITS personnel are »

Last September, Frank Turner GRD ’71 stepped into the role of University Librarian after the search committee decided out of six finalists that he was the best man for the job. But just two months later, Turner had died suddenly of a pulmonary embolism, leaving his vision for North America’s second-largest research library unfulfilled. Yale »

John Miller MUS ’07, a trombonist and the manager of community programs at the School of Music, died Thursday morning after falling from the fourth story of Hendrie Hall. He was 29. Colleagues and friends from around New Haven and Yale called Miller’s death a huge loss for both communities. Miller led the Music in »

Information Technology Services is adding a new officer position to help keep Yale’s electronic information safe. Chief Information Officer Len Peters, who took office this academic year, said he plans to alter the department’s administrative structure, and is beginning by introducing a new Chief Information Security Officer. This individual will oversee the broader strategy for »

Bye bye panlists. Student organizations that use this email list service to communicate with their members are now being encouraged to switch to other listing software. Last spring semester, Information Technology Services stopped allowing the creation of new panlists in response to an influx of student-initiated spam. After studying student use of panlists and mailman »

Three months after Yale discovered that the Social Security numbers of 43,000 Yale community members had been accessible in Google searches for almost a year, Information Technology Services officials say there is still no indication the information has been exploited — and just 10 percent of affected individuals have signed up for free credit monitoring »

This term, members of the Yale community can bid farewell to the outmoded Horde email system in favor of a new service provider — Google Apps for Education. Information Technology Services will offer the chance to switch mail services to a group of 100 randomly selected undergraduates beginning in the first week of October. Students »

Korean studies may be absent from Yale’s academic departments, but the National Library of Korea is stepping in to help preserve important research materials in Yale’s library holdings for scholars of Korean culture. The National Library of Korea is funding the digitization of all 140 volumes in Yale’s East Asia and Beinecke Rare Book and »