 Professional and Community Activities
 Humanities
Librarians Visit ABC-CLIO
A group from the Humanities Collection
Group toured the offices of local publishing company
ABC-CLIO. America: History and
Life and Historical Abstracts
are two of their most well-known databases.
Besides touring the facilities and meeting some of the company's
editors, the group learned about upcoming products and the company's
use of abstractors from around the world. The group sat down with
ABC-CLIO President and CEO, Ron
Boehm,
and discussed
how changes in librarianship, pricing, digitization and bibliographic
instruction were affecting the company.
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ALA Midwinter Meets
in San Diego
Although not as large as the American Library Association Annual
Meeting, several UCSB people traveled to San Diego as the new quarter
was beginning. Total registration for the 2004
Midwinter Meeting
in San Diego was 10,788 as of Monday, January 12. A
highlight for our local community was the presentation of the
2003 ACRL Women's Studies Section Award for Significant Achievement
in Women's Studies Librarianship to Sherri Barnes. The belated
presentation was due to the low SARS-related attendance at the
Annual Meeting in Toronto in June. The Women's Studies Section
awards are given annually to honor distinguished academic librarians
who have made outstanding contributions to women's studies through
accomplishments and service to the profession.
The ACRL WSS Award for Significant Achievement
in Women's Studies Librarianship recognizes one-time achievement, by an
individual or a group, during the particular year of the award. Sherri
was awarded the honor for her web site, Black American Feminism: A
Multidisciplinary Bibliography that brings together, in one
location, multidisciplinary subject coverage of Black American feminist
writings. As she was being presented the award by the Women's Studies
Section and a representative from the award sponsor, Routledge Press,
her project was described as "a great contribution to women’s studies,
not only for bringing the citations on this topic together in one
location, but also for making the information freely available to all
via the Web."
The ACRL WSS Award
for Career Achievement in Women's Studies Librarianship was
presented to Sarah Pritchard in 2001. This award honors
significant, long-standing contributions to the field of Women's
Studies librarianship over the course of a career.
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USA
PATRIOT Act Forum
On April 27th, a public forum on the USA PATRIOT Act was offered to an
overflow audience in the McCune Room of the Humanities and Social
Sciences Building. Our University Librarian, Sarah
Pritchard, participated on the panel and spoke about the
effect of
the Act on libraries. LAUC, the Librarians Association of the
University of California, Santa Babara, created a guide to information
and resources for the faculty-librarian symposium
entitled, Home of the Free?: A Public Forum on the
Patriot Acts .
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ALA
Midwinter
Staff
Celebration Week 2004