• After a few years working at the Allen Hancock College Library and a few years raising a family, Chana Ortiz is back working for Access Services - Stack Services.
  

• Colter Frazier has worked in the Libraries at UC Santa Cruz and UC Los Angeles.  He now joins us in Santa Barbara to use his expertise in the CatalAcq Department.

• Maricel Cruz has worked in a variety of departments in the Library at the University of Virginia.  Now that her family has relocated to this area, she is working for Serials.

• Maria Decierdo has moved up but is still in the same department.  She is taking on the responsibilities of the Government Publications/Special Resources Unit Section Head.

• Rachel Coxe has moved from a 50% time to 100% position within Access Services - Circulation Unit.

• Cutting back her hours in the Sciences-Engineering Library, Kristen La Bonte has completed her graduate work and became a part-time Reference Librarian at CSU Channel Islands in August.

• Departing from Serials, Jose Rojo took a counseling position with the Santa Barbara School District this summer.

• Jennifer Eubanks left the Serials Department and has begun working at ABC-CLIO.

• Leaving Special Collections, Erin Garth has accepted a job with a local nonprofit organization.

• Ben Wood left CEMA after completing work on a grant.  He has decided to move to the Los Angeles area.

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Sponsored by the Professional Women's Association and the Associated Students Community Affairs Board as an effort to help reach out to the kids of our local community, the Annual Backpack Drive was once again supported by employees of  the libraries.  The Information Services office served as a campus donation collection site.  The staff from the Arts Library put their creative skills together and filled three age-specific, color-coordinated backpacks, while other donors contributed backpacks and school supplies which were used to fill the backpacks.   More photos

In late August, David Gartrell traveled to Vienna, where he gave a presentation on collection development and access issues of our American Religions Collection.  He made his presentation while attending the 15th International Congress on Archives which, like the Olympics, only takes place every four years.  David reports that the ICA was extremely educational and inspiring (not to mention an enjoyable opportunity for eating a lot of Sachertorte!)  More photos

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As new and returning students arrived on campus for the beginning of the academic year, the UCSB libraries welcomed them with library orientations and tours.  All new and returning students were welcomed to UCSB during various activities the week before, and during, the first week of classes at the end of September.  Shown above at a Discovery Days event in front of the UCEN are Carol Wolcott, Ellen Kempf and Chuck Huber.

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What does it mean to be a critical thinker?  How do you teach your students the concept of critical thinking and the skills to put it to work?  Joe White, Chair of the Philosophy Department at Santa Barbara City College, addressed this topic at a forum in the Mary Cheadle Room just before the beginning of the new academic year.  The lecture was well-attended by library instructors and staff as well as Writing Program instructors, and Professor White's enthusiastic presentation generated much discussion and thought.

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German, EEMB (Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology), and MCDB (Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology) librarian, Jim Markham and his wife, Ella, hosted a small gathering in their home in order for UCSB folks to meet a visiting German librarian.  Their visiting friend was Marcel Brannemann, director of the library of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany, which is now the parent institution of the Biologische Anstalt Helgoland.  Jim worked on seaweeds for years - in his pre-librarian days when he was a marine botanist at Biologische Anstalt Helgoland.  Marcel Brannemann is the President-Elect of IAMSLIC, the International Association of Aquatic and Marine Science Libraries and Information Centers, and was on his way around the world to the 30th Annual Conference of IAMSLIC in Hobart, Tasmania.                                                                     More photos.

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Library Employees Covered Many Miles During the Summer From Costa Rica to Canada to Connecticut; from Italy to Oregon and all around California. Duane Anderson Ryan Gratzer Ann Hefferman Renata Hundley Trish Kreiss Kristen LaBonte Bruce Machado Rick Worth Back to the top