• Alain Glen Dubie left this world on May 11th and a memorial service held at Toro Canyon Park was attended by      many of his friends and colleagues.  The campus flag flew at half-staff on May 17th.

• Jill Detrick moved from her student assistant position to a career position in Stack Services.

Making Changes 

• Mark Okuno moved over from Stack Services to a full time position in Reserve Book Services

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The annual meeting of the Cyamus Regional Group of IAMSLIC (International Association of Aquatic and Marine Science Libraries and Information Centers) met in Vancouver, British Columbia this spring.  By reading Jim Markham's report, not only will you get a good overview of the conference, but you will get an interesting virtual tour of the aquatic and marine centers and museums in the Vancouver  area.

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Several UCSB librarians attended the American Library Association Annual Meeting in Orlando, attending meetings, listening to speakers, and networking with colleagues.  When the ALA Library Instruction Round Table announced its LIRT's Top Twenty library instruction articles of 2003, they selected issue no.37 (Spring 2003) of  Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship (http://www.istl.org/03-spring/), a journal edited by our own Andrea Duda.  The theme of the issue was "Information Literacy for Science & Technology."  (See pages 7-9 at  (http://www3.baylor.edu/LIRT/lirtnews/2004/jun04.pdf) for the complete Top Twenty list.

A number of  receptions, fundraisers and vendor-sponsored activities were also available at ALA, and a few UCSB people attended the Ex Libris function at Sea World.

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When visitors to the Carpinteria Bluffs earlier this year asked the docent about the harbor seal  rookery below, there was a good chance that they might have been talking to a librarian from the Davidson Library.   Anne  Barnhart, Lucia Snowhill, and retired librarian, Carol Gibbens, volunteered to work weekly shifts from mid-January through the end of May.  The beach is legally closed from Dec. 1 to May 31 in order to give the harbor seal mothers safe places to give birth, nurse their young and wean their pups.  These three braved winter weather as well as hot spring days to help make this possible.  More photos.  

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Every Memorial Day weekend for several years, Ann Hefferman has created another work of highly detailed floral art for the annual chalk art festival held in front of the Santa Barbara Mission.  This year was no exception as Ann spent each day on her knees at i madonnari 2004, this time creating a beautiful chrysanthemum.

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Bits & Pieces Night Supervisor, Ben Baird got creative and wrote this song late one July night.  (Hum the Rolling Stone's You Can't Always Get What You Want as you read about our Reserve Book Service.) Get What You Need written by Ben Baird with assistance by the Tuesday night shift I went down to the Reserve Book Room To get my Chem 109 test. I was standing in line with Mr. Gloom, And boy, did he look pretty vexed. He said I really need to check this book out, I have a paper due at 8 am. And even though he got really angry, The student behind the counter just shook his head, He said to him - You can't always get the book you want, You can't always get the book you want. But place a hold time, And you just might find, You get what you need!