April 2000  In this issue:    Personnel Announcements    Ergo Tip of the Month    Professional & Outside Activities    News From Other Sources    Library Announcements & Reports    Upcoming Events

Welcome!

• Alex Hauschild has been working for the library as a student assistant since 1997 while he was pursuing his degree in Chicano Studies.  He now joins the CEMA team in a career position.

• Vince Leo received his degree in Classics at UCSB, but most of us are familiar with seeing him running Copy Services here in the library.  He is now in charge of the Reference front office.

• Deborah Lupo is the newest member of the Map and Imagery Laboratory.  She has been working on a Masters in Geography.

• As many of you may already know, Geneva Goodrow (Serials Dept./Conservation Section) retired, with her last day of work being April 21. A farewell luncheon was held in the 4th floor staff lounge on April 18th.
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  Current academic and staff recruitments can be found at the Library Personnel Office's Website:
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/depts/lpo/

Ergo Tip of the Month

This month, our Ergonomics Task Force brings us Eyestrain Basics.

Professional & Outside Activities

Jim Markham Reports on Cyamus 2000

Cyamus, the West Coast Regional Group of IAMSLIC (International Association of Aquatic and Marine Science Libraries and Information Centers) held its annual meeting in Ensenada, at the Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada (CISESE), March 9-12, 2000. The group encompasses the West Coast of North America, from Baja California to Alaska, plus Hawaii. By request, the boundaries have been extended to include all of Mexico. The meeting was attended by 33 librarians from 10 States: Baja California Norte, Baja California Sur, Sonora, Sinaloa, Yucatan, Hawaii, Washington, Oregon, California, and Arizona.

A grant from IAMSLIC enabled Cyamus to bring an experienced translator to the meeting from Oregon, so that all could participate in the bilingual discussions. After the usual round-robin reports about activities at each institution, discussions included  electronic journals, Web reference sources, and the 2000 International IAMSLIC Conference (to be held in Victoria, B.C., in October). The greater part of the discussions concerned regional cooperation, resource sharing, and ILL. As a result of the last several Cyamus meetings, resource sharing in the region is working better all the time. The meeting was very productive and thanks to splendid local organization, participants enjoyed sightseeing and outstanding food and drink as well. The 2001 Cyamus Meeting will be in Moss Landing in order to see Moss Landing Marine Lab's new facilities, now rebuilt after its destruction in the Loma Prieta Earthquake.

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An article for Kluwer Academic Publishing by David Gartrell can be read in both the traditional and digital format.  Word Processing and Database Software as EAD Encoding Tools can be found in the latest issue of  Archives and Museum Informatics: Cultural Heritage Informatics Quarterly.  To read the article, go to: http://www.kap.nl/oasis.htm/258046

News From Other Sources

• Pat Gebhard Book Signing

  
  Pat Gebhard, former Reference Librarian, will have a book signing at the Tecolote Book Store, 1479 E. Valley Road in Montecito, on May 6th from 2 to 4 for her mystery novel, Motives for Murder.
   

• March 2000 E-news for ARL Directors: Part 1

  
  The latest news for research libraries.
  Other ARL news can be found at http://www.arl.org/recent.html.
   

• *SPARC e-news*

  
  The monthly update on SPARC (Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition) activities and a look at key publishing industry developments that have an impact on journal publishing.
   

• Pricing Newsletter

  
  Published through the Office of Information Technology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, this newsletter covers many topics dealing with serials pricing.

Library Announcements & Reports

Cultural Diversity Committee News and Notes

The Cultural Diversity Committee (DivCom) welcomes new appointee Peter Pang. Actually, this is the second time around for Peter, who was a member of the committee when it was known as the Library Affirmative Action Committee (1991-93). Peter joined the East Asian Collection (formerly Oriental Collection) in 1975 and serves there as Chinese Specialist. He provides valuable service there with acquisitions, cataloging and specialized reference in the Chinese field. Peter also was a member of the Task Force on Access to Information (1986). Peter's earlier work with the Library Affirmative Action Committee gives him a unique role to play as DivCom is currently updating and revising the report, Advancing Human Diversity in the UCSB Library.

Sal Guerena, who is DivCom Chair, has just returned from the annual conference of the Society of California Archivists in Ontario. He organized a "Digitizing for Diversity" panel session held there to highlight some of the digital initiatives in archives involving California's ethnic groups. Sal's presentation was "Crossing the Digital Divide: the Chicano Visual Arts Digital Image Collection, a Prototype for the Future." Other speakers represented the Japanese American National Museum and UC Berkeley's California Heritage Collection.

From: California Heritage Collection's African Americans in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1963-1974

Picketing J.C. Penney's (1963)  Peter Breinig Photographer

Barbara Ceizler Silver is quoted in the 6th edition of Introduction to United States Government Information Sources, the standard textbook for government documents reference service.  Joe Morehead, the author, refers to her introduction to the annual "Notable Government Documents" feature in the May 15, 1998, Library Journal.  Her remarks appear in his conclusion to the opening chapter, "The Transformation of Government Information."  Barbara feels that this book, which will soon be moving off the New Reference Books shelf to the Main Ref stacks (ZA 5055 U6M67 1999), will be very helpful to the many people who are intimidated by the complexity of government publications.

Workers throughout the world have struggled to improve working conditions and productivity. May First is the day to celebrate the challenges and achievements of Workers in the United States and in other countries.

Philip S. Foner summarizes the history of the International Workers Celebration in his book:  May Day: A Short History of the International Workers' Holiday, 1886-1986.  He reports that many workers in the United States began to celebrate May Day, May 1st, The Working Class Holiday by 1894.  And, even before that, workers were active in the Ten Hour Day movement in the late 1790's when there was a push to reduce the work day to a maximum of 10 hours a day.

The UCSB Davidson Library features a vast collection of books, government publications, pamphlets, and other resources which illuminate the struggles, problems, and achievements of workers.


This Library Exhibition provides a selection of those printed resources with a focus on workers in the United States and in foreign countries, and the economic conditions that influence their work and achievements.  Several pamphlets such as Farm Labor Organizing 1905-1967: A Brief History; The Subversion of Collective Bargaining by Daniel Bell; and ILGWU: Fighting for Lower Wages are on loan from the Radical Pamphlet and Literature Collection of the UCSB Department of Special Collections.  Most of the monographs on exhibit can be located by searching in the UCSB PEGASUS Catalog System.

The Exhibition includes "International Workers: Challenges/Opportunities, Selected Publications," an older checklist of holdings in the UCSB Davidson Library, 1995.

The Exhibition also announces the May Day Celebration on Monday, May 1st, on the UCSB Campus.

This Exhibition has been coordinated by Sally Willson Weimer, in collaboration with staff from the Department of Special Collections of the UCSB Davidson Library.

Overheard from a campus tour guide last week: "The 8th floor of the library was built so we could look at the ocean."  While many people would beg to differ with the tour guide, the library is in the process of making one of the campus tour highlights a little more interesting.  The campus model which has been near the main entrance off and on for several years was disassembled and moved to the 8th floor.  It is currently in pieces, but some is viewable in the expanded glass case in front of the elevators.  In the meantime, cabinets have been built and plans are under way to open a New Books Area which will enhance visitors' first impressions as they enter the Davidson Library.

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  Upcoming Events

May 2 - 37th Annual Edwin and Jean Corle Memorial Lecture and Dinner

As you may have previously read in the last issue of Library Waves, our featured speaker for the 37th annual Edwin and Jean Corle Lecture will be the noted writer and social critic, bell hooks.  The lecture will be held in the Hatlen Auditorium on Tuesday, May 2, at 8:00 p.m. There is no charge for the lecture. The lecture will feature topics from hooks' recent book, All About Love:  New Visions.  Her books will be on sale in the Bookstore and also at the Theater on the night of the lecture. We are thrilled to have this dynamic and learned speaker for the Corle Lecture, and hope Library staff will turn out to meet her.

Sarah Pritchard has been with us for one year now.  We are grateful for her accomplishments and are honoring this event with a reception in the Music Bowl (small Music Building amphitheater) from 4:30 until 6:30 on Wednesday, May 3. This reception, sponsored by LAUC and the Staffrep Group, will be a chance for people from the library, faculty and friends to celebrate our accomplishments of this past year and drink to our future ones as well!

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