UCSB Library Waves

April 1999

In this issue:
Personnel Announcements
Professional & Outside Activities
Library Announcements & Reports
Library Calendar
Questions & Answers
Snow In Our Mountains!
News From Other Sources

March has come and gone, yet April has arrived leaving more snow in the mountains and cool, blustery days here on campus. Spring has definitely arrived, though, as the students have returned from their break and prospective students and their parents are here touring the library - taking in the weather and scenery we get to enjoy every day!

Personnel Announcements

Sonia Rosas, LA II in Circulation - Loan Desk, started March 9. Sonia received her BA in Latin American Studies at UCSB. She has been a special program advisor for the California Student Opportunity and Access Program and a peer advisor for the Educational Opportunity Program at UCSB. Sonia is replacing Monica Landeros; we're mighty glad (especially Claudia!) to have you with us, Sonia!
Devin Gay started her position as LA II in Serials - Cataloging Unit, March 22 as US government publications cataloger. She came from Arizona State University, Tempe, where she worked as a library assistant in Current Periodical Services and the Dept. of Archives and Manuscripts (and where she also received her BA in Anthropology). Devin has traveled a good deal and knows a number of languages, including Danish, Norwegian, Indonesian, Spanish and Malay. (Take her with you as a translator on your next trip abroad.) A warm welcome to you, Devin!
Cristina Clarke started March 30 as an LA II in Serials - Order Unit. She received her BA in Communication/English at CSU Chico and her MA in Film Studies at CSU Northridge. She has worked at Focus Media, a media advertising agency; Powertech, a surgical instrument repair business; and most recently, Video Shmideo. (So it will be fun to test her movie knowledge!) We're very excited (especially Martha!) to have you join us, Cristina!

The Library also had to bid farewell to several employees in March:

Monica Landeros, from Circulation - Loan Desk, will still be working on campus (at LMRI in South Hall) AND working towards her MA degree. (Monica, when do you get to sleep?)

Chana Ortiz, also from the Loan Desk, will be doing library work in the new Allen Hancock College library branch in Lompoc (make sure they do it right, Chana!). Here she is with Carol Hurley.

Claudia Jimenez says that with Monica and Chana leaving, we can all be thankful that Damon Fletcher and Jane Faulkner have been there helping out during all these changes. Paola Ruiz has also been hired as a Student Supervisor.

Mel Chagaris, from SEL and ILL, will be plying her computer expertise from her home (you go, Mel!).
Coni Edick, from the Library Personnel Office, has transferred to Human Resources - Information Services, where she will still be called upon to answer any and all questions. (That's why she's not giving out her new phone number!)

Current academic and staff recruitments can be found at the Library Personnel Office's web page http://www.library.ucsb.edu/depts/lpo/

Professional & Outside Activities

David Seubert Writes on Preservation

David Seubert wrote a Lasting Concerns column for the October/November 1998 issue of the MLA (Music Library Association) Newsletter on the preservation problems associated with diazotype (diazo) photoreproduction process music scores, commonly known as "Ozalids". Large numbers of 20th Century compositions (including scores held in UCSB's Department of Special Collections) were printed using this blueprint-like process. The Major Orchestra Librarians Association (MOLA) requested reprints to distribute at their upcoming conference in May.

Library Announcements & Reports

Library Celebrates More Comings and Goings

Staff Welcomes Sarah Pritchard
Our University Librarian came for another visit before her official start date and met our staff at a morning reception.
Farewell Coni Edick
After 12 years of taking care of us in the Library, Coni started a new job in the campus Human Resources Department. Before she left for her new office, the staff was able to wish her a fond farewell.

Library Acquires Henry C. Huglin Items

The UCSB Davidson Library has recently acquired several items and publications from Henry C. Huglin, retired Brigadier General of the U. S. Air Force. He had served as an invited guest of several dialogues of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. His discussions included: A Survey of the Role of the United States in Europe and Asia, on November 17, 1964; he conducted two additional sessions in September 1966. Henry Huglin worked at General Electric TEMPO Research/ Think Tank here in Santa Barbara. He donated two audio tapes from his dialogues at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and has provided a brief sketch of his background and experience. These items and publications have been placed in Special Collections to be added to the Library's collections. Sally Willson Weimer and Dave Tambo have collaborated to enable the completion of this recent acquisition.

Thoreau Edition To Move to Illinois

Beth Witherell, the Editor-in-Chief of The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau, will be moving the project to Northern Illinois University, in DeKalb, this coming June. The Thoreau Edition has been located on the third floor of Davidson Library since March 1988; in 1983, Beth brought the project from Princeton University to UCSB, and the English Department was its first home. This current move is in connection with Michael Witherell, Beth's husband, being named the new director of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, which is in Batavia, Illinois. The Edition will be housed in the Library at Northern, and Beth will also have an appointment in the English Department.

Louisa Dennis started her duties in Anthropology on Tuesday March 30, but her last day in the Library will be May 28. The proposed plan is to split her time between Anthropology and the Thoreau Edition during April and May so she can help Beth prepare for the move, close the office, and finish administrative duties for the Edition's 97-99 NEH grant. For the month of April Louisa will split her time so that she is in Anthropology in the morning and the Thoreau Edition in the afternoon. During the month of May she will split her time 80/20 between Anthropology and the Edition. Louisa has been with the Thoreau Edition since July 1983 when it first moved to UCSB from Princeton University. Louisa's duties for the Friends of the UCSB Library will be provided by Tammy Gillispie as of March 30th.

Web of Science Presented By Celebration

During the week of March 15, the UCSB Library celebrated its first ever database festival, focusing on the newly available database, Web of Science (WoS). Don't be misled by the name. WoS actually includes three different indexes: Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, and Social Sciences Citation Index.

The festival included seven different classes on using WoS. Faculty and staff from across the campus as well as 32 library employees attended the sessions. Departments represented included Access Services, Arts, Catalacq, Personnel, Reference Services, Sciences-Engineering, Serials, and Special Collections. Prizes provided by the database producer, ISI, were presented to class attendees. If you weren't able to attend one of the classes, check out the tutorial developed by Chuck Huber and Sandy Lewis available at http://www.library.ucsb.edu/tutorials/wos/

The festival committee was pleased with the attention that was focused on Web of Science. It should prove to be a popular and useful database.

Staff Calendar

Tuesday, April 13 - Professor Emeritus Stewart Shapiro To Speak
Professor Emeritus Stewart Shapiro a clinical psychologist and Professor of Education Emeritus, will speak to us about his research. He is the author of the recently published The Place of Confluent Education in the Human Potential Movement: a Historical Perspective. This book relates the 27-year Confluent Education Program at UCSB to the broad Human Potential Movement. He will be joined by David Gartrell, Project Archivist of the Humanistic Psychology Archive, and David Russell, Director of the Library Oral History Program.
The presentation will be in the Mary Cheadle room from 12-1, so bring your lunch and join us for an interesting session.

Questions & Answers

Questions from interested parties; answers by appropriate people. (Please submit your questions to: Renata Hundley.

Snow In Our Mountains!

An arctic blast in March took the local snow elevation down to as low as 1500 feet. The white stuff drew several camera-wielding library folk to the 8th floor, while Carol Gibbens drove up for a closer look. Along with a coffee mug of snow, Carol returned with photos of an unusual look at San Marcos Pass and other familiar Santa Barbara locations.

News From Other Sources

February 1999 E-news for ARL Directors: Part 1
The latest news for research libraries.
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/n/nspi/nspi-ns218.txt
Rick Johnson's article on SPARC, which outlines the SPARC mission and clearly defines its goals and approach, appears in the March 14, 1999 issue of the Newsletter on Serials Pricing Issues
ARL Announces . . .
Upcoming Workshops On Licensing Electronic Information Resources
Monday-Tuesday, May 3-4, 1999 in Washington, D.C.
Thursday-Friday, September 16-17, 1999 in Dallas, TX (hosted by AMIGOS)
Full details and registration information are available at: http://www.arl.org/scomm/licensing/lworkshop.html
Powerful Learning, Powerful Partnerships
Educating the University Community in a Dynamic Information Environment
November 11-12, 1999 at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
The University of Iowa Libraries is hosting a national conference on educational strategies and programs that assist faculty, students, and staff in learning in a dynamic and ever-changing information and technological environment. This is an opportunity for library professionals, technologists, and faculty from a variety of academic institutions to share their experiences and successes.
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/symposium99/

Library Waves is published monthly. Editor: Renata Hundley.
Contributors: Louisa Dennis, Andrea Duda, Coni Edick, Carol Gibbens, Cecily Johns, Rick Worth.
Deadline for the next issue: April 23 - Please submit your articles to: hundley@library. ucsb.edu.