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

Personnel Announcements

Welcome!

• Cataloging and Acquisitions welcomes a new member to their team. Hueing-Ling Sun is sharing her time between CatalAcq and the East Asian Language & Studies Department.

• Mary Jones will be moving out of her Access Services Loan Desk position to join Stacks and Serials Services.

  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

The ergo tip for this month is from the UCSF/UCB Ergonomics Program Website.  The topic is 3 Points to Healthy Computer Use.  Please take a look at this informative piece and, as always, the Library's Ergonomics Committee would be interested in any comments or questions.  You may reach us by e-mail at ergo@library.ucsb.edu

Professional & Outside Activities

Library Staff Invited to Join AIDS Walk 2000

The 10th annual Heart & Sole AIDS Walk is scheduled for Saturday, October 7.  Once again, Pet Sitters of Santa Barbara will be forming a team to raise money for AIDS Project Central Coast.  Past team members from the library have included Sherri Barnes, Allen Cohen, Becky Eldridge, Claudia Jimenez, Cecily Johns, Dennis Olson, Lucia Snowhill, Nancy Tobin, and Renee Trenholm.  Anyone interested in walking for a good cause is encouraged to contact Renee at trenholm@library.ucsb.edu or rns@psofsb.com for more information. And remember to look for photos of your walking co-workers in a future issue of Library Waves.

Upcoming Events

Summer Academy 2000 To Offer Variety of Classes

Library employees wishing to learn more about maximizing the use of their computers at work can still sign up for  classes being offered from August 22 through September 15.  Most classes have been filled, but anyone who has not yet signed-up should contact Judy Gorrindo or Detrice Bankhead.  Classes in Excel, Internet searching and manuevering, Windows NT, Eudora Pro, Webpage composition, graphic layout and Powerpoint presentations are being taught for the most part by our own experts from within the library.

Working in partnership with the UCSB Bookstore, the Library will be offering an opportunity to purchase books written by UCSB writers, many of  whom are scheduled to sign and discuss their books. Click on this link to see the list of  featured books and the author schedule.  More information about the Book Fest in general is available at http://www.newspress.com/bookfestival/

Library Announcements & Reports

Beverly Ryan Celebrates 4th of July Wedding With Co-workers

Bibliographic Systems Librarian, Beverly Ryan, celebrated her Fourth of July marriage to Rick Haskell at a potluck reception given by her library friends.  Held after work outdoors off-campus on July 28th, everyone attending was able to enjoy the great summer weather while meeting Bev's new spouse.  Bev asked that her message to the library be included in this report: 

I would like to thank everyone who contributed to and attended the party, and everyone who has extended their congratulations and best wishes to me. I truly appreciate it. --Bev

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When the starter's pistol went off at the ALA Fun Run/Walk in Chicago, not only was  Jane Faulkner the only runner from UCSB, but she was also the only one from Santa Barbara.  Having run in last year's Fun Run in New Orleans, she was a veteran of the race and ran off with a third place finish in her age category!  Other Access Services staffers joining Jane at ALA (but not in the race) were Young Huh, Claudia Jimenez and Gary Johnson.  Jane writes:

 I think ALA's "Fun Run" was a misnomer;  the humidity was as bad as it gets in Chicago, the wind by some fluke managed to be against us both ways, and it was HOT!  There are some pretty impressive runners out there in the library community, a couple of whom compete at the national level, so I really had no business being out there among them.

But the course itself was beautiful, taking us along Lakeshore Drive in the early morning while the fishing boats came in.  And it was a treat to see the sun rising over the water's edge - a real change for a west-coaster.  I placed third in my age group, and UCSB got a big round of applause when my name was mentioned, so we got a moment or two of glory.  And did I mention that it was hot . . . ?

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Sally Willson Weimer, ACRL ANSS Section Chair, conducted a brief business meeting after a very successful ALA Association of College and Research Librarians (ACRL), Anthropology and Sociology Section (ANSS) conference program during the ALA annual Conference in Chicago, Illinois.  The conference program was entitled: Sociological and Anthropological Research in Transition: Trans-disciplinary Collaboration, Qualitative/Quantitative Rapprochement and was held on Sunday, July 9, 2000, 9:30am - 12:00pm.  It focused on facilitating research efforts, collaboration, the International Social Survey program, and how librarians can work with social researchers to assist them in locating and using social and demographic data.   The conference program announcement is located at http://www2.lib.udel.edu/udlib-srch/anss/.

The ANSS-sponsored tour of the Jane Addams Hull House took place Tuesday, July 12. Hull House is affiliated with and located on the University  of  Illinois at Chicago Campus.  The tour was coordinated by Lynn C. Hattendorf Westney, a Reference Librarian at the U. of Illinois-Chicago Library.  Several ACRL ANSS members, including Sally, attended the tour and are shown in the photo.

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In an enthusiastic effort to streamline office practices, ILL has taken a dramatic step towards the elimination of almost half of its paper files.  With a unanimous cheer, ILL staff members converged on Goleta Beach to hold a burning ceremony to mark their decision to go "paperless".  As ILL observes strict recycling procedures, only a few token pieces of the paper files were actually burned.  The rest were discreetly recycled after the ceremony.

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News From Other Sources

• ARL News

June/July 2000 E-news for ARL Directors: Part One

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.

• CDLINFO Newsletter

A bi-weekly electronic newsletter which provides specific updates on California Digital Library projects and initiatives.

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Just For Fun

What Time Is It?

This digitally enhanced photo doesn't quite get across the truly tacky nature of this plastic clock.
Even though it works, it's a good thing that we don't ALL have to look at it everyday!
(Thanks to a genuinely serendipitous find by John Vasi, this object d'art hangs in the office of
Pegasus programmer, Ana Fidler.

When Bronwen Lacey left to prepare for law school earlier this summer, the MIL staff planned the usual going-away party.  But looking at the lemon meringue pie that he brought, Jason Simpson got the diabolical idea of throwing it in Bronwen's face!  Being sensitive to other people's feelings, however, Jason asked permission first.  Bronwen said "No way," and everyone agreed that the pie would be much better suited for eating.  So what about filling a pie tin with whipped cream and throwing that in Bronwen's face?  How about if they paid her?  "Well, maybe."  A collection was quickly made for the agreed upon amount and you can see the results through this link.  Bronwen left $50 richer, everyone had a great laugh, and Jason had to change into a clean shirt when it was all over!

Deadline for the next issue: September 15 - Please submit your articles to:   Renata Hundley.  Library Waves is published 11 times per year.   Editor: Renata Hundley.  Contributors: Jane Faulkner, Judy Gorrindo, David Howarter, Jennifer Newton, Jason Simpson, Renee Trenholm, Sally Willson Weimer. Photographers: Carol Gibbens, Renata Hundley, Trish Kreiss,  Jennifer Newton and the MIL Staff.

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