August 1999 In this issue:   Personnel Announcements   Professional & Outside Activities   Library Announcements & Reports   Campus Connections   News From Other Sources

Photos In This Issue:
Jane Faulkner Sally Weimer Storke Tower Open House AS Garden & Greenhouse Project

  Personnel Announcements

 Welcome!

• Bruce Machado started with Reference Services on July 12th. He has worked in a variety of departments at UCSB including Institutional Advancement and Parking Services. Bruce majored in English Lit. while at UCSB.

• Ed Fields started his new position on July 27th, making the transition from student to career employee in Special Collections. Ed is working on his Masters in the area of Asian Studies.

• Sherri Barnes is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley where she received her MLS degree. She also has an MA in Liberal Studies from the City University of New York. Prior to her arrival as Humanities Reference Librarian at UCSB on August 2nd, Sherri was a Reference Librarian at Long Island University in Brooklyn, NY. She is active in the American Library Association and the Association of College and Research Libraries.

• Banwei Zhu, from CatalAcq, has accepted a job at the Defense Language Institute at Monterey. Her last day was July 2nd.

• Jennifer Passerine is also leaving the area. After working as a student assistant during the 1996/1997 school year in Circulation Loan Services, she came back and worked in the Reserve Book Service. Her last day was July 30.

• Anna Roberts' last day was also July 30, but she's not moving far. She has accepted a position in the Classics Department.

• Andrea Johnson has moved from SEL to ILL. She will be assisting in the borrowing aspects of this department.

• Rebecca Eldridge has moved from ILL to Special Collections where she'll be managing the service area.

• Margarita Simanek has left Reserve Book Services to join ILL to assist in both lending and borrowing.

• Judy Gorrindo has moved one room down the hall and will be responsible for the Academic and Staff Personnel.

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  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

  More News From New Orleans

• 1999 Conference Attended By Library Staffers

  Five staff members, Jane Faulkner, Young Huh, Claudia Jimenez, Gary Johnson and Catharine Turner attended the 1999 ALA Annual Conference held in New Orleans from June 25 to 30. Staff Development Awards helped to make their attendance at this Conference possible.  More . . .

• Jane Faulkner places in Fun Walk

  While attending ALA in New Orleans, Jane Faulkner made an early-morning trip to Audubon Park where she participated in the ALA Fun Run. Congratulations to Jane, who placed 2nd in her age group!

• Anthro and Soc Librarians Tour Tulane

  Sally Willson Weimer (left) joined other Sociology and Anthropology librarians while at ALA in order to take advantage of an opportunity to tour the Special Collections Deparment of the library at Tulane University.

In keeping with the goal of establishing semi-annual releases of new features and enhancements to the California Digital Library, the second release of the CDL became available on July 7, 1999.

In an emailed listserv message, the CDL expressed it's appreciation "of the many constructive comments from library staff and patrons -- given via focus group sessions, the Digital Library Strategies Forums, feedback forms and email, and campus presentations" that contributed to the enhancements. Particular appreciation was given to the design and implementation team members "who deserve congratulations for the enormous work involved". Included in this group were Brian Warling, Lynne Grigsby-Standfill, Margery Tibbetts, Tony Toyofuku, Sherry Willhite, Claudia Woo, Jayne Dickson, Nancy Gusack, and Lucia Snowhill.

In the July 13, 1999 issue of CDLINFO Newsletter http://www.cdlib.org/news/cdlinfo/, the Web-based newsletter of the California Digital Library, Lucia received another accolade:

The CDL would like to thank Lucia Snowhill, UCSB Librarian, for her enormous contribution to the conversion of the RLG and OCLC Z39.50 databases to the Web interface (RLG: Anthropological Literature, Avery Index to Architecture Periodicals, Chicano, ESTC, HSCI, and RLIN Bibliographic File; OCLC: ArtAbstracts, MLA, and WorldCat; Stanford: GeoRef). For the past two years Lucia has helped CDL staff translate each database from Telnet into Web format. She has advised our programmers and worked with our Digital Library Services staff, providing all the details of the search functions that users need to see. She has tried to maintain consistency between the Telnet and Web versions of each database, despite the obvious differences in the user/system interfaces. She has proofed and corrected our pages and pages of documentation with unflagging energy, and has clarified our tasks. And she has tried to satisfy all the particular requests of the various advisory committees to make each database as completely functional as possible in our interface. We simply could not have completed the task without her."

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  Library Announcements & Reports

  Pritchard Presents Library Initiatives to the UCSB Foundation

Our University Librarian made a presentation on the library's behalf to the UCSB Foundation at the end of last month. For her full report, click here.

  An Invitation To Join AIDS Walk '99

The 1999 AIDS Walk is scheduled for Saturday, October 2. It begins at Leadbetter Beach and walkers will go about halfway up through Shoreline Park before turning around and heading to Milpas along Cabrillo Blvd. We turn around again at Milpas and return to Leadbetter Beach: 10K. The Walk usually begins around 9:00 or 9:30 a.m.

Just want to open up the Pet Sitters of Santa Barbara team to any interested library workers (I think there were 6 or so library people on the team last year, some with their spouses/partners). The team consists of PS of SB clients, library folks, friends and family. Pets are welcome to walk as long as they are up for 10K and their people have them on a leash and bring plenty of water for them. I'll supply a PS of SB t-shirt for each walker. Each walker who individually raises $150 or more also receives an AIDS Walk t-shirt. Last year our team raised just over $2100.

There will be pre-walk munchies and drinks and an aerobic workout to get walkers ready. There is usually post-walk entertainment as well. All of this is provided by the Pacific Pride Foundation and other major sponsors of the walk.

If anyone is intersted in joining us they can call my office at 682-2822, email me or just drop by and see me. I should have buttons, sponsor sheets and other info in mid-August. I'd be happy to chat with anyone interested; they can see me at the Loan Desk.

I've been involved in the AIDS Walk every year since its inception--either as an individual walker or the captain of a team. It's a fun atmosphere where a lot of work gets done for a worthy cause. Walkers definitely feel like they've done a good thing.

Renee Trenholm
Circulation, Loan Desk
(805)893-3491

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  Campus Connections

  Storke Tower Open House Uses Special Collections Photos

On Sunday, July 18th, Visiting University Carillonist, Margo Halsted, hosted an open house of Storke Tower and the Thomas M. Storke Carillon. Visitors were able to take the elevator to the top of the tower and observe Professor Halstead as she played the instrument and talked about the bells. Copies of photographs from the Davidson Library's University Archives greeted the visitors as they entered the observation deck.

This past year, Prof. Halstead has been on sabbatical leave from the University of Michigan School of Music, where she presides over that university's two carillons. During her stay at UCSB, she oversaw the repair and refurbishing of the carillon mechanism, keyboard and playing cabin. A fund to maintain the instrument and to purchase carillon music has been established. Anyone wishing to support the UCSB Carillon Fund is invited to contact Nicole Kern, Office of Development, at 893-7680.

To see more photos and learn more about the Carillon, click on the tower.

  AS Garden and Greenhouse Project Creates Small Oasis

Many library visitors and employees have enjoyed Peter Shapiro's flowers over the years, but not many have seen where they are grown. The UCSB Garden and Greenhouse Project has had Peter as it's Advisor for the past ten years. Recent hire, Kristen LaBonte, has been the Garden Coordinator for the past 4 years. Peter, Kristen, and CatalAcq staffer, Lora Richards all have garden plots along with over 30 other gardeners. For a mere $10 per year, any student, staff or faculty member can cultivate a plot of land with water, manure and the use of tools for that land included in the price. The gardens are 100% organic and even boast 4 resident cats who apparently do an excellent job of keeping the gophers and mice away from the plants.

Visitors are welcome, but for a virtual look at the gardens, click on the sign.

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• July 1999 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.

Deadline for the next issue: August 31 - Please submit your articles to:   hundley@library.ucsb.edu. Library Waves is published monthly.     Editor: Renata Hundley. Contributors:  Andrea Duda, Jane Faulkner, Judy Gorrindo, Sarah Pritchard, Renee Trenholm, Catherine Turner, Sally Willson Weimer. Photographers: Renata Hundley, Rick Worth. Special thanks to Temmo Korisheli for his great suggestion to hotlink photos in each newsletter!