December 1998 In this issue:   Personnel Announcements   Professional & Outside Activities   Library Announcements & Reports   Staff Events   News From Other Sources   Questions & Answers

Thanksgiving was a welcome break in a very busy quarter. Many of us would agree that the selection process for the University Librarian has been a stimulating and hopeful activity for all who have participated. As the quarter winds down to a close, and the holidays bring us to the end of 1998, we continue the UL search process and look forward to coming changes within the library in 1999.

  Personnel Announcements

Be sure to say "hello and welcome" to the following people who have joined the library's personnel roster in November:

• October 30 - Melissa Phelan, started as an LA II in Circulation-Stack/Serial/GP Services. She is in charge of the unit's operations during the weekends and holidays. Melissa graduated from UCSB with a BA in English/German and was a student assistant in Stack Services (so she knows what she's getting into!). Welcome back, Melissa!

• November 11 - Todd Chatman started as an LA III in Special Collections-CEMA. He assists in the organization and preservation of CEMA's archival collections and is also the primary computer specialist for the office. Todd has been an editor and writer for a number of publications and also a trip leader for a travel company.

• November 23 - Lorraine Padilla transferred from a full-time LA II in CatalAcq to a half-time position in the Receiving unit in Serials. She has been doing copy cataloging and providing secretarial support for the CatalAcq office. We will find her in both departments through December (you go, girl!) while a replacement is being sought for the CatalAcq vacancy. We hope you will enjoy the change, Lorraine!

• Kim, who was head of the Serials Order Section in Serials, has transferred to the UCSB Foundation, where she will be an accounting assistant. She has served 14 years in the Library.

• Marilyn, who has served nearly 5 years as the Reference Department's secretary, transferred as the administrative assistant to the Vice Chancellor for Institutional Advancement (or, as Marilyn puts it, she will be "the AA for the VC of IA"). The Library will sorely miss these two terrific employees and wish them the best in their continuing careers.

  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

• Latino Periodicals: A Selection Guide Just Published

  Salvador Guerena co-authored and edited Latino Periodicals (Mcfarland Publishers, 1998), a new collection development tool for librarians who need information on Latino periodicals suitable for public, school and academic libraries. The nearly 300 titles, which are described and evaluated by specialists, include general interest and popular magazines, newspapers, fotonovelas and newsletters that will appeal to Spanish-speaking, bilingual and English-speaking library patrons, as well as the more specialized journals appropriate for the larger public and academic libraries. The entries are arranged by subject or type of publication. Title and topic indexes are provided and an appendix gives addresses for vendors and distributors.

• Thoreau Presented to Local Teachers

  Elizabeth Witherell, Editor-in-Chief of The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau, which is located in Davidson Library, presented an illustrated talk about Henry D. Thoreau's use of drawings in his Journal to local elementary and high school teachers at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art on November 12th.

• Tarte a la Creme: Comedy and Gastronomy in Moliere's Theater Included in Must-Have Book List

  An October 29th New York Times article on what can be found in cookbook sections of today's better bookstores included Ron Tobin's "plunge into deep culinary esoterica". According to Martin Arnold, the article's author, this Ohio State University Press book must be so popular that although it costs $42.50, it is on back order.

  Library Announcements & Reports

• Anniversary of Black Studies Department

  In commemoration of the 30 year anniversary of the Black Studies Department, the Black Studies Unit of the Ethnic and Gender Studies Library is currently displaying materials that chronicle the formation of the Department.

  The exhibit will be displayed on the 2nd floor of the Davidson Library through the end of the year.

• Exhibit in Special Collections

  The Rounce & Coffin Club's traveling exhibit, "1997 Western Books Exhibition", is currently on display in the Department of Special Collections.

  The exhibition showcases 30 outstanding examples of work produced by fine press printers and book artists from Arizona, California, Nevada, Texas, and  Washington.

  The exhibit will be displayed on the third floor of the Davidson Library through December 31, 1998.

• Volunteers Needed For the Information Desk

  The Information Desk of the Davidson Library needs you! This service point is the front-line contact with the new and continuing library users. Queries cover all areas of research needs in all subject areas. The Information Desk provides that informational hub to help users effectively use the entire library.

  Workers are scheduled one or two hours per week during the quarter. Training for new workers will be held in early December. Check with your supervisor and then contact Carol Gibbens, Reference Services (x 8051) for more information.

• Alexandria Digital Library Project Announces Newsletter

  The Alexandria Digital Library Project has posted an online newsletter that will bring you up-to-date as of October 1998. The link to the newsletter is
  http://alexandria.ucsb.edu/docs/newsletter_page.html.

  According to their announcement, this is an exciting time for ADL with many activities continuing on from the NSF/DARPA/NASA DLI-1 funded project that ended at the end of August and new initiatives starting. Be sure to also take a look at their homepage,
  http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu

  for other information on the Project.

• Patron Initiated Request Project Announces Website

  Since there was unanimous support for a Website that would be a single source for materials related to the background and implementation of PIR, that site is now available at:

  http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/pir/.

  The site is intended for the use of UC Library staff who are involved with or interested in the PIR project. The site contains background information, descriptive summaries of the status and history of PIR, technical information about the project such as the decision flow programmed into receiving and forwarding a request, and links to vendor information including OCLC Direct. Most of the documents on the site are available in Rich Text Format (RTF) which nearly any word processing program can read. Some files are available in HTML or PDF/Acrobat form as well.

  Staff Events

• Thursday, December 3rd

  • Final UL Candidate presentation to campus
    11:00AM in Buchanan 1940

  • UL Candidate will meet with LAUC
    1:30PM in the Mary Cheadle Room

  • UL Candidate vision meeting with Faculty
    2:45PM in the Mary Cheadle Room

• Friday, December 4th

  UL Candidate will meet with Library staff
  9:45AM in UCEN Santa Barbara Mission Room

• Tuesday, December 15th

  Library Holiday Party

• President's Statement on Passage of Proposition 1A

• CDLINFO Listserv - Volume 1

  The CDLINFO-L Listserv is designed for UC library employees as a first step in CDL efforts to build an active communications program to inform the UC community about progress in creation of the CDL, policy issues under discussion, and newly available electronic resources. See the last section of the attached link for information on subscribing.

• October 1998 E-news for ARL Directors:  Part 1

• ARL Announces.... 1998-99 ARL Board

• Editor Appointed To Head New Organic Letters Journal From World's Largest Scientific Society

• Stanford/Oxford Alliance Enhances E-Journal Accessibility

  Questions & Answers

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

Q: People have commented on how nice the Library Waves dolphin logo looks; who drew it and where did it come from?

A:"The Library Waves logo came from a combination of sources. 

Once we had decided on the name, I wanted to find some art work that would relate to oceans or waves.  I have a subscription to a service called Art Today http://www.arttoday.com/ that provides a wide variety of royalty-free clip art.  I found an image with dolphins playing in the waves that I liked so I downloaded it.

Then I used Paintshop Pro to make some changes to the art.  The original image had three dolphins and was rather large.  I cut out two of the dolphins and changed the shape, adding a curve at the top.  I also lightened up the image since the original was quite bright, and resized it to come up with a size that would work for the newsletter. I added the text using a font called Sunbelt that I had also obtained from Art Today.

Putting those pieces together resulted in the Library Waves logo" -Andrea Duda

Library Waves is published monthly. Editor: Renata Hundley. Contributors:Yolanda Allen, Louisa Dennis, Andrea Duda, Coni Edick, Carol Gibbens, Salvador Guerena, Cecily Johns Deadline for the next issue: December 28 - Please submit your articles to: hundley@library. ucsb.edu.