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

Photos In This Issue:
Special Collections Acquires an Archeophone
Diversity Brown Bag Lunch
Staff Puts On a Baby Shower

Farewell!

• Judy Klaus from CEMA has returned to New Zealand.

• Matt McGoogan from ILL is finishing his degree at UCSB and then he has accepted a position with SAIC as a fisheries biologist.

• Sonia Rosas from Access Loan Services is making a career move to the Relations With Schools department on campus.

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

Professional & Outside Activities

   Librarians in Print

Sal Guerena of Special Collections, and Edward Erazo, of Florida Atlantic University, have co-authored an exhaustive article entitled Latinos and Libraries that will appear in the Summer 2000 issue of  Library Trends.
This is a special edition "Diversity" issue that aims to be the first place one would go for a history of library services to ethnic groups.

Sal  has also compiled and edited Library Services to Latinos: An Anthology (McFarland, 2000). Library Services to Latinos provides some effective strategies in service.  It uses selected case studies to demonstrate client-centered innovations, whether they involve the organizing of Spanish-language collections, meeting the needs of children, or examining developments in electronic resources. The book also advances the dialog about some of the pressing professional issues of relevance to Latino librarians such as leadership development, recruitment and mentorship.

• DigiRef or Collaborative Digital Reference Service

  Carol Gibbens reports on a new program that will provide 24-hour reference service as the days move through the time zones.

• Small Press Publisher/Advocates Share Concerns

  Gary Colmenar reports on one discussion group concerned with the social, cultural, and economic conditions affecting small and independent presses.

Earlier this month, our University Librarian took part in the History of Science Colloquium Series.  Read about her "informal seminar" HERE.

Library Announcements & Reports

  Performing Arts Collection Acquires Wax Cylinder Reproducer

To learn more about this equipment and see another photo, read the press release by clicking on the photo.

Sarah Pritchard reports on her recent activities.  If you would like this to continue as a monthly feature, please let her know.

The Library's Diversity Committee presented a wonderful opportunity to learn about some of the graphics in the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives while eating their lunches away from the rain . . . E

Dylan Michael Worth was born on February 4th to Rick and Zeina Worth.  Shortly before that, our Library personnel celebrated with a baby shower . . .PHOTOS E

Library users can now renew their books and order Interlibrary Loan items without having to come on campus.  Simply go to the Library's Homepage, then scroll down a little bit to Library Services.  From here, they can also:

• Request a list of items currently checked out on Pegasus

• Request materials from the Annex

• Request material to be recalled from another patron

• Signup for E-Circ (email due date and other reminders and notices)

• Submit a change of address to the Library

Beginning April 1 a sample of 1,800 UCSB faculty, graduate and undergraduate students will be invited to join only twelve other institutions in a pilot survey.  The results of the SERVQUAL survey will determine whether or not ARL will want to adopt this modified instrument as part of the New Measures initiative.  MORE

News From Other Sources

• January 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.

• LC Cataloging Newsline

  This electronic newsletter is published irregularly by the Cataloging Directorate, Library Services, Library of Congress, and contains news of cataloging activities throughout the Library of Congress.

Ergo Tip of the Month

Deskercise Tip

Please take a few minutes to click on the link to the Ergonomics Tip of the Month brought to you by Johns Hopkins Health Information and the Davidson Library's Ergonomic Task Force.  This month we are focusing on neck "deskercises".

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