February/March 2001 In this issue:    Personnel Announcements    Library Announcements & Reports    Professional & Outside Activities    Ergo Tip of the Month    News From Other Sources    Just For Fun

Photos In This Issue:
  Lorraine Padilla and Gary Johnson in ILL
Farewell to Mihoko Hosoi, Nerea Llamas & Aaron Sandoval
Donuts Make an Impromptu Wedding Cake
Library Staff Tours Just Another Poster? Chicano Graphic Arts in California
  Nobel Laureate Displays
Arts Library Celebrates New Edition
Orange Circular Carrels Replaced
Snow Makes Another February Visit
Browniegrams Help United Way Effort

  Making the Move!

• Lorraine Padilla has been helping out in CatalAcq and the Loan Desk as well as working in the Serials department.  Beginning on March 1st, she took a position in ILL.
  (Here she is learning her new job from Gary Johnson.)

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  Farewell!

• Mihoko Hosoi, a UCSB Library Fellow, has accepted a position at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, as a Public Services Librarian for the School of Hotel Administration.  Mihoko graduated from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where she received her MLS. During her stay here at UCSB, Mihoko worked in the Cataloging/Acquisitions Department and in the East Asian Library and was also the collection manager for the Japanese Studies Collection.  Mihoko relocated to New York in early, March, 2001. (Click here to see pictures of the gathering to send her and Nerea LLamas off to their respective new jobs.)

• Dennis Kelley has left Cataloging & Acquisitions and has gone into cyber space.  Actually, he has an opportunity to develop a new business via the Web.

• Nerea Llamas, joined the library's professional team in September, 1995, as a Library Fellow.  Her contributions and accomplishments in the short time since her arrival at UCSB are far too numerous to be illustrated in this column.  Nerea worked in the Reference Services Department as a reference librarian, collection manager for French, English, Womens Studies, and Latin American Studies.  She taught library skills to students in the INT1 classes almost every quarter. Throughout her tenure at UCSB she was an active participant in many library committees, including the Cultural Diversity Committee, LISC, Web Database Task Force, Long Range Planning Committee, and more.  In 1998 Nerea was selected to participate in the ARL Leadership and Career Development Program (LCDP). This program was funded through a grant from the Department of Education and was  administered by the Association of Research Libraries.  It was designed to promote underrepresented librarians into top leadership positions in academic and research libraries. Nerea has accepted a position as Latin American Studies Librarian at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, effective March 19, 2001.  We wish her well in all her endeavors. (Click here to see pictures of the library farewell for Nerea and Mihoko.)
  

• Veronica Martin from Access Services - Loan Desk has decided to leave the area to pursue other job opportunities in Merced.

• Aaron Sandoval has left the Serials Department to take advantage of other opportunities available to him as well as being a stay-at-home dad. The Serials Department hosted a luncheon party on February 13 to say goodbye to Aaron after 2 1/2 years as Supervisor of the Serials Receiving Unit.

  Library Voted "Best Place to Work"

Participants in the annual Daily Nexus Best of . . .  poll
designated the Library as the Best Place for a Student Job.
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  Current academic and staff recruitments can be found at the Library Personnel Office's Website:
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/depts/lpo/

Library Announcements & Reports

  PEGASUS II Implementation: Progress Report

  The PEGASUS II News Crew is working diligently to keep you up to date on the Implementation process.  Specifically, the PEGASUS II Steering Committee, chaired by Beverly Ryan, and the several other working committees and teams are meeting and planning to launch the new EX LIBRIS System in August.  As the agreement has been reached with EX LIBRIS to install the ALEPH system in  the UCSB Libraries, the PEGASUS II Implementation schedule has been developed and indicates equipment purchase and installation and software installation. And, activities also include training the trainers to begin the training and implementation process.  The installation of  PEGASUS II will greatly facilitate the UCSB Libraries' academic mission of providing research assistance and resources to the U.C.S.B academic community.

To help us activate the implementation, PEGASUS II documentation has been loaded on the Library's Local area network L DRIVE to assist with the instruction and training of library trainers and employees:  For EX LIBRIS information go to L:/Aleph documentation/ and for Project information generated within the Library, L:\Pegasus2-2001.

This is a very exciting process and this activity of migrating from the NOTIS System to the ALEPH system will involve all Library employees. As University Librarian Sarah Pritchard has indicated, this process of implementation has become a high priority for all of us in the UCSB Libraries.

The PEGASUS II Library Web page URL http://www.library.ucsb.edu/library/pegasus2/ has been updated to help keep library trainers and employees continuously informed of new steps, achievements, implementation schedule and activities to help bring ALEPH to full launch and fully operational to our students, faculty, and staff by August 2001.

Please visit our PEGASUS II web site often and the Library's L:/ Pegasus2 documentation files for updated information and progress reports.  We will provide you with a tentative training schedule for library employees later in the spring.  As each of us has a role to play in planning and realizing this implementation process, suggestions and comments are welcomed.

- PEGASUS II News Crew

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When this committee met on March 1st, their morning donuts were fancier than usual.
Why?  Because the group wanted to celebrate Lynne Hayman's upcoming marriage!
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Sponsored by the Library Diversity Committee, Sal Guerena led a special gallery tour of the University Art Museum's Just Another Poster? Chicano Graphic Arts in California exhibition. This narrated tour was just for library staff and was well attended by them. Sal is co-curator of the exhibit which is touring nationally. Considered the most comprehensive, interdisciplinary exhibition of its kind, art critics have said this about the show: "Terrific" (LA Times) "Powerful" (SB News Press)  "Visually exciting" (The Independent).

Although these posters are not new to the CEMA collection and some staff saw  them at a Brown Bag session last year (http://www.library.ucsb.edu/libwaves/feb00/cema.html) all agreed that this exhibit is a wonderful opportunity to see them at their best.

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In honor and in celebration of UCSB's three Nobel Laureates, the display cases on the first floor of  the Davidson Library have been filled with items and information about Professors Walter Kohn (Chemistry, 1998), Herbert Kroemer (Physics, 2000) and Alan J. Heeger (Chemistry, 2000).

In a letter to UL Sarah Pritchard, Chancellor Henry T. Yang wrote:

I enjoyed all the photographs on display, as well as the close-up view of Professor Kohn's magnificent diploma and medal.  I also like the quote you included from President Atkinson on the significance of these awards for UCSB.

It is certainly a high point for our campus to have had three colleagues awarded Nobel Prizes in such a short period of time.  This exhibit is a wonderful way of allowing all the members of our campus community to share our joy and pride in their accomplishments.

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The Arts Library hosted a Reception and Afternoon Tea in honor of  Department of Music faculty and graduates who together contributed more than 70 entries to the recently published New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition (2001). This 29-volume dictionary is undisputedly the single-most important music reference in the world.

The reception, which featured such gustatory classics of afternoon teas as cucumber sandwiches and scones, was held on February 26 in the Karl Geiringer Hall of the Music Building. We had a wonderful turnout of Music Department faculty, staff, grads and undergrads, as well as a good representation from many areas of the Library.

New editions of  The Grove only appear every 20-30 years, so this was a major publishing event for the world of music and music scholarship; and it is a tribute to the distinction of our Music faculty that UCSB is so well represented. The 2001 edition is the first to include an online version, which guests were able to access through 2 Internet workstations set up in the hall. The entire set of the new edition (which had only arrived at UCSB a few days before!) was on hand for browsing. Selected volumes from previous editions (beginning with the 1st edition of 1879) were also on display.

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A part of library history left the building as the old orange semi-circular study carrels (along with the last of the tan, orange and avocado chairs) were replaced with less dated (and worn!) furniture on the 2nd Floor of the Davidson Library.

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In late February, as a member of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Women's Studies Section (WSS) and as the UCSB Women's Studies Collection Specialist, Sherri Barnes was honored to announce that the ACRL WSS Award for Career Achievement in Women's Studies Librarianship has been awarded to UCSB's distinguished University Librarian Sarah Pritchard.  Reprinted below is Sherri's announcement:

Although her current responsibilities are centered around library administration issues, she is a legend within the field of women's studies librarianship for her leadership within ACRL/WSS; for her research library service in the area of women's studies; and for significant publications in the area.  Despite her enormous administrative responsibilities, her commitment to women's studies has been ongoing.  She continues to attend ACRL/WSS meetings and be involved in section programs and has taken an interest in Women's Studies at UCSB since coming here.

In addition to serving as the Library of Congress' Specialist in Women's Studies for a decade, Sarah chaired the ACRL/WSS from 1988-1991, a period of enormous growth for the Section.  She has also served on the American Library Association (ALA) Committee for the Status of Women in Librarianship and was a two-time representative from the body to the Board of Directors of the Federation of Organizations for Professional Women. Sarah has also been an active member of the ALA Social Responsibilities Roundtable Feminist Task Force.

Sarah's publications in women's studies librarianship are too numerous to mention here, as are all her accomplishments and their significance, but as a fairly new women's studies librarian her RLG (Research Libraries Group) Conspectus in Women's Studies (1990) has been of benefit to the work I do today. The conspectus is an invaluable resource for any women's studies scholar who wants to understand the organization of the literature of women's studies in all its interdisciplinarity, and especially for the women's studies librarian responsible for developing a research level collection in women's studies.  Her continuous commitment to women's studies and the libraries has also been demonstrated in other publications, where she has successfully applied feminist thought to the acquisition and use of information technology.

Congratulations, Sarah!

Ergo Tip of the Month

For the ergonomics "tip of the month", please click on the link and take a look at the innovative site from IBM. Watch the graphic at the top of IBM's Healthy Computing Page go through its paces. Then peruse the site for greater detail on specific subjects. The article on the history of keyboards under "Accessories" is particularly interesting--how the most common manifestation of this input tool came to be.

Tip of the Month is presented by the Library's Ergonomics Task Force.  If you have any questions, please contact us at: ergo@library.ucsb.edu

News From Other Sources

• ARL News

January/February 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.

• Connection

The online newsletter for the California State Library and the Library of California.  This is a forum for library issues and library news statewide.

Just For Fun

Winter in Santa Barbara - Snow Returns on Valentine's Day

After a Ground Hog Day heat wave, Valentine's Day brought snow to our local mountains, falling all the way down to the 900-foot elevations. What has become an unusual-yet-annual occurance, was enjoyed by all who looked outside for the next few days.

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Valentines come in all shapes and sizes and the United Way of Santa Barbara has come up with one that has made Valentines Day at the library even more popular than before.  A dollar donation to United Way buys a label that the purchaser can address to anyone they wish.  On Valentines Day, the brownies were delivered all over campus as purchasers let friends and co-workers know how much they were appreciated!

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