January 2000  In this issue:    Personnel Announcements    Professional & Outside Activities    Library Announcements & Reports    News From Other Sources    Remember When . . .

Personnel Announcements

Welcome!

• Layla Lyne-Winkler joins us by working in InterLibrary Loan. She is no stranger to UCSB; she received her BA in Anthropology and Art Studio and worked as a Student Assistant in Serials.
• You'll meet Carlos Gonzalez at the Access Services, Circulation Loan Desk. He is currently finishing his BA in Chicano Studies and Mechanical Engineering.

• Bruce Machado had moved to Reference Processing from the Reference Office.

• Temmo Korisheli will be splitting his time between the Arts Library and Cataloging and Acquisitions Services.

• Carolyn Jones will be taking on different duties in the Map and Imagery Lab.

• Rachel Kelley from Loan Services is leaving. Amongst other things, she will be concentrating on her studies at UCSB.

• Although Susan Duncan will be leaving Cataloging and Acquisitions, she will be coming in occasionally to help out with the transition.

  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

Martorana and Doyle Have Hand In All That Glitters

A book chapter by Janet Martorana and former Davidson Library librarian, Carol Doyle, was recently published in the book, All That Glitters: Prospecting for Information in the Changing Library World.  The book was edited by Steven Vincent and Sue K. Norman and published by JAI Press Inc., in Stamford, Connecticut late last year.  According to the book abstract, the chapter,  Evaluation Workout: Exercises and Techniques to Teach Critical Thinking About Web Resources, "identifies problems caused by the Web environment which can be alleviated by the application of critical thinking concepts to Web information resources.  Various types of activities in UCSB's instruction program are described, all of which contain some aspect of evaluation.  Examples of evaluative exercises and techniques are provided."

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Library Announcements & Reports

New Quarter Brings New Library Hours, New Service Points and New Services

• The Davidson Library started the new year and the Winter Quarter with a number of changes that will offer our users easier access to the library.  The Davidson Library building opens two hours earlier on Sunday mornings and is remaining open later on Friday and Saturday nights (see Schedule of Library Hours.)

• The area known as Government Publications has changed it's name to the Government Information Center and will slowly change it's physical appearance during this and the next quarter.  Already, the service desk has been moved to a more prominent location, the desk hours generally mirror the Reference Desk hours and a reference librarian can be found at the desk from 1 to 3 each weekday afternoon.  InfoStations, a copier, study tables and new service desk furniture will be added as time goes on.  All cataloged government publications will now be checked out from the main Loan Desk.  Uncataloged publications and microfiche will be checked out from the Government Information Center desk. Sherry DeDecker is the Unit Head for the Center, responsible for developing policies and procedures that will guide the operation of this reference service area.  Jim Buffon is the Library Assistant responsible for daily service operation and student training.  PHOTOSE

• The new Microform Service Desk, located on the second floor of the Davidson Library, has begun to assist library users and staff with locating and using microform materials.  Micro materials and portable fiche readers formerly checked out at the Electronic Aracade are now being checked out at this desk.  The desk will operate under the direction of Carol Gibbens (responsible for developing and implementing policies and procedures in consultation with Information Services Heads and library administration) and  Renata Hundley (responsible for training and supervision of the student staff.)  PHOTOSE

The library's Cultural Diversity Committee once again sponsored the annual holiday party as library workers came together to toast the season, mingle with colleagues and celebrate the promise of the new millennium and new direction in the library.  The
festivities included lunch catered by El Pollo Loco, cake, punch, music and the "famous" white elephant gift exchange.
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Brown Bag Lunch Scheduled for February 16

Come put art in your lunch and join us for the next "Diversity Brown Bag Lunch" slated for Wednesday, February 16 from noon to 1 pm.  Bring your own lunch and find out about the wondrous, colorful world of Chicano silkscreen print art of the renowned Self-Help Graphics in East Los Angeles.  KCET's short video "Life and Times" on Self-Help Graphics will be shown.  Sal Guerena will show and discuss several of their prints held in the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives. Chicano art history doctoral student Judith Huacuja will very briefly talk about her research on Self-Help Graphics. Refereshing "Jamaica" will be served (derived from the hibiscus flower). Entrance to this event, to be held in the 2nd Floor Conference Room, is free, of course! For more information call Sal Guerena Ext.8563.

Library Ergonomics Task Force Continues Developing Webpage

The Davidson Library's Ergonomics Task Force has completed the initial work on the Library's Ergonomics Web Page. Many thanks to Bruce Machado and Chuck Huber for assisting the group in getting the page ready to load! The page can be found at: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/committees/ergonomics/ergonomics.html.  Please take a look and let them know if there are features you would like to see included as the page is revised and updated.  An ongoing feature to be included in each issue of the Library Waves is the "Ergonomics Tip of the Month".  The first "tip" appeared in the November 1999 issue. This month's "Deskercise Break" (from the Johns Hopkins Health Information page) can be found by clicking on the link: http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH?t=8254&st=408.  While you are there, please take a moment to look at some of the ergo topics that are presented at the site. If you wish to send comments to the members that comprise the Ergonomics Task Force, you can direct them to: ergo@library.ucsb.edu.

New Chiller Unit Installed

Last month, after pipes were installed under UCEN and Eucalyptus Roads, the cooling unit that has been sitting behind the library for the past months was hoisted into the air and installed under the Davidson Library.  This unit will cool water which will flow through the newly-installed pipes and will cool the Library as well as several adjacent buildings.  Work will continue until the predicted completion date in late February. PHOTOS E

News From Former Library Staffer

Ken McCann, formerly of the Serials Department, has been hired as the Administrative Assistant for the Town
and Village of Northfield, Vermont.  Some of you may also remember his wife, Christy McCann, who worked as a student assistant in the library as well as a lecturer in the History Department.  MORE

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News From Other Sources

• December 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.
   

• California Digital Library Releases New Resources

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Remember When . . .

 

It was 1987 and a library newsletter printed a photo of Duane Anderson and some students at the Loan Desk checking out in a NEW way.  "Just take your library card and the circulating materials . . . thanks to laser pen and computer technology, you need not fill out check-out slips to borrow library material."

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Deadline for the next issue: February 15 - Please submit your articles to:   hundley@library.ucsb.edu.  Library Waves is published 11 times per year.   Editor: Renata Hundley.  Contributors: Carol Gibbens, Geneva Goodrow, Salvador Guerena, Judy Gorrindo, David Howarter, Cecily Johns.  Photographers: Carol Gibbens, Paul Gritt, Renata Hundley.

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