January 2001 In this issue:    Personnel Announcements    Library Announcements & Reports    Ergo Tip of the Month    News From Other Sources    Interesting Sidenote

Welcome!

• Margaret Rankin has transferred from the Student Information Systems Department at UCSB where she was the project leader of web sites for the Student Affairs departments. She will be responsible for the development, reshaping and maintenance of the library's Web architecture.

• Linda Moskovits began her position as an Information Services Specialist on January 3.  She will be splitting her time between SEL and working on special projects for the Library Administration.

• Jennifer Faulconer changes her commuting route to join SEL where she will be assisting patrons on the reference desk.  (For more on Jennifer and Linda, click on their names.)

• Linda Snook has worked briefly for the Multi Cultural Center at UCSB doing press releases.  She will now be the Bookfund Accounting Assistant in CatalAcq.

• Sigvor Kvale is a visiting librarian from Norway who is doing research pertaining to library instruction.  SEL is providing a home base for her while she is visiting campus.

• Dan Fausone is exchanging hats in the Access Services' Reserve Book Room to take on the job of billings and student supervision.

• Voula Aldrich has retired and is feeling free to spend more time doing the things she loves.  (Click on her name to see photos from her retirement party from the Cataloging and Acquisitions Services Department.)

• Janice Beaver has left the reference office and has started a position as a party consultant/coordinator.

• Robin Hinck leaves CatalAcq to accept a teaching job at San Marcos High.

• Beth Hobart, from Personnel, has moved back to Sacramento where she will be pursuing her education in the field of Psycology.

• Jennifer Newton, from ILL, has found a job locally in her field.  She had received a Masters in writing

  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

New Faces in the Sciences-Engineering Library

On January 3 the Sciences-Engineering Library welcomed two new employees.  Click here to read about them!

Ongoing Building Projects, or Out With the Orange!

 

Serials Desk	The Roof
This project began during the Winter break and is almost complete.  When the replacement for a broken section arrives and the shelving is in place, the Serials Reading Room will be looking great!  (more photos of the process)	Roof work began in November and continues as work moves from section to section.  We are all looking forward to no more leaks when it rains!
Chairs and Study Carrels	Reference Office
New chairs for Davidson Library arrived in late January and carrels and tables will be arriving soon.  These will replace the tables in the elevator lobbies on floors 4-7 and will also replace the old carrels and chairs in the central section of  the second floor of the eight-story building.  Six new tables for the GIC reading area have also been ordered. Due to their size, the carrels and tables will be moved and assembled in each of their respective places and will replace each piece of old furniture one by one.  As over 300 chairs and over 100 double carrels have been ordered, it will take several weeks before all the work has been completed by the campus Furniture Services staff. (more photos)	As Interlibrary Loan moved to their new office downstairs, improvements for the Reference offices were planned.  Keep an eye out as this area begins its transformation.

Ergo Tip of the Month

This month's ergo tip is entitled Movement, Exercise and Task Variety and is from UC Berkeley's ergonomics web site.  Consider how you might incorporate the suggestions into your daily work routine.

http://ls.berkeley.edu/lscr/support/faq/ergo/ergosafety.html#movement

Take a look at the link and let us know if you have questions.  Presented by the Library's Ergonomics Task Force.  We can be reached at:  ergo@library.ucsb.edu

News From Other Sources

• ARL News

December 2000 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.

Interesting Sidenote

Time to Conserve

In light (pun intended!) of all the bad news about power shortages around the state, Bruce Machado found this very graphic demonstration of how much we are dependent upon electricity.
Let's all do our part to conserve energy resources whenever we can!

Photo Credit: Image by Craig Mayhew and Robert Simmon, NASA GSFC, based on
DMSP data courtesy Christopher Elvidge, NOAA National Geophysical Data Center

For more information and this photo in its entirety, click here.