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Staff Celebration Week
2002 provided another week of enjoyment, celebration and fun
as Library people joined the rest of campus in the celebration of Staff
Celebration Week. Click on the links in order to see the week's major
events.
The Continental Breakfast in Storke Plaza
was a wonderful way to start the day and many Library staff members were
seen socializing with each other and with Chancellor and Mrs. Yang.
In our humble opinion, however, the breakfast
served in Cataloging and Acquisitions Services (CatalAcq) the day before
was even more impressive!
The Library had it's own special event, brought to us by LAUC-SB
(Librarians Association of the University of California, Santa Barbara
Division) and a few other wonderful people. The annual Staff
Celebration Week party was enjoyed by many people as the photos that are
linked to this page show.
Click on this photo to see more: 
Various tours of "interesting UCSB sites" were part of the week's activities
and Eleanor Gonzales and Juanita Hernandez took the tour
of Manzanita
Village, the location of UCSB's newest dorms.
The week ended with the Chancellor's Barbeque
in the RecCen Pavilion courtyard. Besides food, music and presentations,
there was a pottery sale in an adjacent courtyard, and a few library staffers
were seen purchaing some nice pieces made by student and local artists.
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Library Featured in Alumni Association Magazine
The Spring 2002 edition of Coastlines, the UCSB Alumni
Association magazine, featured an article by University Librarian, Sarah
Pritchard. The issue is available from the Alumni Association's
web site as well as in paper format. Go to http://www.ucsbalum.com/coastlines/
and click on the link for "Online feature article." (The web site
moved recently and may still be in flux. If the link does not connect
to the Spring issue, the article text
is available here.
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Development Update
There was much to announce in the area of Library
developments in May, and Debra Park, our Director of Development
and Outreach, has more to announce in this July
Update.
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FOG Group Completes Year's Activities
Several UCSB librarians presented an Information Literacy workshop
on July 2nd to a small but responsive group of junior high and high school
teachers taking part in the Research Experience for Teachers Project
at
the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education. Workshop topics included
demystifying the web, critical evaluation of databases, and constructing
research strategies. An expected outcome of both "train the trainers"
programs is to enable students of these teachers to make a more successful
transition to college. Based on evaluation comments, info lit particpants
felt they will be able to:
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use more strategies with student teachers
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coordinate and better organize research tools/resources for my students
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help my students do much better research
The librarians who led this workshop previously developed and carried out
similar workshops and are commonly known as The FOG Group. This
acronym is derived from the UCSB Chancellor's Faculty Outreach
Grant
which they received in 2000.
The FOG group wrote an article about their program, Bridging the
Gap: Info Lit Workshops for High School
Teachers, which was accepted for publication in an upcoming
issue of a peer-reviewed library journal, Research Strategies, which
is accessible through our E-journals page.
FOG group members also attended a reception on May 31st, given for all
campus FOG recipients past and present to meet Winston Doby, the
UC Vice-President for Educational Outreach who was appointed in January
2002.
See http://www.ucop.edu/news/archives/2001/nov28art1.htm
for more information on Dr. Doby and http://www.ucop.edu/outreach/
for more information on UC's outreach programs and plans.
FOG members include Sylvia Curtis, Sherry DeDecker, Sylvelin Edgerton,
Carol Gibbens, Lorna Lueck, and Janet Martorana (project coordinator).
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California
Ethnic and Multicultural Archives (CEMA) Awarded Grant for Border Art Project
 A
$15,000 grant was awarded to the University Libraries at the University
of California, Santa Barbara, for Border Arts Cultural Heritage,
a one-year project that will organize, describe, and catalog three San
Diego-based U.S./Mexico border-related Chicano/Latino cultural arts archives
in the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives (CEMA). For more
information, click on the photo.
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Special Collection Exhibit Features Asian American Performing Art
A new display in our 3rd Floor
Special Collections lobby features selected historical documents, photographs,
scripts and graphic art work drawn from several Asian American performing
arts collections. To read more about this exhibit, click
on the photo of the exhibit poster.
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Bits & Pieces
Cabrillo Business Park: draft environmental report
became the Library's first local government document prepared for the newly
formed City of Goleta. Pictured next to a detail from the front cover
are Local Documents Librarian, Janet Martorana, and Wei-ling
Dai, Local Documents Cataloger. The document can be found through
Pegasus and is located in the Government Information Center, Local Collection,
HD1393.5 C33 2002.
After two years of bringing Santa Barbara City College writing students
to UCSB for bibliographic instruction and library tours, English professor
Elizabeth Hermes will be moving to other projects. As a token of
her appreciation to Carol Gibbens who coordinated the visits, she
delivered a HUGE box of See's candy (which the Information Services Department
enjoyed at their annual End of the Year party)!
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 Professional
& Outside Activities |
 Threepeat
at I Madonnari
MIL's Ann Hefferman created another
gorgeous floral chalk drawing at Santa Barbara's annual I Madonnari
Italian Street Painting Festival over the Memorial Day weekend. Her
flower this year was the protea. Starting on Friday, Ann worked on
the piece until she completed it on Monday afternoon. Click on the
photo below in order to follow her back-breaking creative process!
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University Librarian Lectures at CITS Brown Bag Session
As part of UCSB's
Center for Information Technology and Society (CITS) Brown Bag Series,
Sarah
Pritchard, UCSB University Librarian, presented a lecture on electronic
information entitled, There is No There There: Electronic Information
and the Shifting Nature of Knowledge Production this spring.
The series was offered in the Collaborative Technologies
Laboratory (CTL) formerly known as the Digital Classroom - Trailer 932,
just a few steps from the east entrance of Davidson Library. The
talk and audience comments were broadcast live through the Internet-based
Access Grid, and is still available for viewing via streamed video
archives on the CITS web site: http://www.cits.ucsb.edu/site/pastevents.html.
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American
Library Association Annual Confernece
When 23 UCSB librarians and staff attended
ALA in Atlanta this summer, Gary Colmenar and Jane Faulkner
participated in the ALA Fun Run. Both librarians did us proud by placing
first their respective age groups! Jane has run (and come in first
in her division) several times; it was Gary's first time. Overheard
at the race, "What's with UCSB? They always win!"
On a more serious note, our ALA participants: touched
base with a number of our vendors (Ex Libris, NetLibrary, OCLC) as well
as with various publishers and database providers from the U.S. and overseas.
They also looked at options for shelving and furnishings, improvements
to cataloging and interlibrary loan; learning about ways to operate in
regional and consortial networks; and attended briefings to help them understand
the implications of new legislation and FBI policies that can have a direct
impact on our patrons.
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