UCSB Library Waves

June 1999

In this issue:
Personnel Announcements
Professional & Outside Activities
Library Announcements & Reports
Just For Fun
Spotlight on . . .
News From Other Sources

IN MEMORIAM
James "Max" Hardesty died at age 54 of complications from heart surgery on
May 21st in Santa Barbara . Max was a much beloved staff member who retired from the library in 1997. He is survived by a half brother, who lives in Texas.
A memorial service will be held for Max in Austin, Texas, in June. In lieu of cards and flowers, his friends here at the Davidson Library and in Texas have requested that donations be given in his name to the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden.

Personnel Announcements

Be sure to say "hello and welcome" to the following people who joined the library's personnel roster in May:

It wasn't so long ago that Kristen Coddington worked as a student assistant in SEL, in fact, she worked there for 4 years, but as of May 10th she is now a part of the Serials Department/Serials Order Unit. Kristen has also worked for other libraries in the field of Soil Science. We hear that wedding bells are in the not too distant future: her official name will become Kristen Coddington-LaBonte on June 26, 1999.
Caitlin Hunter moved from a student assistant position at the Arts Library to Special Collections as a Performing Arts Assistant on May 27th. Caitlin received her first Bachelor's degree in physical anthropology from UCSB in 1993. She is receiving a second Bachelor's degree in violin performance this quarter so has been kept busy with her recital and graduation preparation. Congratulations!
May 10th marked the start date for our new Assistant Systems Manager, Kimberly Philpot. Her Computer Network/Training Specialist experience is a welcome addition to the systems team. Even though Kim is relocating from San Diego, she is no stranger to the Central Coast. Her high school days were spent in Ojai and Kim grew up in Ventura. Welcome back!

We said goodbye to a few people last month:

After taking some personal time off Dimitri Xavier from Interlibrary Loan has decided to relocate up north. His last day was April 30th and we will miss him.
Ann Gabeler from Reference Services left on May 5th to pursue other career choices. We wish her luck.
Extra thanks as well a farewell go out to Susan Bower. She had been helping the Arts Library while they were recruiting for the Music Librarian vacancy. Her last day was April 30th, but we hope to still see her from time to time as she resumes her retirement.
As most of you know the Thoreau Edition is moving, but Louisa Dennis will be staying, at least on Campus. She has been sharing her time with Thoreau and the Anthropology department for the last few months. Her last day with us was May 28th. Good luck in your new department.

A couple of moves are also happening:

You may be seeing Sonia Rosas a little more. She's still working at the Circulation Loan Desk but is moving from her position of nights, week-ends and holidays to the Billing Services position Monday through Friday. Say "hi" as you pass by.
Florence Sanchez has accepted our new position of Development Assistant where she will be able to use her previous experience with the Alumni Relations Department at Indiana University. It's been suggested that she strap on some roller blades because she will be splitting her time between Special Collections and the Adminstrative office. Her official start date is 6-14-99. Congratulations!

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

Professional & Outside Activities

Resolution of Aggravation Benefits All
Old Time String Band performs at Noontime Concert

Resolution of Aggravation Benefits All

A nagging aggravation that led to a commitment to clean up an eyesore has become a gift to everyone who enters the Davidson Library. Some of you may not have been here when the planter area to the right of our main entrance was more like a trash receptacle than a planter, but nothing grew there except trash and weeds. Without a working sprinkler system, it had become an ugly corner that occasional attempts to grow plants by the gardeners resulted in eventual failure.

Renee Trenholm and Becky Eldridge decided to do something a little over two years ago. At the time, our campus had an Adopt-A-Space beautification program. Renee submitted a proposal to Budget and Planning, the overseers of the program, and after determining that the project was feasible, she and Becky were told to go ahead with their plan. They also asked the Friends of the UCSB Library for help with the project. The Friends donated $90 to get them started, and Renee and Becky began to clear out the trash. After hauling and mixing in 24 bags of steer manure and a lot of water, they planted clivia plants taken from Becky's yard.

The rest is history, as they say. With a working sprinkler system and periodic pick-up of cigarette butts and trash, Renee and Becky continue to give every person walking through the entrance a calming and beautiful welcome.

Be sure and thank them when you see them!

Old Time String Band performs at Noontime Concert

On May 26th, some of our current and former Music Library staff performed in the Music Bowl as part of the popular weekly World Music Series. The group presented music from Appalachia and Eastern Europe and included violin, guitars and banjos.

Temmo Korisheli (Arts & Music Lib) on banjo (left), Ben Pringle (Music Library) on banjo (center), and Caitlin Hunter (Special Collections as of May 27) on Fiddle (right).

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Library Announcements & Reports

University Librarian Officially Welcomed by Campus Community
InfoStations Spread Campus View
Performing Arts Collections Update
Corle Memorial Lecture Packs Campbell Hall
Campus Staff Celebrated In Many Ways

University Librarian Officially Welcomed by Campus Community

On May 20th, the Friends of the UCSB Library held a reception to officially welcome our University Librarian, Sarah Pritchard, to UCSB. Invitations were sent off-campus as well to the campus community and a diverse representation of the population came to celebrate Sarah's arrival. Click here to see photos of the event.

InfoStations Spread Campus View

In order to provide a new Netscape session for all our computer users, one of our "Systems Guys", Josh Preston, developed a "Netscape Killer" screensaver that not only shuts off Netscape after 15 minutes of inactivity, but covers the screen with a customized aerial photo of our campus.

Counter with netstations and infostations

The IC NetStations on the counter in front of the Reference Office were joined by four InfoStations last month. Students not only have more computers at their disposal, but they can now choose between homepages and starting points as they check their email, registration and BARC records, library holdings and databases.

Performing Arts Collections Update

The Performing Arts Collections in the Special Collections Department, administered by David Seubert, has been busy over the past year processing several manuscript collections, setting up facilities for audio and video preservation (pictured), and beginning the process of cataloging the large numbers of historical sound recordings. Among the collections are the papers of Bernard Herrmann, Judith Anderson and Lotte Lehmann, the Lobero Theatre Archives and the Todd Collection, with nearly 200,000 sound recordings including 6,000 cylinder recordings. The Archive of Recorded Vocal Music, formerly administered by the music library is also part of the collection. A web page at http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/pa/ has more details on the holdings and links to finding guides in the California Digital Library.

Corle Memorial Lecture Packs Campbell Hall

On Cinco de Mayo, the 36th Annual Edwin & Jean Corle Memorial Lecture was given by author Sandra Cisneros. Then brand-new University Librarian, Sarah Pritchard who had been introduced at the Friends of the Library dinner and reception prior to the the event, opened the Campbell Hall program by giving a background on the annual lecture. Acting Director of the Center for Chicano Studies, Norma Cantu, introduced Cisneros with a poetic description of the author of House on Mango Street and Woman Hollering Creek.

Photo courtesy of Jason Schock

Campus Staff Celebrated In Many Ways

Last month's Staff Celebration Week was a great success as the library staff took advantage of the many activities which honored and celebrated their contribution to UCSB. Since pictures do "tell a thousand words", click on the links below to see some of the fun.

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Just For Fun

ILL Staff Addresses Weighty Question

Students and university communities are known for their creative approaches to celebrating events and holidays. Our Interlibrary Loan group provided a unique contest which happened to fall on Cinco de Mayo. With an idea sure to win a Plerking (playing and working) award if there was one, this crew came up with a contest to guess the weight of a pile of staples that ILL staffer, Matt McGoogan, has been saving on his desk.

Nancy Tobin gets the credit for coming up with the contest and the rest of the ILL crew supported the concept with prizes and explanations as people walking through the ILL office began to ask questions.

After several days of accepting contest entries, the moment that we all had been waiting for arrived! The staple sculpture was officially weighed and the winners were announced:

Staple Sculpture weight ...... 1lb. 4 oz.
Grand prize winner ........... Sylvelin Edgerton who guessed l l/4 pounds
(which for all you math whizzes, is exactly correct!!!)
Second place went to Matt McGoogan who guessed 1 lb. 5 oz.
Third place went to Gary Johnson who guessed 1 lb 6 oz.
and Renata Hundley who guessed 1 lb. 2 oz.

First prize was a gift certificate to Blenders for a free smoothie (compliments of Anna Roberts) second prize was a Swiss chocolate bar and third prize was a Sees candy lollipop! Matt wants to do this quarterly so you non-winners can have another shot at glory!

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Spotlight On . . . the Humanistic Psychology Archive

David Gartrell began his appointment as Project Archivist for the Humanistic Psychology Archive (HPA) in the Department of Special Collections in January of this year. The purpose of HPA is to collect, organize, preserve and make available to researchers primary resources relating to humanistic psychology, its antecedents and its development. The Humanistic Psychology Archive has major collections relating to the Association for Humanistic Psychology (AHP), George I. Brown, James F. T. Bugental, Stanley Keleman, Abraham Maslow, Carl R. Rogers, Virginia Satir, Stewart B. Shapiro, Bob Tannenbaum and John Vasconcellos. Altogether, its present holdings include nearly 200 collections, comprising approximately 600 linear feet of material and including roughly 1100 videocassettes, 100 film reels, and 2700 audio reels and cassettes.

During his three year appointment, David will be arranging the Archive's current holdings, ensuring their preservation, and providing intellectual access through printed and online finding aids (as part of the California Digital Library) and reference service. The appointment also involves a major reformatting project, which will produce master and use copies for many of the Archive's audiovisual items. In addition, David will be soliciting new collections from founders, pioneers and major individuals, organizations, centers and institutions in the field of humanistic psychology.

David is a 1997 graduate of the Department of Library and Information Science at UCLA, where he concentrated in archives and preservation management. During his studies and for a period thereafter, he was archivist for UCLA's John C. Liebeskind History of Pain Collection, a multidisciplinary project supervised jointly by the Biomedical Library and the Department of Psychology. David's professional interests include appraisal theory and Encoded Archival Description (EAD), a Data Type Description somewhat comparable to HMTL that is used to mark up archival finding aids.

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News From Other Sources

*SPARC e-news*

A new 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.

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Library Waves is published monthly. Editor: Renata Hundley.
Contributors: Norma E. Cantu, Andrea Duda, Carol Gibbens, David Gartrell, Judy Gorrindo, Jason Schock, David Seubert, Jason Simpson, Rick Worth.
Deadline for the next issue: June 28 - Please submit your articles to:
hundley@library.ucsb.edu.