March 1999 In this issue:   Personnel Announcements   Professional & Outside Activities   Library Announcements & Reports   Staff Calendar   Questions & Answers   Spotlight on . . .   News From Other Sources

  Personnel Announcements

• Please welcome Anne Gabeler, who started February 3 as Secretary (Asst I) for the Reference Department. Anne is no stranger to UCSB, having attended school here and also having worked in a number of UCSB departments. She was an undergraduate advisor in the College of Creative Studies and an Administrative Assistant in the Geography Department. She most recently worked at Raytheon as a Publications Technician. It's great having you with us, Anne!

• Two of our employees now have different names because they got married!
  • Beverly Jones, who works in RBS, is now Beverly Davison.
    
  • Ellen Moggia, in CatalAcq, Marking, is now Ellen Pelzel.

  Congratulations, ladies!

  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

Judy Gorrindo Quilt on Display

It's not to late to find that included in this exhibit, which is presented in collaboration with the Santa Barbara Quilter's Guild through March 28, is an elegant white cotton and painted silk quilt created by Judy Gorrindo.

  Library Announcements & Reports

• Library & Campus Prepare for Long Holiday Weekend With . . .

  • A Visit From Sarah Pritchard

  • A Plerk* Day

• Web of Science Database to be Unveiled

  Events during the week will include:
  • Grand opening of our Web of Science tutorial on InfoSurf
  • Demos and training sessions for library employees
  • Demos and training for graduate students and faculty
  • Buttons, bookmarks, posters, balloons, prizes

  More information, including times for training sessions, will be available soon.  If you have any questions, please get in touch with one of the members of the committee:  Sylvia Curtis, Sherry Dedecker, Andrea Duda, Chuck Huber, Lyn Korenic, and Sandy Lewis.

• Library CookieGram Sales Support United Way

  "Show someone you care! Send a CookieGram to a co-worker!" was the cry last month as chocolate chip cookies were sold and delivered to their recipients just in time for Valentines Day. The annual campus-wide campaign to aid the United Way was a giant success as people got into the spirit of sending cookies all over the library. Coni Edick, who was responsible for selling the CookieGrams in the Library, was one of UCSB's top fundraisers and will be honored at a United Way celebration next month.

  Staff Calendar

• Thursday, March 11 - Huntington Library Trip Available

  The Friends of the UCSB Library cordially invite you to join them on Thursday, March 11, 1999, for a day at the Huntington Library to see the only West Coast appearance of the exhibit "The Great Experiment: George Washington and the American Republic."

• Monday through Friday, March 15-19 - Web of Science Database Festival

• Monday, March 29 - UCSB Spring HOLIDAY!    

Questions from interested parties; answers by appropriate people. (Please submit your questions to: Renata Hundley.

  Spotlight on . . .MELVYL: Is It Or Is It Not?

Or is it California Digital Library?

  News From Other Sources

• Board Reviewing Plans For Statewide Library Access

  Californians may eventually have access to almost any information they need . . .

• Appeals Court Finds in Favor of AIP/APS in Gordon & Breach Case

  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Monday upheld Judge Leonard B. Sand's August 1997 finding in favor of the American Institute of Physics and the American Physical Society in the suit against them by Gordon & Breach.  The three-judge appeals panel agreed that the articles published in AIP/APS journals by Henry Barschall on the costs of physics journals were in fact accurate and did not therefore constitute false or misleading advertising as was charged by Gordon & Breach.  We are waiting for the official press release from the AIP/APS which we will forward to you as soon as we can.
  - Mary Case, Director,marycase@arl.org

• The latest news for research libraries.
  • January 1999 E-news for ARL Directors: Part 1
  • January E-news for ARL Directors: Part Two, Federal Relations

• SPARC'S INTERNATIONAL MEMBERSHIP EXPANDS

  Australian Organization Encourages Global Competition in Scientific Journal Marketplace

• PRICING NEWSLETTER

  Includes some reflections on the SPARC initiative

Library Waves is published monthly. Editor: Renata Hundley. Contributors:Louisa Dennis, Andrea Duda, Coni Edick, Carol Gibbens, Cecily Johns. Deadline for the next issue: March 26 - Please submit your articles to: hundley@library. ucsb.edu.