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• Elizabeth Windrem has just received her BA in Literature from UCSB's College of Creative Studies. She will be starting in the new position of Access Office Assistant.

• Junar Ortega who was a student assistant working in Cataloging and Acquisitions has recently been working in Special Collections on a grant project.  He is now joining the Serials Department.

• Nancy Tobin, of Interlibrary Loan, received her Master of Library and Information Science degree from San José State University on May 27th.  She was awarded the degree at the School's Southern California campus, located at Cal State Fullerton. 
  Congratulations, Nancy!

• Araceli Arangure leaves Access/Reserve Book Services and has accepted a position with the Dept of Social Services for the County of Santa Barbara.

• Dorcas Knight from Access Services - Circulation Loan Desk has moved and will be getting married.

• Access/Interlibrary Loan has lost Layla Lyne-Winkler to Housing and Residential Services on campus

• Access/Reserve Book Services looses Alex Statom, who graduated this June from UCSB and is relocating to San Francisco to pursue work in his field of Mathematical Sciences

• Scott Wargo has worked at the Library since 1998, first as a student assistant in Access Services - RBR and then Access Services - Circulation Desk. He will be graduating in June with a major in Business and Economics, then he will be moving out of the area.

• Neala Xiong is making moving and wedding plans also.  She graduated last December from UCSB in the field of Sociology while she worked in CatalAcq.  The department hosted a potluck party for their departmental administrative assistant on May 18th.  Photos can be seen by going to this link.

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

  2001 Corle Lecture Delivered by Walter Mosley

Presented by the Davidson Library and UCSB Arts & Lectures, the 38th Annual Edwin & Jean Corle Memorial Lecture featured award-winning American writer Walter Mosley.

Mosley's popular mysteries featuring the Easy Rawlins character began with Devil in a Blue Dress (1990).  The 1995 film version of Devil in a Blue Dress, which was produced by Jonathan Demme, directed by Carl Franklin, and starred Denzel Washington and Jennifer Beals, garnered critical acclaim and many awards.  A Red Death and White Butterfly were also nominated for several awards.  Black Betty and A Little Yellow  Dog were New York Times bestsellers.  Walter Mosley's new mystery, Fearless Jones, had not yet been released at the time of the lecture, but was available for advance purchase and signing at the event, courtesy of the UCSB Bookstore.

In 1996 Walter Mosley was named Artist-in-Residence at New York University's Africana Studies Institute.  It was here where he created an innovative lecture series titled Black Genius, a series which brings diverse speakers from art, politics and academe to discuss practical solutions to contemporary issues.

A dinner for members of the Friends of the UCSB Library with Mosley, a former Mystery Writers of America President, was held at the Faculty Club just before the Campbell Hall lecture.

Friends of the UCSB Library Dinner                               Corle Lecture

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Staff Celebration Week 2001 took place 
April 30 through May 4 with a number of 
activities enjoyed by our library staff. 

• Ice Cream Social hosted by Staff Assembly at the SAASB Courtyard. 
• A Continental Breakfast held at the Lower Storke Plaza.
• The Library Pizza Party for staff and students was enjoyed by all who attended and gave "staff celebration" a personal, library meaning.
• The Chancellor's Barbecue at theRec Cen Courtyard finished the week. 

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The Sciences-Engineering Library gives out a monthly customer service award, the Attaboy/Attagirl.  Each month a different member of the reference staff serves as a "secret shopper," looking for examples of outstanding customer service.  Customer service can take two forms:  working directly with a patron at the reference desk, or providing another type of service that makes the library easier to use for everyone.  The Attaboy/Attagirl comes with the coveted gold star which can be worn proudly.

The first winners of the Attaboy/Attagirl are:

March 2001:

• Sylvia Curtis won an Attagirl for her efforts in assisting a very confused student.  She was extremely patient in showing the student how to use online databases, explaining that you can't write a paper based solely on abstracts, and helping the student find the articles she needed for her research.

• Kristen Labonte won an Attagirl for her efforts in making it easier to find materials in SEL.  She took the initiative to create new signs for the reference and unbound journal areas, saving patrons from much confusion.

April 2001:

• Chuck Huber won an Attaboy for contributing his own copies of Scientific American to the collection when the library's subscription unexpectedly stopped.  Scientific American is a popular SEL title and is not available online.  Chuck's efforts kept this important title available.

• Sandy Lewis won an Attagirl for making a brand new set of encyclopedias available to a researcher.  She found that we had received a new edition of the Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry but that it hadn't yet made it to the shelf.  She found the set in Marking and brought it down on a book truck so the researcher could use it now rather than waiting for it to be processed.

May 2001:

• Duane Anderson won an Attaboy for his efforts in keeping the SEL reference desk open and functioning before, during, and after the installation of the new reference desk.  He made sure that the most used materials were available during the transition so that customers were not inconvenienced by the move.

• Janet Martorana won an Attagirl for her excellent reference service.  Janet's background in library instruction is evident in the way she shows students how to use the library's resources and she regularly follows up to make sure that customers are finding everything they need.

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First Library Staff Forum Held

The first-ever Library Staff Forum was held on the morning of May 30 in the staff lounge on the 4th floor of the Davidson Library. The session was facilitated by the Staff Reps Group, and as University Librarian Sarah Pritchard stated prior to the meeting, was intended to be "an open dialogue, a chance for staff to ask questions and share concerns with me.  I hope it will also provide continuing input and ideas for the Staff Reps group, whose members have shown good commitment to and leadership for the library." 

 In the interest of time, questions were solicited in advance and grouped by subject and were read by some of the staff reps.  The last portion of the session was available for spontaneous questions and discussion. 

Current Library staff representatives are:  Duane Anderson, Ann Hefferman, Cristina Clarke, Lydia A. Emard, Alyce Harris, Barbara Hirsch, Jack Joshua, Lydia Agadjanova, Susan Mahaffey and Rick Worth.

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The walls of the Davidson Library have been decorated with grafitti art, but before you become concerned, read the linked article about the Michael Arntz work by clicking on the photo.

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The crucial implementation process of Pegasus 2 will occur in the next few months.  Beginning August 3, Pegasus 1 will be "frozen," affecting major library functions such as book ordering, cataloging, and catalog maintenance.

The tentative implementation schedule is list below.
 

July 25 - 31	The existing SBA data base of bibliographic records will be copied to the TST  database; the TST data base will be opened up for testing, training, etc.
July 25	Begin reconverting all but bibliographic and authority records in SBA data base
July 31	Reconverted and hopefully corrected SBA data base available for  Testing, with old indexing
Aug. 3	Pegasus 1 (NOTIS)  frozen except for circulation activities,  data extracted for production conversion

The dates below were provided by Ex Libris. We expect them to slip by a week, so a date range has been provided.
 

Aug. 13 - 17	Production load delivered to us
Aug. 17 - 24	We report on production load
Aug. 24	Stop circulation  on Pegasus 1 (NOTIS) and deliver circulation extract
Aug. 25	Convert circulation data
Aug. 26	Evaluate circulation  data
Aug. 27	Switch to production

The Library is working on publicity to inform the campus community in preparation for  the new Pegasus in the fall quarter.  For more information on Pegasus 2, visit the Pegasus 2 Web page:
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/library/pegasus2/peg2update.html

- Peg2 News Crew

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Web-based Scholarship: New Models for Teaching, Research, & Outreach was the title of the first in a series of Library Colloquiums developed by LAUC-SB and the UCSB Library's Digitization Committee.  The colloquium was presented in the Flying A Studios Room of UCSB's University Center.  To read Sylvia Curtis's report on the presentation, click here.

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The second-floor upgrade project continued to progress as the Sciences-Engineering Library got a new Reference Desk.  After many years with the same old one, it was an interesting, although at times, noisy, process as more of the Davidson Library's second floor got a more modern look.  PHOTOS

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Nellie Wong, Chinese American poet, read from her work and discussed her life as a writer in a Library Seminar for library staff held on June 1.  The "brown bag diversity lunch" was sponsored by the Library Diversity Committee and the Asian American Faculty and Staff Association.

A poet and social/union activist, Nellie Wong was born and raised in Oakland Chinatown during the 1940s. She was one of the founding members of Unbound Feet, a writing collective of Chinese American women who wrote, read and lectured together at various universities and colleges in
California in the late 1970s.

Wong donated her papers to CEMA in June 1998.  (To learn more about Nellie Wong, read the CEMA Web page.)  Wong was brought to UCSB as the 2001 Asian American Faculty Staff Association (AAFSA) honoree.  For the past 11 years, AAFSA has brought an Asian American who has distinguished his or herself in their field and improved the status of Asian Americans through their social work and advocacy.  Previous honorees have  lectured or given a presentation to the campus at large as well as to specific Asian American Studies classes.  This year, through the work of Sal Güereña and Gary Colmenar,  the library was able to offer a special time with Nellie.  In addition to Gary, Wei-ling Dai and Renata Hundley were involved with the planning and promotion of the AAFSA annual banquet, where Nellie was honored and where she was able to share more of her story.

This is an excerpt from Nellie Wong's poem Under Our Own Wings

   The sagas of long steam ladies.
   The sagas of long steam men,
   the talkers, the orators, the dancers
   they are here before us, we are here among them
   brimming with language, music, air.
   We birth ourselves, our privacies exposed,
   proud, seemingly free and yet devils poke
   at our very bones
   to steal the art that is our lives
   the magic that is our source
   the spring that is our imagination.

PHOTOS of the Brown Bag Lunch with Nellie Wong

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The Libraries' own Ann Hefferman was chosen to be the featured artist at the 2001 I Madonnari Festival at the Santa Barbara Mission this past Memorial Day weekend.  Ann has participated several times in the past (see the July 2000 Library Waves) but being the featured artist is quite an honor and we are very proud of her.  A work such as the one Ann provided for the festival takes much preparation and planning.  After creating the design, Ann transferred it several times in order to create a stencil for the blacktop at the Mission.  There was also a reception and showing of her work at the Sullivan Goss Gallery in Downtown Santa Barbara on the Friday before I Madonnari. 

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Last April, Sal Güereña traveled to Illinois to present a talk entitled, Delivering or Dabbling?  Diversity Initiatives at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Click on the link below to see the Web page created by the Library Colloquium Committee at  the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign which advertised  Sal's talk.

http://www.library.uiuc.edu/colloquium/guerena.html

Ergo Tip of the Month

The newly-opened Library HR training room on the 3rd floor of the Davidson Library has 4 Gateway PCs.  Installed on each of these is the Stanford University Computer Workstation Ergonomics Software.  Developed at Stanford University, the software includes instructional guides and an interactive evaluation module that allows the viewer to learn more about properly configuring the computer workstation.  The Personal Ergonomic Evaluator is designed to take the viewer through the process of fitting the computer workstation to the user and the user's work habits.  The program will aid in helping viewers optimize their workstations.

If you would like to check out this program, and the training room, please contact Judy Gorrindo at 2187 or Theresa Dickinson at 2964 to schedule a time when you can use the room.

OPEN HOUSE PHOTOS