November 2000 In this issue:    Personnel Announcements    Ergo Tip of the Month    Professional & Outside Activities    Upcoming Events    Library Announcements & Reports    News From Other Sources    Just For Fun

Photos In This Issue:
  Barbara Ceizler Silver's Retirement Celebration
  Temmo Korisheli
  Kinetic Sculpture Race
  Information Literacy & Technology Project Workshop
  ILL's Move to a New Office

Welcome!

• Marilyn Cordray has returned to the Library. She worked as the secretary in the Reference Services office from 1994 to 1998, but transferred to the office of the Vice Chancellor for Institutional Advancement where she was an administrative assistant.  Marilyn came back on November 15 to be the Executive Assistant to the University Librarian.

• Michael Edwards has joined the Serials Department.  During the 1999 - 2000 school year he worked as a Teachers Assistant in the Anthropology department while he was doing his graduate studies.
   
• Araceli Aragure brings her experience working at the Eastside Library and the Santa Barbara Public Library to the Reserve Book Room in Access Services.
   
• Laura Pichardo has relocated to Santa Barbara from Florida by way of Texas.  She has completed her Masters in English and is working for Interlibrary Loans.
   
• Veronica Martin is working for the Loan Desk in Access Services.  She has previously worked at UCSB in the Office of Student Life.
   
• Since completion of her Masters in Theological Studies, Janice Beaver has relocated from Nashville, Tennessee.  She is helping to keep everything running smoothly by working in the Reference Services office.

• Erik Mills moves a few desks over to assume the position of Supervisor of the Reserve Book Services.   He has been working for the Library since 1984 when he started as a Student Assistant in the same department.

Barbara Ceizler Silver, who moved out of her office on July 1, made her retirement official on October 21st.  This coincided with her 33rd anniversay of working in the UCSB Library.  Although she requested a quiet send-off, a number of people were able to come and join in wishing her well - it was hard to stay low-key since happened to be Halloween that day!

In a message to the library, Barbara said, "My varied career at UCSB was a remarkable trip itself, wonderfully
providing me with good friends, professional satisfactions, and enough income to continue to live on.  Thanks to each one of you who shared the experience, as I passed through departments and assignments, who kindly supported me during good times and bad, and who wish me well now. I wish you each the same and appreciate knowing how much some will miss me."

Here are some pictures of Barbara and others on October 31st.

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

Ergo Tip of the Month

The "tip" for this month is provided by the University of Virginia's Department of Environmental Health & Safety.  It is an ergonomics quiz designed to test knowledge of workplace ergonomics. Please take a minute to click on the link and try out the quiz for yourself.  If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact us at ergo@library.ucsb.edu.

The link is: http://keats.admin.virginia.edu/ergoquiz/home.cfm

Professional & Outside Activities

Library Recording Technician Shares Findings

Barbara Hirsch recently contributed an informative report to the "Lasting Concerns" column of the Sept.-Oct. 2000 issue of the Music Library Association Newsletter. The column deals with preservation issues in music libraries, and Barbara's report grew out of her research on the problem of so-called "CD bronzing",  a type of corrosion affecting compact discs produced at two plants in England and Italy mostly in the late eighties. Barbara discovered that this problem has affected about eighty CDs in the Arts Library's collection, at least some of which will  fortunately be replaced by the responsible plant in England. Thanks are due to Barbara for her efforts on behalf of our collection and her dissemination of important information to music libraries around the country.

Temmo Korisheli was tenor soloist at the Santa Barbara Master Chorale concert on November 11 & 12.  His rendition from the Monteverdi Vespers of 1610 brought an enthusiastic response from the audience! Temmo has extensive experience in "early music" (medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque), performing regularly with the Los Angeles Baroque Orchestra, the Teatro Bacchino in San Francisco, and the Amherst Early Music Festival in Connecticut. For fourteen years he was a member of the early-music groups at UCSB, where he is ABD in music history, with an emphasis in medieval and seventeenth-century music. He has appeared as a guest of the early-music programs at UC Berkeley, USC, and the University of Texas at Austin.

Lucia Snowhill, Sherry DeDecker and Lori Ritchie are regular singers in this chorale group.

For the third year in a row, Renata Hundley has been a supporter and promoter of the Southern California Kinetic Sculpture Race, which has been entertaining an increasing number of Ventura County residents and visitors each year.  This offshoot of the original Kinetic Sculpture Race which has been taking place in Humboldt County for the past 31 years, is a fundraiser for the Turning Point Foundation, a Ventura non-profit agency which serves people who have been diagnosed as mentally ill.  The race in Ventura lasts a full weekend in October as racers and their pit crew, manuever their human-powered "kinetic sculptures" over city streets, a sand hill, a length of beach, a mud pit and the water in the Ventura Harbor.  Renata has done some fundraising, but her main contribution has been the donation of her 15-foot aluminum boat and her backyard, where the boat  has been stored and transformed into the Turning Point Foundation's annual entry, The Land Shark, each year.

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Upcoming Events

Seasons Greetings in the Library

Plans are under way for the holiday party.  This year's party represents a real team effort with the Staff Representatives Group coordinating a potluck so we can celebrate with some real home cooking - a great opportunity to break out your favorite recipes or test some new ones.  LAUC members (Librarians Association of the University of California) will be coordinating set-up, clean-up, the white elephant gift exchange, punch, and cake.  The Cultural Diversity Committee, in addition to overseeing it all, will handle the publicity and decorations.

Festivities will take place Wednesday December 20 from 12-2pm in the staff room.  Like last year, supervisors are encouraged to allow for extended lunch and break periods so we can partake in some major self-aggrandizing for another year of jobs well done and services well rendered.

Since we will be acting as our own caterers, there's no need to buy meal tickets.  However, we will continue the tradition of the always funny and unpredictable white elephant gift exchange.  Beginning December 11, you can drop off (unwrapped; it will be wrapped for you) the white elephant gift (a gift you once received but wish you hadn't) that you'd like to give.  Drop off gifts with Janice Beaver (X8147), Reference Service's lovely new office manager.  You can find her on the second floor in the reference offices reception area.  Janice will give you a ticket for the gift, which you can exchange at the party for a gift someone else brought in.  If you can't find anything on hand to give, you can purchase something for under $10.  Last year Sherry De Decker and Patrick Dawson emceed the event, drawing tickets and distributing gifts and laughs galore.  I have no idea how or where this practice originated or why they call it a white elephant, but it's been around for ages.  If you want to compare our antics to other's, here are some websites good for a few chuckles, just don't get any ideas:

http://www.main.org/awic/misc/elephant.html
http://www.parkrapids.com/whatsnew/whiteelephant.html
http://www.spiritone.com/~mack/fleet20/docs/WhiteElephant.htm
http://www.losaltosonline.com/latc/arch/1998/50/Comment/3clyde/3clyde.html
http://joyfulcorner.homestead.com/white.html

Many thanks to the Administrative Group for supporting the purchase of the cake, punch and new decorations.

We look forward to seeing you there.

- Sherri Barnes for the Cultural Diversity Committee

Library Announcements & Reports

FOG Group Presents Training Programs for Teachers

As was reported in an earlier issue, a group of librarians was awarded a Faculty Outreach Grant in order to develop a program for teachers and librarians working at the high school level.   The program was designed to help these educators explore new methods and tools to incorporate information literacy, critical thinking skills, and resource evaluation into the classroom.

Last month, the group went to Hueneme High School in Port Hueneme and gave a workshop to teachers on their in-service day. As part of the grant, Hueneme and Fillmore High Schools, two of UCSB's partner schools, have been given access to various databases.  Another  Information Literacy and Technology Project workshop for Santa Barbara and Carpinteria area teachers was held in the Library on November 29.  More information on the project can be found at http://www.library.ucsb.edu/infolit/

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The Department of Special Collections is currently displaying the 1999 Western Books Exhibition.  This 58th Annual travelling exhibit is sponsored by the Rounce & Coffin Club of Los Angeles.

The exhibit showcases 30 outstanding examples of works produced by fine press printers and book artists using a wide variety of styles.  This year there are a number of letterpress books. Letterpress is a printing process which uses a raised surface and ink to apply an image of letters, pictures, etc. onto the surface of a piece of paper or something similar.

The exhibit will be on display through December 31, 2000.

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Early in the month, Interlibrary Loans moved to a new office on the 1st floor opposite the East Entrance.  Besides physically moving to the first floor, they also moved into an almost paperless operation.   Through the California Digital Library's Request function and our own Access Services Interlibrary Loan via the Web, virtually all communications between ILL and its patrons and suppliers are being done electronically.
 

Before	After

The office has a service counter at the front to welcome and serve patrons.  For their benefit the service counter is equipped with computer workstations which contain all the tools necessary for them to conduct interlibrary loan transactions.   The staff's office space is behind partitions and was redesigned with an emphasis on ergonomics and aesthetics.

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Sherry DeDecker was among a group of librarians invited to the White House in October for a press briefing on issues of importance to libraries.  The briefing, arranged by the ALA Washington Office, took place during the Federal Depository Library Conference in Washington.  Members of President Clinton's office gave updates on recent initiatives to improve educational opportunities for students.  Directors of the U.S. Patent and Trademark
Office, the Department of Justice Office of Information and Privacy, and the General Services Administration Office of Governmentwide Policy reported on their efforts to increase avenues for the public to more easily obtain government information.  The library community had the opportunity to give feedback based upon experience dealing with users of government information.  Sherry says that it was thrilling to spend time in the room where presidents and other notables have briefed the press on so many history-making events!

News From Other Sources

• ARL News

October 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.

Just For Fun

Web Sites for the Holidays

Want to know something about Christmas or Hanukkah?  Looking for a recipe, tradition or craft idea for the holidays?  Andrea Duda has put together some great resources for one and all at these two sites:

http://www.library.ucsb.edu/holidays/christmas.html

http://www.library.ucsb.edu/holidays/hanukkah.html