Library Waves November 1998

In this issue:
*   Personnel Announcements
*   Professional & Outside Activities
*   Library Announcements & Reports
*   Staff Events
*   News From Other Sources

Halloween has passed and Thanksgiving is fast approaching. The students are in the midst of papers and midterms, and the falling leaves and end of Daylight Savings Time are making it obvious that Autumn has arrived - who says that we don't have seasons in Santa Barbara?

*   Personnel Announcements

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

We also said goodbye to:

Special Announcement . . .

Seven candidates have been invited to the UCSB campus to be interviewed for the University Librarian position.  Each will have two days of interviews, which will take place during the months of November and December.  An agenda and information on candidates will be released before their visits.  In addition to a presentation to which all library employees and faculty are invited, a time will be scheduled for library staff to speak with the candidates, as well as equal time for librarians.

Open Enrollment Is Now Underway

November 2 through November 23 is the time to make changes to your medical, dental and other plans, to be effective January 1, 1999. Human Resources is conducting a number of informational meetings in its Learning Center (SAASB 3101DD). Times are listed below.

*   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

Library Employees Raise Funds and Awareness in AIDS Walk

October 3rd found several library people (with some spouses and friends) walking 10 kilometers in Santa Barbara's AIDS Walk 98. Between all of them, they raised close to $2500 for AIDS Project Central Coast. Walkers included: Rik Cupal, Becky & Gary Eldridge, Barbara Hirsch, Cecily Johns, Susan Lentz, Dennis & Vicki Olson, Lucia Snowhill, Nancy Tobin, Renee Trenholm and Dimitri Xavier. Renee, who organized most of the walkers under her Pet Sitters of Santa Barbara team, wanted to also mention and thank everyone at the Library who supported the walkers and the cause with their pledges.

Jim Markham Goes To Iceland

Donning his Sciences hat and combining business with pleasure, our versatile cataloger/Germanic studies/biological sciences librarian spent the end of September in the Land of Fire and Ice. His report on the conference and his travels around this fascinating country follows:

IAMSLIC/PLC Joint Conference in Reykjavik, Iceland

*   Library Announcements & Reports

New Case Displays

There are currently a number of interesting exhibits on display in the library display cases - one in particular is the Santa Barbara Book Artists' Alliance display of members' work in the main hall of the first floor of the Davidson Library. This fascinating and creative display is something not to be missed - be sure to look for Ann Hefferman's gorgeous Peony Book as well as her fascinating Spiralbound Notebook.

Also on this display this month in the case next to the Info Desk is Women's Movement: Twenty-Five Years Later. Late last month, an exhibit celebrating the United Nations anniversary was in the same case.

Exhibit: Celebrating Agents For Peace

Everything Changes...

The Center for Research Libraries has recently posted information about their U.S. State Documents collection on the Center website, giving the history of the collection and the revised Collection Policy. Many years of consultation via the U.S. State Documents Task Force, chaired by David Farrell of UC Berkeley, anticipated the significant changes now in place.

The UCSB collection of documents for states other than California has undergone equally massive changes here at UCSB during the past few years. The increased accessabilty of materials online has significantly decreased the value of maintaining an extensive (and expensive) on site collection. Any questions about the State Documents collection at CRL can be directed to Barbara Ceizler Silver, Other States Collection Manager.

*   Staff Events

*   Questions & Answers

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

*   News From Other Sources

Library Waves is published monthly. Editor: Renata Hundley. Contributors:Robert A. Crew, Jr., Coni Edick, Sherry DeDecker, Cecily Johns, Jim Markham, Barbara Ceizler Silver, Sally Willson Weimer Deadline for the next issue: November 25 - Please submit your articles to: hundley@library. ucsb.edu.