In this issue:
Personnel
Announcements
Professional
& Outside Activities
Library
Announcements & Reports
NEW: Ergo Tip of the Month
News
From Other Sources
Just
For Fun
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November 1999
In this issue:
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Hail
and Farewell in Reference Services
IAMSLIC
Conference in Woods Hole
AIDS
Walk
Library
Welcomes New and Returning Students
Selections
from the Issac Foote Collection
Library
Picnic& Service Awards
Smiles
From Former UCSB Library Folks
taple
Contest Results
Halloween
Welcome!
Gone But Not Forgotten
Current academic and
staff recruitments can be found at the Library Personnel Office's Website:
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/depts/lpo/
Professional
& Outside Activities
IAMSLIC 25th Anniversary Conference in Woods Hole, MA
Jim Markham attended the International Association of Aquatic and Marine Science Libraries and Information Centers (IAMSLIC) 25th Anniversary Celebration and Annual Conference last month in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. For more information and photos of the area, click here.
The sun came out just in time on the morning of Saturday, October 2, for the start of the Santa Barbara AIDS Walk. Several library staffers participated in the annual walk as members of the Pet Sitters of Santa Barbara team. Not only was the weather a success, but the team's fund-raising efforts produced a team total of $2,138.00. Thanks to the corporate sponsors of the walk, 100% of donations will go directly to AIDS Project Central Coast. Team members from the library were Sherri Barnes (Reference Services), Allen Cohen (emeritus), Becky and Gary Eldridge (Special Collections), Alice Hancock (Loan Desk Services student), Cecily and Chloe Johns (Librarian's Office), and Renee Trenholm (Loan Desk Services). Team captain and Pet Sitters owner Renee Trenholm extends a hearty "thank you" to everyone from the library who participated and gave donations. Mark your calendars now for the first Saturday in October 2000 and join this great team of people. PHOTOS E
Library
Announcements & Reports
Library
Welcomes New & Returning Students
Along with the usual tours and introductory classes, new as well as
returning library users were welcomed and invited to the library.
Janet
Martorana and Lorna Lueck are pictured at a table in front of
the UCEN, Gary Colemenar and Renata Hundley setup a table
at a barbeque in front of the EOP building. The Loan Desk
created a celebratory mood with the introduction of
Pegasus 6.5.
Celebrate Good Times - Come On!
The library's Cultural Diversity Committee is once again sponsoring the annual holiday party and encourages all library workers to come toast the season, mingle with colleagues new and old, celebrate the promise of the new millenium and new direction in the library.
Festivities will take place Monday, December 20, from 12 - 2 pm in the Fourth Floor Lounge. Tickets for food and participation in the always humorous White Elephant Exchange can be purchased through Bruce Machado or Carol Gibbens in Reference Services on the 2nd floor. Tickets are $5.00 and the deadline to purchase tickets is Friday, December 17. The Reference Services box office is open 8 am - 4 pm, Monday through Friday. Carol and Bruce will also collect white elephants at the same time and place. One person's trash is another person's treasure, so retrieve that gift you buried in the back of your closet or garage, because it may turn out to be your co-workers prize possession.
For the uninitiated, the White Elephant gift exchange works accordingly: Participants buy a party ticket (money goes toward party expenses) and donate a white elephant - something that was given to them at one time that they did not fully appreciate (if absolutely necessary you can purchase something). Library elves wrap all the submissions, magically turning them into treasures. At the party, the MC selects a gift and calls a ticket number. Whoever has that number wins that gift.
Annual
Library Picnic Celebrates Staff Service & Friendships
A fun time was had by all who attended this annual event in September
which coupled a time to enjoy each other's company as well as to honor
those among us who marked special service anniversaries:
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Kathleen Robledo Erica Scranton Catharine Turner |
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Rusty Brown Diane Stowell Roger Williamson |
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Voula Aldrich Gary Johnson |
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Martha Casarez David Clinton Susan Mahaffey |
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Jack Joshua Mary Kohler Suzanne Thorpe |
PHOTOS E
Current Exhibits in the Library
The Special Collections Department displayed two very interesting exhibits this quarter. On October 12, the University's Department of Chicano Studies and The Center for Chicano Studies held a reception to honor their new Acting Director of the Center, their Visiting Research Scholar and Dissertation Fellows AND to celebrate the opening of Parallel Histories and Alternative Voices in the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives.
Selections from The Isaac Foot Collection were on exhibit in the lobby of the department. To find out more about this exhibit as well as previous exhibits, go to http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/exhibits.html and click here to see photos and read a bit more about the selections.
Library
Ergonomics Task Force Formed
The Library Ergonomics Task Force was formed in
August to look at ergonomics issues in the library.
The members of the Task Force are:
Lydia Agadjanova, Marilyn Albertson, Carol
Gibbens, David Howarter (Chair),
Caitlin Hunter, Susan Mahaffey, Beverly Ryan,
Ann Staten, Diane Stowell, John Vasi (LEC Liaison)
Charges to the Ergonomics Task Force are:
Ergo Tip of the Month: Take a Deskercise break! (From Johns Hopkins Health Information)
CDL Tools and Services at UCSB on Oct 21 & Melvyl Request Updates
Bill Landis of UCI came to UCSB to discuss current and forthcoming projects of the CDL working group, Tools and Services. CDL Tools and Services has a project dealing with the UCSD-created Database Advisor software. This tool will help CDL users get started in using CDL resources and determine which of those resources are likely to be best for an end user's particular topic of interest.
Tammy Nickelson Dearie, Director, Access & Delivery Services for UCSD, presented an overview of MELVYL REQUEST and features of Phase II to be implemented in January 2000. As you may know, the Interlibrary Loan request function, known as MELVYL REQUEST, is currently available only via the CDL WEB Catalog but will be extended to include CDL-hosted databases early next year.
Updates On Former UCSB Library Folks
Evan Amanda, Karen & Keith Powell (formerly Serials Asst. Dept. Head - now living in Montgomery, Alabama, where Keith is Head of Acquisitions at Alabama State University.) |
Carol Doyle (formerly of Reference Services - now Govt.Publications and Maps Librarian at CSU Fresno.) |
Rosa Leon (formerly of Reference Services, Info/Arcade - now Librarian for a San Jose Public Library branch and community center.) |
The
CDL Request For Proposal
The California Digital Library (CDL) is beginning the process of creating a Request for Proposal (RFP) for a commercial OPAC to serve all the CDL hosted databases. There are several reasons an RFP is being considered at this time. The mainframe is reaching the end of its life span. The CDL feels that we should assess the future system before making decisions about new investments in hardware. The Coordinated Bibliographic Systems Committee and the Catalog/PE Task force identified desirable enhancements that are impossible or costly in the current CDL software environment, which is based on a twenty year old design. Also, the existing system is costly in terms of maintenance. It is desirable to reallocate staff to other projects and technical environments that will move the CDL forward.
A CDL OPAC RFP Steering Committee has been created as an advisory group to the CDL University Librarian. The Committee has been charged with developing and coordinating an all campus review of the CDL RFP process. The Committee will be reviewing the functional requirements of the CDL, assigning a priority to each functional requirement, recommending the elimination of functional requirements or existing process in maintaining the current MELVYL OPAC which are no longer needed but will require transition planning, reviewing the technical requirement. The Committee will identify stakeholders on each campus, notifying them of the RFP review process and providing them with an opportunity to provide comments and feedback.
At UCSB we will hold meetings with librarians, faculty and staff in the upcoming months to discuss the functional requirements of the new MELVYL. We hope everyone will give us feedback on the functionality they require in MELVYL.
Creating New Strategies for Cooperative Collection Development
Cecily Johns reports on the Center for Research Libraries recent conference on cooperative collection development.
The
Library of California
The Library of California is a statewide plan to bring together the information and resources of all 8,000 California libraries (university, research, corporate, hospital, institutional, law, medical, museum, public, and special) for the use of all Californians and from each California library. There is no membership fee to participate.
The Library of California builds upon the California Library Services Act, a resource-sharing program limited to public libraries, and expands it to all libraries statewide. The state role is to reimburse libraries for services they provide to people who are not part of their regular clientele and to create a platform for resource sharing.
To administer the services of the Library of California, the state has been divided into eight planning regions for multi-type library cooperation. Santa Barbara is in region VII, along with San Luis Obispo and Ventura counties. Each region has selected a name; our region will be called the "Gold Coast" region.
One of the early benefits to the University of California is a one year trial license to the RAND California database, a comprehensive Web-based online source of information on California business, economic, and public policy issues. Currently this database is linked to InfoSurf at Indexes/Databases, under 'demos and trials' at: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/eresources/databases/.
For more information about the Library of California and a copy of the text of the Library of California Services Act, see: http://www.library.ca.gov/loc/.
The latest news for research libraries. Other ARL news can be found at http://www.arl.org/recent.html.
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.
Turkey
Plerking Day Announcement
Ever since March 11, 1998, when Dr. Annette Goodheart gave her library lecture on Plerking in the Plerkplace, the Library has had occasional "Plerk" Days in order to inject laughter and joy into our work. Dr. Goodheart taught us that laughter is not only a pleasant sensation, but that it actually raises the heart rate, lowers blood pressure, brings more oxygen into the blood and lungs, and even has a positive effect on the immune system. On Wednesday, November 24, wear your favorite tee-shirt and plan to enjoy your work day more!
Interlibrary
Loan's Staple Contest Winners Announced
staple sculpture became a very graphic example of ILL's workload growth
while "guess the weight" contestants had fun lifting and guessing exactly
how much the "mountain" had grown since May. Weighing in at 1 pound
4 ounces on Cinco de Mayo, the pile grew exactly a pound to two pounds
and 4 ounces. Winners guessed exactly one ounce over and
under the correct weight: Bruce Machado guessed 2 lbs.5 oz. and
Nancy
Tobin guessed 2 lbs.3 oz.
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Watching the weigh-in and keeping Nancy honest are: Matt McGoogan, Robyn Morris-Valenzuela, Jenna Best and Jennifer Newton.
The Halloween weekend brought out the playfulness
in many people . . .
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an Alabama pumpkin! |
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Library Waves is published 11 times per year. Editor: Renata Hundley. Contributors: Sherri Barnes, Carol Gibbens, Geneva Goodrow, Judy Gorrindo, Cecily Johns, Gary Johnson, Jim Markham, Catherine Nelson, Beverly Ryan, David Tambo. Photographers: Larry Carver, Carol Gibbens, Renata Hundley, Renee Trenholm, Rick Worth. |
