In this issue:
Personnel Announcements
Professional & Outside Activities
Library Announcements & Reports
Staff Events
Building Update
Questions & Answers
Spotlight on . . .
News From Other Sources
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October 1998
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The Fall Quarter has begun and life around the Library has definitely picked up! Welcome back to all our student assistants and our 10-month staff members - it's good to have you back.
Personnel
Announcements
Be sure to say "hello and welcome" to the following people who have joined the library's personnel roster in September:
Lyn Korenic
Head, Arts Library
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
Some of you may be unaware of the celebrity in our midst. Mary Hanson, one of the Serials Desk supervisors, is the published author of a children's book about a bear called Snug. It was published by Simon & Schuster in 1998.
Mary currently has several "works in progress":
Snug is available at Chaucers, Barnes & Noble, and the Campus Bookstore. And Mary will be happy to autograph it for you.
Collaborative adventures and collaborative efforts were the themes of the Sixth Annual California Academic & Research Libraries Conference (CARL). . . Of note was the poster session presented by our own librarians, Sylvia Curtis, Sylvelin Edgerton, Lyn Korenic, Nerea Llamas, and Mark Stengel. Aptly entitled, Building Bridges: enVisioning the Collaboration, the presentation displayed the team approach of the Humanities librarians and faculty to develop a new library that is both inclusive and sensitive to the needs of all constituents and participants.
Library Announcements & Reports
If you want to see something very seldom seen, you have to come and look at your Native American Collection: CLEAN/DUSTED, ORGANIZED, REPAIRED and EVENLY-SPREAD.
For the last month I have been re-arranging the entire collection, and cleaning/dusting shelves while I was at it. The shelving was re-arranged too, to make use of the bottom shelves, so now the books have been spread-out down to the bottom shelves.
I would also like to report that for the last year or so we have been little by little removing from the collection books that were in desperate need of repair. I removed the last batch of these while I was doing the arranging. We have identified, sent to be repaired and processed when they come back, a total of 378 items, so far. We were dealing with the more needy items, and the samples were varied, e.g. loose pages, loose bindings, frail covers, spiral binding, 3-ring binders, etc., etc., etc. Needless to say the collection looks 100% better than when it came. I told the students that I am now going to rope the collection off, so it stays the same for a little while :) Seriously, at least those sections that had shelves full to capacity, now have the space they need for future growth.
The Long Range Planning Steering Committee has begun to address the final portion of the Library's planning effort.
Sherry DeDecker, has become the twenty-seventh recipient of the Amy and Jens Nyholm Prize for Outstanding Librarianship.
Last Spring, a group was formed to act as representatives of the library staff. The specific goals of the group were not clear at the time, but it seemed to be a good idea for this group to meet with Dr. Ron Tobin regularly, hear about library news, express our concerns, discuss them, and in general have more contact with the library administration. Rather than it being a group chosen by one or a few people, departments were solicited to choose their own representative or two, depending on the size of the department. Hence, a group of 13 (occasionally more or less) was formed.
We met on Sept. 30th for the first time since July, and I think others would agree that it was very satisfying, or at least interesting. Dr. Tobin is acting as an interim consultant to the Library Administration for this transitional period before a new University Librarian is hired. Not being a Librarian (or staff person) himself, he has a unique perspective that one could see might be helpful in commenting on particular situations or offering new ideas. He also makes us feel as if our concerns are being heard and could be conveyed in a helpful manner. On Wednesday, our topics included staff video presentations, and the need for better communication among library employees and possible ways of achieving this (including this newsletter), some optimistic budget news, the lobby upgrade and various other bits of info and suggestions. Please feel free to discuss these meetings with any of the representatives, or suggest items for the next agenda. We are: Marilyn Albertson, Duane Anderson, Norma Clarke, Vickie Clements, Lydia Emard, Tammy Gillespie, Greg Hajic, Alyce Harris, Ann Hefferman, Barbara Hirsch, Renata Hundley, Kim Thompson, and Rick Worth, with some of these and other people being alternates.
Our goal is clearer now, I believe, it's simply to make the library a better place! Corny as this sounds, it's possible that there is room for improvement and that it could come from people putting their heads together and thinking about it.
Staff Events
Tammy Dearie, now working part time for CDL on the PIR project, will be here to talk about Patron Initiated Requesting. PIR will make it possible for faculty and graduate students to request materials from other campuses directly online. Phase 1 will allow requesting of books only, but later stages will involve requesting other materials, such as periodical articles.
Building UpdateThere has been significant activity recently on the proposal to get a new library building. Last year, the campus tentatively approved the concept for a new building that would include three components: library, electronic classrooms, and research. The general idea is that the building would provide additional library space for books and electronic access, have classrooms geared to electronic teaching, and also have research space that would be used to evaluate the success of teaching electronically versus teaching traditionally. The proximity of the library, with its electronic and print collections, would help to provide the raw materials needed for testing and evaluating electronic teaching. The name of the building will be the Information and Instructional Technology Center (IITC).
A more detailed proposal of how the IITC will function needs to go forward to the campus next spring. If the faculty and administration agree that the building plan still looks good and will meet campus needs, the IITC will be placed on the campus building schedule. A Steering Committee, chaired by Bruce Tiffney, has been appointed. Three subcommittees (one for each building area) have also been appointed. I will chair the Library subcommittee, and faculty will chair the classroom research committees The Steering Committee and all three subcommittees will have representation from the Library.
The task of the Library subcommittee will be to recommend what goes into the library portion of the new building, how we will participate in the design and use of the new classrooms, and how the technology will work in conjunction with the library's electronic resources. Moving part of the present library system into the new building also opens up many questions about how vacated space in Davidson or the Arts Library will be used. The campus will provide funding for the renovation of Davidson and the Arts Library in conjunction with the move in to the IITC.
Questions
& Answers
Questions from interested parties; answers by appropriate people. (Please submit you questions to: Renata Hundley.)
Spotlight on .
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News From Other Sources
| Library Waves is published monthly. Editor: Renata Hundley. Contributors: Gary Colmenar, Carol Gibbens, Raquel Quiroz Gonzalez, Barbara Hirsch, Cecily Johns, Young Huh, Lyn Korenic, Mary Larsgaard, Catherine Nelson, Brenda Peter, David Tambo, John Vasi. Deadline for the next issue: October 27 - Please submit your articles to: hundley@library. ucsb.edu. |