September/October 2000 In this issue:    Personnel Announcements    Ergo Tip of the Month    Professional & Outside Activities   Summer Vacations    Library Announcements & Reports    Just For Fun    News From Other Sources

  Susan Moon and Marilyn Moody
  Tammy's Farewell Party
  Chinese American Librarian Association in Mongolia
  ILL / PWA Backpack Drive
  Sierra, European and Mexican Vacations
  Book & Author Festival
  2000 Nyholm Award
  Discovery Days
  Library Picnic
  Summer Academy
  Systems Office Expansion
  New Copy Services
  Giant Pumpkin

Personnel Announcements

Welcome!

• Laura Adams is finishing up her graduate work in the writing program at UCSB.  She will be working in the Access, Loan Services.

• Charles Asher has received his B.A. in Humanities, General Literature, and will be working in the Map and Imagery Laboratory.  He has relocated to Santa Barbara from Oregon.
   
• Manpreet Baines will be attending UCSB working towards her Ph.D. in Political Science.   She is working part time in the Cataloging and Acquistions Services Department.
   
• Daniel Castanon is also attending UCSB while he works part time for the Serials Department.

• Debra Fondren has recently relocated to Santa Barbara from Texas were she was studying in the areas of Education and English.  You'll find her in the Interlibrary Loan Services.

• Robin Hinck joins us after receiving her B.A. in English and her Teaching Credential through UCSB.  She will be working in CatalAcq.
   
• Beth Hobart has worked in the Human Resources office of the California Employment Department in Sacramento.  She will be working as the student personnel assistant and will be attending SBCC.
   
• Mihoko Hosoi comes to us via the Fellowship Program.  She graduated with an MLS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and worked as a Cataloger Processing Specialist at Duke University.  Mihoko is currently working in our Cataloging Department.
   
• Dorcas Knight has recently moved from Nevada to join the Access, Loan Services team.
   
• Kim McLain will be commuting from Lompoc to work in the Serials Department.

• Susan Moon came to us in July, but now that she has settled in, click here to find out more about her. . .
   
• Marilyn Moody is our new Associate University Librarian, Information & Research Services.  Her most recent positions include director of the Science and Engineering Library at SUNY-Buffalo, head of Technical and
  Instructional Services at Rensselaer and she held several public service positions at Iowa State University.  She holds an M.S. from the University of Illinois.  Reporting to her will include: Access Services, Information Services, including GIC, EGSL, the Sciences and Engineering Library, the Curriculum Lab, Special Collections, the Map and Imagery Laboratory and the Arts Library. (Click on this link to see a photo of  Marilyn at her first meeting with the Reference Services group.)
   
• Junar Ortega, a recent graduate of UCSB in guitar performance, has been hired half time under an LSTA grant to catalog Jazz recordings in Special Collections. He worked for Joanne Murray in the Cataloging Department for three years as a student employee.
   
• Also part of the Fellowship Program, Carmelita Pickett received her MLS from North Carolina Central University in Durham, North Carolina.  While in library school she worked as a Library Assistant in the Government Publications Department at Duke University and can now be found in our Reference Office.

On the Move!

• Jane Faulkner has accepted the temporary Reference Librarian position.  She received her BA in French Literature at UCI and her MLS from UCLA.  She is also in the Reference Services area.  While Jane is in her Reference Librarian position, Brooke Whitaker will fill her vacancy at Access, Loan Services.

• Terry Hori has taken charge of  Direct Order Receiving in our Acquisitions Section. He has worked in the CatalAcq Department on a casual basis this past year.  He has also worked for Housing and Residential Services at UCSB.

• After working in CatalAcq's Fund Accounting Unit for over 10 years, Lora Richards has become head of Approvals Receiving in our Acquisitions Section.  Fortunately for many people, she only moved across the room so that  her wealth of accounting knowledge will still be available.

• Vince Leo has left  the Reference office to join the Interlibrary Loan Section - just in time for the big move to the first floor.

• Robert Barrera from Access, Stack and Serials Services has accepted a job at the Laguna Blanca School.  He will be teaching  History and English.

• After 3  years of employment in the Reserve Book Services, Erin Filoteo has accepted a Librarian Assistant position in a private high school in the Los Angeles area.

• We sent Tammy Gillispie off with tears and laughter at her going away party August 30th.  She is combining her love of music with her management skills at her new job as General Manager for the widely known classical orchestral group, Camerata Pacifica.
  Click here to see photos of her party.

• Young Huh has left us to accept a job teaching elementary school children in the Los Angeles Unified School District.  It just so happens he will be teaching in the same school that he went to in his childhood. (Stay tuned for photos of his farewell party in the November issue!)

• Jay Kelley has accepted a library job in the Ventura area.  This is closer to home and will enable him to take courses at UCLA for his Masters in Library Science.

• Robyn Morris-Valenzuela left Interlibrary Loan Services but didn't go far.  She accepted a job with Housing and Residential Dining here on campus.

• Margarita Simanek,  who worked in Interlibrary Loan Services, has retired from the University system after working for the UCSB and UCR campuses.

• Jason Vasche got his start with library work being a student assistant at the Davidson Library.  After working in a career position in the Science and Engineering Library he decided to attend UCLA and pursue a Master's degree in Library & Information Science.

  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

This month's Ergo Tip is a site maintained by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC):
http://www.cdc.gov/od/ohs/Ergonomics/compergo.htm#WORK.  The subject is Computer Workstation Ergonomics, with topics focusing on setting up the work area, PC and peripherals. Please take a look!  Remember to send any questions or comments to ergo@library.ucsb.edu.

Professional & Outside Activities

Chinese American Librarians Association Travels to Mongolia

  To read Cathy Chiu's report, click on the photo.

Articles by Chuck Huber and Sandy Lewis can be found in the Summer 2000 issue of  Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship.   Chuck wrote an article on e-journals, "Electronic Journal Publishers: A Reference Librarian's Guide" and Sandy co-wrote a database review entitled " Fluidex: The Fluid Engineering Abstracts Database".  The entire issue, as well as previous ones, can be found through the Library's Homepage/Electronic Publications/Journal link, or directly at: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/.

When the UCSB Professional Women's Association put out their call for the campus population to collect backpacks and school supplies for local school children, the staff of  Interlibrary Loan got together and pooled their resources to collect a well-organized and BIG box of supplies!

Readers may remember that this is the group that organizes periodic   "staple mountain" guessing contests and recently had a  "memorial burning" of ILL cards and forms when they moved toward  a fully online method of ordering and lending.   The ILL staff regularly demonstrates that teamwork on the job can be productive, altruistic and fun! Back to the top

What We Did On Our Summer Vacations

Our library folks travel to various parts of the globe each summer and come back with many photos and stories to share.  Here is a sampling of what people saw and did in the Summer of 2000 - just click on the smaller photos to see more . . .

Carol Gibbens & Lucia Snowhill hiked the eastern Sierras and visited the oldest trees in the world, some over 4,000 years old!

Renata Hundley and her husband returned to Europe after nearly 20 years and visited old friends and relatives in Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden and Holland.

Trish Kreiss went on a cruise to Puerta Vallarta, Mazatlan and Cabo San Lucas with retired Pegasus
programmer Marlene Elster.

Renee Trenholm toured Europe with the UCSB Lady Gaucho basketball team.

Library Announcements & Reports

UCSB Presence Strong at 2nd Annual Book & Author Festival

Several librarians helped make the UCSB presence strong at this year's Book & Author Festival sponsored by the Santa Barbara News-Press.  The Library offered attendees an opportunity to purchase books written by UCSB writers, many of  whom were there to sign and discuss their books.  Of the 46 faculty author titles that were brought to the Book Festival, 54 books were sold.

The work of organizing the booth was done by the library, but unlike last year when we did it alone, we worked jointly with the Bookstore this year.   We had a large corner booth with books on display,  faculty signing their books, balloons and flyers about UCSB.

Lynne Hayman, Nerea Llamas and Carol Gibbens were key organizers, developing lists of recent faculty monographs and getting signers lined up.  Also contributing to developing the schedule and spending time working in the booth were Sherry DeDecker, Sylvelin Edgerton, Eric Forte, Sally Willson Weimer, Gary Colmenar, Jim Markham, and Catherine Nelson.

Faculty signers this year included Ann Bermingham, Alexander DeConde, Laurence Rickels, Victor Fuentes, Jill Levine, Richard Appelbaum, Ann Plane, Anita Guerrini, Francesca Bray, Erika Rappaport, Charles Bazerman, Wade Clark Roof, Bryant Wieneke, Richard Fisher and Albert Lindemann.

We hope to do it again next year.  If you want to participate, let Sarah Pritchard know.  As Sarah stated, "this was a great event for community relations and for our own faculty liaison, and UCSB's high-profile presence received positive comments from many festival attendees. I have also had several favorable comments from the faculty themselves."

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• Western History: The William Wyles Collection. - August 21 - November 12, 2000

  The William Wyles Collection contains a wide range of material dealing with the history of the West, mainly in the nineteenth century.  Included in the collection are books, newspapers and magazines, maps, photographs, documents, correspondence, diaries, and artifacts.

  The collection is named after William Wyles, an avid collector of items relating primarily to Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War, and westward expansion. Wyles left his collection to UCSB upon his death in 1946, as well as an endowment to ensure its ongoing maintenance and growth.

  Today the collection has more than 35,000 volumes and several hundred manuscript collections.  The collection continues to reflect its donor's original interests, but it also seeks to keep abreast of current research interests, including the history of women, and African Americans, Asian Americans, Chicanos/Latinos, and Native Americans in the West.

  The exhibit can be seen in the Special Collections Department on the 3rd Floor of the Davidson Library.
   

• The Special Collections Department and the Andelson Collection of the Ethnic and Gender Studies Library invite you to visit an exhibit on Early Gay and Lesbian Paperback Literature.  The exhibit is located in the New Arrivals Area on the 1st Floor of the library.  David Seubert provides a brief historical overview of the genre:

  The Library's Andelson Collection and the Department of Special Collections have a wide variety of literature by and about gay men and lesbians.

  These early paperback editions give modern audiences a glimpse into the societal attitudes towards gay men and lesbians before the rise of the Gay Liberation Movement in 1969. Early paperbacks often used racy cover illustrations to attract buyers at newsstands and supermarkets. While some novels were previously published literature repackaged for a new audience, others were "exploitation" novels appealing to the prurient interests of straight and gay readers alike.

  Books such as Ian Young's The Male Homosexual in Literature (London, Scarecrow Press, 1982) and Barbara Grier's The Lesbian in Literature (Tallahassee, Naiad Press, 1981) are the standard bibliographies of early gay and lesbian paperback fiction.

  The Andelson Collection is located on the second floor of the Davidson Library in the Ethnic and Gender Studies Library and the Department of Special Collections is located on the third floor of Davidson Library.

  The Library wishes to acknowledge Fred McEnroe for his recent donation of  these early gay paperback editions to the library.

Library Awarded Jazz Cataloging Grant

The library has been awarded a Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant to catalog 2,500 Jazz 78 rpm recordings in the Performing Arts unit of Special Collections. The library has 6,000 Jazz 78s in the Todd collection and the Kingsbaker/Moeller/Bang collection. The grant will fund the cataloging of 2,500 of the rarer and older recordings, recordings of California Jazz artists and works released by California record companies. When the project is complete, the recordings will appear in Pegasus and patrons will be able to listen to CD copies of the recordings in the Special Collections reading room. David Seubert wrote the grant and will administer the project.

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Beverly Ryan, Bibliographic Systems Librarian, is the winner of the Amy and Jens Nyholm Award for 2000.  The Nyholm Award is given to a librarian who "has made during the past year an outstanding contribution to librarianship, be it excellence of performance, catalyzing influence, or some other act of distinction."

Amy and Jens Nyholm were active supporters of the UCSB Library.  Jens Nyholm was a University Librarian at Northwestern University before retiring to Santa Barbara. He was a consultant to Special Collections and President of the Friends of the UCSB Library from 1971-1976.  Nominations are usually submitted through a solicitation coordinated by LAUC, and the final decision is made by the UL.  This year there were several well-deserved nominations of librarians who each have many years of excellent service to UCSB.

Beverly was recognized for her outstanding work with Pegasus.  Among her achievements, she oversaw two upgrades of the NOTIS software that underlies Pegasus, chaired the committee that made decisions about priorities for software changes while we await Pegasus 2, and worked to develop system specifications and a new RFP for Pegasus 2.  Sarah Pritchard noted, "Normally in a given year, only one of these major tasks (system upgrades and writing RFP's) would be done; Bev did all three, and throughout maintained a calm and collected approach to her work, an effective and productive relationship with her coworkers at all levels, and tact and persistence with vendors. She is to be commended, and has my gratitude and that of her colleagues."

A list of past Nyholm recipients is available on InfoSurf at http://www.library.ucsb.edu/lauc/nyholm.html.

Beverly was presented with the award at a reception which was arranged by LAUC members under the leadership of  Lynne Hayman, chair of the 1999-2000 LAUC Committee on Advancement and Promotion.

PHOTOS

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Close to three hundred undergraduate, graduate and transfer students took advantage of the library's Fall orientations, getting a head start on "demystifying the research process."  Both classrooms were filled to capacity, while simultaneous tours filled the halls.  The students heard highlights of library services and also had a hands-on try at searching Pegasus, the Web, and article databases for research.

Our general tours were also a success this year. These tours are a great opportunity for library employees to get out from behind that computer and welcome new students to the library. Duane Anderson, Rob Crew, Patrick Dawson, Eric Forte, Renata Hundley, Dennis Kelly and Lucia Snowhill were enthusiastic volunteers for the fall tours.

Also during this busy "orientation week," librarians participated in the Campus' Services Faire, staffing a table in front of the UCEN, providing information about the library.  University Librarian Sarah Pritchard participated in the first annual New Student Convocation.

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Library employees, retirees, students and family members came together for this year's annual picnic in larger numbers than in the recent past.  Participants enjoyed each other's company along with food, drink and some loosely-organized team sports.  In addition, the picnic provided a chance to recognize and celebrate service anniversaries of those among us who have been working for a combined total of  385 years!

Photos                    Service List

Our library employees have spent the past summer recesses learning and sharpening their computer skills and this year was no different.  Classes were taught in-house and covered several areas and levels of  Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HTML, PageMaker, Composer and Corporate Time.  The library is grateful to all those who taught and assisted in this program!

As our library has increased its computer and associated equipment, our Systems staff has been increasingly surrounded by equipment that was either being stored or in need of repair.  During the summer recess, a portion of the Electronic Arcade was walled off and their space was enlarged.  Work is still not complete, but you can see what has been done so far by clicking on this link.

On September 1, the Library began a new vendor relationship with X-Tech of Goleta.  They have installed all new copiers for public use as well as new printers for our InfoStations.   Color copies can now be made through self-service and color printers for Internet and CD-ROM printing are being installed.

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Just For Fun

LibraryHalloween Page Has Links to Many Sites

Want to know more about bats, cats, wolves or ghosts?  Do you want to stretch out your  Halloween fun just a little longer?  Check out
InfoSurf's Halloween page for all that and more:
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/holidays/halloween.html

Giant Pumkin Grown on Campus

Bill Trautwein, who grew this pumpkin at the Greenhouse and Garden project, is pictured next to it on the day it was weighed.  ( The pumpkin weighed-in at 752 pounds and placed in two pumpkin growing contests: 5th place in Salinas and 9th place at the Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Fest.)  Pictured on the right is our own Peter Shapiro, who often brings the beautiful flowers that he grows to work.  Peter isn't the only library employee who is involved with the project; Kristen LaBonte is the project Director and would be happy to talk to anyone about joining.  For more information about the Greenhouse and Garden Project and the giant pumpkin, go to the Project's Website at: http://orgs.sa.ucsb.edu/ghgp/.

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News From Other Sources

• ARL News

August/September 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.

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