September/October 1999 In this issue:    Personnel Announcements    Professional& Outside Activities    Library Announcements & Reports    What We Did On Our Summer Vacations    Building Update    News From Other Sources    Just For Fun    Calendar

Personnel Announcements

Welcome!

• Welcome Sherri Barnes, Reference Services, and Marlayna Gates, Access Services.  They joined us this August and you'll  find more about them in the July and August Waves.
• David Dolnick has been a student assistant since 1997 in the Reserve Book Services.  Now  he is working in Stack, Serials and Government Publication Services while he continues as a student at UCSB. His field of study is Economics.
• Linda Sacman has recently relocated to Goleta and as of August 16 she has been working for the CatalAcq unit.
• Scott Wargo and Rachel Kelley joined Loan Services early in September.  Scott has been a student assistant in the Reserve Book Services since 1998 and is studying Business/Economics.  Rachel is transferring from the Physics Dept and has become a full time student at UCSB.

Gone But Not Forgotten

• Melissa Phelan's last day was August 20.  She will be attending Cal Lutheran as a student in their graduate program.
• Bev Davison did not return from her furlough in September. She is off pursuing other job opportunities.
• We said farewell to Lyn Korenic on August 13. She accepted the position of Head of the Kohler Arts Library in the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

On the Move

• Kristen LaBonte (Coddington) has moved from Serials to SEL. Since she worked in SEL when she was a student library assistant, she should feel right at home.
• Ellen Pelzel moved within the CatalAcq unit to a different position. She is now doing authority control work, switching to a different position within that unit.
• Renee Trenholm will be seen a little less at the Loan Desk. She has switched to a different position within that unit.

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  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

Mary Larsgaard Article Published in Library Journal

The World at Your Fingertips: Map Resources was published inLibrary Journal's  July 1999 issue.  The article on geography reference tools was written by Mary Larsgaard, Assistant Head of the Map & Imagery Lab.   It includes information for reference works such as atlases, dictionaries, distances, gazetteers, geographic information systems, maps, and remote-sensing images.  Mary's article is part of  LJ's 12-part collection development series which can be used to build a core collection.

Temmo Korisheli and UCSB Middle Eastern Ensemble Perform in Uzbekistan

Temmo Korisheli, Arts Library, was part of the "American delegation" to the 2nd Sharq Taronalari International Music Festival in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, from August 22 - September 3.
EClick on this photo to see and read more about Temmo's trip

Library participates in Book & Author Festival

Several library folks were involved in the Santa Barbara News-Press's first ever Book and Author Festival on Saturday, September 18, at De La Guerra Plaza.  UCSB was one of the official sponsors of the event, hosting the Poetry Corner, with poets doing readings throughout the day. Lynne Hayman, Sarah Prichard, Sally Wilson Weimer, Nerea Llamas, Janet Martorana and Gary Colmenar helped staff a booth where several UCSB authors were signing and displaying books.  The event was a benefit for the Computers For Families organization.

E Click on the photo to read about the details.
Nerea Llamas and Sarah Pritchard with two of the authors,
Steve Humphreys and Richard Fisher.

Tammy Gillispie Sings At Fiesta
 

3 days later, the band whose lead singer is our own  Tammy Gillispie, helped to get the Fiesta spirit rolling  at el Mercado del Norte.  The band delivered great music  and enjoyment to an appreciative audience of all ages.

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Library Announcements & Reports

Lyn Korenic Presented With Nyholm Award

The Amy and Jens Nyholm Award is presented to a librarian who has made an outstanding contribution to librarianship during the past year, "be it excellence of performance, catalizing influence, or some other act of distinction."

For more on Lyn's award and her farewell party, click on the photo above G

California State Library Awards LSTA Grant to UCSB Library

The library has been awarded a Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant to catalog over 5,000 maps held in the Map and Imagery Laboratory (MIL) and in Special Collections. One of the collections, called the Maximus Collection contains maps of the Earth or portions of it from 16th century to the 18th century. Maps from the Wyles Collection will also be included. Iaddition, maps of California and topographic map series for the U.S. and for foreign countries, all of which are housed in MIL, will be cataloged as part of this project. While a total of 5,360 titles will be cataloged as part of this project, we anticipate that many more maps will be made accessible because for each title there are as many as 150 individual maps. Mary Larsgaard wrote the grant application and will administer the project.

Corporate Scheduling and Time (CS&T) is coming the library

 A new calendaring software has been adopted by the campus, and the library will soon be making it available to all employees. Staff in the Map and Imagery Laboratory have been using it for sometime and will be providing training in its use. CS&T allows scheduling of groups and of resources, such as conference rooms or equipment, and gives the user the ability to see when other members of the group are available. One can view their own schedule by the day, the week or the month. The software also provides a place to maintain lists of tasks to be completed. To learn more about CS&T you may go to a CS&T help site at http://www.cst.ca/weblink/index.htm or to the user's manual at http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/~philpot/cstmanual, or to an FAQ page at http://www.cst.ca/Partners/Consulting-Edu/client-faq.html.

Look for announcements of training sessions.

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What We Did On Our Vacations

Barbara Ceizler-Silver - Galveston to Cape Cod and places in between

Sherry DeDecker - Europe

Becky Eldridge - Tuscany, Italy

Carol Gibbens & Lucia Snowhill - Europe

Barbara Hirsch - Den Haag, The Netherlands

Renata Hundley - The Golden Trout Wilderness

Sally Willson Weimer - Europe

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Building Update

 There are several building projects happening this year in Davidson Library. We will be expanding some public services points and creating two new service areas. Most of the projects will begin this fall and be completed during early 2000.  (This moving van removed a number of the Reference Index tables in order to make room for the new short shelving and InfoStations in the Main Reference Area.)  Click on the van to read about other planned changes.

News From Other Sources

• August 1999 E-news for ARL Directors: Part 1

  The latest news for research libraries.
  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.

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Just For Fun

Interlibrary Loan is pleased to announce another round of the :guess the weight of Matt McGoogan's staple sculpture" contest. For those of you who are uninitiated, Matt has been creating a mountain with all his discarded staples for over a year now. This growing tower is on his desk and it is getting quite heavy. The contest is as follows:

• Submit your best guess of the weight of this marvel in pounds and ounces (no metric please, we don't want to have to convert!) You are allowed to pick it up in order to come up with your guess.
• Entries will be open from November 1 - 5 in Interlibrary Loan.
• The winner will get a spiffy prize.

Calendar

• Flu Shots

  Student Health Services will provide flu shots at several locations in the coming weeks. The cost is $5.00 and you may pay by cash or a check made out to "UC Regents". Wear short sleeves; no need to make reservations:

  • Thursday, October 28
    Cheadle Hall- Office of Research - Room 1140 (first floor)
    8:30 to 11:45

  • Tuesday, November 2nd
    Library: 4th floor Staff Room
    2:00 and 3:15

  • Thursday, November 11
    Kohn Hall- Room 1003
    8:30 to 11:45

• UCSB Benefits & Wellness Fair, Monday, October 25.

  10 a.m. to 3 p.m., in the UCen Corwin Pavilion, to kick-off the annual Open Enrollment Period. Representatives of the UC-sponsored benefits, our local medical providers, and select campus departments will be available to answer your questions about plan coverage and services. In addition, several wellness activities will be offered such as upper body massage, blood pressure testing, body fat analysis, and flu shots (for $5.00).

• Early English Books Online
  • Reception

    The Library will celebrate the acquisition of this online collection with a lecture and reception. Professor Patricia Fumerton of the English Department will speak about her experiences with Early English Books and research plans for its online version.

              November 9, from 4 to 6pm
              McCune Room, HSSB

  • Training Sessions

    Jon Hagopian and Vickie Hutchinson of Bell & Howell will offer four drop-in sessions:

              November 10, 1999
              9:00 am, 10:30 am, 2:00 pm & 3:30 pm
              Room 1414C in the Davidson Library

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Deadline for the next issue: November 10 - Please submit your articles to:   hundley@library.ucsb.edu.  Library Waves is published 11 times per year.   Editor: Renata Hundley.  Contributors:  Larry Carver, Carol Gibbens, Judy Gorrindo, Temmo Korisheli, Sarah Pritchard and several people who shared their vacation pictures with us! Photographers: Renata Hundley, Temmo Korisheli, Grace Thomas, Sally Weimer, Rick Worth.

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